Top 100 Quotes About Knocking
#1. Well, yes, Dustpaw, launching an attack and knocking me back across the border is one option. But is it wise to take on a cat twice your size?
Erin Hunter
#2. I am not knocking advances that provide a healthier life and alleviate suffering or unnecessary premature death. I am advocating inclusion of education on end-of-life matters and the promotion of understanding, conversation, and planning.
Lisa J. Shultz
#3. The path was worn and slippery. My foot slipped from under me, knocking the other out of the way, but I recovered and said to myself, "It's a slip and not a fall.
Abraham Lincoln
#4. I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
Rumi
#5. Phenomenology is not a philosophy ; it is a philosophical method, a tool. It is like an adjustable spanner that can be used for dismantling a refrigerator or a car, or used for hammering in nails, or even for knocking somebody out.
Colin Wilson
#6. Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann
#7. Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess
Bram Stoker
#8. I didn't know if I still had it in me to be really dangerous, but I thought so. It's like knocking someone off a bike with a baseball bat; you never really lose the knack.
Simon R. Green
#9. Knocking me down is easy. To keep me down you'll need backup!
Judi Young
#10. Today, love came knocking at my window. To share with dad such a confusing, yet wonderful occasion would be great. Still, I keep this to myself. Who knows? In the future maybe dad and I can share more than silence but not until dad allows love to knock for me at the front door.
Anthony Paull
#11. If you've been taught to keep every part of you to yourself, don't expect people to come knocking on your door to run their hands over the choice parts-either for your pleasure or theirs.
Perry Brass
#13. I knew that by this time tomorrow, I was going to be eternally grateful for falling down the stairs and knocking myself unconscious. Smartest dumbest thing I'd ever done.
Erin McCarthy
#14. Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!
Greg Plitt
#15. Most of the people I meet who are on unemployment are people who have had jobs for 25 years, lost them; they've been knocking on doors every week.
Chuck Schumer
#16. I'm not knocking the poor homosexual, I'm not. They need salvation just like anybody else.
Jimmy Swaggart
#17. Penelope Fittes - " "Has got nothing whatsoever to do with it, as you well know. It was Lockwood who came knocking on your door, and that's why you considered the proposal, and let's face it, that's why you said yes.
Jonathan Stroud
#18. When people think of me, they think about me knocking catchers down and knocking second basemen down and yelling at pitchers. But when I took the spikes off after the game, I was a nice guy when I went home.
Pete Rose
#19. God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.
Charles Journet
#20. I had to learn to dance for 'The Adjustment Bureau' and it was nearly impossible. I turned up with my knees knocking in my leotard and went home and cried my eyes out.
Emily Blunt
#21. That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station.
Johnny Cash
#22. I've always hankered after going into space and walking on the moon and Mars. I did want to be an astronaut, and had there been a manned space flight programme in the U.K., I would have been knocking on the door.
David Mackay
#23. And then suddenly she was on her feet, her heart knocking in her chest, a sudden familiar but long-forgotten terror triggered- but by what?
Kate Atkinson
#24. When we reached the lobby outside the office, moving like a pair of power walkers
no running in the halls of Green Pastures because there was too much chance of knocking over one of the many ethereal, artistic types wandering around in hip glasses with the wrong prescription ... (39)
Susan Juby
#25. And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened.
Luke The Evangelist
#26. Who's got you feeling out of control, duchess?"
Hayden shook her head, knocking against his chin in a way he found so endearing, his throat hurt.
"Tell me so I can set them straight.
Tessa Bailey
#27. See, this divine lover is at the gate. He does not merely knock, but He remains there knocking. He calls to the soul.
Francis De Sales
#28. Smoking's banned in my house. Cigarettes harm your body, he said, knocking back half of the bottle of beer.
Jo Nesbo
#29. I think one of the reasons I'm successful as a musician is that the first like 30 shows I played, I played with no monitors standing in front of guitar amps in a shitty, smoky warehouse where people were screaming and wasted, knocking over my gear. So shows after that seem pretty easy!
Grimes
#30. I think I was probably that kid in the neighborhood who you could expect once or twice a year to be knocking on your door trying to sell you something stupid.
Andrew Mason
#31. The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.
Paulo Coelho
#32. The younger generation will come knocking at my door.
Henrik Ibsen
#33. Fortune's not content with knocking a man down; she sends him spinning head over heels, crash upon crash.
Seneca The Younger
#34. Don't you get the idea I'm one of those goddam radicals. Don't get the idea I'm knocking the American system.
Al Capone
#35. 'Minute to Win It' is a variation on a game show from the 1950s called 'Beat the Clock,' in which contestants won washing machines and fox stoles by doing such pointless stunts as catching a tennis ball in a paper cup or knocking a hat off one's wife's head with a whipped-cream spritzer.
