Door Quotes
3831 Door quotes by 2382 unique authors
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In a world of intrusive technology, we must engage in a kind of struggle if we wish to sustain moments of solitude. E-reading opens the…
— Mohsin Hamid
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...the sounds next door served as a kind of trip wire: I seemed to stumble and fall on my face, skinning and bruising myself here…
— John Cheever
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I woke to find every window open I woke to find the heavy door ajar And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop And…
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.
— Arnold J. Toynbee
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My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep…
— Mike Brearley
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Chemotherapy and radiotherapy will make the ancient method of drilling holes in a patient's head to permit the escape of demons look relatively advanced.... Toxic…
— Ernst T. Krebs
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Don't allow false modesty,doubts or unbelief prevent you from accepting God's favor. The door of mercy stands wide open.
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release…
— Max Lucado
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We [he and Halmos] share a philosophy about linear algebra: we think basis-free, we write basis-free , but when the chips are down we close…
— Irving Kaplansky
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O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being…
— Victor Hugo
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Actually, who hasn't been through the ghastly experience of sitting in front of a blank page, with its toothless mouth grinning at you: Go ahead,…
— Amos Oz
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Let us no longer be blinded by the dim theology that only in the far seeing vision discovers a millennium, when violence shall no more…
— Lucretia Mott
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Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.
— Dean Koontz
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But when the door shuts on us, all that vanishes. The shell-like covering which our souls have excreted to house themselves, to make for themselves…
— Virginia Woolf
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Come, see the north-wind's masonry, Out of an unseen quarry evermore Furnished with tile, the fierce artificer Curves his white bastions with projected roof Round…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Here is the door of my mom's house, well-remembered childhood portal. Here is the yard, and a set of wires that runs from the house…
— Dan Chaon
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If you went to a home, kicked down the front door, chased the people who lived there out into the street and said, Go! You…
— Yann Martel
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Between the kitchen and the destroyed chapel a door led into an oval-shaped library. The space inside seemed safe except for a large hole at…
— Michael Ondaatje
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The summer has seized you, as when, last month in Amalfi, I saw lemons as large as your desk-side globe-that miniature map of the world-and…
— Anne Sexton
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We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn something new, whether…
— Donald Trump
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The past is a closed door.
— Margaret Atwood
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I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid…
— Richard Bach
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Action is the difference-make r. Remember that. If you’re ready to take a big step forward, seek an open door as if your life depended…
— Simon Black
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Expectation closes the door to what is happening in the moment.
— Robert Fripp
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A lot of Playmates look like Playmates, but I look so girl-next-door and wholesome.
— Karen McDougal
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