Knees Quotes - Page 21

• I’d prefer to see both knees on the ground. I mean, if you’re going to grovel, be the best groveler you can, right?

  Chloe Neill

  Mean, Being The Best, Ifs

  Chloe Neill (2009). “Some Girls Bite: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel”, p.110, Penguin

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• In the middle of a play, I go crazy and don't realize what I'm doing. I'll snap back to reality and I realize, 'Hey, I just ripped that boy's helmet off,' or, 'I'm over here twisting this guy's knee.

  Brian Bosworth

  Crazy, Boys, Reality

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• Deliverance can come to us only by the defeat of our old life. Safety and peace come only after we have been forced to our knees. God rescues us by breaking us, by shattering our strength and wiping out our resistance.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Safety, Wiping Out, Resistance

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• The ever-growing size of software applications is what makes Moore's Law possible: 'If we hadn't brought your computer to its knees, why would you go out and buy a new one?'

  Nathan Myhrvold

  Law, Growing, Size

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• The auld wife sat at her ivied door, (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) A thing she had frequently done before; And her spectacles lay on her apron'd knees.

  Charles Stuart Calverley

  Doors, Eggs, Wife

  Charles Stuart Calverley (1872). “Fly leaves, by C.S.C.”, p.48

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• I am not afraid of retaliations. I don't have kids. I don't have a wife, no car, no credit. It may seem pompous, but I'd rather die standing than live on my knees.

  Charb

  Kids, Wife, Car

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• God scatters beauty as he scatters flowers O'er the wide earth, and tells us all are ours. A hundred lights in every temple burn, And at each shrine I bend my knee in turn.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Beauty, Flower, Light

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Last Fruit Off an Old Tree”, p.383

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• The habits of liberals, their automatic language, their knee-jerk responses to certain issues, deserved the epithets the right wing stuck them with. I'd see how true they often were. Here they were, banding together in packs, so I could predict what they were going to say about some event or conflict and it wasn't even out of their mouths yet. I was very uncomfortable with that. Liberal orthodoxy was as repugnant to me as conservative orthodoxy.

  George Carlin

  Wings, Issues, Together

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• I want a warm and faithful friend, To cheer the adverse hour; Who ne'er to flatter will descend, Nor bend the knee to power,- A friend to chide me when I'm wrong, My inmost soul to see; And that my friendship prove as strong For him as his for me.

  John Quincy Adams

  Friendship, Strong, Cheer

  JOHN QUINCY ADAMS (1848). “POEMS OF RELIGION AND SOCIETY”, p.21

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• Someone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't … it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense.

  Nick Diaz

  Hurt, Eye, Fighting

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• I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.

  Caterina Sforza

  Men

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• There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

  Alexander Smith

  Grandchildren, Fire, Perfection

  Alexander Smith (1914). “Dreamthorp”

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• Jesus' claims are particularly unnerving, because if they are true there is no alternative but to bow the knee to him.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Alternatives, Bows

  Timothy Keller (2013). “The Mother of God”, p.9, Penguin

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• Fear to fear. Be afraid to be afraid. Your worst enemy is within your own bosom. Get to your knees and cry for help, and then rise up saying, 'I will trust, and not be afraid.'

  Charles Spurgeon

  Worst Enemy, Helping, Cry

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Daily Devotion - 365 Days With Jesus”, p.60, Editora Dracaena

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• He who falls obstinate in his courage, if he falls he fights from his knees.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fall, Fighting, Obstinate

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• When a man falls on his knees and stretches his hands heavenward, he is doing the most natural thing in the world.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Fall, Men, Hands

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• I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great.

  Bill Walton

  Hands, Two, Ankles

  "Bill Walton Is Talkin' With TJ". Interview with Tom James, www.nba.com. September 21, 2011.

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• Few parents are aware of the difficulties that beset the minds of the little philosophers and theologians who sit upon their knees or play at their feet; and many a parent could not comprehend the disturbance, if he were aware of it.

  Lucy Larcom

  Feet, Play, Parent

  Lucy Larcom (1892). “The Unseen Friend”

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• I really can't stand any more to pay for a burst of animation when someone comes in for drinks with a depressed and low-keyed next day, in which I have to go around on my hands and knees.

  Edmund Wilson

  Hands, Next Day, Pay

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• We're constantly told that running will ruin our knees and outrage our hearts, but for nearly all of human existence, it was associated with freedom, vitality, and eternal youth.

  Christopher McDougall

  Running, Heart, Vitality

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• The happiest hour a sailor sees Is when he's down At an inland town, With his Nancy on his knees, yo ho! And his arm around her waist!

  W. S. Gilbert

  Sailing, Arms, Sailor

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• Then Job fell to his knees and cried to the Lord, "Thine is the kingdom and the power and glory. Thou hast a good job. Don't blow it."

  Woody Allen

  Funny, God, Jobs

  Woody Allen (2007). “The Insanity Defense: The Complete Prose”, Random House Incorporated

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• It's easier to believe in this sweet madness, oh this glorious sadness, that brings me to my knees.

  Sarah McLachlan

  Sweet, Believe, Sadness

  Song: In The Arms Of The Angel

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• Live. And Live Well. BREATHE. Breathe in and Breathe deeply. Be PRESENT. Do not be past. Do not be future. Be now. On a crystal clear, breezy 70 degree day, roll down the windows and FEEL the wind against your skin. Feel the warmth of the sun. If you run, then allow those first few breaths on a cool Autumn day to FREEZE your lungs and do not just be alarmed, be ALIVE. Get knee-deep in a novel and LOSE track of time. If you bike, pedal HARD

  Kyle Lake

  Running, Autumn, Past

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• My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. Listing what body parts he has broken

  Jackie Chan

  Eye, Two, Skulls

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