A true friend doesn’t have guts; they beat you up and later plead with you to beat them back.

I’m not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Vengeance would have us assault an enemy’s pride to beat him down. But vengeance hides a dangerous truth, for a humbled foe gains patience, courage, strength, and greater determination.

Face it; life’s gonna chew you up and spit you out. If you’re lucky you’ll get stuck to the bottom of someone’s shoe and be carried far, far away from it all.

Miriam is upset. Her voice is stretched and I can’t look at her. Perhaps they beat something out of her she didn’t get back.

I was really beating myself up about performances and how I looked and this and that.

Sometimes I only succeed in beating myself to death.

The last 33 years of my life have been a blur, like a hummingbird’s beating wings. Time flies, but not backwards, like a hummingbird can.

It hurt, and that is not a euphemism. It hurt like a beating.

If you ever look sideways at another man or attempt to refuse me I shall beat you. Got it?

Instead of treating your child like how you were treated. Treat them with the same love and attention you wanted from your parents while growing up.