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Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves. – D. H. Lawrence	added by Normando 7 months ago
Typically, if a hippo is going to be attacking, you’ll see it coming way before. There will be that bow wave. … If you slap the water, the percussion 99.9 times out of 100 will turn the hippo, if you’re in a canoe and a hippo knocks you in the water, get away from the canoe. The hippo is going for this big shape, getting it off its territory. – Paul Templer	Found on CNN 1 year ago
It knocks the legs out of the argument that Democrats aren't getting it done. – Sean Patrick Maloney	Found on CNN 2 years ago
When truth knocks is when falsity is sweetest. – Goa Kerle	added by Goa_ 2 years ago
What I will say, if you look at comparable cities that size, 140 no knocks would cause pause. I'd be looking at that saying,' Let's go through these one by one,' and I hate to say it. At the end of the day, I'm going to bet you... 140 no-knock warrants shouldn't have been served as no-knock warrants. – Thor Eells	Found on CNN 3 years ago
You have to go back years to understand why Amir Lockes parents have no knocks, they were developed as a tool, through courts, for the preservation of evidence... primarily crack cocaine. That's no longer the case, and hasn't been for at least ten years. ( We)'ve been strongly teaching, advocating, for other alternatives. – Thor Eells	Found on CNN 3 years ago
If I get it, I'm going to ride it out, i'm going to let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach. And just say, if it knocks me out, it knocks me out. I'm going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that. – Minnesota Vikings	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I think we’re playing good baseball, i know the record doesn’t reflect that, but we’ve been in a lot of games. We’re a couple of big knocks and a couple of big pitches away from a lot of different outcomes. – Ryan McMahon	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
If I get it, I'm gon na ride it out, i'm gon na let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach. And just say, if it knocks me out, it knocks me out. I'm going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that. – Minnesota Vikings	Found on CNN 4 years ago
Whenever an opportunity knocks the door, a far sighted and an insightful man always try to follow a correct path with patience and with full consciousness to grab it, that enables and enhances the chance for him to win. On the other hand, ignorant and silly individuals see opportunities as a source for someone else benefits, thus instead of following a path to seek opportunities for themselves, they divert from the course of path and thus fall. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal 4 years ago
We don't have any information around no-knock warrants, so for us to start a conversation with banning no-knocks doesn't sound like a solid position based on any data because we don't have that data. Once we have the information, we can then turn to the training that is necessary to de-escalate situations. – Tim Scott	Found on CNN 4 years ago
There's no actual database on no-knocks. We don't know when it's used, to whom it's used against. We don't know the race, the sex, the age, we know nothing about no-knocks, except for the Breonna Taylor situation that was tragic without question. – Tim Scott	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Success never comes easy. It needs a whole lot of efforts to achieve it and if you have complete dedication and desire, then only you can achieve it. You should be resilient at the times of failure and should have the fighting back spirit so that success knocks at your door. – Prashant Agarwal	added by prashantagarwal 4 years ago
Then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning ? because President Donald Trump see it gets on the lungs and does a tremendous number on the lungs. – The President	Found on CNN 4 years ago
And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning ... it would be interesting to check that, it sounds interesting to me. – President Trump on Thursday	Found on CNN 4 years ago
When it's safe to organize door knocks and hold events, I think people will be really excited to go back to doing that ... (but) now they'll know there are these options digitally that can be just as impactful. – Naseem Makiya	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
For me, my knock experience was I wanted Mr. Baker just to wait a little while ; I wanted two rounds of knocks -- just to let him feel what I've been feeling the last couple of years. – Isaac Bruce	Found on CNN 5 years ago
The first possibility is precluded by statute( the Deputy DHS secretary is the' first assistant,' and Ken Cuccinelli isn't that). He hasn't been confirmed by the Senate, which knocks out the second possibility. And he wasn't at DHS for any time before Secretary Nielsen resigned, let alone 90 of the 365 days preceding her departure. That ought to be the end of it. – Border Protection	Found on CNN 5 years ago
It just knocks the socks off any other expense. – Debra Newman	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up; – Japanese Proverb	added by anonymous 7 years ago
When life knocks you down, stand up and punch back. – Sipho P Nkosi	added by SIPHO P NKOSI 7 years ago
When opportunity knocks, you got ta walk through that door. – Linda McMahon	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
We see a tremendously strong potential deal flow from Norway. We get knocks on the door every day on different sorts of offshore related companies. – Gabriel Urwitz	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We don't have any system that knocks on the doors of every person in America, we also don't have people going door-to-door looking for murderers. We don't live in a police state. We do have law enforcement. – Texas Sen. Ted Cruz	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Men fight for liberty and win it with hard knocks. Their children, brought up easy, let it slip away again, poor fools. And their grand-children are once more slaves.

