'Who knocks?' 'I, who was beautiful, Beyond all dreams to restore,...
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'I, on the other hand, have a degree from the University of Life, a diploma from the School of Hard Knocks, and three gold stars from the Kindergarten of Getting the Shit Kicked Out of Me.
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There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.
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It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
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Sorrows and disasters are like the clouds that flit across the sky; they cannot injure the blue depths of space. Your duty is just to strive on from this very moment. Do not vacillate or postpone. Who knows when death knocks ? May be, he may knock this very night, this very moment; therefore, do not delay. Do you postpone for tomorrow the dinner of this day ! Feed the spirit as scrupulously as you now feed the body.
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The greatness comes not when things go always good for you. But the greatness comes when you're really tested, when you take some knocks, some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you've been in the deepest valley can you ever know how magnificent it is to be on the highest mountain.
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America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room. Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
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America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair.
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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.
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In painting, as in the other arts, there's not a single process, no matter how insignificant, which can be reasonably made into a formula. You come to nature with your theories, and she knocks them all flat.
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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.
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By the pricking of my thumbs,
Something wicked this way comes.
Open, locks,
Whoever knocks!
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The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.
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God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them.
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True greatness comes not when things go always good for you; but true greatness comes when you are really tested, when you have taken some knocks, faced some disappointments, when sadness comes. Because only if you have been in the deepest valley, can you ever know how magnificent it is to be atop the highest mountain.
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Opportunity knocks at the strangest times, It's not the time that matters But how you answer the door.
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Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.
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Nowadays, when opportunity knocks, you have to unlock both deadbolts, remove the chain, and turn off the burglar alarm...
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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks
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Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings.
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By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
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Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience
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Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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When fortune knocks open the door.
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Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other.
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If you can learn from hard knocks, you can also learn from soft touches.
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Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you shall find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks receives, he who seeks finds; and to him who knocks, the door will be opened.
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