Quotes About Knocking

Humanity? Don't be silly. I know. It is knocking down your fellow-men for the sake of your own happiness.

There are many ways of knocking electrons out of atoms. The simplest is to rub two surfaces together.

Whereas many felt burdened by the workload, for me days spent in the library—or, better yet, on the couch of my off-campus apartment, a ball game on with the sound muted—felt like an absolute luxury after three years of organizing community meetings and knocking on doors in the cold.

Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. (Luke 11:5–10 NLT)

Ten years after lending a man from Barbados ten pounds, he wrote to him in 1700, "Sir, I presume the old verity 'If knocking thrice, no one comes, go off ' is not to be understood of creditors in demanding their just debts. The tenth year is now current since I let you ten pounds, merely out of respect to you as a stranger and scholar…. I am come again to knock at your door to enquire if any ingenuity or honor dwell there….

I don't like ringing the bell at the door. Its' tingaling just sounds beautiful. It makes one equal innocent sound, and it doesn't matter who is ringing. But knocking is distinctive. Human beats something physically - you can hear the reflected feeling. Of course, the hand always gets slightly painful.

Towards morning I slept and was wakened by the continuous knocking at my door, so I guess

When a Mormon knocks, they say, 'Can I teach you about Jesus Christ?' And if you say no, they'll say, 'Then how can I be of service to you?' So anybody who was smart would be like, 'You can take out my trash and mow my lawn.'

He growled and stood up. "There is a knocking without," he said. "Without what?" said the Fool. "Without the door, idiot." The Fool gave him a worried look. "A knocking without a door?" he said suspiciously. "This isn't some kind of Zen, is it?

I don't think I'll get the credit I deserve, but I didn't get into this game for credit. I got into this game to be the greatest welterweight ever. If I keep knocking them out one by one, I think that will happen.

A movie is a certain thing by definition. There's nothing wrong with knocking out a good genre picture.

I think I have an instinct of, like, the right record comes knocking at my door and says, 'Want to come out to play?' and I go.

I got into a lot of fights. Then I started knocking people out, and they stopped.

Good afternoon, Sir. Shall I fetch the medical kit?" "Ah, no thanks, old boy. bit of a row. Do me a favour, if the constable comes knocking, tell him I was here all morning will you?" "Killed someone again, did we?" "Never before luncheon, Dodsley. It's still early yet.

Why all the living so strive to hush all the dead; wherefore but the rumor of a knocking in a tomb will terrify a whole city.

As the documentary 'True Son' illustrates, my campaign for city council started really small - with eight mostly political neophytes in my living room and with young people knocking on doors.

Only fools skirmish in their backyard when war is knocking down their front door.

Cora informed him, wringing her hands fretfully. "Ah been a-knockin' an' a-knockin' on her door for hours now an' she still doan answer my pleas, Mistah Jeffrey. Dat ain't right, suh. Doan matter how upset she is, she gots ta eat fo' de baby." Jeff was thoroughly bemused. "What in the blazes does Nell's baby have to do with my wife eating?

9 And as for myself, I am saying to you, Keep on asking for something to be given, and it shall be given you. Keep on seeking and you shall find. Keep on reverently knocking, and it shall be opened to you. 10 For everyone who keeps on asking for something to be given, keeps on finding, and to the one who keeps on reverently knocking, it shall be opened.

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

Knocking, it's a thing," I told him. "You make a fist, lift it, and gently hit the door to let the person inside know you are out there.

There's no less serious thing than making TV, knocking about in cars.

She knocked a third time, three regular strokes, gentle, but perfectly distinct, and with meaning in them; for, modulate it with what cautious art we will, the hand cannot help playing some tune of what we feel , upon the senseless wood.

Otherwise you might have an old Irish slag knocking at your door in the wee hours.