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• [Tyson] looked him over with that massive baby-brown eye. “You are not dead. I like it when you are not dead.” Ella fluttered to the ground and began preening her feathers. “Ella found a dog,” she announced. “A large dog. And a Cyclops.” Was she blushing? Before Percy could decide, his black mastiff pounced on him, knocking Percy to the ground and barking so loudly that even Arion backed up. “Hey, Mrs. O'Leary,” Percy said. “Yeah, I love you, too, girl. Good dog.” Hazel squeaked. “You have a hellhound named Mrs. O'Leary?” “Long story.

  Rick Riordan

  Girl, Dog, Baby

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• A comfort zone can be a mental state:Belief in God is a lot of peoples's comfort zone. Dont get me wrong, I'm not knocking faith; I just dont think you should have it because it makes you feel safe. I think you should have it because you do. Because somewhere deep inside you, you know beyond equivocating that something greater, wiser and infinitely more loving than we're capable of understanding has a vested interested in the universe, in the way things turn out. Because you can feel that, as much as the forces of darkness might try to gain the upper hand, there is an Upper Hand.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Thinking, Hands, Should Have

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• When the devil comes knocking on your door simply say "Jesus, it's for you.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Jesus, Doors, Devil

  Robin Jones Gunn (2012). “Sunsets: Book 4 in the Glenbrooke Series”, p.179, Multnomah

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• Naturally, Coach Hedge went ballistic; but Percy found it hard to take the satyr seriously since he was barely five feet tall. "Never in my life!" Coach bellowed, waving his bat and knocking over a plate of apples. "Against the rules! Irresponsible!" "Coach," Annabeth said, "it was an accident. We were talking, and we fell asleep." "Besides," Percy said, "you're starting to sound like Terminus." Hedge narrowed his eyes. "Is that an insult, Jackson? 'Cause I'll—I'll terminus you, buddy!

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Talking, Apples

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• I kept a straight face while my inner Neanderthal spluttered and then went on a mental rampage through a hypothetical produce section, knocking over shelves and spattering fruit everywhere in sheer frustration, screaming, 'JUST TELL ME WHOSE SKULL TO CRACK WITH MY CLUB, DAMMIT!

  Jim Butcher

  Frustration, Skulls, Clubs

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• The air is full of ideas. They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

  Henry Ford

  Air, Ideas, Want

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• Rain puts a hole in stone because of its constancy, not its force. Just keep knocking on doors until the right one opens

  Joseph Gerber

  Determination, Rain, Doors

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• Don't tell me about the world. Not today. It's springtime and they're knocking baseball around fields where the grass is damp and green in the morning and the kids are trying to hit the curve ball.

  Pete Hamill

  Baseball, Morning, Kids

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• There's no tradition of scientists knocking down the Sunday school door, telling the preacher, That might not necessarily be true. That's never happened. There're no scientists picketing outside of churches.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Religious, School, Science

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• Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."

  Constance Briscoe

  Happiness, Doors, Giving

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• Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

  Rumi

  Loyalty, Yoga, Doors

  Rumi (2015). “Selected Poems”, p.142, Penguin UK

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• I hoped our lives would continue this way forever, but inevitably the past came knocking. Not the good kind that was collectible but the bad kind that had arthritis.

  David Sedaris

  Past, Forever, Way

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• Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

  Wendell Berry

  Prayer, Lying, Heart

  Wendell Berry (2000). “Jayber Crow: A Novel”, Counterpoint LLC

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• All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

  George R. R. Martin

  Men, Dust, Thrones

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• As the carriage whipped forward, they passed the alley she had spent so many days staring at—it was there, and then gone as they careened around a corner, nearly knocking over a costermonger pushing a donkey cart piled high with new potatoes. Tessa screamed. Will reached past her and yanked the curtain shut. "It's better if you don't look," he told her pleasantly. "He's going to kill someone. Or get us killed." "No, he won't. Thomas is an excellent driver." Tessa glared at him. "Clearly the word excellent means something else on this side of the Atlantic.

  Cassandra Clare

  Mean, Past, Looks

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• Well, hi, CeeCee," I said. "Hi, Adam. Nice of you two to drop by. Ever heard of knocking?" "Oh, please," CeeCee said. "Why? Because we might interrupt you and your precious Jesse?" Jesse, upon hearing this, raised his eyebrows. Way up.

  Meg Cabot

  Nice, Eyebrows, Two

  Meg Cabot (2009). “Grave Doubts”, p.145, Pan Macmillan

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• You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking.

  Lucille Clifton

  Children, Doors, Answers

  Lucille Clifton (1980). “Two-headed woman”, Univ of Massachusetts Pr

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• What anxiety means is it's as though the world is knocking at your door, and you need to create, you need to make something, you need to do something. I think anxiety, for people who have found their own heart and their own souls, for them it is a stimulus toward creativity, toward courage. It's what makes us human beings.

  Rollo May

  Courage, Heart, Creativity

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• That has not yet been put to the test. I got my fourth-degree black belt this winter. When I make martial arts noises, thousands flee in terror. Don't test me." "Can you hear that? It's my knees knocking." "They're wise to fear me.

  Nora Roberts

  Wise, Art, Winter

  Nora Roberts (2012). “The Novels of Nora Roberts”, p.1079, Penguin

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• It's up to brave hearts, sir, to be patient when things are going badly, as well as being happy when they're going well ... For I've heard that what they call fortune is a flighty woman who drinks too much, and, what's more, she's blind, so she can't see what she's doing, and she doesn't know who she's knocking over or who she's raising up.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Heart, Brave, Too Much

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• The true meaning of courage is to be afraid, and then, with your knees knocking and your heart racing, to step out anyway—even when that step makes sense to nobody but you. I know that’s not easy. But making a bold move is the only way to truly advance toward the grandest vision the universe has for you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Moving, Heart, Racing

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• Hurry," she breathed. Man, talk about pressure. He was supposed to get it up while demon hordes were trying to kill him, and Satan himself was knocking at the door.

  Larissa Ione

  Men, Doors, Trying

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• The past is always knocking at the door, trying to break through into today.

  Neil Gaiman

  Past, Doors, Break Through

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• Oh," he said, knocking a red ball into a hole. "It's you." "You were expecting someone else?" I asked. "Am I interrupting your social calender?" I made a big show of glancing around the empty room. "I don't want to keep you from the mob of fans beating down your door." "Hey, a guy can hope. I mean, it's not impossible that a car full of scantily clad sorority girls might break down outside and need my help.

  Richelle Mead

  Girl, Mean, Empty Rooms

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.88, Penguin

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• Concord is just as idiotic as ever in relation to the spirits and their knockings. Most people here believe in a spiritual world ... in spirits which the very bullfrogs in our meadows would blackball. Their evil genius is seeing how low it can degrade them. The hooting of owls, the croaking of frogs, is celestial wisdom in comparison.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Believe

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.153, Jazzybee Verlag

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