Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
I also told them of the manner in which I had been knocked down and dragged out, and that I didn't consider it a fair fight any how they could fix it. I put the ingredients in the cup pretty strong I tell you, and I concluded my speech by telling them that I was done with politics for the present, and they might all go to hell, and I would go to Texas.
I used to eat burgers and steak, and I would just be knocked out afterward; I had to give it up.
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down.
What's the biggest thing you've zapped with a fireball?' I asked. 'That would be a tiger,'said Nightingale. 'Well don't tell Greenpeace,' I said. 'They're an endagered species. ' 'Not that sort of tiger,' said Nightingale. 'A Panzer-kampfwagen sechs Ausf E. ' I stared at him. 'You knocked out a Tiger tank with a fireball?' 'Actually I knocked out two,' said Nightingale. 'I have to admit that the first one took three shots, one to disable the tracks, one through the driver's eye slot and one down the commander's hatch - brewed up rather nicely.
Muhammad was a prince; he rallied his compatriots around him. In a few years, the Muslims conquered half of the world. They plucked more souls from false gods, knocked down more idols, razed more pagan temples in fifteen years than the followers of Moses and Jesus did in fifteen centuries. Muhammad was a great man. He would indeed have been a god, if the revolution that he had performed had not been prepared by the circumstances.
Male supremacy has kept woman down. It has not knocked her out.
I have knocked on the door of this man's soul and found someone home.
Television, cable, the Internet, that's knocked the boundaries down.
Words. . . They're innocent, neutral, precise, standing for this, describing that, meaning the other, so if you look after them you can build bridges across incomprehension and chaos. But when they get their corners knocked off, they're no good any more. . . I don't think writers are sacred, but words are. They deserve respect. If you get the right ones in the right order, you can nudge the world a little or make a poem which children will speak for you when you're dead.
What do little birdies see when they get knocked unconscious?
That noise in my earphones knocked my nose off and I had to pick it up and find it.
There's nothing wrong with getting knocked down, as long as you get right back up.
He's built up to be invincible and no man is invincible, any man can be knocked out.
Be prepared to have the breath knocked out of you.
The sun will rise tomorrow, even if you get knocked out in 30 seconds.
The art of living is simply getting up after you've been knocked down.
This is the first adventure I’ve survived without being kidnapped, attacked, knocked unconscious or possessed by evil spirits. A ripped blouse? Ruined skirt? Bad hair? I’d call this progress. ~Jaime Vegas
No matter how many times you get knocked down, keep getting back up. God sees your resolve. He sees your determination. And when you do everything you can do, that’s when God will step in and do what you can’t do.
If one dream dies, dream another dream. If you get knocked down, get back up and go again.