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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Each of us keeps, battened down inside himself, a sort of lunatic giant; impossible socially, but full scale; and it's the knockings and battering we sometimes hear in each other that keep our banter from utter banality.

  Elizabeth Bowen

  Depression, Giants, Impossible

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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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• Religion is not based on belief or faith: religion is based on awe, religion is based on wonder. Religion is based on the mysterious that is your surround. To feel it, to be aware of it, to see it, open your eyes and drop the dust of the ages. Clean your mirror! and see what beauty surrounds you, what tremendous grandeur goes on knocking at your doors. Why are you sitting with closed eyes? Why are you sitting with such long faces? Why can't you dance? and why can't you laugh?

  Rajneesh

  Eye, Mirrors, Faith Religion

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• It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.

  C. S. Lewis

  Doors, Heaven, Useless

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• Victory was never in doubt. Its cost was...What was in doubt, in all our minds, was whether there would be any of us left to dedicate our cemetery at the end, or whether the last Marine would die knocking out the last Japanese gun and gunner.

  Graves B. Erskine

  Memorial Day, Military, Marine

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• In the old days, people robbed stagecoaches and knocked off armored trucks. Now they're knocking off servers.

  Richard Power

  Technology, People, Computer

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• A lot of it's experimental, spontaneous. It's about knocking about in the studio and bumping into things.

  Richard Prince

  Art, Spontaneous, Studios

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• Christ is not knocking on the door of a sinner's heart, but on the door of a wayward church.

  Paul Washer

  Heart, Doors, Church

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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? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.

  Pope Francis

  Jesus, Children, Doors

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• Put one foot in front of the other. Keep marching forward, even when doubt, fear, and failure all come knocking at your door.

  Jared Leto

  Feet, Doors, Doubt

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• I believe compassion to be one of the few things we can practice that will bring immediate and long-term happiness to our lives. I'm not talking about the short-term gratification of pleasures like sex, drugs or gambling (though I'm not knocking them), but something that will bring true and lasting happiness. The kind that sticks.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Happiness, Spiritual

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• To be honest, Im a little tired of playing bad guys. I long to do a comedy. But it was fun knocking Indiana Jones around.

  Gary Oldman

  Fun, Tired, Long

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• When I first met Jack, I was terrified of him. I wasn't expecting a fun, laughing, enjoyable, exciting guy. I walked into his office like most people, with my knees knocking together. I was scared.

  Suzy Welch

  Funny, Power, People

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• When you hear fear knocking on the door, most of the time when you answer it there’s nothing there. It’s just you holding yourself back.

  Brad Goreski

  Doors, Answers

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• It has been said that he who was the first to abuse his fellow-man instead of knocking out his brains without a word, laid thereby the basis of civilisation.

  John Hughlings Jackson

  Men, Abuse, Brain

  John Hughlings Jackson, James Taylor, Sir Gordon Holmes (1958). “Selected Writings of John Hughlings Jackson: Evaluation and dissolution of the nervous system. Speech. Various papers, addresses and lectures”

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• Dear young people, listen within: Christ is knocking at the door of your heart.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, Doors, People

  Pope Francis “The Blessing of Family: Inspiring Words from Pope Francis”, Franciscan Media

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