Knockings Quotes

#1. Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.

Elizabeth Bowen

#2. I swear that each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant - impossible socially, but full-scale - and that it's the knockings and baterrings we sometimes hear in each other that keeps our intercourse from utter banaility.

Elizabeth Bowen

#3. The Sanctuary was reserved for the rich and elite
those with fortunes, not soldiers of fortune.

Drew Karpyshyn

#4. With respect to their safety, derivatives, for the most part, are traded among very sophisticated financial institutions and individuals who have considerable incentive to understand them and to use them properly.

Ben Bernanke

#5. Everyone who knows her loves her. Except people hurt the people they love all the time.

Courtney Summers

#6. But love has to be stronger than hate, or there is no future for us.

Kristin Hannah

#7. Don't be so quick to throw away your life. No matter how disgraceful or embarrassing it may be, you need to keep struggling to find your way out until the very end.

Norihiro Yagi

#8. We are faithful not to the triumphant golden eagle (ironically, also an imperial symbol of power in Rome) but to the slaughtered Lamb.

Shane Claiborne

#9. It's Christmas! Ah, Christmas, the time when all good people go about not decapitating each other.

Christopher Moore

#10. He'll make it beautiful, won't you?" I asked.Trenton turned on the machine, and then looked at me with a soft expression. "You're already beautiful.

Jamie McGuire

#11. And so when I couldn't stand it no longer, I lit out. I got into my old rags and my sugar-hogshead again, and was free and satisfied.

Mark Twain

#12. And why should he interest himself at all in my moral and intellectual capacities: what is it to him what I think and feel?' I asked myself. And my heart throbbed in answer to the question.

Anne Bronte

#13. Compassion brings us closer to each other.

Debasish Mridha

#14. Going to trial with a lawyer who considers your whole life-style a Crime in Progress is not a happy prospect.

Hunter S. Thompson

#15. They [scientists of centuries past] call on God only from the lonely and precarious edge of incomprehension. Where they feel certain about their explanations, however, God gets hardly a mention.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#16. Poor marriage! Off we went to kill it (unforgivable). Or reinforce it (unforgivable).

Maggie Nelson