Try To Knock Me Down Quotes

#1. It's one thing I like about America - they respect the sportsman. They put them up on a pedestal. They don't try to knock them down. And that's a great thing, to be respected by the whole country. It's so patriotic!

David Beckham

#2. A sincere compliment is always grateful to a lady, so long as you don't try to knock her down with it.

Mark Twain

#3. It was as if some manual was handed out one day, a manual of instructions about complicated social situations. But I wasn't there the day they handed it out. The worst part was, nobody even told me it was distributed. It was like, they kept it secret from me.

John J. Siefring

#4. What is it with you and girls, Adrian, dear? Why do they either mean nothing to you or everything? It's always an extreme."
"Because I don't do things in halves, mom. Especially when it comes to love.

Richelle Mead

#5. Evil's a thing of the mind. We humans got the full measure of it ourselves.
Is that right? Are you evil, Sarah Mary?
I ain't good.

Alden Bell

#6. The way some were entrapped into lives of prostitution, the way that something like marriage could rob them of their rights.

Alexander Chee

#7. And the whole world, the whole world that believes in freedom, whether you're talking about personal freedom, economic freedom, religious freedom, they look to the United States for leadership; and you're part of that leadership.

Don Nickles

#8. When gods die, they always die many sorts of death.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#9. Nobody's perfect. They are weak, with ugly hearts, and they quickly turn to jealousy. They try to knock others down. It's so odd . . . In the world we live in, the greater a person is, the more difficult his or her life becomes.

Wataru Watari

#10. But maybe it won't. Maybe it will take on a role like the TCP protocol, where it becomes a piece of infrastructure on which other things are built, and has the inertia of consensus.

Randall Munroe

#11. When I turned 11, my dad decorated a room at the Standard hotel in Los Angeles in a '60s, Austin Powers style. There was human bowling: You run inside a giant inflatable ball and try to knock down pins. To this day, adults say it was one of the craziest parties they've ever been to.

Zoe Kravitz

#12. There's that great Bill Hicks line - the comedian - where he says, "Are you proud to be an American?" "I don't know. It's just where my parents had sex."

Josh Radnor

#13. Safe. No one ever is. No matter how hard we try. No matter how much we plan and prepare. There will always be an enemy at the door and a storm trying to knock us down. Life's not about security. It's about picking up the peices after it's all over and carrying on.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#14. Never let your perspective change the truth. The truth should always change your perspective.

Stephen D. Matthews

#15. There is a penalty for trying to knock down a cockpit door, but it's the people who try to go from coach to 1st class they really beat up.

Jay Leno

#16. Death is required to restore life.

Jonah Books

#17. God is a sort of burglar. As a young man you knock him down; as an old man you try to conciliate him, because he may knock you down.

Herbert Beerbohm Tree

#18. The more people that learn about you, even if you're an underdog, then you can come under fire a lot and the more attention you get and the more threatening or dangerous you appear to people. And the more people try to knock you down.

Gerard Way

#19. 1975 was a great year for rock and roll, and don't believe anyone who tells you different.

Frank Portman

#20. Romance without finance is a nuisance. Few men value free merchandise. Let the chippies fall where they may.

Sally Stanford

#21. I think it's very useful for you folks (reporters) to try your damndest to be precise. And don't repeat things that are inaccurate if you can possibly avoid it. And when you see things that are inaccurate, knock them down
because there's a bucket of it floating around.

Donald Rumsfeld

#22. Try to knock us down, we'll get up every time. 24/Seven

Big Time Rush

#23. Someone is always going to try to knock you down and take your place. It is up to you to fight for what you want.

Teresa Mummert

#24. But the way girls roam over the earth now is something terrible. It always makes me think of Satan in the Book of Job, going to and fro and walking up and down.

L.M. Montgomery

#25. Women are like bottles of liquor. They should be sampled,
savored, then discarded. Matrimony is for men who can't
handle their liquor.

Gena Showalter

#26. There is, in the act o destruction, a beauty which we try to deny, and a joy which we cannot. Children build to knock down, and though we may grow around it, that need runs in us, deeper than our blood.

Mark Lawrence

#27. Life equals structure plus activity.

Jenny Offill

#28. Don't be stupid. I have a gun." He reached into his pocket and pulled out the .45. "Which will knock you on your ass if you try firing with a bad leg. Sit down before you fall.

Kelley Armstrong

#29. If you want to be on top, you've got to have broad shoulders, because as fast as you get there, the faster they try to knock you down.

Barry Bonds

#30. People in general want to build somebody up and then try to knock them down. They always root for the underdog.

Wayne Gretzky