Beat

Famous quotes containing the word beat:

    “They burned with fierce love always to come near,
    But honor beat them back and kept them clear.”
    —John Crowe Ransom (1888–1974)

    “Nelse McLeod: Faith can move mountains Milt, but it can’t beat a faster draw. There’s only three men I know with his kind of speed—one’s dead, the other’s me, and the third is Cole Thornton.
    Cole Thornton: There’s a fourth.
    McLeod: Which one are you?
    Thornton: I’m Thornton.”
    —Leigh Brackett (1915–1978)

    “What should we speak of
    When we are old as you? When we shall hear
    The rain and wind beat dark December, how,
    In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse
    The freezing hours away?”
    —William Shakespeare (1564–1616)