Tom Shales
#36. Once more, dully menacing, comes the noise of gunfire, and already from afar, like the bill of a woodpecker, sounds the knock-knocking of a machine gun. We grow calm and are almost glad to hear again the familiar, trusty noises of death.
Erich Maria Remarque
#37. Part of the early Who career was all about knocking people's confidences out.
Roger Daltrey
#38. The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.
Henry Ford
#39. When you meditate you feel joy, harmony, peace, stillness, ecstasy, laughter, certainty, courage, strength, awareness and immortality. In the beginning you will feel these things vaguely, a distant knocking at your castle door.
Frederick Lenz
#40. A fulfilling life is different to each person. You have to acknowledge your dreams, and not just wait for life to happen, and opportunities to come knocking at your door.
Joan Lunden
#41. I prepare for my fights to well that I don't wanna give a chance to my opponent to crash my 'glass chin' as they say, so I'm knocking them in the way that I like.
Wladimir Klitschko
#42. I feel you in my bones. You're knocking at my windows. You're slow to letting me go. And I know this feeling, This feeling in my bones.
Tegan Quin
#43. For some people, life is the process of knocking through walls to get out. For others, it is the building of walls.
Simon Van Booy
#44. I never had the slightest difficulty with a fellow actor. Not until One, Two, Three. In that picture, Horst Buchholz tried all sorts of scene-stealing didoes. I came close to knocking him on his ass.
James Cagney
#45. People can do whatever they want to, but I'm more pro-hetero. I'm not knocking it - I have friends that are gay. It's just that it's not my cup of tea, l guess. That's all. People can do what they want.
Axl Rose
#46. OPPORTUNITY is not "knocking." It is pounding on your door.
Tom Peters
#47. His lips crashed against hers. If there had been air in her lungs, she wouldn't have known what to do with it. He kissed her fiercely, making her head spin wilder than a whirlpool, knocking every last puff of breath from her body.
Ophelia London
#48. I snap the laptop shut and jump to my feet, knocking my
Paula Hawkins
#49. We can't stop hell from knocking at our door, but that doesn't mean we should stop living because we know it's coming." "I
Dannika Dark
#50. I remember performing in Russia when I was twenty, and I stayed at this hotel with 3000 rooms. There were sailors knocking on my room door, wanting to barter stuffed animals with Marlboros that I had been instructed to bring!
Anne Akiko Meyers
#51. The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.
Neil Gaiman
#52. Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.
Joe Bradley
#53. The roar behind him was louder than anything he had ever heard in his life; a monstrous fist punched him in the back, knocking all the wind out of him even before he landed, sprawled on his belly on the wall top, barely holding on to his staff as it swung over the edge.
Robert Jordan
#54. The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway.
Oprah Winfrey
#55. It seems to me that my mother was the most splendid woman I ever knew ... I have met a lot of people knocking around the world since, but I have never met a more thoroughly refined woman than my mother. If I have amounted to anything, it will be due to her.
Charlie Chaplin
#56. I'll take a drive to Beverly Hills
Just before dawn
An' knock the little jockeys
Off the rich people's lawn
An' before they get up
I'll be gone, I'll be gone
Before they get up
I'll be knocking the jockeys off the lawn
Frank Zappa
#57. You definitely have to do other things when you know your shot isn't falling. You can't just depend on knocking down the three-ball.
Chris Copeland
#58. That is how it is with lies. If you can have enough people believe your lies, before you know it, even the one you have lied against will be confused. The lie will make itself at home and the truth will be knocking outside its own door.
Yvette Christianse
#59. Imagine this:
Ice is coming to YOUR house.
Can you HEAR it knocking?
Are you ready?
What will YOU do?
Cornelia Connie D. DeDona
#60. I learned to surf for 'Soul Surfer.' Surfing is like golf: You're always battling, and it keeps knocking you down. There are a lot of wipeouts. But when you stay with it and catch that wave, you really taste it. It's magic.
Dennis Quaid
#61. Knocking on doors wasn't working. We had to try something else. Remember the kids whose natural curiosity brought them into our little office on the corner? We set up a Freedom School that was fashioned after the SNCC Freedom Schools in Mississippi and other places.
Junius Williams
#62. The knocking persisted. It wasn't Derek. His knock would be careful, almost apologetic. This bastard knocked like he was doing me a favor.
Ilona Andrews
#63. Each time a thought came knocking on the door of her mind, she viewed it cautiously. Was it true? Was it honorable? Was it pure or lovely? Was it of good repute?
Francine Rivers
#64. Fear comes knocking with a thought. Faith answers with a word ... God's Word.
Sharon Jaynes
#65. I've got lots and lots planned out, and other ideas knocking around in my head, too. I'm kind of an obsessive pre-planner, so I have a lot of material.
Caitlin Kittredge
#66. I thought in 1965 that my job was to convince most Americans to be against the war. So I spent summers knocking on doors, handing out literature, trying to talk to people who didn't agree with me, trying to get them to see the war was wrong. And by 1968 a majority of Americans did oppose the war.
