Top 1200 Life Knocks You Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter.

Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in.

Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name.

We don't have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America.

The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player.

A slave's soul has no worth, my brothers; it lacks strength to tread on this great earth with gallantry and freedom. I pity the poor slaves, they're nought but airy mist, a light breeze scatters them, a fragrance knocks them down; it's only just they crawl on the earth on hands and knees. Today I'll write a hymn to God and pray for this great grace.

I think when you are younger you bounce back quicker from knocks.

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum.

My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet.

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience.

Genius knocks on the door and gets no answer but its own echo.

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner.

The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else.

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat.

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often.

Instead of resisting to changes, surrender. Let life be with you, not against you. If you think ‘My life will be upside down’ don’t worry. How do you know down is not better than upside?

Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly.

Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring.

God knocks the ball out of the park and I get to run the bases.

Opportunity only knocks so many times.

For a young person, anybody who's sorting out and trying to make a life for himself or herself, to have the opportunity each day to set down - sit down and then set down thoughts, words - it's a crucial, crucial way of staying alive, of not allowing yourself and not allowing the culture outside yourself to totally dominate your life.

Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

So they talk about heaven, and I don't know what is waiting for me up there. But I can tell you this: Nothing will happen up there that can duplicate my life down here. Nothing. That life cannot be better than the one I've lived down here, the football life. It's been perfect.

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you.

Age is a terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back. It makes you ache and muddies your head and silently spreads cancer throughout your spouse.

Kids don't say, "Wait." They say, "Wait up, hey wait up!" Because when you're little, your life is up. The future is up. Everything you want is up. "Hold up. Shut up! Mum, I'll clean up. Let me stay up!" Parents, of course, are just the opposite. Everything is down. "Just calm down. Slow down. Come down here! Sit down. Put... that... down."

You can't embrace your whole life if you're shut down. I found out that I can't just run away and shut down. I'm losing the rest of my life doing that.

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.

With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate.

You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door.

They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once

When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.

Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in

He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way.

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public.

Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God.

I don't think there's anything good that comes out of 'Hard Knocks,' but we'll see.

But life never lets you go, does it? You can't put down life the way you put down a book.

I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl.

The games I enjoy most are the ones I finish exhausted, and with knocks, but having played.

There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks.

He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.

I went to the school of hard knocks.

It's the one you don't expect that knocks you out.

To one who knocks, the door will open.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks.

Why must the woman apologize for not having a baby just because she happened to get pregnant? It's as if we think motherhood is the default setting for a woman's life from first period to menopause, and she needs a note from God not to say yes to every zygote that knocks on her door.

I have played incredible knocks with the lightest of bats.

We used to rehearse and that's where the roots of Dream Theater formed. Y'know, we used to play cover songs and jam to [Iron] Maiden and stuff but we were writing songs and it was this metal, loud style and we'd constantly get knocks on our door, because the rehearsal rooms were right next door to each other, and these jazz guys would be like, "Can you guys turn it down a little?"

As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks.

I've always been clumsy, the one who knocks glasses over.

When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door.

Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls.

We take life for granted, sleepwalking until a shattering event knocks us awake. Zen says, don't wait until the car accident, the cancer diagnosis, or the death of a loved one to get your priorities straight. Do it now.

When fear knocks, to let faith answer the door.

If Jimmy McGovern knocks and you are offered a part, you don't say, 'can I ease myself into it?'

When Captain America knocks at your door, you answer.

When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise.