Knees Quotes - Page 27

• A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Enemy

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• Handel, to him I bow the knee.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Bows, Handel

  "Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven".

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• As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Children, Destiny, High Heels

  "Beyoncé Talks Fashion" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. July 1, 2010.

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• The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beauty, Memories, Exercise

  Giorgio Vasari (1907). “Vasari on technique: being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects”

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• This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

  David Brainerd

  Morning, Prayer, Soul

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• As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Civilization, People, Strategy

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• Eighteen years ago, my left knee I hurt. I've never had a knee injury in the pros.

  Brian Leetch

  Hurt, Years, Knee Injuries

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• The more kilos you have to move around, the more it weighs on your knees. Then of course in terms of stamina, the way you move around, it's a little extra. It might not be much, but when you exercise with two, three extra kilos, you can feel a difference; it's important.

  Amelie Mauresmo

  Moving, Exercise, Two

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• After four knee surgeries and hundreds of shots injected into my knee weekly to alleviate swelling and pain, my body is begging me to stop the pounding.

  Li Na

  Pain, Body, Four

  "Li Na, China's double grand slam winner, forced to retire with knee injury", www.theguardian.com. September 18, 2014.

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• One of the first things you and your fiance need to develop is a meaningful prayer life even before the wedding. My wife, Shirley, and I did that, and the time we have spent on our knees has been the stabilizing factor throughout nearly forty years of marriage.

  James Dobson

  Meaningful, Prayer, Years

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• There's no appreciation for the giants [of jazz]; there's never been a major film on Duke Ellington , never a major film on Louis Armstrong. What they accomplished, we could never accomplish today...What's happening now is lightweight compared to what happened before. If Louis Armstrong was alive today, he'd be a superstar. If Art Tatum was alive today, my god, all the piano players would get on their knees. So that's what's missing today; we've been cut off from our heritage.

  Randy Weston

  Music, Appreciation, Art

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• I do not claim any of the creation of the blues, although I have written many of them even before Mr. Handy had any blues published. I heard them when I was knee-high to a duck.

  Jelly Roll Morton

  Ducks, Jazz, Creation

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• If you want your prayers answered, get up off your knees and do something about them.

  Wally Lamb

  Prayer, Want, Get Up

  Wally Lamb (2012). “She's Come Undone”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• If you want to get a child to love you, then you should just go hide in the closet for three or for hours. They get down on their knees and pray for you to return. That child will turn you into God. Lonely children probably wrote the Bible.

  Heather O'Neill

  Lonely, Children, Love You

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• If you have to get on your knees and bow when a white person goes past do it willingly.

  Mamie Till

  Past, White, Bows

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• I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
  I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
  You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
  You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
  I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
  Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Lying, Heart, Body

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

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• If every American for one week refused to eat at a fast-food joint, it would bring concentrated animal feeding operations to their knees.

  Joel Salatin

  Animal, Joints, Week

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• Everything I have written up to now is trifling compared to that which I would like to write and would write with great pleasureEither I am a fool and a self-conceited person, or I am a being capable of becoming a good writer; I am displeased and bored with everything now being written, while everything in my head interests, moves, and excites me-whence I draw the conclusion that no one is doing what is needed, and I alone know the secret of how it should be done. In all likelihood everyone who writes thinks that. In fact, the devil himself will be brought to his knees by these questions.

  Anton Chekhov

  Moving, Writing, Conceited

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• We are usually on bended knee before laws or angrily reacting against them, both immature responses.

  Richard Rohr

  Law, Immature, Reacting

  Richard Rohr (2011). “AARP Falling Upward: A Spirituality for the Two Halves of Life”, p.56, John Wiley & Sons

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• The Buddhists say if you meet somebody and your heart pounds, your hands shake, your knees go weak, that’s not the one. When you meet your ‘soulmate’ you’ll feel calm. No anxiety, no agitation.

  Monica Drake

  Soulmate, Buddhist, Heart

  Monica Drake (2010). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.57, Hawthorne Books

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• Woman must be put back in her place. Man’s great error was to put woman on a pedestal, when she is far more at ease on her knees – where she belongs. … Woman must be reacquainted with truth and force. She must be reacquainted with truth through force. … She must be shown in no uncertain terms the absolute nature of the master/slave relationship endemic to the sexes.

  Boyd Rice

  Sex, Men, Errors

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• We must remember that the shortest distance between our problems and their solutions is the distance between our knees and the floor.

  Charles Stanley

  Distance, Remember, Problem

  Charles Stanley (2011). “Handle with Prayer: Unwrap the Source of God's Strength for Living”, p.7, David C Cook

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• The weather's cold. My club's bad. My knee hurts. I can't putt no more. I'm off my diet. My wife is nagging me. Other than that, everything's great.

  Don Zimmer

  Hurt, Weather, Wife

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• I guess getting down on your knees runs in the family

  Val Venis

  Running

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• When we read with attention the poetical and philosophical monuments of the East--above all, those of India, which are beginning to spread in Europe--we discover there many a truth, and truths so profound, and which make such a contrast with the meanness of the results at which European genius has sometimes stopped, that we are constrained to bend the knee before the philosophy of the East, and to see in this cradle of the human race the native land of the highest philosophy.

  Victor Cousin

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Race

  Victor Cousin (1852). “Course of the History of Modern Philosophy”, p.32

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