Knocks Quotes

230 quotes by 205 authors

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. — Henry Ford
It's a feeling of happiness that knocks me clean out of adjectives. I think sometimes that the best reason for writing novels is to experience… — Zadie Smith
Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you.Â You breathe it unthinking, andÂ dissipate it with your sighs. — Roy H. Williams
It is always good policy to tell the truth unless of course you are an exceptionally good liar. Jerome K. Jerome It is a puzzling… — Robert M. Pirsig
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. — Doug Larson
When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up. — Tom Krause
They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once — Pete du Pont
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. — Leon Spinks
Negotiating with Obama is like playing chess with a pigeon. The pigeon knocks over all the pieces, shits on the board and then struts around… — Vladimir Putin
When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence. — Richard Dashut
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. — Robert Redford
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. — Peter McWilliams
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. — Khalil Gibran
When life knocks us down, God CAN put us back together again. He can meet us in our brokenness and restore us to something even… — Heather Hart
Too many people think only of their own profit. But business opportunity seldom knocks on the door of self-centered people. No customer ever goes to… — Kazuo Inamori
As soon as I arrive at the house, Laurie starts running, hits my chest, knocks me down, and licks my face. It's become a family… — Beverly Sills
It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so,… — Arthur Conan Doyle
When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way… — Krzysztof Kieslowski

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