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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.' -- John Barrowman
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate. -- Horace
The weight of love Has buoyed me up Till my head Knocks against the sky. -- William Carlos Williams
Most people, once they graduate from the School of Hard Knocks, automatically enroll in the University of Adversity. -- Peter McWilliams
When you find the talent, it's always raw, and when you put the talent in the formula, you get the Knocks. -- Wyclef Jean
I have a doctorate degree from the School of Hard Knocks. I studied door-to-door salesmanship. This was before the doorbell was invented. -- Jarod Kintz
Certain formats should never be forgotten, 'Blind Date' for instance, because 'Britain's Got Talent' is really 'New Faces' or 'The Gong Show,' whilst we're basically 'Opportunity Knocks.' -- Nigel Lythgoe
My first record wasn't even with the Fugees. I was signed to Big Beat Records, so I was signed back in 1989 to the label that the Knocks are on now. You can always tell which generation had the pulse based on how they see things. -- Wyclef Jean
Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. -- David Byrne
Opportunity knocks, but doesn't always answer to its name. -- Mason Cooley
Fortune knocks but once, but misfortune has much more patience. -- Laurence J. Peter
Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. -- Leon Spinks
The only truly anonymous donor is the guy who knocks up your daughter. -- Lenny Bruce
Opportunity knocks for every man, but you have to give a woman a ring. -- Mae West
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Pale death, with impartial step, knocks at the hut of the poor and the towers of kings. -- Horace
When I listen to these women, it makes what I thought were my hard knocks feel like little nudges. -- Whoopi Goldberg
The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig
America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
It ain't about if he knocks a guy out. It's about how he knocks a guy out. It's the style, the improvisation. -- Don King
I pray on the principle that wine knocks the cork out of a bottle. There is an inward fermentation, and there must be a vent. -- Henry Ward Beecher
When life knocks you down, try to land on your back. Because if you can look up, you can get up. Let your reason get you back up. -- Les Brown
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
Actors need steely determination. It's a tough profession with plenty of knocks along the way. You have to be very determined and never take 'no' for an answer. -- Naomie Harris
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. -- Rita Coolidge
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well, isn't that the best position from which to pray? -- Ethel Barrymore
Ali's got a left, Ali's got a right - when he knocks you down, you'll sleep for the night; and when you lie on the floor and the ref counts to ten, hope and pray that you never meet me again. -- Muhammad Ali
I don't believe in the school of hard knocks, although I've had them. All that stuff about whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger is so not true. Do you know what makes you stronger? When people treat you and your art with dignity. -- Lana Del Rey
Where do we enroll in Life 101? Where are the classes dealing with the loss of a job, the death of a loved one, the failure of a relationship? Unfortunately, those lessons are mostly learned through trial by fire and the school of hard knocks. -- Les Brown
I never answer if someone knocks on my door and only the band and my manager have my phone number. In any case my phone doesn't ring so I never notice it. I occasionally just walk past and pick it up to see if anyone's there. -- Robert Smith
There are always reasons for people's behaviour, and it's easy just to dismiss them and assume that we already know their story, especially if they're no good at showing their emotions. Life gives you all these knocks, it's so easy to form a shell to protect yourself. I've done it myself. -- Kate Dickie
If you want to be an actor, you should just get out there and do it. I don't go for the approach of first getting photos and an agent. I think you should start with the work, and the other stuff will follow. As with 'opportunity knocks,' you have to be ready. -- Bill Nunn
The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door. -- Michio Kaku
Opportunity knocks only once. -- Abah Mohd Khairul Anuar
Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering. -- Muhammad Ali
Opportunity never knocks; it is within you. -- Denis Waitley
Learn to listen. Opportunity sometimes knocks very softly. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
When fear knocks, let faith answer the door. -- Robin Roberts
You learn the most from life's hardest knocks. -- Conway Twitty
When life knocks you down, keep getting up. -- Malorie Blackman
To one who knocks, the door will open. -- Paulo Coelho
When opportunity knocks, invite it to stay for dinner. -- H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
The school of hard knocks is an accelerated curriculum. -- Menander
You know, violence, I think, knocks on everyone's door. -- Juanes
They wrong opportunity who say she knocks but once -- Pete du Pont
It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down. -- Linda Grant
Winner: Getting up more times than life knocks you down -- Kat Kaelin
When Satan knocks, I just send Christ to the door. -- Billy Graham
Fortune knocks at every man's door once in a life. -- Mark Twain
Failure knocks the door of the unprepared minds very often. -- Mehmet Murat ildan
He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in, -- Nick Cave
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in. -- Barnabe Rich
Sometimes, you know, human kindness just knocks you off your feet. -- Hollis Seamon
Those whom fate has dealt hard knocks remain vulnerable for ever afterwards. -- Stefan Zweig
