Knees Quotes - Page 29

• How strange a thing is death, bringing to his knees, bringing to his antlers The buck in the snow . . . Life, looking out attentive from the eyes of the doe.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Life, Eye, Snow

  Edna St. Vincent Millay (2003). “Edna St. Vincent Millay: Selected Poems”, p.93, Library of America

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• The modern revisionists and reactionaries call us Stalinists, thinking that they insult us and, in fact, that is what they have in mind. But, on the contrary, they glorify us with this epithet; it is an honor for us to be Stalinists for while we maintain such a stand the enemy cannot and will never force us to our knees.

  Enver Hoxha

  Thinking, Honor, Mind

  Enver Hoxha (1974). “On Further Revolutionizing Our Party and the Life of Our Country as a Whole: Speeches 1967-1968”

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• Be kind to your knees, you’ll miss them when they’re gone.

  Mary Schmich

  Missing, Gone, Be Kind

  Mary Schmich (2012). “The Best of Mary Schmich: Selected Writings by the Chicago Tribune's Winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Commentary”, p.32, Agate Digital

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• Because I was flat out wrong
  I'm on my knees
  Begging that you
  Will forgive me, please

  John Walter Bratton

  Sorry, Forgive Me, Forgiving

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• If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

  Fred Beck

  Feet, Ifs

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• The strong is not the one who can put on the blades at a glance, and the one who is able to raise a smile from his knees!

  Juliette Binoche

  Smile, Being Strong, Keep Smiling

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• Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees.

  Eric Clapton

  Song, Time, Down Time

  Song: Tears in Heaven, Album: Unplugged, 1992

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• So tired of this straight line, and everywhere you turn
  There's vultures and thieves at your back
  The storm keeps on twisting, you keep on building the lies
  That you make up for all that you lack.
  It don't make no difference, escaping one last time
  It's easier to believe
  In this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness
  That brings me to my knees.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Song, Sweet, Lying

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• Basically Ken is a very gentle, home-loving person. I remember when one of his stick insects had a knee infection. He stayed up all night rubbing it with germoline and banging its head on the table.

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Home, Animal

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• It's disappointing to have lost - that's the bee's knees of it.

  Tim Henman

  Tennis, Bees, Disappointing

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• Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

  Ilie Nastase

  Light, Hair, Dancing

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• To describe our growing up in the lowcountry of South Carolina, I would have to take you to the marsh on a spring day, flush the great blue heron from its silent occupation, scatter marsh hens as we sink to our knees in mud, open an oyster with a pocketknife and feed it to you from the shell and say, 'There. That taste. That's the taste of my childhood.'

  Pat Conroy

  Growing Up, Memories, Spring

  Pat Conroy (2010). “The Prince of Tides: A Novel”, p.9, Open Road Media

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• We Have Got To Bring Corporate America To Its Knees

  Harry Belafonte

  America, Globalization, Corporate

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• Things hurt me now. My knees hurt, my back hurts. But your head still thinks it's twenty-three.

  George Clooney

  Cute, Hurt, Thinking

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• At the finish of the effect look at the audience: if they have gone white in the face, froth at the mouth with excitement,shake at the knees or get down on the floor and salaam you-it is quite a fair trick.

  Tony Corinda

  White, Magic, Looks

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• Lansens is a willing storyteller.... As a writer, she desires a particular kind of reader, one who wants above all to be transported--who might sit at her knee, the hearth.

  Noah Richler

  Heart, Desire, Want

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• A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it's not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.

  George Carlin

  Heart, Sleep, Dental Floss

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• I rarely do anything on the show by myself. I dont want it to be about me. Squatting in the sewer in San Francisco, its really hot, were up to our knees in a river of crap. Rats and cockroaches are all over. I would never, ever walk into that environment, except for the fact that the guy who does it every day is squatting next to me.

  Mike Rowe

  Rivers, San Francisco, Guy

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• I often find myself on my knees praying to something or someone to not be in control.

  Dave Gahan

  Names, Praying, Used

  "This much I know". Interview with Johnny Davis, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2007.

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• For when down on the knees
  The man (or god) stretches the arms
  In giving,
  It is no accident the hands
  Are curled like bowls or cups,
  For he offers self, yet
  Begs it back again.

  Edith Tiempo

  Men, Self, Hands

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• The revelation that we have everything we need in life to make us happy but simply lack the conscious awareness to appreciate it can be as refreshing as lemonade on a hot afternoon. Or it can be as startling as cold water being thrown in our face. How many of us go through our days parched and empty, thirsting after happiness, when we’re really standing knee-deep in the river of abundance?

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Rivers, Appreciate, Water

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• Christmas in Bethlehem. The earliest dream: a cold, clear night made bright by a magnificent star, the smell of anger, marshals and clever men falling to their knees in love of the lovely baby, the avatar of faultless love...!!!

  Lucinda Franks

  Dream, Baby, Stars

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• ObamaCare is not a 'trainwreck,' it is a suicide attack. He wants to hurt us, to bring us to our knees, to capitulate, so we agree under duress to accept big government.

  Wayne Allyn Root

  Suicide, Hurt, Obamacare

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• He who searches for spring with his knees in the mud finds it, in abundance.

  Aldo Leopold

  Spring, Mud, Abundance

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.56, Oxford University Press

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• I witness that Jesus Christ is the Savior of the world. He suffered and died for our sins and rose the third day. He is resurrected. In a future day, every knee will bow and every tongue confess that He is the Christ. On that day, our concern will not be, 'Do others consider me Christian?' At that time, our eyes will be fixed on Him, and our souls will be riveted on the question, 'What thinks Christ of me?'

  Neil L. Andersen

  Christian, Jesus, Eye

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