The Doors Quotes
Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.
You cannot find what you do not seek. You cannot grasp when you do not reach. Your dreams won't come up to your front door. You have got to take a leap if you want to soar.
I find brass bands have a melancholy sound. All right out of doors, of course - fifty miles away. Like bagpipes, they turn what had been a dream into a public nuisance.
At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Everyone is an explorer. How could you possibly live your life looking at a door and not open it?
Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.
If I survive, I will spend my whole life at the oven door seeing that no one is denied bread and, so as to give a lesson of charity, especially those who did not bring flour.
The Good News of the gospel of grace cries out: We are all, equally, privileged but unentitled beggars at the door of God's mercy!
If you close the door to the things you feel comfortable with, you will never discover the truth about yourself.
To be an actor you have to have a certain amount of madness in you. That’s why, when people meet you and you seem very together, they are quite surprised - they don’t see you behind closed doors.
Sometimes we make duaa for a door of dunya. When it doesn't open, we cry. Not realizing that Allah has instead opened a door of jennah for us.
If you open the door to the magnetic power of friendship, souls of like vibrations will be attracted to you.
Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.
Another friend hired me to open doors for him in the moving and relocation business. I did that for 10 years, am still doing it. And I do some work for the Cubs, in community relations.
Every important choice we make is being guided by one of two places: either it is an act of faith or it is an act of fear. Faith opens the door to a new future.
I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.
Faith without works is like a song you can't sing. It's about as useless as a screen door on a submarine.
From the moment we walk out the door until we come back home our sensibilities are so assaulted by the world that we have to soak up as much love as we can get, simply to arm ourselves.
The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
Until I came along all the leading men were handsome, but luckily they wrote a lot of stories about the fellow next door.
Once a man would spend a week patiently waiting if he missed a stage coach, but now he rages if he misses the first section of a revolving door.
The truth is I hate cocktail parties when the only person I know is my supposed date, and he abandons me the minute we come in the door.
For five years we never went outside our doors without a volley of curses from our neighbours.
I make conscious decisions to stay out of the limelight. Without my make-up I'm pretty much the girl next door.
A true leader has to have a genuine open-door policy so that his people are not afraid to approach him for any reason.
No matter how often you knock at nature's door, she won't answer in words you can understand--for Nature is dumb. She'll vibrate and moan like a violin, but you mustn't expect a song.
I like to think I opened doors for other women, although that wasn't my original intention.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.
Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.
I just wait because I think people will find me. And I’m not the kind of person who will knock on somebody’s door. I wait. If they’re good for me, they will come towards me.
But my miracle was different. My miracle was this: out of all the houses in all the subdivisions in all of Florida, I ended up living next door to Margo Roth Spiegelman.
Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.
Every day's an adventure when I step out of my door. That's why I usually wear a hat and keep my head low.
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.
Anyone who's had a tattoo knows once you get your first one, as you're walking out the door, you're planning the next.
If we will not devise some greater and more equitable system, Armageddon will be at our door.
Life is full of doors that don't open when you knock, equally spaced amid those that open when you don't want them to.