Quotes and Sayings About Doors
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Christopher Robin was sitting outside his door, putting on his Big Boots. As soon as he saw the Big Boots, Pooh knew that an Adventure was going to happen, and he brushed the honey off his nose with the back of his paw, and spruced himself up as well as he could, so as to look ready for Anything.
-- A. A. Milne -
The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way.
-- A. C. Benson -
When one door opens, so does another one.
-- A.C.H. SmithSource : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.105, BOOM! Studios
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Life is no straight and easy corridor along which we travel free and unhampered, but a maze of passages, through which we must seek our way, lost and confused, now and again checked in a blind alley. But always, if we have faith, a door will open for us, not perhaps one that we ourselves would ever have thought of, but one that will ultimately prove good for us
-- A.J. CroninSource : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.
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If you close your eyes you can imagine the hackers sitting in a room, combing through the documents to find the ones that will draw the most blood. And in a room next door are American journalists doing the same thing. As demented and criminal as it is, at least the hackers are doing it for a cause. The press is doing it for a nickel.
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What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot.
-- Abbi Glines -
Making money is not gonna change anything about what I am, except I won't answer the door.
-- Abel FerraraSource : "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins'" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.
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The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.
-- Abraham CowleySource : Abraham Cowley, Thomas Sprat (1710). “The Works of Mr. Abraham Cowley ...: Consisting of Those which Were Formerly Printed, and Those which He Design'd for the Press, Publish'd Out of the Author's Original Copies ; with The Cutter of Coleman-street”, p.179
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Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
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Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.
-- Abraham Zaleznik -
Once a sage asked why scholars always flock to the doors of the rich, whilst the rich are not inclined to call at the doors of scholars. ‘The scholars‘ he answered , ‘are well aware of the use of money, but the rich are ignorant of the nobility of science.’
-- Abu Rayhan al-Biruni -
Everything seems overwhelming when you stand back and look at the totality of it. I build a lot of stuff and it would all seem impossible if I didn't break it down piece by piece, stage by stage. The best gift you can give yourself is some drive--that thing inside of you that gets you out the door to the gym, job interviews, and dates. The believe-in-yourself adage is grossly overrated.
-- Adam Carolla -
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Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.
-- Adam Duritz -
Less than the dust beneath thy chariot wheel, less than the weed that grows beside thy door.
-- Adela Florence NicolsonSource : 'The Garden of Kama' (1901) 'Less than the Dust'
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Death is a door life opens.
-- Adela Rogers St. JohnsSource : Adela Rogers St. Johns (1979). “Love, Laughter and Tears: My Hollywood Story”
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You only have to kick in the door and the whole rotten structure will come crashing down.
-- Adolf Hitler -
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It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery.
-- Adrian Rogers -
The doors of opportunity swing on the hinges of opposition!
-- Adrian Rogers -
You know Nana, I searched and searched, but could never find the key that unlocked the way. And now that I've stopped looking, I've finally found it. Maybe the door will open for me.
-- Ai Yazawa -
Every ransomed man owes his salvation to the fact that during his days of sinning, God kept the door of mercy open.
-- Aiden Wilson Tozer -
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
-- Ajahn Chah -
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
-- Akhenaton -
There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.
-- Al Goldstein -
I pissed away over ten million dollars On dope and crack I passed away deader than a door knob But now I'm back
-- Al Jourgensen -
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To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If you do it right, it can open all kinds of inner doors.
-- Al Oerter -
What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
-- Alan BennettSource : Alan Bennett (2008). “The Uncommon Reader”, p.10, Faber & Faber
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Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.
-- Alan BradleySource : Alan Bradley (2016). “The Flavia de Luce Series 7-Book Bundle”, p.272, Delacorte Press
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The difficulties of life do not keep you from greatness. They show you to its door.
-- Alan Cohen -
The door you open to give love is the very one through which love arrives.
-- Alan CohenSource : Alan Cohen (2010). “A Daily Dose of Sanity: A Five-Minute Soul Recharge for Every Day of the Year”, Hay House, Inc