Famous Quotes & Sayings

Denzel Washington

I got on my knees and sort of communicated with the spirits. When I came out, I was in charge. I couldn't have acted that, I couldn't have written that.

Ayn Rand

What whip lashed them to their knees in shame and submission? The worship of the word "We.

Since my knees wore out, I quit officiating.

Matthew Wright

Miss Lees had multiple abrasions to her knees and elbow. . . and a scratch to her lower back,

Ultimately, he's got to pitch at the knees and then go up in the strike zone. His motor runs pretty high, and he wants to pitch up early.

Armistead Maupin

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Bear Bryant

Never be too proud to get down on your knees and pray.

Che Guevara

Better to die standing, than to live on your knees.

Beverly Lewis

Courage is fear on its knees.

Diane Ackerman

Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness of everything else.

Charles Manson

All you fakers are in for it. I begged you on my knees and you didn't listen and now I can't hear you.

(But) when it hit, it jostled us up pretty good. My knees got jammed up pretty good, and my hips.

I wish there was a podium here - you wouldn't see my knees shaking.

Adam Savage

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?

Duke Ellington

Now I can say loudly and openly what I have been saying to myself on my knees.

Dolores Ibarruri

It's better to die than to live on your knees.

Tim Scott

I remember walking down the aisle, and I got down on my knees as a person who is so selfish, but when I rose back up the Lord had become the Master of my life.

Mikhail Gorbachev

You cannot put Russia down on its knees and hold it there because Russia will ultimately pull out.

Randy Houser

First time I walked out on the Opry stage, Vince Gill was there. He kind of 'daddied' me through the whole thing. My knees were knocking. I walked out there, and I was literally shaking. They say it's the spirits or the ghosts. And out of respect for that whole establishment, I was really really nervous.

Billy Graham

No nation is ever taller than when on its knees...

Robert Ingersoll

And we are called upon to worship such a God; to get upon our knees and tell him that he is good, that he is merciful, that he is just, that he is love

Todd Rokita

I am looking forward to learning at the knee of Paul Ryan. He doesn't strike me as a politician. He strikes me as an economist.

Ethel Barrymore

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?

Lech Walesa

I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.

Martin Luther

I have so much to do today, I'll need to spend another hour on my knees.

Jay Kay

I'm 41 now and the right knee has got a bit of a twinge in it. I get about the stage a little less now.

Neal A. Maxwell

We are often not only to slow to get on our knees, but to quick to rise from them.

Marian McPartland

I need to get up and walk around and keep my knees from getting bad, which is what's happening.

Mary Quant

A woman is as young as her knees.

Lauren Oliver

Old words; words that nearly brought me to my knees. Live free or die

Madonna Ciccone

When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray.

Michael Jackson

Look who's standing if you please, 'though you tried to bring me to my knees.

Michel de Montaigne

My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are.