Top 100 Knocks Quotes
#1. Samson's tapping feet come closer, but again he pauses and knocks on a door. I don't mind. The pauses make it better. They make me wonder whether he's going to come to me, like the anticipation before a kiss. Will he or won't he?
But this is not a love story.
Eliza Crewe
#2. She has a laugh so hearty it knocks the whipped cream off an order of strawberry shortcake on a table fifty feet away.
Damon Runyon
#3. Life inspires me. Life is unfair, unkind and unforeseeable. It knocks you down when you least expect it.
Lisa De Jong
#4. They took it for granted that if they went he would go also, but really they scarcely cared. Thus children are ever so ready, when novelty knocks, to desert their dearest ones.
J.M. Barrie
#5. The president is the leader of the nation. The president brings people together, does the deals, does the trades, knocks the heads together. The president leads.
Mitt Romney
#6. So when the world knocks at your front door,
clutch the knob and open on up,
running forward into its widespread greeting arms
with your hands before you,
fingertips trembling though they may be.
Anis Mojgani
#7. The major difference I've found between the highly successful and the least successful is that the highly successful stick to it. They have staying power. Everybody fails. Everybody takes his knocks, but the highly successful keep coming back.
Sherry Lansing
#8. Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up!
Kathy Ireland
#9. A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot.
Emily Dickinson
#10. If I learned anything these past few months, it's that life sucks, Daniel. It sucks. It's mean, it's vicious, and it's unapologetic. It's dark and cruel. But then, sometimes, it's so beautiful that it knocks all of that darkness out of your system with the light.
Brittainy C. Cherry
#11. Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
Horace
#12. When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go.
John Masefield
#13. Opportunity knocks at every man's door once. On some men's door it hammers till it breaks down the door and then it goes in and wakes him up if he's asleep, and ever afterward it works for him as a night watchman.
Finley Peter Dunne
#14. I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks.
Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks.
Casey Renee Kiser
#15. Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half.
Colum McCann
#16. There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself.
Kate Dickie
#17. I'm a fan of yellow." She knocks the fridge door shut with her hip and grabs the drink. "It's the best flavor ever."
"Yellow isn't a flavor."
"Yes it is.
Cassie Mae
#18. Imagine this guy hits Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger and knocks him out. You hit Mike Hammer over the head with a wooden coathanger, he'll beat the crap out of you.
Mickey Spillane
#19. The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.
Bob Paisley
#20. If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down.
Madeleine L'Engle
#21. We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.
Philip Toshio Sudo
#22. Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West
#23. Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in
Joe Sacco
#24. When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks.
Wyclef Jean
#26. The captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
Neal Shusterman
#28. If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready.
Bill Nunn
#30. I'm imagining the reader, whom I conjure as an aspiring artist much like my own younger, less grizzled self, to whom I hope to impart a little starch and inspiration and prime, a little, with some hard-knocks wisdom and a few tricks of the trade.
Steven Pressfield
#31. Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne
#33. When stupidity knocks at the door, it is stupidity that opens it.
Ljupka Cvetanova
#34. You have a lot of faith in luck, don't you? (Shahara)
Not at all. She's a vicious bitch who seldom knocks on my door. (Syn)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#35. The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.
Walter Chrysler
#36. We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our ways. Too many prayers are like boys' runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#37. When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.
Richard Dashut
#38. Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards.
Stefan Zweig
#39. I never went to college. I went to the school of hard knocks and paid for my education by getting ripped off. It's been a great adventure, and I've outlived my adversaries.
Jim "Dandy" Mangrum
#40. Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history,
Marvin Hagler
#41. You think you have mastered it, but just as you get well underway in following, it turns a back-somersault and there you are. It slaps you in the face, knocks you down, and tramples upon you. It is like a bad dream.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
#42. Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
D.H. Lawrence
#43. There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through.
Mike Dooley
#44. It is only in some corner of the brain which we leave empty that Vice can obtain a lodging. When she knocks at your door be able to say: No room for your ladyship; pass on.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#45. She'd faced some hard knocks in life - one really hard one five years ago - and had managed to cultivate a protective shell for herself. But like a Godiva truffle, she was only hard in a thin outer layer. Her insides were still as tender as ever.
Becky Wade
#46. Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died.
Ethel Waters
#47. And I fired four more times at a lifeless body and the bullets sank in without leaving a mark. And it was like giving four sharp knocks at the door of unhappiness.
Albert Camus
#48. Kim Newman brings Dracula back home in the granddaddy of all vampire adventures. Anno Dracula couldn't be more fun if Bram Stoker had scripted it for Hammer. It's a beautifully constructed Gothic epic that knocks almost every other vampire novel out for the count.
Christopher Fowler
#49. It was stupid behaviour. And you take a look at the explosion, and it knocks you down and you wake up every morning and you're scared and you're depressed and sad, and you kind of got to let that knock you down and knock you down.
David Letterman
#50. Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
Muhammad Ali
#51. I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes.
Nat King Cole
#52. I don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks.
Joe Cocker
#53. Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
Mark Gatiss
#54. Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.
Krzysztof Kieslowski
#55. Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her.
Mark Twain
#56. If it weren't for love, the suffering we experience wouldn't be worth it. If it weren't for the suffering, we wouldn't cherish the good things life gives us. Sometimes it'll seem as though life only knocks you down, but you have to learn to pick yourself up and fight back.
