Knees Quotes - Page 11

If a government commission had worked on the horse, you would have the first horse that could operate its knee joint in both directions. The trouble is it couldn't have stood up.

I believe that one's basic financial attitudes are - like a tendency toward fat knees - probably formed in utero, or, at the very latest, in cribbo.

To this day I always say my prayers on my knees 'cause I think maybe they get there sooner.

I'd suggest putting your head between your knees, but I think that's physically impossible for you at the moment.

I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a garden.

Leibniz is at the disadvantage of not having seen it. Or perhaps we should count this as an advantage, for anyone who sees it is dumbfounded by the brilliance of the geometry, and it is difficult to criticize a man’s work when you are down on your knees shielding your eyes.

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?'

I didn't know you were Catholic.

My knee-jerk is that it is comedy and, if you watch them all back-to-back, you will gain something and you will lose something.

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

My knee feels good right now. I am definitely able to move about whichever way.

And through all the misery, she said that some of us in this lifetime experience a moment of beauty beyond reckoning. I asked her what that was, and she said, "If you're one of the lucky ones, you'll know it when you see it. You'll understand why the gods have made you suffer. Because that moment's reward will make your knees weak and everything you've suffered in life will pale in comparison.

Constant criticism can wear one down and weaken knees.

God, find us on our knees because we know that when we get our knees, You extend Your powerful right hand.

Now you'll get to see how I can really run a building, darlin. Not even a cracked knee to hold me back, yeah? What a nice birthday present.

A certain desperation is usually necessary before we're ready for God... Until your knees finally hit the floor, you're just playing at life, and on some level you're scared because you know you're just playing. The moment of surrender is not when life is over. It's when it begins

All the general propositions favouring freedom I had .. imbibed at my father's knee or acquired by candle-end reading of Burke and Hayek...

My knees could have been stirred with a spoon.

If our ahimsa is not of the brave but of the weak, and if it will bend the knee before himsa, Gandhism deserves to be destroyed.

The world brought me to my knees, what have you brung you?

Anne, are you killed?' shrieked Diana, throwing herself on her knees beside her friend. 'Oh, Anne, dear Anne, speak just one word to me and tell me if you're killed.

I have not loved the World, nor the World me; I have not flattered its rank breath, nor bowed To its idolatries a patient knee, Nor coined my cheek to smiles,-nor cried aloud In worship of an echo.

I'm fine, and my hips are fine. My false knee is fine. My false hips are fine. Everything's cooking.

I need somebody with staying power who will make me go weak in the knees.

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