#knock

The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place. ↗

— David R. Brower

#chemicals #farming #fertilizer #first #fuel

If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence. ↗

— Pierre de Coubertin

#competition #encourages #his #knocked #out

I come here not as a polished politician but as a woman who has had her fair share of life's knocks. ↗

— Pauline Hanson

#fair #fair share #had #her #here

I saw a guy being really abusive to his girlfriend. She was asking people to help, but no one would. When he grabbed her, I tried to separate them, but he turned on me. I punched him and knocked him down. It wasn't a scandal; I was just doing what anybody should. ↗

— Timothy Hutton

#asking #being #doing #down #girlfriend

I didn't always spell my name Bil. My parents named me Bill, but when I started drawing cartoons on the wall, they knocked the 'L' out of me. ↗

— Bil Keane

#bill #cartoons #drawing #i #knocked

Well I guess I like variety pretty much, but I do enjoy this work very much. Particularly with Buddy on the gig, we get a chance to knock each other out It'just wonderful. ↗

— Gene Krupa

#chance #each #enjoy #get #gig

America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags its tail it knocks over a chair. ↗

— Arnold J. Toynbee

#chair #dog #every #every time #friendly

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks. ↗

— David Herbert Lawrence

#allow #away #before #came #freedoms

To be knocked out doesn't mean what it seems. A boxer does not have to get up. ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

#does #get #knocked #mean #out