Back Doors Quotes:

Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

- Aesop

source: Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.107, Penguin

topic: Doors, Window, Back Doors

We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

- Napoleon Bonaparte

topic: Doors, Method, Back Doors

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

- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

topic: Doors, Mosques, Rooms, Back Doors

The sun will shine in my back door one day..

- Jerry Garcia

topic: Doors, Shining, One Day, Back Doors

We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

- Ravi Zacharias

topic: Heart, Doors, Religion, Guarded, Front Doors

We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

- Heinrich von Kleist

topic: Journey, Doors, World, Back Doors

I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

- Luther Allison

topic: Sunshine, Doors, Shining, Back Doors, Happy Sunshine

Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

source: Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

topic: Sunshine, Doors, Sneak In, Sneak, Back Doors

I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels.

- Tony Abbott

source: "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". "7.30' with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

topic: Thinking, Doors, Australia, Front Doors, Back Doors

I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door,

- Tony Abbott

topic: Christian, Thinking, Doors, Front Doors, Back Doors

When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Boys, Men, Doors, Shutters, Back Doors

We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

- Russ Feingold

topic: Doors, Issues, Important, Arctic, Back Doors

Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

- Ana Gasteyer

topic: Doors, Singing, Able, Sneak, Back Doors

The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

- Dan B. Allender

topic: Struggle, Names, Organization, Blackmail, Back Doors

Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

- Joseph Conrad

topic: Simple, Ideas, Doors, Crumbs, Tramps

The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval by the House of Commons followed by a referendum of the people of Britain. There is no question of implementing it by the back door.

- Douglas Alexander

topic: Government, Doors, People, Back Doors

If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.

- Robert Stack

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Stars, Doors, Rose, Front Doors, Back Doors

And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

- Aretha Franklin

topic: Doors, Goes On, Cry, Ed Sullivan, Back Doors

Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

- Jean Wilson

topic: Discovery, Doors, Wasting Time, Back Doors

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

- Kris Radish

source: Kris Radish (2006). “Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral”, p.235, Bantam

topic: Thinking, Doors, Years, Back Doors

I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.

- Charles Fort

source: Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com

topic: Believe, Doors, Hands, Periwinkle, Back Doors

My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

- Mem Fox

topic: Mother, Blow, Doors, Back Doors

Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

- Stevie Wonder

topic: Friendship, Doors, Hands, Back Doors, Sneaking Out

Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

- Edward Hoagland

topic: Summer, Believe, Doors, Back Doors, Rocky Mountain

Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

- Napoleon Hill

topic: Opportunity, Doors, Slipping, Sly, Back Doors

Leave your front door and your back door open. Allow your thoughts to come and go. Just don't serve them tea.

- Shunryu Suzuki

topic: Doors, Tea, Comes And Goes, Front Doors, Back Doors

I think it's a typical hidden agenda of the Liberal party... They had the courts do it for them, they put the judges in they wanted, then they failed to appeal -- failed to fight the case in court... I think the federal government deliberately lost this case in court and got the change to the law done through the back door.

- Stephen Harper

topic: Party, Fighting, Thinking, Liberal Party, Back Doors

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.

- Charles Finch

source: Charles Finch (2014). “The Last Enchantments”, p.36, Macmillan

topic: Doors, Adulthood, Back Doors

I can ski out of my back door.

- Merlin Olsen

topic: Doors, Skis, Back Doors

For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

- Jonathan Swift

topic: Inspirational, Men, Doors, Back Doors

Invite them all in. Nip out the back door. Phone the police and tell them your house is being burgled.

- Mike Harding

topic: Humorous, Doors, Phones, Back Doors

This guy, when I met him he was 47 years old, he'd just come out of a divorce and he was, you know, very desirable. He had every Cosmo cover girl and undercover girl. They were just coming out of his ears. Baking cakes on his doorstep, one in the back door, one on the roof, one waiting in the basement, another in the elevator. So I know I have to keep an eye on him.

- Pia Zadora

topic: Girl, Divorce, Eye, Undercover, Back Doors

He bent, lips coming to mine and — 'Derek? Chloe?' It was Kit, opening the back door. Derek let out a low growl. 'Never fails.' I turned to Kit. 'How is she?' 'We’re going to take her back to the house now. She’s unconscious again.' 'Then we’ll walk back,' Derek said. 'Give you room in the van to lay her down.' His dad agreed and went back inside. As we walked toward the steps, I looked down at Derek’s hand, holding mine. 'No one’s around,' he said. 'And we can take the back way.' 'Good,' I said, and entwined my fingers with his.

