Knocks Quotes

When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up.
Les Brown

Life, Down, Try

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.
Mae West

Woman, Give, Ring

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.
Chinua Achebe

Him, Suffering, Worry

I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent.
Henry Ward Beecher

Wine, Pray, Principle

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
David Herbert Lawrence

Hard, Before, Away

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
Horace

Death, Poor, Step

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.
Mason Cooley

It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth,' and so it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig

Truth, Away, Door

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
Laurence J. Peter

Patience, Once, Fortune

Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Real, Thought, Wind

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away.
Doug Larson

Time, Sometimes, Away

The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling.
Robert M. Pirsig

Truth, Away, Door

The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter.
Lenny Bruce

Guy, Truly, Daughter

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.
David Byrne

Beauty, Real, Off

On stage I have to be comfortable because I play guitar so I can't wear too much jewellery, it knocks against the guitar and makes loud noises. I had this big gold eagle necklace which I love but I kept whacking myself in the face with it so had to stop wearing it. I wear things that I can sweat in, basically... it gets really hot on stage.
Ellie Goulding

Love, Play, Guitar

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself.
Jeanette Winterson

Life, Yourself, Hard

I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there.
Robert Smith

Past, Someone, Door

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
Arnold J. Toynbee

Time, Friendly, Small

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges.
Whoopi Goldberg

Women, Hard, Thought

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

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach.
Merle Haggard

Simple, Her, Jazz

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

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks.
Pauline Hanson

Life, Woman, Here

When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray?
Ethel Barrymore

Life, Best, Why

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.
Gloria Allred

Father, Hard, Through

Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.'
Nigel Lythgoe

Show, Talent, Forgotten

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

America, Put, Proud

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

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire.
Lewis J. Bates

Life, Good, Heart

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity.
Leon Spinks

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