Quotes with knock

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  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake somebody.
    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
    American poet (1807 - 1882)
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  • Carl Sagan Philosophers and scientists confidently offer up traits said to be uniquely human, and the monkeys and apes casually knock them down - toppling the pretension that humans constitute some sort of biological aristocracy among the beings on Earth.
    Carl Sagan
    American astronomer, cosmologist, astrophysicist and author (1934 - 1996)
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  • Florence King Self-help books are making life downright unsafe. Women desperate to catch a man practice all the ploys recommended by these authors. Bump into him, trip over him, knock him down, spill something on him, scald him, but meet him.
    Florence King
    American Author, Critic (1936 - 2016)
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  • Thomas à Kempis The enemy is more easily overcome if he be not suffered to enter the door of our hearts, but be resisted without the gate at his first knock.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • C. Wright Mills The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of competition. In America, this system is carried to the point where a man who can knock a small white ball into a series of holes in the ground with more efficiency than anyone else thereby gains social access to the President of the United States.
    C. Wright Mills
    American sociologist (1916 - 1962)
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  • Alexander Herzen There is nothing in the world more stubborn than a corpse: you can hit it, you can knock it to pieces, but you cannot convince it.
    Alexander Herzen
    Russian journalist and political thinker (1812 - 1870)
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  • George Santayana To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight to the blood.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Babe Ruth To my little sick pal. I will try to knock you another homer, maybe two today.
    Babe Ruth
    American professional baseball player (1895 - 1948)
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  • Eliza Cook Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
    Eliza Cook
    English author and poet (1818 - 1889)
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  • Lorrie Moore You chose love like a belief, a faith, a place, a box for one's heart to knock against like a spook in the house.
    Lorrie Moore
    American writer (1957 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
    Source: O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Alexander Pope You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
    Alexander Pope
    English poet (1688 - 1744)
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