- Kelley Armstrong

topic: Dad, Doors, Hands, Hand Holding, Back Doors

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

- Lisa McMann

source: Lisa McMann (2010). “Fade”, p.28, Simon and Schuster

topic: Doors, Together, Lips, Back Doors

Valkyrie walked to the back door, which hadn't been closed properly, shut it and locked it. There was now a baby in the house, after all. She couldn't take the chance that a wild animal might wander in and make off with Alice, like those dingoes in Australia. She was probably being unfair to both dingoes and Australia, but she couldn't risk it. Locked doors kept the dingoes out, and that's all there was to it, even if she didn't know what a dingo actually was. She took out her phone, searched the Internet, found a picture of a baby dingo and now she really wanted a baby dingo for a pet.

- Derek Landy

topic: Baby, Animal, Australia, Locked Doors, Dingoes

And Max, I've put some scraps in a bowl for your dog," Mom said. "It's on the floor, by the back door." The flock and I went still. Uh-oh, I thought. Total stomped up to me, his glare accusing. "A bowl on the floor!" he seethed. "Why don't you just chain me to a stake in the yard and throw me a bone!

- James Patterson

topic: Mom, Dog, Doors, Back Doors

I don’t like being here with these people and animals. I’m going to retire, but remember, courage is doing what we know is dangerous. It’s risking our safety for a chance at something better. Don’t let your fears shape your reality because no matter how cautious you are, someone or something always sneaks in the back door to manifest that fear. Better to face it and defeat it than to let it attack you unawares. (Maxis)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Upon The Midnight Clear”, p.255, Macmillan

topic: Animal, Reality, Doors, Back Doors, Sneak In

I talk to cryptographers, some of the leading technologists in the world, all the time about how we can deal with these issues. It is not possible to create a back door that is only accessible, for example, to the FBI.

- Edward Snowden

source: Source: www.thenation.com

topic: Issues, Doors, World, Back Doors

marrows - alas! - are arriving in a steady stream at the back door. ... Oddly enough, the majority of people who grow them in Fairacre say, as they hand them over: 'Funny thing! I don't care for them myself. In fact, none of the family likes them!' But still they plant them. It must be the fascination of seeing such a wonderful return for one small seed, that keeps marrow-growers at their dubious task.

- Miss Read

topic: Doors, Hands, Funny Things, Back Doors

You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.

- Tim Cook

source: "Apple v the FBI - a plain English guide". www.bbc.com. 18 February 2016.

topic: Doors, Guy, Good Guy, Back Doors

In regard to tenacity of life, no old yellow cat has anything on a prejudice. You may kill it with your own hands, bury it deep, and sit on the grave, and behold! the next day it will walk in at the back door, purring.

- Nellie L. McClung

topic: Cat, Doors, Hands, Back Doors, Purring

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

topic: Dog, Night, Men, Back Doors

Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

- Henry Ward Beecher

topic: Blessed, Dark, Doors, Back Doors

I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.

- Ted Cruz

topic: Lying, Doors, Light, Elected Leaders, Back Doors

The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

- James Russell Lowell

topic: Doors, Order, America, Back Doors

"Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back for more, regardless of what has been given up in an attempt to appear reasonable. You can't make a cur dog stay away from your back door by throwing an occasional bone at him.

- Neal Knox

topic: Dog, Giving Up, Mean, Back Doors

I prefer sneaking in the back door.

- Mark Gatiss

topic: Doors, Back Doors

When Mats came in the evenings, they would drink tea in the kitchen while reading their books and talking about them. If Katri came in, they were quiet and waited for her to leave. The back door would close, and Katri would have gone. “Does your sister read our books?” Anna wanted to know. “No. She reads literature.

- Tove Jansson

topic: Book, Reading, Doors, Back Doors

People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake up one day and say, I think I've heard that. Yeah, it was done by whoever, you know. So, ah, that's been one of our weaknesses we don't tend to hold on as they do there.

- Ben E. King

topic: Thinking, Doors, People, Back Doors

I live on a canyon at the edge of San Mateo. We are fortunate to have lots of suburban wildlife as our neighbors, though I kind of wish the rattlesnakes would stop curling up by our back door.

- Paul Saffo

source: Source: www.sfgate.com

topic: Doors, Wish, Wildlife, Rattlesnakes, Back Doors