Knockdown Quotes

#1. It is true that I am of an older fashion; much that I love has been destroyed or sent into exile.

G.K. Chesterton

#2. As riches and honor forsake a man, we discover him to be a fool, but nobody could find it out in his prosperity.

Jean De La Bruyere

#3. It was as if his whole life had suddenly lodged in his throat, a raw bite he could neither spit out nor swallow.

Larry McMurtry

#4. Humility, after the first shock, is cheerful virtue.

C.S. Lewis

#5. There are considerable mysteries surrounding the strange values that Nature's actual particles have for their mass and charge. For example, there is the unexplained 'fine structure constant' ... governing the strength of electromagnetic interactions, ...

Roger Penrose

#6. I think there's a god and I know it's not me.

Michael J. Fox

#7. I never meant to get involved with you, Adrien. Rest easy; you're not.

Josh Lanyon

#8. If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Loni Anderson

#9. If the truth conflicts with my beliefs, I change my beliefs.

Brad Stine

#10. Faith is a way of going within and creating a sense of control over one's life at any given moment.

Wayne Dyer

#11. That something can be used for good isn't necessarily a knockdown argument for it.

Paul Bloom

#12. When I started writing fiction it always seemed in retrospect (I didn't realise at the time) that it was always caused by environments rather than by incidents and characters.

Jonathan Meades

#13. Gauss replied, when asked how soon he expected to reach certain mathematical conclusions, that he had them long ago, all he was worrying about was how to reach them!

Rene Dubos