Opportunity knocks once at every man's door and then keeps on knocking. -- George Ade
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A pessimist is somebody who complains about the noise when opportunity knocks. -- Oscar Wilde
I think when you are younger you bounce back quicker from knocks. -- Patsy Kensit
Relax, I'll get it. (said to Kato after Clouseau knocks him unconscious) -- Peter Sellers
It seems when Opportunity knocks, Fate shows up to open the door. -- Anthony Liccione
Courage is to take hard knocks like a man when occasion calls. -- Plautus
A poet in his senses knocks vainly at the gates of poetry. -- Ben Johnson
He knocks the hell out of people, but in a Christian way. -- Sammy Baugh
When life knocks you down, you can choose to get back up. -- Jackie Chan
Lampard picks his head up and knocks it out to the wing. -- Alan Shearer
Statesmanship is developed in the hard knocks of general experience, private and public. -- Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors. -- Neil Diamond
The physio side probably stemmed from the knocks I got as a player. -- Bob Paisley
Pale death knocks with impartial foot at poor men's hovels and king's palaces. -- Horace
When opportunity knocks all some people can do is complain about the noise. -- Bill Maher
Don't be indifferent when opportunity knocks at the door, just invite it in -- Joe Sacco
My work knocks people out; you've not seen the best of me yet. -- Willard Wigan
When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence. -- Richard Dashut
There is only one road to human greatness: through the school of hard knocks. -- Albert Einstein
God made Truth with many doors to welcome every believer who knocks on them. -- Khalil Gibran
Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. -- John Climacus
When good luck knocks at the door, let him in and keep him there. -- Miguel de Cervantes
As my father would have said, I went through the college of hard knocks. -- Gloria Allred
Every once in a while, a cookbook comes along that simply knocks me out. -- Ina Garten
We don't have a system that knocks on doors of every person in America. -- Ted Cruz
You come to nature with all her theories, and she knocks them all flat. -- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Diana Krall knocks me out. I like jazz and I like her simple approach. -- Merle Haggard
I'm usually the guy who knocks everyone out in order to get the girl. -- Charlie Hunnam
When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up. -- Tom Krause
Any man who knocks on the door of a brothel is looking for God. -- Graham Greene
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Every time a man knocks on a brothel door, he is really knocking for God -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
I'm not doing contemporary songs unless something comes along that really knocks my socks off. -- Frankie Valli
Life gives you enough hard knocks so it's unlikely you'll stay that sure of yourself. -- Jeanette Winterson
Hard knocks have a place and value, but hard thinking goes farther in less time. -- Henry Ford
Every real thought on every real subject knocks the wind out of somebody or other. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed. -- Archie Macpherson
It takes a good many years and some pretty hard knocks to make people tolerant. -- Mary Roberts Rinehart
Sometimes opportunity knocks, but most of the time it sneaks up and then quietly steals away. -- Doug Larson
Potentiality knocks on the door of my heart. [On Seeing The 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning ] -- Haruki Murakami
Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter. -- B. C. Forbes
Sometimes history knocks at the most ordinary door to see if anyone is home. Sometimes someone is. -- Robert Fulghum
Knowledge knocks on the door of action. If it receives a reply, it stays. Otherwise, it departs. -- Sufyan al-Thawri
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open. -- Rabindranath Tagore
Sometimes love comes around and it knocks you down just get back up when it knocks you down -- Keri Hilson
Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king. -- Horace
The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else... -- Irvin D. Yalom
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. -- Douglas MacArthur
Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art. -- Robert Redford
Opportunity is always coming but never knocks on the door. You have to get up and meet him -- Bangambiki Habyarimana
It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. -- Saint Augustine
When Life knocks at the door no one can wait, When Death makes his arrest we have to go. -- John Masefield
Rejection is a gift and failure is the best educator, so when someone knocks you down, get back up! -- Kathy Ireland
A Deed knocks first at Thought And then - it knocks at Will - That is the manufacturing spot. -- Emily Dickinson
I've taken many knocks over the years but it has only made me stronger and more determined to succeed. -- Richard Branson
Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. -- D. H. Lawrence
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Among Negroes it is a bad omen when someone knocks on the door of a house where a person has died. -- Ethel Waters
Death knocks at your door, and before you can tell him to come in, he is in the house with you. -- Grace Ogot
Don't just dream of success; create a plan and act upon it! Your momentum creates the door upon which opportunity knocks. -- Steve Maraboli
Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace. -- Horace
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut? -- Idries Shah
I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. -- Pauline Hanson
Opportunity never knocks. It hangs thick in the air all around you. You breathe it unthinking, and dissipate it with your sighs. -- Roy H. Williams
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. -- Robert M. Pirsig

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