#knocks

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

#brought #door #him #his #knocks

O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. ↗

— Lewis J. Bates

#bold #conquers #desire #door #each

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

#back up #because #down #get #knocks

Real beauty knocks you a little bit off kilter. ↗

— David Byrne

#bit #knocks #little #little bit #off

I'm proud of our court. It knocks back a lot of the propaganda the Communists put out about the way America treats her Negroes. ↗

— Nat King Cole

#america #back #communists #court #her

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#fair #fair share #had #her #here

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#chair #dog #every #every time #friendly

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#allow #away #before #came #freedoms

Opportunity knocks only once. You never know if you'll get another opportunity. ↗

— Leon Spinks

#get #knocks #know #never #once

When a guy knocks ya down, never get up unless he's gonna kill ya. ↗

— Gennaro Angiulo

#get #gonna #guy #kill #knocks