Door Quotes - page 9

The aim of science is not to open the door to infinite wisdom, but to set some limit on infinite error. (Bertolt Brecht)
I wonder at a man who loses hope of salvation when the door of repentance is open for him. View quote
Ali
Then cherish pity, lest you drive an angel from your door. View quote
William Blake
Anacharsis coming to Athens, knocked at Solon's door, and told him that he, being a stranger, was come to be his guest, and contract a friendship with him; and Solon replying, "It is better to make friends at home," Anacharsis replied, "Then you that are at home make friendship with me." View quote
Plutarch
You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open. View quote
Rumi
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside. View quote
Rumi
But, in her life, nothing was going to happen. Such was the will of God! The future was a dark corridor, and at the far end the door was bolted. View quote
Gustave Flaubert
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful - our own innocence. View quote
Pauline Kael
If you need to conceal your true nature to get in the door, understand that you'll probably have to conceal your true nature to keep that job. View quote
Seth Godin
The fate of all explanation is to close one door only to have another fly wide open. View quote
Charles Fort
The soul selects her own society, Then shuts the door; On her divine majority Obtrude no more. (Emily Dickinson)
The sweetest thing that ever grew Beside a human door. View quote
William Wordsworth
Next comes the realist phase ("After all, from a purely geometrical point of view a cat is only a tube with a door at the top."). View quote
Terry Pratchett
There's a door.Where does it goIt stays where it is, I think. View quote
Terry Pratchett
An Assassin, a real Assassin had to look like one-black clothes, hood, boots, and all. If they could wear any clothes, any disguise, then what could anyone do but spend all day in a small room with a loaded crossbow pointed at the door? View quote
Terry Pratchett
The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces. View quote
Nicole Krauss
I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away. View quote
Sarah Dessen
About 25 years ago, I was in an apartment, and next door, they put on the radio, so I struck the wall with my fist, but they did not put the radio down. I took a tool and banged until I made a hole through the wall. It was like a comedy movie. View quote
Klaus Kinski
Opportunity may knock only once but temptation leans on the door bell. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
Fortune leaves always some door open to come at a remedy. View quote
Miguel de Cervantes
At the door of every happy person there should be a man with a hammer whose knock would serve as a constant reminder of the existence of unfortunate people. (Anton Chekhov)
What we call "I" is just a swinging door which moves when we inhale and when we exhale. View quote
Shunryu Suzuki
Be calm. God awaits you at the door. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. View quote
Antonio Porchia