Knocking Quotes - Page 3

• No sensible person ever opens the door of his house without knowing who is knocking.

  Jeff Cooper

  Doors, Knowing, House

  Jeff Cooper (2006). “Principles of Personal Defense: Revised Edition”, p.15, Paladin Press

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• If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.

  W. C. Fields

  Believe, Church, Joining

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• The Lord is knocking at the door of our hearts. Have we put a sign on the door saying: 'Do not disturb'?

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Doors, Servant Of God

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• The great Norwegian playwright, Henrik Ibsen, wrote, "One of these days, the younger generation will come knocking at my door." The future is knocking at our door right now. Make no mistake, the next generation will ask us one of two questions. Either they will ask: "What were you thinking; why didn't you act?" Or they will ask instead: "How did you find the moral courage to rise and successfully resolve a crisis that so many said was impossible to solve?

  Al Gore

  Mistake, Thinking, Doors

  Nobel Peace Prize Lecture, delivered 10 December 2007, Oslo, Norway

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• Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

  Jared Leto

  Feet, Doors, Doubt

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• Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Doors, People

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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• It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

  John Hughlings Jackson

  Men, Abuse, Brain

  John Hughlings Jackson, James Taylor, Sir Gordon Holmes (1958). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”

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• It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doors, Heaven, Useless

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• When Donald Trump raises money for the party, raises money, a lot of that money goes to the party, and that's fine. If you're doing a door-knocking program, for example, in Wisconsin, it also helps Ron Johnson who's running for senate. It helps the congressional candidates.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Running, Party, Doors

  "Anderson Cooper Interview With Kellyanne Conway Says Hillary Clinton Has Been Fighting For Herself For 30 Years". Interview With Anderson Cooper, lybio.net.

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• To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.

  Gary Oldman

  Fun, Tired, Long

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• In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

  Richard Power

  Technology, People, Computer

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• Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

  Graves B. Erskine

  Memorial Day, Military, Marine

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• Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.

  Paul Washer

  Heart, Doors, Church

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• When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

  Brad Goreski

  Doors, Answers

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• Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Children, Doors

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• A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

  Richard Prince

  Art, Spontaneous, Studios

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• When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

  Suzy Welch

  Funny, Power, People

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• When you're in a band and you're a girl, you know, guys just don't ... it's not the same kind of a groove as a girl walking up wearing a mac with nothing on underneath, or knocking on someone's door at three in the morning.

  Chrissie Hynde

  Girl, Morning, Doors

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Forever, Trying

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When the natural gas industry was knocking on my door, they were knocking on the door of millions of people. And that became something that Americans really needed to focus on.

  Josh Fox

  Doors, People, Focus

  "“Gasland Part II”: The Fracking Empire Strikes Back". Interview with Brett Brownell, www.motherjones.com. July 8, 2013.

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• If you've got a good idea and you're willing to do whatever it takes to pursue it, keep your head up and eyes open because you don't know when opportunity will come knocking.

  Paula Deen

  Eye, Opportunity, Ideas

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• Research can be interesting, but it can be pointless as well. The realities of making a movie often are not conducive with that. I'm not knocking it. I love doing research myself, but I admit it doesn't always add to the performance.

  Christian Bale

  Reality, Interesting, Add

  "Christian Bale Pushes the Limits in Rescue Dawn". Interview with Julian Roman, movieweb.com. July 8, 2007.

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• 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

  Animal, Russia, Doors

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. October 16, 2014.

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• I spent my childhood scrambling round badgers and foxes and playing fantastic country kid games like knocking on people's doors and running away. God that was a good game.

  Bill Bailey

  Funny, Running, Country

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