Stevie Smith Quotes

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Stevie Smith

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• Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.

  

  Dale Archer
  • True
  • Education
  • College

• My wife and I were both very engaged in trying to defeat Trump. We knocked on doors in three states.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Trying
  • Wife
  • Trump

• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• Education is a way of empowering people; it opens up so many doors and is fundamental to everybody. And teachers are not often appreciated in the way that they should be.

  

  Camila Alves
  • People
  • Up
  • Education

• When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just wanted to know where the doors were - the entrances, the exits; the tables, the props - and then I would hire the designer. I took charge of the visuals - scenery and costumes and so on. And, the shows looked wonderful.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Know
  • Me
  • Doors

• I know I got to do something that's one in a million, to escape a refugee camp, to come to this country and have so many doors open for me. So I want to go back and make a difference and give motivation or hope to all the kids that never got to leave or have the privilege that I did.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Country
  • Kids
  • Hope

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • God
  • Doors
  • Open

• I always hold doors open, I always try to be nice.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Nice
  • Try
  • Doors

• I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, students experience the joys of new-found knowledge and the ability to excel.

  

  Daniel Akaka
  • Experience
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• Shame, it comes in every size, touches many lives, knocks on many doors.

  

  Neil Diamond
  • Philosophy
  • Doors
  • Shame

• Late at night when the wind is still I'll come flying through your door, And you'll know what love is for. I am a bluebird, I'm a bluebird...

  

  Paul McCartney The Beatles
  • Night
  • Door
  • Wind

• Now, of course, people know that over the last several months prior to February 21st, 1965, the OAAU and MMI tried to get away from the old practices of checking people at the door for weapons. They wanted people to feel more comfortable.

  

  Manning Marable
  • People
  • Feels
  • Door

• But integration and equality are myths; they disguise a new segregation and a new equality...Every social order institutes its own program of separation or segregation. A particular faith and morality is given privileged status and all else is separated for progressive elimination.

  

  R.J. Rushdoony
  • Faith
  • Equality
  • Order

• I came into science fiction at a very good time, when the doors were getting thrown open to all kinds of more experimental writing, more literary writing, riskier writing. It wasn't all imitation Heinlein or Asimov. And of course, women were creeping in, infiltrating. Infesting the premises.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• When individuals get crowbars and start prying open doors to loot, they're not protesting. They're not making a statement. They're stealing. When they burn down a building, they're committing arson.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Doors
  • Stealing
  • Arson

• Alongside my own deep personal faith, I am a follower, as well, of our civic religion. I am a big believer in the separation of church and state.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Deep

• The Doors are perfect paintings; a relief from the picture world I’ve created for myself.

  

  Gary Hume
  • World
  • Perfect
  • Picture

• You put the right artist on the right track in the studio and leave the door open to let God in.

  

  Jay-Z
  • God
  • Artist
  • Door

• Before I could cry or scream I whirled around and stalked to my bedroom,slamming the door behind me. I hope they all drown. "Zoey your mother and I need to speak with you." Great. Clearly they didn't drown.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Great
  • Mother
  • Hope

• God put a million, million doors in the world for His love to walk through. One of those doors is you.

  

  Jason Gray
  • God
  • Love
  • Doors

• We were working... with Frank Sinatra. He was in the main room, and we were in the lounge. It was a real thrill to meet and actually become friends with people like Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr., and Dean Martin. They were all working the Sands at that time... and Bill and I became... well, not close friends, but at least acquaintances where they knew us by name, and most of them just called us the righteous boys.

  

  Robert Lee Hatfield
  • People
  • Time
  • Real

• If everyone would take only according to his needs and would leave the surplus to the needy, no one would be rich, no one poor, no one in misery.

  

  Saint Basil

• Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Doors
  • Separation
  • Parting