Knocking Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Dream, Opportunity, Doors

  "Joan Lunden talks about her book, 'Wake-Up Calls'". www.cnn.com. October 27, 2000.

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• Let us not grow tired of knocking at God's door. Let us go to the heart of God through Mary, our whole life, every day, knocking at the door of God's heart! Mary prays - prays together with the community of disciples, and teaches us to have full faith in God, in his mercy. This is the power of prayer!

  Pope Francis

  Prayer, Tired, Heart

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• A servant of the Lord stands bodily before men, but mentally he is knocking at the gates of heaven with prayer.

  John Climacus

  Prayer, Men, Heaven

  Saint John (Climacus) (1982). “John Climacus (CWS)”, p.113, Paulist Press

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• The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Christian, Brother, Mean

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Samuel Wells (2015). “Life Together”, p.24, SCM Press

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• Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

  Kathleen Winsor

  Inspirational, Life, Karma

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• There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.

  Henny Youngman

  Funny, Girl, Humor

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• Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Sports, Humor

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• Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also their means of communication. It is the same with us and God. Every separation is a link.

  Simone Weil

  God, Wall, Communication

  Simone Weil (1952). “Gravity and Grace”, p.200, U of Nebraska Press

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• I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

  Anthony Hamilton

  Change, Games, Way

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• Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

  Clive James

  Dancing, Nails, Giants

  Clive James (2015). “The Crystal Bucket”, p.103, Pan Macmillan

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• After Lock, Stock, all these really nasty small town characters came knocking at my door trying to tell me stories, and somehow I ended up with this guy whose brother was feeding people to pigs, and that's what he did to get rid of people.

  Guy Ritchie

  Brother, Character, Pigs

  "Guy's Guys: A Chat with Snatch Director Guy Ritchie and Actor Vinnie Jones". Interview with Smriti Mundhra, www.ign.com. January 19, 2001.

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• I took the name Green Destiny from - well there is such a sword called Green Destiny. It is green because you keep twisting it, it's an ancient skill, you keep twisting it and knocking it and twisting it until it is very elastic and light.

  Ang Lee

  Destiny, Light, Skills

  "Ang Lee and James Schamus". The Guardian Interview, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2000.

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• I used to have a list of things from my school buddies of what kind of art material they wanted. I'd go up to the West End of London and spend the whole day knocking stuff off.

  Ronald Biggs

  Art, School, London

  "Ronnie Biggs's best quotes while on the run" by the Press Association, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2013.

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• Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

  Tahar Ben Jelloun

  Idaho, Doors, People

  "Voice of the Maghreb". Interview with Maya Jaggi, www.theguardian.com. May 5, 2006.

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• You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.

  Jon Fishman

  Years, Looks, Earth

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• At the moment, in Britain we're facing such enormous cutbacks in education programs and music programs and art programs that you feel you are knocking your head against a brick wall.

  Peter Maxwell Davies

  Art, Wall, Bricks

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• Obama specializes in knocking down straw men. 'I reject the view that says our problems will simply take care of themselves,' he said, implying that's the view of Republicans. It's the view of almost no one.

  Fred Barnes

  Men, Views, Care

  "The Return of Big Government" by Fred Barnes, www.weeklystandard.com. March 9, 2009.

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• You should have seen me in my Catholic school girl skirt with my knees knocking together.

  Jodi Lyn O'Keefe

  Girl, School, Should Have

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• As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Religious, Prayer, Islamic

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• Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

  Joseph Conrad

  Simple, Doors, Ideas

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.39, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• 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

  Spiritual, Doors, Insanity

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• 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

  Ideas, Political, Politics

  Interview, circa 1929, in Claud Cockburn In Time of Trouble (1956) ch. 16

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• Opportunities Don't Come Knocking On The Door. They Present Themselves When You Knock The Door Down!

  Greg Plitt

  Motivational, Opportunity, Doors

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• Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckon us with beepers and billboards.

  William Arthur Ward

  Opportunity, Difficult, Billboards

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• Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there

  Rumi

  Joy, Looks, Window

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