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When fear knocks, let faith answer the door. — Robin Roberts

When a dead man knocks on the car window, I think fainting is a reasonable response. — Marjorie F. Baldwin

JUSTICE: Failure is just God's way of making me better. He knocks me down only to lift me up. I'm awesome, and that's the end of the discussion. — Bijou Hunter

Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. — Jeanette Winterson

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

Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. — Peter McWilliams

Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. — Merle Haggard

No warrior scolds. Courteous words or else hard knocks are his only language. — C.S. Lewis

To one who knocks, the door will open. — Paulo Coelho

Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

There are no tough times, hard knocks, or challenges that aren't laden with emeralds, rubies, and diamonds for those who see them through. — Mike Dooley

Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. — Robert Redford

Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. — George Ade

Age is terrible thief. Just when you're getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back — Sara Gruen

Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ] — Haruki Murakami

Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. — Laurence J. Peter

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. — D.H. Lawrence

When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool. — Chinua Achebe

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 ... — Sara Gruen

He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open. — Rabindranath Tagore

Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering. — Muhammad Ali

Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. — Doug Larson

Opportunity never knocks; it is within you. — Denis Waitley

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

Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur

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

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead. — W. H. Auden

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

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers. — Walter Chrysler

Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. — Horace

You learn more from getting your butt kicked than getting it kissed. — Tom Hanks

Well, if Andre knocks you up and the baby pops out of you Alien-style, I'm shooting it. — Laura Thalassa

Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. — Henry Ford

He seeks us before we dream of seeking him; he knocks before we invite him in; he loves us before we respond. — Fulton J. Sheen

If we take something to be the truth, we may cling to it so much that when the truth comes and knocks on our door, we won't want to let it in. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. — Robert Fulghum

Sometimes King Laugh knocks and you're one of those people who can't keep him
out, Peter said. — Stephen King

Love of God and people will pave roads where there once were none. — Shannon L. Alder

Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs. — Sufyan Al-Thawri

The punch that knocks a man out is the punch that he doesn't see. — Cus D'Amato

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

Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half. — Colum McCann

God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. — Khalil Gibran

When Life knocks at the door no one can wait,
When Death makes his arrest we have to go. — John Masefield

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

When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. — Whoopi Goldberg

Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors. — Neil Diamond

Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards. — Stefan Zweig

The captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat — Neal Shusterman

Temptation leans on the doorbell, but opportunity knocks only once. — Malorie Blackman

Cancer teaches that life is too short to be lived like that; you take you knocks when they come, not in advance. — Olive Ann Burns

Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died. — Ethel Waters

Leaders don't need a path. They make one. — Tim Fargo

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

I am the imagination of myself.
I am the one who watches.
Not to be confused with the one who knocks. — Dana Gore

When life knocks you down, keep getting up. — Malorie Blackman

When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

You learn the most from life's hardest knocks. — Conway Twitty

I've had the school of hard knocks, and I've worked my way up to be the governor of this great state of Connecticut. — William O'Neill

I never expected my graduate degrees to give me all the practical how-to's that can perhaps only be learned through the school of hard knocks. — David Livermore

Stand by the grey stone when the thrush knocks, and the setting sun with the last light of Durin's Day will shine upon the key-hole. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Someone knocks on the door.
Laylah's eyes widen in alarm. Josiah looks like he's just been condemned to hell.
"It's just my dinner," says Raffe. — Susan Ee

We're so good at masking our hunger until the knocks at the door cripple our dignity. — Tahereh Mafi

I love the way you smile at me ... knocks me on my arse. — Amy Harmon

Caught by a wave,
my back to the ocean
It knocks me off my feet and
Just as I find my footing
Here you come again — Dave Matthews Band

Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God — Gilbert K. Chesterton

I'll let no man in, unless of course, he knocks.
Walk right in to my heart with a thousand locks. — Casey Renee Kiser

Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out. — Ina Garten

I want to be stunned by passion so intense it knocks me right off my feet, down to my knees, where I know I'll surrender to this luscious insanity. — Ellen Hopkins

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. — David Byrne

Sometimes, the hard knocks of life are blessings in disguise. — James Houston Turner

I try to remember that hard knocks leave dents. — Jennifer Donnelly

When a great moment knocks on the door of your life, it is often no louder than the beating of your heart, and it is very easy to miss it. — Boris Pasternak

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

When life kicks you in the teeth and knocks you down to the ground. Are you able to stand up and keep fighting?! That's what it's all about. — Bob Harper

To he who knocks, the door will open. — Paulo Coelho

Every day is full of opportunities, but an opportunity is full of only so many days. — Ryan Lilly

If you don't get up every time the world knocks you down, then you will never know what it means to have ever been standing at all. — R.M. Grace

Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious) — Peter Sellers

Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you. — Grace Ogot

Opportunity always knocks the door with hurdles. It's up to you either jump the hurdle to grab or owing to hurdle miss the opportunity . — Akansh Malik

You will be remembered more for your bangs in life, than the bling. — Anthony Liccione

If you're too happy about anything, fate usually gives you a good sock in the jaw and knocks you down. — Madeleine L'Engle

When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up. — Jackie Chan

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

Whether Pacquiao loses in the first round, whether he knocks out Mayweather in the first round, it's still going to be the biggest fight in history, — Marvin Hagler

We are not defined by what knocks us down - we are defined by how e get back up — Madeleine Black

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded. — Flann O'Brien

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. — Leon Spinks

Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. — Horace

A guy named Otto Sayas - I would give anything to have a name that was a palindrome - knocks — Holly Goldberg Sloan

You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir

The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. — Menander

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

Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life, but in a good many cases the man is in a neighboring saloon and does not hear her. — Mark Twain

It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant. — Mary Roberts Rinehart

Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. — Horace

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. — Pauline Hanson

He knocks on doors and stands there. You'd be surprised how few doors get answered — Andrew Kaufman

Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often. — Mehmet Murat Ildan