Knocking Quotes
278 quotes by 250 authors
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I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers. And I thank God that President Bush has stated, we need a Constitutional amendment that states that marriage is…
— Jimmy Swaggart
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If efforts to do social work are couched in selfish motives, then they will die a premature death. Why would my efforts get politicised? I…
— Sachin Tendulkar
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Two prisoners whose cells adjoin communicate with each other by knocking on the wall. The wall is the thing which separates them but is also…
— Simone Weil
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There was a girl knocking on my hotel room door all night! Finally, I let her out.
— Henny Youngman
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I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I…
— Colm Toibin
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Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on…
— Horace Mann
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I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
— Rumi
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If there's anyone who can appear before Aslan without their knees knocking, they're either braver than most, or else just silly.
— C.S. Lewis
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Late last night and the night before, tommyknockers, tommyknockers knocking on my door. I wanna go out, don't know if I can 'cuz I'm so…
— Stephen King
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All struggles are essentially power struggles. Who will rule? Who will lead? Who will define, refine, confine, design? Who will dominate? All struggles are essentially…
— Octavia Butler
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said Jack matter-of-factly. "I'm a man. We're made to think more quickly." ...Aven swung her fist and clocked Jack square on the chin, knocking him…
— James A. Owen
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So I got off the plane and I forget to take off my seat-belt and I’m dragging the plane through the terminal... The wings are…
— Steven Wright
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Knock and it shall be opened.' But does knocking mean hammering and kicking the door like a maniac?
— C.S. Lewis
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Keep on knocking 'til the joy inside opens a window look to see who's there
— Rumi
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When you go through difficult times, make sure you pass the test. Don’t be stubborn and hardheaded. Recognize that God is refining you, knocking off…
— Joel Osteen
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The sense that in this universe we are treated as strangers, the longing to be acknowledged, to meet with some response, to bridge some chasm…
— C.S. Lewis
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Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing…
— Herman Melville
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Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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The public loves to create a hero....Sometimes I think they do it for the sheer joy of knocking him down from the highest peak. Like…
— Grace Metalious
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Max - "...Do me a favor, if the constable comes knocking, tell him I was here all morning, will you?" Dodsley - "Killed someone again,…
— Gaelen Foley
Who Wrote These Knocking Quotes
250 authors contributed a total of 278 Knocking Quotes, led by these top contributors: