Quotes with knack

  • We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.

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  • Josh Billings Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done.
    Josh Billings
    American humorist (1818 - 1885)
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  • Albert Camus Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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  • Max Frisch Technology... the knack of so arranging the world that we don't have to experience it.
    Max Frisch
    Swiss writer (1911 - 1991)
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  • Reggie Jackson The greatest manager has a knack for making ballplayers think they are better than they think they are.
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  • Ruth Gordon To get it right, be born with luck or else make it. Never give up. Get the knack of getting people to help you and also pitch in yourself. A little money helps, but what really gets it right is to never - I repeat - never under any conditions face the facts.
    Ruth Gordon
    American actress (1896 - 1985)
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  • Cecil Day Lewis We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Women know the way to rear up children (to be just). They know a simple, merry, tender knack of tying sashes, fitting baby-shoes, and stringing pretty words that make no sense. And kissing full sense into empty words.
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bronson Pinchot You can have a knack for dancing, but you still have to practice till your feet are bleeding to be worthy of being in front of an audience.
    Bronson Pinchot
    American actor (1959 - )
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  • Andy Rooney I obviously have a knack for getting on paper what a lot of people have thought and didn't realize they thought. And they say, 'Hey, yeah!' And they like that.
    Andy Rooney
    American radio and television writer (1919 - 2011)
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