Doors Quotes
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We never slam the door on flattery, we nudge it shut like a man rejecting his mistress: if she nudges back, we're delighted and if she breaks it down, we rejoice.
Walter Wangerin
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You know, you're really nobody in L.A. unless you live in a house with a really big door.
Steve Martin
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The unfortunate thing is that I live next door to the pub they all drink in. So if I leave my light on and they know I'm in, they all descend on me. I know it's nice, but it's a bit of a bummer if you're trying to watch EastEnders.
Sean Pertwee
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All I know is a door into the dark
Seamus Heaney
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The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day began there; it was like an open door that nobody could shut. The land and all its dreariness could never close in on you. You had only to look at the lake, and you knew you would soon be free.
Willa Cather
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All new beginnings require that you unlock a new door.
Nachman of Breslov
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A compassionate attitude opens our inner door, and as a result it is much easier to communicate with others. If there is too much self-centered attitude, then fear, doubt and suspicion come and as a result our inner door closes. Then it is very difficult to communicate with others.
Dalai Lama
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He’s freed some fire from ice in pity for Heaven.
He’s left open—for God—the doors of Hell tonight.
Agha Shahid Ali
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If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".
Catherine Marshall
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A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave.
Geert Wilders
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Who is the man who can call from the back door at night: "Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme! Here, Champion Alexander of Clane o' Wind-Holme"?
Westbrook Pegler
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Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs !
Walt Whitman
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I love blacks and gays and latinos, as long as they don't live next door.
Mojo Nixon
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Neville kicked aside the broken fragments of his own wand as they walked slowly toward the door. "My gran's going do kill be," said Neville thickly, blood spattering from his nose as he spoke, "dat was by dad's old wand.
Joanne Rowling
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Youre only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!
Michael Caine
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This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.
Lois McMaster
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I pause at the door, wishing I could find a corner and sleep until my head clears, but the sailor said the abbess is expecting me, and while I do not know much about abbesses, I suspect they are not fond of waiting.
Robin LaFevers
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On my face extended flat
W. S. Gilbert
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The problem with being a modern woman, I thought, as the front door swung wide, is that you have to pretend to be stronger than you are.
Darcey Steinke
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I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
William Cowper
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At the same time, though, I was beginning to wonder if this was just how it was supposed to be for me, like perhaps I wasn't capable of having that many people in my life at any one time. My mom turned up, Nate walked away, one door opening as another clicked shut.
Sarah Dessen
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Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death; a thousand doors open on to it.
Seneca the Younger