Door Quotes - page 3

Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. (Ayaan Hirsi Ali)
I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. View quote
Kirsten Gillibrand
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door. View quote
Lois McMaster Bujold
The whitewash'd wall, the nicely sanded floor, The varnish'd clock that click'd behind the door The chest, contriv'd a double debt to pay, A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
The long and winding road that leads to your door Will never disappear, I've seen that road before it always leads me here, Leads me to your door. View quote
Paul McCartney
Maybe I'm like acts of Congress or your favorite chinese restaurant -- you don't really want to know what's going on behind the door. I'm a real study in contrast, I expect, looking from without. But it adds up to what you get on stage. View quote
David Lee Roth
It is possible that mankind is on the threshold of a golden age; but, if so, it will be necessary first to slay the dragon that guards the door, and this dragon is religion. View quote
Bertrand Russell
So many people enter and leave your life! Hundreds of thousands of people! You have to keep the door open so they can come in! But it also means you have to let them go! View quote
Jonathan Safran Foer
The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm looking for the truth," and so it goes away. Puzzling. View quote
Robert M. Pirsig
Not many sounds in life, and I include all urban and rural sounds, exceed in interest a knock at the door. (Charles Lamb)
When I get into trouble at school I'd like to take an invisibility cloak, drape it over me and sneak out the door. Or I'd like to have a 3-headed-dog because then no one would argue with me. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
I never go outside unless I look like Joan Crawford the movie star. If you want to see the girl next door, go next door. View quote
Joan Crawford
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space. View quote
Johnny Cash
Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door. View quote
Emily Dickinson
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. View quote
Confucius
Build a better mousetrap, and the world will beat a path to your door. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians, who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door, and deny Him by their lifestyle. That is what an unbelieving world simply finds unbelievable. View quote
Brennan Manning
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door. View quote
Robert Collier
Salvador Dali seduced many ladies, particularly American ladies, but these seductions usually consisted of stripping them naked in his apartment, frying a couple of eggs, putting them on the woman's shoulders and, without a word, showing them the door. View quote
Luis Buñuel
Where one door shuts another opens. (Miguel de Cervantes)
Charity begins at home, and justice begins next door. View quote
Charles Dickens
Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man's cottage door and at the palaces of kings. View quote
Horace
. . . there warn't anybody at the church, except maybe a hog or two, for there warn't any lock on the door, and hogs likes a puncheon floor in summer-time because it's cool. If you notice, most folks don't go to church only when they've got to but a hog is different. View quote
Mark Twain
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door. View quote
Arthur Miller