– D. H. Lawrence

added by Normando
7 months ago

Typically, if a hippo is going to be attacking, you’ll see it coming way before. There will be that bow wave. … If you slap the water, the percussion 99.9 times out of 100 will turn the hippo, if you’re in a canoe and a hippo knocks you in the water, get away from the canoe. The hippo is going for this big shape, getting it off its territory.

– Paul Templer

Found on CNN
1 year ago

It knocks the legs out of the argument that Democrats aren't getting it done.

– Sean Patrick Maloney

Found on CNN
2 years ago

When truth knocks is when falsity is sweetest.

– Goa Kerle

added by Goa_
2 years ago

What I will say, if you look at comparable cities that size, 140 no knocks would cause pause. I'd be looking at that saying,' Let's go through these one by one,' and I hate to say it. At the end of the day, I'm going to bet you... 140 no-knock warrants shouldn't have been served as no-knock warrants.

– Thor Eells

Found on CNN
3 years ago

You have to go back years to understand why Amir Lockes parents have no knocks, they were developed as a tool, through courts, for the preservation of evidence... primarily crack cocaine. That's no longer the case, and hasn't been for at least ten years. ( We)'ve been strongly teaching, advocating, for other alternatives.

– Thor Eells

Found on CNN
3 years ago

If I get it, I'm going to ride it out, i'm going to let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach. And just say, if it knocks me out, it knocks me out. I'm going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that.

– Minnesota Vikings

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I think we’re playing good baseball, i know the record doesn’t reflect that, but we’ve been in a lot of games. We’re a couple of big knocks and a couple of big pitches away from a lot of different outcomes.

– Ryan McMahon

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

If I get it, I'm gon na ride it out, i'm gon na let nature do its course. Survival-of-the-fittest kind of approach. And just say, if it knocks me out, it knocks me out. I'm going to be OK. You know, even if I die. If I die, I die. I kind of have peace about that.

– Minnesota Vikings

Found on CNN
4 years ago

Whenever an opportunity knocks the door, a far sighted and an insightful man always try to follow a correct path with patience and with full consciousness to grab it, that enables and enhances the chance for him to win. On the other hand, ignorant and silly individuals see opportunities as a source for someone else benefits, thus instead of following a path to seek opportunities for themselves, they divert from the course of path and thus fall.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
4 years ago

We don't have any information around no-knock warrants, so for us to start a conversation with banning no-knocks doesn't sound like a solid position based on any data because we don't have that data. Once we have the information, we can then turn to the training that is necessary to de-escalate situations.

– Tim Scott

Found on CNN
4 years ago

There's no actual database on no-knocks. We don't know when it's used, to whom it's used against. We don't know the race, the sex, the age, we know nothing about no-knocks, except for the Breonna Taylor situation that was tragic without question.

– Tim Scott

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Success never comes easy. It needs a whole lot of efforts to achieve it and if you have complete dedication and desire, then only you can achieve it. You should be resilient at the times of failure and should have the fighting back spirit so that success knocks at your door.

– Prashant Agarwal

added by prashantagarwal
4 years ago

Then I see the disinfectant, where it knocks it out in a minute. One minute. Is there a way we can do something like that, by injection inside or almost a cleaning ? because President Donald Trump see it gets on the lungs and does a tremendous number on the lungs.

– The President

Found on CNN
4 years ago

And then I see the disinfectant where it knocks it out in one minute. Is there a way we can do something like that by injection inside or almost a cleaning ... it would be interesting to check that, it sounds interesting to me.

– President Trump on Thursday

Found on CNN
4 years ago

When it's safe to organize door knocks and hold events, I think people will be really excited to go back to doing that ... (but) now they'll know there are these options digitally that can be just as impactful.

– Naseem Makiya

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

For me, my knock experience was I wanted Mr. Baker just to wait a little while ; I wanted two rounds of knocks -- just to let him feel what I've been feeling the last couple of years.

– Isaac Bruce

Found on CNN
5 years ago

The first possibility is precluded by statute( the Deputy DHS secretary is the' first assistant,' and Ken Cuccinelli isn't that). He hasn't been confirmed by the Senate, which knocks out the second possibility. And he wasn't at DHS for any time before Secretary Nielsen resigned, let alone 90 of the 365 days preceding her departure. That ought to be the end of it.

– Border Protection

Found on CNN
5 years ago

It just knocks the socks off any other expense.

– Debra Newman

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

Proverb : Fall seven times and stand up eight Meaning :When life knocks you down, stand back up;

– Japanese Proverb

added by anonymous
7 years ago

When life knocks you down, stand up and punch back.

– Sipho P Nkosi

added by SIPHO P NKOSI
7 years ago

When opportunity knocks, you got ta walk through that door.

– Linda McMahon

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

We see a tremendously strong potential deal flow from Norway. We get knocks on the door every day on different sorts of offshore related companies.

– Gabriel Urwitz

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We don't have any system that knocks on the doors of every person in America, we also don't have people going door-to-door looking for murderers. We don't live in a police state. We do have law enforcement.

– Texas Sen. Ted Cruz

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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