Knocking Quotes - Page 11

• The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Work, Men, Doors

  Henry David Thoreau (1960). “H. D. Thoreau, a Writer's Journal”, p.93, Courier Corporation

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• Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

  Vernon Howard

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• Trunk steady knocking/ Floating through the sky, Mary Poppins.

  Riff Raff

  Sky, Floating, Trunks

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• I was knocking guys out in the streets before I knew how to throw a jab and keep your chin down, In most neighbourhoods, the guy that could fight gets respect. You got in the parties free. I never had to pay the dollar because people were scared of me. But back then I was ignorant.

  Bernard Hopkins

  Motivation, Party, Fighting

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• When someone won't let you in, eventually you stop knocking.

  Ransom Riggs

  Ransom Riggs (2011). “Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children”, p.82, Quirk Books

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• Living well is the best revenge.If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.

  Max Eastman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Graduation

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• I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

  Magic Johnson

  Sports, Perseverance, Persistence

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• Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking.

  George Ade

  Opportunity, Men, Doors

  George Ade (1915). “Knocking the neighbors”

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• If I cannot retain my moral influence over a man except by occasionally knocking him down, if that is the only basis upon which he will respect me, then for the sake of his soul I have got occasionally to knock him down.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Soul, Sake

  Woodrow Wilson, Arthur Stanley Link, Woodrow Wilson Foundation, Princeton University (1981). “The papers of Woodrow Wilson”

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• If fallacies come knocking at my door,I'd rather feed, and shelter full a score,Than hide behind the black portcullis, doubt,And run the risk of barring one Truth out.And if pretension for a time deceive,And prove me one too ready to believe,Far less my shame, than if by stubborn act,I brand as lie, some great colossal Fact.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Running, Lying, Believe

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2012). “Leafs On An Idle Breeze - My Inspirational Poems (Annotated Edition)”, p.1117, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Positive thinking is so firmly enshrined in our culture that knocking it is a little like attacking motherhood or apple pie.

  Srikumar Rao

  Positive Thinking, Motherhood, Apples

  "Why Positive Thinking Is Bad for You" by Srikumar S. Rao, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 16, 2010.

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• Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.

  Samantha Shannon

  Writing, Doors, Desperate

  "Samantha Shannon: 'Writing was a drug I couldn't stop taking'" by Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. August 10, 2013.

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• I think booze is a good ritual. I think knocking back a shot of whiskey does calm the nerves and helps a lot.

  Rose Leslie

  Thinking, Doe, Nerves

  "The Honeymooner". Interview with Katherine Cusumano, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• There is only one purpose in hand-to-hand combat, and that is to kill. Never face an enemy with the idea of knocking him out. The chances are extremely good that he will kill you.

  William Powell

  Hands, Ideas, Enemy

  "The Anarchist Cookbook". Book by William Powell, Chapter Three: "Natural, Nonlethal, and Lethal Weapons", p. 79, 1971.

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• No matter how much you've been warned, Death always comes without knocking. Why now? is the cry. Why so soon? It's the cry of a child being called home at dusk.

  Margaret Atwood

  Death, Children, Home

  Margaret Atwood (2009). “The Year of the Flood”, p.325, Anchor

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• Painting has this ability to send the viewer [backward], but it's also this physical object in the room with you. It's always knocking you back into the present moment, which I find very pleasurable.

  Joe Bradley

  Rooms, Painting, Moments

  Interview with David Salle, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 4, 2015.

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• Financial markets are supposed to swing like a pendulum: They may fluctuate wildly in response to exogenous shocks, but eventually they are supposed to come to rest at an equilibrium point and that point is supposed to be the same irrespective of the interim fluctuations. Instead, as I told Congress, financial markets behaved more like a wrecking ball, swinging from country to country and knocking over the weaker ones. It is difficult to escape the conclusion that the international financial system itself constituted the main ingredient in the meltdown process.

  George Soros

  Country, Swings, Balls

  "The Crisis of Global Capitalism: Open Society Endangered". Book by George Soros, 1998.

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• The younger generation will come knocking at my door.

  Henrik Ibsen

  Young Generation, Doors, Generations

  Henrik Ibsen (2016). “The Master Builder”, p.46, Henrik Ibsen

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• The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doors, Order, America

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• One day, you're a nobody, and the next, you're in a movie that everybody is talking about. But Hollywood has a way of knocking you back down to Earth.

  Patrick Fugit

  Talking, One Day, Hollywood

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

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• In fact, the same difficulties faced by Reagan in the 1980-s are still there [in the beginning of 21 century]: how do you hit a bullet with a bullet? The technology is getting better, but it still is focused on one interceptor knocking down one missile. In war, there would be many more challenges, more chaos, more uncertainty.

  David Hoffman

  War, Technology, Challenges

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing 'In atheism we trust' on all US currency and saying, 'One nation, under atheism" in the pledge of allegiance. We will also stop insisting that everyone who disagrees with us will be sentence to eternal damnation... Wait...

  David G. McAfee

  Doors, Organization, Waiting

  FaceBook post by David G. McAfee from May 27, 2014

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• At least to pray is left - is left Oh Jesus - in the Air - I know not which thy chamber is - I'm knocking everywhere.

  Emily Dickinson

  Jesus, Air, Atheism

  Emily Dickinson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Emily Dickinson (Illustrated)”, p.136, Delphi Classics

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• There is first of all the problem of the opening, namely, how to get us from where we are, which is, as yet, nowhere, to the far bank. It is a simple bridging problem, a problem of knocking together a bridge. People solve such problems every day. They solve them, and having solved them push on.

  J. M. Coetzee

  Simple, Bridges, People

  J. M. Coetzee (1997). “What is realism?”, Bennington College Bookstore

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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?

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Doors, Often Is

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