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• I need no bodyguard at all, for even the bravest men who approach me get weak at the knees and their hearts turn to water, whilst their heads become giddy and incapable of thinking as the sweat of fear paralyzes them.

  Shaka

  Fear, Heart, Men

  "Shaka Zulu : The Rise of the Zulu Empire". Book by E. A. Ritter, p. 319, 1955.

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• Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Animal, Eight, Two

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House

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• One of the things I wanted to do after three, prolonged movies is to do something that was really, kind-of knee-jerk decisions, and artistic instincts and strip down the process to more of a guttural level, and make something that wasn't so manicured and polished; wasn't quite so developed and supported, and just run wild with it and see what happens with it.

  David Gordon Green

  Running, Decision, Three

  Source: collider.com

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• Humility in this business [acting] isn't just a matter of being polite, it's kind of a matter of survival. You can't ever afford to think that you're the bee's knees, because you could always afford to be better. You have to always be searching for something better.

  Michael Shannon

  Humility, Thinking, Survival

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Go not to the temple to put flowers upon the feet of God, first fill your own house with the fragrance of love. Go not to the temple to light candles before the altar of God, first remove the darkness of sin from your heart. Go not to the temple to bow down your head in prayer, first learn to bow in humility before your fellow men. Go not to the temple to pray on bended knees, first bend down to lift someone who is down trodden. Go not to the temple to ask for forgiveness for your sins, first forgive from your heart those who have sinned against you.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Prayer, Flower, Heart

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• Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.

  Barbara Hurd

  Heart, Animal, Silence

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• Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

  Florence Nightingale

  Children, Fall, Flower

  Florence Nightingale (2008). “The Collected Works of Florence Nightingale”

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• There are other books in a man's library besides Ovid, and after dawdling ever so long at a woman's knee, one day he gets up and is free. We have all been there; we have all had the fever--the strongest and the smallest, from Samson, Hercules, Rinaldo, downward: but it burns out, and you get well.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Get Well, Book, Men

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “The Book of Snobs: And, Sketches and Travels in London ; [Character Sketches]”, p.282

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• Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Eye, Years, Giving

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1872). “The Works of William Makepeace Thackeray”, p.434

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• Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

  William Wordsworth

  Wisdom, Children, Rounds

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• Go on your knees before God. Bring all your idols; bring self-will, and pride, and every evil lust before Him, and give them up. Devote yourself, heart and soul, to His will; and see if you do not "know of the doctrine.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Heart, Pride, Idols

  Henry Ward Beecher, Augusta Moore (1859). “Notes from Plymouth Pulpit: A Collection of Memorable Passages from the Discourses of Henry Ward Beecher, with a Sketch of Mr. Beecher and the Lecture Room”, p.58

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• He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honor, Gentleman, Calling

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• All I ever learned at my mother's knee was what a bony knee looked like.

  Phyllis Diller

  Mother

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• Come to the woods, for here is rest. There is no repose like that of the green deep woods. Here grow the wallflower and the violet. The squirrel will come and sit upon your knee, the logcock will wake you in the morning. Sleep in forgetfulness of all ill. Of all the upness accessible to mortals, there is no upness comparable to the mountains.

  John Muir

  Nature, Morning, Sleep

  John Muir, Linnie Marsh Wolfe (1979). “John of the Mountains: The Unpublished Journals of John Muir”, p.235, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• Most mothers entering the labor market outside the home are naive. They stagger home each evening, holding mail in their teeth, the cleaning over their arm, a lamb chop defrosting under each armpit, balancing two gallons of frozen milk between their knees, and expect one of the kids to get the door.

  Erma Bombeck

  Mother, Home, Kids

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• To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Prayer, Thinking, Causes

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• The only sex education my mother ever gave me was the injunction: 'Never let a boy touch you down there.' I had no idea what she meant. She seemed to be referring to my knees.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Mother, Sex, Boys

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• I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

  Peg Bracken

  Attitude, Believe, Financial

  Peg Bracken (1969). “I Didn't Come Here to Argue”

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• The world has been forced to its knees. Unhappily, we seldom find our way there without being beaten to it by suffering.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Suffering, World, Way

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1940). “The wave of the future: a confession of faith”

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• Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee.

  Aeschylus

  Success, Men, Thee

  Aeschylus (1860). “Aeschylus”, p.241

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• True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form,
  The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all
  Which men need render; all which God can bear.
  What to the faith are forms? A passing speck,
  A crow upon the sky.

  Philip James Bailey

  Uplifting, Faith, Eye

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.113

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• Familiarity with any great thing removes our awe of it. The great general is only terrible to the enemy; the great poet is frequently scolded by his wife; the children of the great statesman clamber about his knees with perfect trust and impunity; the great actor who is called before the curtain by admiring audiences is often waylaid at the stage door by his creditors.

  L. Frank Baum

  Children, Doors, Perfect

  L. Frank Baum (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of L. Frank Baum (Illustrated)”, p.2783, Delphi Classics

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• In America, snobs who wouldn't be seen dead with a lottery ticket play the stock market. We like to gamble. Winning, we have closed our eyes, leapt across the yawning abyss, and landed knee-deep in daisies. Even losing has a certain gloomy glamour: the gods of chance are worthy opponents; we have engaged them in hand-to-hand combat and though we lost, at least we shrank not from the contest.

  Barbara Holland

  Eye, Winning, Yawning

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• Planes are my foxhole. I'm always on my knees in them.

  Patricia Hampl

  Flying, Foxholes, Planes

  Patricia Hampl (1993). “Virgin Time”

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• I did this night promise my wife never to go to bed without calling upon God, upon my knees, in prayer.

  Samuel Pepys

  Prayer, Night, Wife

  Samuel Pepys (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Pepys (Illustrated)”, p.2272, Delphi Classics

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