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• I believe the Bible is the best gift God ever gave to man. All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through that book." On a personal spiritual note, Lincoln confessed, "I have been driven many times to my knees with the overwhelming conviction, that I had nowhere else to go.

  Abraham Lincoln

  Spiritual, Book, Believe

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• A squirrel attacked me. I got attacked by a squirrel in Battersea Park. They're dangerous. It's rare. I've torn most of the ligaments in my knee. So no football for me. It's early retirement now. I've got a floating knee-cap!

  Niall Horan

  Football, Retirement, Squirrels

  "One Direction's Niall Horan blames squirrel for knee injury" by Tom Eames, www.digitalspy.com. October 07, 2012.

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• Then I show up steady ready and proud and I find I've forgotten how to talk out loud. Isn't it just like you to bring me to my knees?

  Ani DiFranco

  Fall, Proud, Forgotten

  Song: Ain't That The Way, Album: Revelling / Reckoning, 2001

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• Life is like a blanket too short. You pull it up and your toes rebel, you yank it down and shivers meander about your shoulder; but cheerful folks manage to draw their knees up and pass a very comfortable night.

  Howard Marion-Crawford

  Life, Night, Cheerful

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• At nineteen I was pretty sure I was going to be a professional soccer player. At that time I played for one of the Norwegian premier leagues. But I tore ligaments in both knees, so I started studying business administration and economics and became a financial analyst, and I worked at a brokerage firm as a stockbroker.

  Jo Nesbo

  Soccer, Player, League

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• O sweet spontaneous earth how often have the doting fingers of prurient philosophers pinched and poked thee ,has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty .how often have religions taken thee upon their scraggy knees squeezing and buffeting thee that thou mightest conceive gods (but true to the incomparable couch of death thy rhythmic lover thou answerest them only with spring)

  e. e. cummings

  Life, Sweet, Spring

  E. E. Cummings (1994). “Selected Poems”, p.18, W. W. Norton & Company

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• If you take being a father seriously, you'll know that you're not big enough for the job, not by yourself...Being a father will put you on your knees if nothing else ever did.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Fathers Day, Jobs, Being A Father

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• Sometimes you walk into things, that, if you were paying attention, vibrationally, you would know right from the beginning that it wasn't what you are wanting. In most cases, your initial knee-jerk response was a pretty good indicator of how it was going to turn out later. The things that give most of you the most grief are those things that initially you had a feeling response about, but then you talked yourself out of it for one reason or another.

  Esther Hicks

  Grief, Giving, Feelings

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• So many people limit themselves by holding onto that baggage. They cut themselves off at the knees. And for me, meeting my father, and seeing how he was, and seeing that other side of where I came from, allowed me to kind of ascend spiritually. Now not to get all hippy or anything, but, you cant realise your potential unless you LET yourself realise your own potential.

  Corey Taylor

  Father, Cutting, People

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• Commemoration of Pandita Mary Ramabai, Translator of the Scriptures, 1922 A memory of yesterday's pleasures, a fear of tomorrow's dangers, a straw under my knees, a noise in my ear, a light in my eye, an anything, a nothing, a fancy, a chimera in my brain, troubles me in my prayers.

  John Donne

  Prayer, Memories, Eye

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• Snowden has enough [sic] information to cause harm to the U.S. government in a single minute than any other person has ever had. The U.S. government should be on its knees every day begging that nothing happen to Snowden, because if something does happen to him, all the information will be revealed and it could be its worst nightmare.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Government, Worst Nightmares, Doe

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• The reason I quit fashion was that I had had enough of spending time always being on my knees, making other people look amazing and fabulous. I used fashion to express myself as much as I could. But at some point it was not enough

  Thierry Mugler

  Fashion, People, Looks

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• When a young artist asked me for advice on drawing the human foot, I told him, ‘The first thing you must learn is how to take your shoe off, and then how to take your sock off, then prop your leg up carefully on your other knee, take a piece of paper, and draw your foot.’

  Chuck Jones

  Artist, Shoes, Drawing

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• War is not two great armies meeting in the clash and frenzy of battle. War is a boy being carried on a stretcher, looking up at God’s blue sky with bewildered eyes that are soon to close; war is a woman carrying a child that has been injured by a shell; war is spirited horses tied in burning buildings and waiting for death; war is the flower of a race, battered, hungry, bleeding, up to its knees in filthy water; war is an old woman burning a candle before the Mater Dolorsa for the son she has given.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Horse, Children, War

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• If I could be any animal I would be a pony because then I could have sex with ponies.
  Pony, what a funny word. Say it, pony. PO-KNEE. Now ah've made myself giddy with delight. Towards the ponies *laughs*

  Thom Yorke

  Sex, Animal, Laughing

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• I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

  Anne Enright

  Sex, Grief, Feelings

  Anne Enright (2010). “The Gathering”, p.7, Random House

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• It is a grueling position (catching). My knees will tell you that. I've had nine knee surgeries. I've had a couple of broken thumbs, one on each hand. I can look back at it and say it's worth it to be enshrined in Cooperstown. I don't have any pain in my knees right now.

  Gary Carter

  Couple, Pain, Hands

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• If it brings me to my knees, it's a bad religion

  Frank Ocean

  Ifs

  Song: Bad Religion, Album: Channel Orange, 2012

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• That saint who advances on his knees never retreats.

  Jim Elliot

  Saint, Retreat

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• A man's greatest work is to break his enemies, to drive them before him, to take from them all the things that have been theirs, to hear the weeping of those who cherished them, to take their horses between his knees and to press in his arms the most desirable of their women.

  Genghis Khan

  Horse, Men, Enemy

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• Handel, to him I bow the knee.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Bows, Handel

  "Masterworks of Ludwig van Beethoven".

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• As a child I trained myself to dance in very high heels. At 13, in Destiny's Child, we were told to wear heels, but at first we couldn't walk in them. We couldn't keep our knees straight, but we learned.

  Beyonce Knowles

  Children, Destiny, High Heels

  "Beyoncé Talks Fashion" by Lynn Hirschberg, www.wmagazine.com. July 1, 2010.

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• The best thing is to draw men and women from the nude and thus fix in the memory by constant exercise the muscles of the torso, back, legs, arms and knees, with bones underneath.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Beauty, Memories, Exercise

  Giorgio Vasari (1907). “Vasari on technique: being the introduction to the three arts of design, architecture, sculpture and painting, prefixed to the Lives of the most excellent painters, sculptors and architects”

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• This morning about nine I withdrew to the woods for prayer. I was in such anguish that when I arose from my knees I felt extremely weak and overcome. ...I cared not how or where I lived, or what hardships I went through, so that I could but gain souls for Christ.

  David Brainerd

  Morning, Prayer, Soul

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• As you know we are facing the end of the Western Civilization by having a market based strategy, we are bringing Western Civilization to its knees by selling private insurance plans on a website where people pick and choose.

  Kathleen Sebelius

  Civilization, People, Strategy

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