The Doors Quotes

If the bird does like its cage, and does like its sugar and will not leave it, why keep the door so very carefully shut?

Kindness moves mountains. Acceptance opens doors, makes room for change, diffuses misunderstandin g.

For many years, at great cost, I traveled through many countries, saw the high mountains, the oceans. The only things I did not see were the sparkling dewdrops in the grass just outside my door.

Be an opener of doors for such as come after thee.

The Doors really were a band of potheads.

We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting.

Greed says there is never enough. Abundance says there is more than enough. Greed closes the door behind itself. Abundance opens the door for others.

The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

The eyes of fear want you to put bigger locks on your doors, buy guns, close yourself off. The eyes of love, instead, see all of us as one.

Be sure to put the knocker fairly low on your door in case a very small friend drops by.

It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

You unlock the door with the key of imagination.

I think everyone should go to bed like they have a date at the door.

When you wear a bow tie, doors open for you.

Popularity has a bright side, it unlocks many doors. But the truth is that I don't like it very much because it changes the private life into a very small thing.

Come, live with the doors of the senses guarded, diligent and mindful, vigilant and mindful, with the ways of the mind well watched, possessed of a mind that is awake and observing.

The doors of Hell, insofar as they have locks, have locks on the inside.

Just believe in yourself and work really hard. And when doors open, take advantage of every opportunity you can.

A smile can open a heart quicker than a key can open a door.

If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.

Someone knocks at the door of an apartment to borrow salt or sugar, people run into each other in the elevator, and in this way become inscribed in the spectator's memory.

Good clothes open all doors.

We've both got into the blue beetle. He got into the red door, I got into the white one.

I had lots of breaks. I guess the one that got my foot in the door was singing the National Anthem at the National Finals Rodeo in Oklahoma City in '74.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

A company in which anyone is afraid to speak up, to differ, to be daring and original, is closing the coffin door on itself.

There's a book called "The Sociopath Next Door." I thought most sociopaths were violent. In fact, they aren't. But almost all sociopaths want to win, no matter what.

Every door is another passage, another boundary we have to go beyond.

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

With every door that closes a new one opens.

I’ll be back tomorrow,” he said, “at nine o’clock. Don’t open your door to anyone else.” “Not even my balcony door?” “Especially not your balcony door.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

Lose something every day. Accept the fluster of lost door keys, the hour badly spent. The art of losing isn't hard to master.

Life has a way of doing that; one minute everything makes sense, the next, things change. People get sick. Families break apart, your friends could close the door on you.

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows.

God is standing at the door of every heart. Call Him. He is waiting to come in.

The devil is no longer looking for an open door in your life. He will take any crack you give him.

If you can but give to the fainting soul at your door a cup of water from the wells of truth, it shall flash back on you the radiance of God. As you save, so shall you be saved.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

Last year my wife ran off with the fellow next door and I must admit, I still miss him.

A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

Man goes far away or near but God never goes far-off; he is always standing close at hand, and even if he cannot stay within he goes no further than the door.