Doors Quotes · Page 35

Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.

— Shahin Najafi

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.

— Laura Miller

While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

— Horace

When one door closes another opens but all too often there is a long hallway in between.

— Rick Jarow

There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

They linger near the back door, forehead to forehead and curved like statues as their lips whisper and brush together.

— Lisa McMann

We need to avoid going down a path where we might find the doors slamming shut behind us.

— Tim Sweeney

“If nobody knocks your door, knock your own door! The most precious support for you is the support you give yourself!”

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Why couldn't we put on a defense? I had seventeen witnesses standing outside the door. They just dropped the defense and went…

— Charles Manson

When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There’s a door that never closes, a way,…

— Yasmin Mogahed

“Man is a prisoner who has no right to open the door of his prison and run away... A man should wait,…

— Plato

The jostling of young minds against each other has this wonderful attribute, that one can never foresee the spark, nor predict the…

— Anonymous

Things come to the poor that can't get in at the door of the rich. Their money somehow blocks it up. It…

— George MacDonald

We end up with the contradictory picture of a society that appears to throw its doors wide open to women, but translates…

— Margaret Mead

Humble yourself"--it is a humbling experience to knock at God's door--you have to knock with the crucified thief. "To him that knocketh,…

— Oswald Chambers

...I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude, to lift a…

— Mary Wollstonecraft

I've endured humiliating experiences trying to get a cab in the various cities I've visited and lived in. Available taxis - as…

— Jenna Wortham

I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I…

— Adele

What are you doing in there, waxing your mustache?” Iggy yelled, pounding on the bathroom door. I yanked the door open and…

— James Patterson

The Saviour Himself is the door of the sheepfold: 'I am the door of the sheep.' Into this fold of Jesus Christ,…

— Pope John XXII

The doors to the world of the wild Self are few but precious. If you have a deep scar, that is a…

— Clarissa Pinkola Estes

The devil is like a rabid dog tied to a chain; beyond the length of the chain he cannot seize anyone. And…

— Pio of Pietrelcina

My whole thing was, as much as I was inspired by what my parents do, and growing up on film sets, watching…

— Dree Hemingway

It always happened like this: he would look and look for the keys to Satan’s Hearse and then finally he’d just give…

— John Green

“It is our conscience, not our pride, that has put doorkeepers at our doors.”

— Lucius Annaeus Seneca

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

— Jeremy Camp

but i've slammed the door to my inner self; if he ever wants to force the lock again, he'll have to use…

— Anne Frank

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

— Ivan Slavkov

Kindness is better and can be more powerful than force. Kind words may unlock an iron door.

— Nicky Gumbel

So die as though your funeral Ushered you through the doors that led Into a stately banquet hall Where heroes banqueted.

— Alan Seeger

Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring which opens the door.

— Paulo Coelho

I never imagined myself doing this. Doors opened for me and I ran for it.

— Karlie Kloss

What exists outside is a man's concern; let no woman give advice; and do no mischief within doors.

— Aeschylus

The key to writing is something to be stolen. How else does one open the door to a house of thieves?

— Anthony Marais

Nicole was always there with her door open, her arms open, her ears open - just what you need.

— Naomi Watts

Anybody who's serious about their passion in life gets doors slammed in their face, literally and figuratively.

— Leeza Gibbons

Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

— Guy de Maupassant

We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door.

— Eric Weiner

This is war,' I yelled through the door. Lucky for me,' Morelli said. 'I give good war.

— Janet Evanovich

[A distressing event] came like a door banging on to a silent room.

— Hugh Walpole