The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky. Votes: 3
William Carlos WilliamsOpportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. Votes: 2
Leon SpinksEvery real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. Votes: 2
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. Votes: 2
HoraceWhen I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. Votes: 2
Whoopi GoldbergAmerica is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. Votes: 2
Arnold J. ToynbeeStatesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. Votes: 0
Dwight D. EisenhowerYou come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. Votes: 0
Pierre-Auguste RenoirThere is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. Votes: 0
Albert EinsteinWhen opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence. Votes: 0
Richard DashutRepentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. Votes: 0
John ClimacusEvery time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God Votes: 0
Gilbert K. ChestertonThat's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed. Votes: 0
Archie MacphersonIt takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant. Votes: 0
Mary Roberts RinehartHard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. Votes: 0
Henry FordEvery real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. Votes: 0
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. Votes: 0
Jeanette WintersonI'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off. Votes: 0
Frankie ValliSometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. Votes: 0
Doug LarsonHe who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open. Votes: 0
Rabindranath TagoreKnowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs. Votes: 0
Sufyan al-ThawriSometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. Votes: 0
Robert FulghumEven when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. Votes: 0
Douglas MacArthurThe pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else... Votes: 0
Irvin D. YalomOpportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him Votes: 0
Bangambiki HabyarimanaSometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down Votes: 0
Keri HilsonPale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. Votes: 0
HoraceWhen Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go. Votes: 0
John MasefieldA Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot. Votes: 0
Emily DickinsonIt is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. Votes: 0
Saint AugustineRejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up! Votes: 0
Kathy IrelandDeath knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you. Votes: 0
Grace OgotAmong Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died. Votes: 0
Ethel WatersI come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. Votes: 0
Pauline HansonI don't think you can live as long as I have in rock n' roll and not take a few hard knocks. Votes: 0
Joe CockerLife gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. Votes: 4 Jeanette Winterson
When life knocks you down, keep getting up. Votes: 3 Malorie Blackman
I don't feel sorry for myself, because I'm living my dream. Even when I was a little boy I used to stand in the playground and pretend I was on 'Opportunity Knocks.' Votes: 5 John Barrowman
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. Votes: 7 Menander