"Courage is fear on its knees."
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"Should the poor be flattered? No; let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, and crook the pregnant hinges of the knee where thrift may follow fawning."
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"The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse."
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"Picture you upon my knee, just tea for two and two for tea."
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"I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence."
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"I hate you, Richard Wagner . . . but I hate you on my knees."
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"Dad sometimes patted me on the knee and called me his Little Schmuck."
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"My reason is not framed to bend or stoop: my knees are."
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"He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees."
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"Success! to thee, as to a God, men bend the knee."
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"Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier."
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"I guess I've never really been aggressive, although almost everybody else in show business fights and gouges and knees to get where they want to be."
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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."
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"I wish I could help you" I whisper. You are," he murmurs against my knee. "just dont leave me, okay? Everyone leaves me."
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"When I get down on my knees, it is not to pray."
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"Jack the Rabbit and Weak Knee Willie, you know they're gonna be there. Sloppy Sue and Big Bones Billy, they'll be coming up for air."
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"Nearly everybody gets twitterpated in the springtime. [. . . ] You begin to get weak in the knees. Your head's in a whirl. And then you feel light as a feather, and before you know it, you're walking on air. And then you know what? You're knocked for a loop, and you completely lose your head!"
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"The only people without problems are in cemeteries. If you don't have problems, get on your knees and pray."
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"Oh, I'm being eaten By a boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, A boa constrictor, I'm being eaten by a boa constrictor, And I don't like it--one bit. Well, what do you know? It's nibblin' my toe. Oh, gee, It's up to my knee. Oh my, It's up to my thigh. Oh, fiddle, It's up to my middle. Oh, heck, It's up to my neck. Oh, dread, It's upmmmmmmmmmmffffffffff . . ."
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"The true test of courage is to be afraid and to go ahead and do it anyway - to be scared, is to have your knees knocking, but to walk on in there anyway."
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