Bill Ayers
#67. How charming. The king and his little princess knocking on my covens door." Ursula sighed dramatically. "What do you insolent merfolks want with me now? I swear I haven't eaten any of your children."
-Ursula
Khalia Hades
#68. The third level of prayer, which is much more serious is knocking
Sunday Adelaja
#69. Molly grabbed a vase off the mantel and flung it at the wall, knocking it into a painting of a mountain scene. The vase shattered and the picture frame swayed back and forth on the wall, taunting her with an image of what life was supposed to be like. . .
Susan Rose
#70. I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.
Bernard Hopkins
#71. PORTER
This is a lot of knocking! Come to think of it, if a man were in charge of opening the gates of hell to let people in, he would have to turn the key a lot.
William Shakespeare
#72. I fight cynicism. It's too easy. It's really boring. It's much harder to be positive and see the wonder of everything. Cynicism is a bunch of people who aren't as talented as other people, knocking them because they make them feel even more untalented.
Ewan McGregor
#73. You'd then drive your vehicle to a tree, beneath which the examiner sat. He or she would ask you to park. If you managed to do so without knocking over the tree or hitting the examiner, you had a license.
Colin Cotterill
#74. Keep on asking! Keep on seeking! Keep on knocking! Because God will answer your prayers. Every time? Always, always, always.
Diane Moody
#75. I synonymously felt my heart beat rapaciously, the heart which was once void of anything alive and well. Now the heart was rasping and knocking on my ribcage as if it was demanding to come out, take its root and grow.
Diyar Harraz
#76. You realize you're going to have to quit doing that? Can't exactly convince the other ladies of the court that my husband's committed to knocking me up when you can see him starring in Ass Commando 7 for thirty-nine ninety-five.
Vaughn R. Demont
#77. You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.
Lord Chesterfield
#78. Normally it is not polite to go into somebody's room without knocking, but you can make an exception if the person is dead, or pretending to be dead.
Daniel Handler
#79. Well, anyway, this'll be easier than knocking an elf out of a tree. Trust me.'
'How many elves have you knocked out of trees, Stubble?'
'Duraden's bones! Have ye never heard of a figure of speech?
Ian Livingstone
#80. Inspiration is like arrows or bullets. As soon as they're shot out, they whiz past till they hit you, knocking you back with shock and wonder. That's inspiration.
Amelia Mapstone
#81. The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.
Kailash Satyarthi
#82. Additions like to enter without knocking, you just have to close the door for good ...
Alen Sargsyan
#83. If you see a door to happiness, do not waste your time knocking it, just open the door and walk in!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#84. What was that you were saying about my mother?"
"She likes big dicks." Deacon slammed him hard in the gut, knocking him to the floor. "So does your wife.
Mercy Celeste
#85. Do not let your problems prevent you from knocking on the doors of possibilities.
Debasish Mridha
#86. He held her forever. Ashy flickers swam in his eyes, shadows of temptation drawing her into infinite depths. A breath away from his tantalising mouth, she parted her lips. The thudding of her pulse hurt. The knocking of her heart brushed her soul. She sank into him.
Chris Lange
#87. You cannot hear opportunities knocking if you are busy knocking opportunities.
Orrin Woodward
#88. It's not that I'm knocking the movie and television work.
George Peppard
#89. Woke up last night half past four, fifty women knocking on my door.
Carl Perkins
#90. only she could fix her problems with a needle and thread she'd be set. Nellie looked up from the socks she was darning toward the knocking on the front door. Who could
Cynthia Woolf
#91. Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.
George Ade
#92. Maybe a better way to put it on this Halloween Day is to say, 'It's not a trick or much of a treat, but it's all you get if you come knocking on the Commission's door today.
Michael Copps
#93. Is God somehow responsible for the suffering of this world? In this indirect way, yes. But giving a child a pair of ice skates, knowing that he may fall, is a very different matter from knocking him down on the ice.
Philip Yancey
#94. Jack was balancing a spoon on his nose when I walked in.
"You," I said knocking it off his face.
"Me!" He answered cheerfully.
Kiersten White
#95. Darkness will come knocking. It will offer everything you never had. But its gift is just a cheap knockoff of something it cannot be. Never accept the hand of the Beast.
C.M. Rayne
#96. The enemy was not waiting for death, they hit back, concentrating all their fire on the cruiser Never Tell Me The Odds, knocking back that ship's shields and forcing it to break away.
Craig Alanson
#97. Knocking the shrieking goblins aside like skittles
J.K. Rowling
#98. No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.
Jeff Cooper
#99. I still find myself reaching out and knocking twice on our wooden cutting board. Because you can never be too sure when it comes to the things that matter most.
Emily Giffin
#100. A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.
John Climacus
