The Doors Quotes

And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door, That I scarce was sure I heard you"— here I opened wide the door; — Darkness there, and nothing more.

Humans tend to build walls when they should be opening doors.

Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

I'm a leave-the-bathroom-door-open nudist, which is sometimes disconcerting for my friends.

Ah, that is a perfume in which I delight; when they roast coffee near my house, I hasten to open the door to take in all the aroma.

But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.

Jesus Christ opened heaven's door for us by His death on the cross.

Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it.

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

I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.

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.

I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

Unity in a Movement situation can be overrated. If you were the Establishment, which would you rather see coming in the door: one lion or five hundred mice?

There are no lost opportunities in Divine Mind, as one door shuts another door is opened.

How do you know there’s not a door to heaven in the sky between Malaysia and Vietnam?

Doubt comes in at the window when inquiry is denied at the door.

Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.

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

Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist.

The door available to everyone that can lead to happiness & success is the modest door of the public library. I found it to be so in my own life and work.

Toughest job I ever had: selling doors, door to door.

I'm the comedic girl next door and a lot of fun.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

It is not enough ... simply to surrender oneself brainlessly to love, when it knocks at the door, one must also calculate because of later life, which does sometimes follow.

To really ask is to open the door to the whirlwind. The answer may annihilate the question and the questioner.

On a sudden open fly With impetuous recoil and jarring sound Th' infernal doors, and on their hinges grate Harsh thunder.

From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

Each new friendship can make you a new person, because it opens up new doors inside of you.

They didn’t tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.

Where there is no passion, the church perishes, even though it be full to the doors.

I like to open new doors and blaze new trails through the jungle and all that whatnot. What keeps me goin all these years is changin it up.

It is on account of the ego that one is not able to see God. In front of the door of God's mansion lies the stump of ego. One cannot enter the mansion without jumping over the stump.

When I enter the studio, I leave my body at the door the way the Moslems leave their shoes when they enter the mosque, and I only allow my spirit to go in there and paint.

Population growth is exceeding farmers' ability to keep up...Our oldest enemy, hunger, is again at the door.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there.

Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the fool no where but in's own house.

We do not pass twice through the same door Or return to the door through which we did not pass.

The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.

Bilingualism opens doors and provides opportunity to our children so they can shine and become successful in a labor market that is increasingly competitive and globalized.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.

I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.