Claire Contreras
#57. Away with the one who is always seeking, for he never finds anything; for he is seeking where nothing can be found. Away with the one who is always knocking, for he knocks where there is no one to open; away with the one who is always asking, for he asks of one who does not hear.
Tertullian
#58. Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
Rita Coolidge
#59. As the priest is characterized by his cassock, so the smoker by his pipe. The way in which he holds it, raises it to his lips, and knocks out the ashes, reveals his personality, habits, passions, and even his thoughts.
E.T.A. Hoffmann
#60. That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails.
Victoria Moran
#61. Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
B.C. Forbes
#62. I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.
Charlie Hunnam
#63. Sometimes life knocks you on your ass ... get up, get up, get up!!! Happiness is not the absence of problems, it's the ability to deal with them.
Steve Maraboli
#64. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head ...
Sara Gruen
#65. I saw that vigil now as necessary, a prerequisite for my insides to harden and cure just like the willow of a cricket bat must cure to be ready for a lifetime of knocks.
Abraham Verghese
#66. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
Rabindranath Tagore
#67. With the way I worked, a client can give me everything they know about something, and then I go away and come back with advertising that knocks them out of their chair. They finally understand what kind of a company they are.
George Lois
#69. The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Lenny Bruce
#70. For everyone who asks and keeps on asking receives; and he who seeks and keeps on seeking finds; and to him who knocks and keeps on knocking, the door shall be opened. LUKE 11:10
Joyce Meyer
#71. He knocks on doors and stands there. You'd be surprised how few doors get answered
Andrew Kaufman
#72. Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer.
Naomie Harris
#73. In real life things don't go so smoothly. At certain points in our lives, when we really need a clear-cut solution, the person who knocks at our door is, more likely than not, a messenger bearing bad news.
Haruki Murakami
#74. A relationship begins when we open the front door, but it doesn't end there. He knocks on the closet doors too! Jesus doesn't just want in. He wants all in.
Mark Batterson
#75. I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut.
William O'Neill
#76. I really appreciate an actor who has paid their dues and who has learned hard knocks and has been rewarded in the end. I don't understand young actors who get off the turnip truck and land in Hollywood and get a great job. They do not realize how fortunate they are.
Enrico Colantoni
#77. When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.
Bill Maher
#78. When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.
Billy Graham
#79. Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.
Sara Gruen
#80. Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back
Sara Gruen
#81. Old age is the lubricant of belief. When death knocks at the door, skepticism flies out the window. A serious cardiovascular fright and a person will even believe in Little Red Riding Hood.
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#82. I have exercises that lead participants to discover for themselves that their deepest fulfillment comes when what they're doing is of benefit to larger society in some way. This really knocks some for a loop - especially those schooled in the 'take no prisoners' approach.
Srikumar Rao
#83. You can't invent Google, Facebook or the iPod unless you've mastered the basics, are willing to put in long hours and can pick yourself up from the floor when life knocks you down the first 10 times.
Amy Chua
#84. The messages pile up,
The worry knocks at
my door, louder & louder.
More calls from the therapist.
Pills that should have been
taken lie scattered across the floor.
The moon taps at my window.
Stars spell out their concern.
I pretend I do not see.
Darshana Suresh
#85. Autumn
The passion
Is still flourishing in the branches
Yellow funny and daring red
The sun warms even in the days
Where the fog
Stubbornly in the morning
From a distance
A woodpecker knocks
Impermanence
Is the enemy of beauty
Kristian Goldmund Aumann
#86. Within every adversity is an equal or greater benefit.
Within every problem is an opportunity.
Even in the knocks of life, we can find great gifts.
Napoleon Hill
#87. My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.
Willard Wigan
#88. Caught by a wave,
my back to the ocean
It knocks me off my feet and
Just as I find my footing
Here you come again
Dave Matthews Band
#89. We're all brilliant at something. I discovered my powers when I was four years old. When you're young you're more in touch with your real talents, but so often the 30 year slog knocks it out of people.
Uri Geller
#90. For God opens the doors of truth to him who knocks with the hand of faith
Kahlil Gibran
#91. I listen to a lot of Tibetan music before I sleep. I'll just type in 'Tibetan meditation music' on YouTube, and within 15 minutes, it knocks me out. I sleep like a baby.
Michelle Phan
#92. I don't know how often opportunity knocks, but temptations to make foul decisions bang on my door all day long. And smelly decisions make for smelly problems later on. A few little decisions, good or bad, can make a big difference in a life. Better to run from those skunks than with them.
Steve Goodier
#93. Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is.
Robert Fulghum
#94. Historically, people move west more than east. People go east only when invited. When opportunity knocks.
People go west when all bets are off: a reputation in ruins, a love gone wrong. When they need to save their sorry souls, folks head for the frontier.
Karen Hines
#95. When sorrow knocks at your door, tell it you're busy finding happiness.
Saru Singhal
#96. It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation.
Don King
#97. Someone knocks on the door.
Laylah's eyes widen in alarm. Josiah looks like he's just been condemned to hell.
"It's just my dinner," says Raffe.
Susan Ee
#98. Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious)
Peter Sellers
#99. Even though we may want something so badly, most times when it arrives we cannot see the thing for what it is. Opportunity knocks all the time, Molly, but it is your responsibility to open the door.
Kent Allan Rees
#100. Sick of this State
Of that Stateless States
That moves at this rate
That Knocks at the Gate
And Yearns for the remains
Of the brave new fate.
Khalid Chaouch
