Top 100 A Closed Door Quotes
#2. The past is a closed door, the present is an open one, and the future is an approaching one.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#3. My mother's great. She has the major looks. She could stop you from doing anything, through a closed door even, with a single look. Without saying a word, she has that power to rip out your tonsils.
Whoopi Goldberg
#4. At home in Dellacrosse my place in the world of college and Troy and incipient adulthood dissolved and I became an unseemly collection of jostling former selves. Snarkiness streaked through my voice, or sullenness drove me behind a closed door for hours at a time.
Lorrie Moore
#5. Why is it people will complain, when they have an open door, where they can walk out to and gaze the stars; rather than having a closed door to lock them in?
Anthony Liccione
#6. Don't wait for opportunity in front of a closed door - wander until you find the open one.
Debasish Mridha
#7. I walk a loop around the neighborhood, waiting for Nick to appear, to guide me back to our house. The rain spackles me gently, dampening me. I really believe Nick will come after me. I turn toward the house and see only a closed door.
Gillian Flynn
#8. Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.
Margaret Bourke-White
#9. There is a certain type of person to whom a closed door is a challenge - a dare, a taunt, a glove thrown down - and I am one of them. A closed door is more than a mystery to be solved: It's an insult. A slap in the face.
Alan Bradley
#10. You'd better be upstairs already, Maxim. You'd better be out of sight, asleep, behind a closed door. I can't fight myself anymore tonight. I
Melanie Harlow
#11. When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it
oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open. And you are just the same, just the same." He pours himself some of the duke's present. "But in the last resort, you just kick it in.
Hilary Mantel
#12. I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door.
John Patrick Shanley
#13. Love is so powerful that it can enter through a closed door and steal all of the contents of a precious heart within a moment.
Debasish Mridha
#14. If you stand behind a closed door and try to hear a private conversation not intended for your ears, you're most likely to hear something derogatory about yourself." From A Good Girl
Chandana Roy
#15. Do you know I sometimes think that I'm a man of genius, half finished? The genius has been left out, the faculty of expression is wanting; but the need for expression remains, and I spend my days groping for the latch of a closed door.
Henry James
#16. On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.
Billy Wilder
#17. Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.
James S.A. Corey
#18. You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.
Meridel Le Sueur
#19. As anybody with two older sisters can tell you, a closed door is like a red rag to a bull. It cannot go unchallenged.
Alan Bradley
#20. I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.
Tama J. Kieves
#21. You should be writing for the love of the story, and when it comes time to return to the manuscript, everything else belongs behind a closed door.
Michael Koryta
#22. Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.
Lilian Jackson Braun
#23. Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.
Rachilde
#24. We live in a big world, and it is important for us to be aware of culture other than our own. Learn something new, whether you think you're interested in it or not. That's the opposite of having a closed mind or a closed door.
Donald Trump
#26. Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?
D. Allen Miller
#27. interruption or a keep-behind-a-closed-door
Nancy Star
#28. A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available.
Marya Mannes
#29. Fiction gives us a reach into the lives of individuals that would otherwise be but a closed door. If we are gifted with a desire to tell tales, then we should tell them ... if only to reach but a few.
James D. Maxon
#30. The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.
Stephen King
#31. I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.
Albert Camus
#32. I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.
Patrick White
#33. It is true that an open door sends an invitation; but for the curious person, a closed door sends even a stronger invitation!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#34. When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.
Iyanla Vanzant
#35. 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.
Sarah Dessen
#38. With the caution of a gazelle I looked to the closed door ahead of it, and feeling a tickle of fear in my knotted stomach I entered this tube.
Steve Merrick
#39. A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.
Bill Gates
#40. Hey, do you wanna go out for ... " His words melted with a sigh when he noticed Tod, but then he rallied with a smile. "Hi, Tod, I didn't realise you were here. In my daughter's bedroom. With the door closed."
"Happy to be here," Tod said, and I groaned out loud.
Rachel Vincent
#41. block three times in search of a suitable parking space. We got there, and almost before I had closed the door behind him he said all the work was terrible. I
Jojo Moyes
#42. I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed.
Angie Stone
#43. A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed.
Charles F. Glassman
#44. Tough times have always lent themselves to nativist sentiments and closed-door policies. But in the case of highly skilled immigrants, these policies are a recipe for stagnation.
James Surowiecki
#45. I closed the door. Other people got husbands and children; I got a bag of lettuce. I hurled myself on the floor and sobbed. The worst thing about trying to get myself undepressed were the days when it seemed like I hadn't made any progress at all.
Debby Bull
#46. I endeavor to shine a light on what's happening behind closed doors in the back-door deal making that so many Americans understand is going on but they don't quite understand how or why, but they know that our elected leaders are lying to us.
Ted Cruz
#47. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.
Jay Asher
#48. Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.
Marian Wright Edelman
#49. He looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.
Arturo Perez-Reverte
#50. Ya've got no respect, woman," Beck retorted. After the door closed behind him she realized what he'd said.
"Woman?" He wasn't calling her girl any longer.
If that wasn't a sign the world was ending, what other proof did she need?
Jana Oliver
#51. The young man named Peter took her hand and led her into the starship. The door closed behind them. A moment later, the starship disappeared.
Anonymous
#52. After a long moment I closed the freezer door. I wanted to lie down and press my cheek against the cool linoleum. Instead I reached out with my little finger and flipped the Barbie's head. It went thack thack against the door. I flipped it again. Thack thack. Whee. I had a new hobby.
Jeff Lindsay
#53. He bowed, still holding her hand, and then, without a word, released it, and marched out, very dignified. It was another fine tragic effect, but Cleone, when the door closed behind him, broke into an hysterical laugh. She was rather amazed, and a little apprehensive.
Georgette Heyer
#54. The short story narrates the moment when a dark door, long closed, is opened, when a forgotten error is unwittingly repeated, when the fabric of a life is revealed to have been woven from frail and dubious fiber over top of something unknowable and possibly very bad.
Michael Chabon
#55. My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
Lizzie Andrew Borden
#56. Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.
Barbara Tuchman
#57. In the abundance of water a fool is thirsty.
Rat Race, from the album Rastaman Vibration
When one door is closed, many more is open.
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
It is better to live on the house top
than to live in a house full of confusion.
Bob Marley
#58. She said nothing, refusing to meet his gaze. After a long moment, he released her.
"So that's the way it is, then." His words were not a question. The door closed quietly behind him, leaving her cold to the bone, hollowed out and empty. Leaving her alone. Just like always.
Jessica Scott
#59. T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us.
The sound was brutal.
Final.
S.A. Bodeen
#60. As long as you hate your enemy, a jail door is closed and a prisoner is taken. But when you try to understand and release your foe from your hatred, then the prisoner is released and that prisoner is you.
Max Lucado
#61. After I closed the door behind us, bringing this Saturday night to a three-way kind of sitch - and not the good kind - I ran a hand through my hair. Uh,
Cindi Madsen
#62. A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#63. Ignorant mind is a tightly closed door! To open it, you must knock the door repeatedly!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#64. She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.
Sharon Kay Penman
#65. But there was nothing on the back of the door, except the screws and nuts that held the knocker on, so he said "Pooh, pooh!" and closed it with a bang.
Charles Dickens
#66. There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March
Jane Hirshfield
#67. As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man.
Karen Marie Moning
#68. They were outside. It was oddly quiet, with just a muffled roar from behind the closed door, as if the ocean were contained on that side.
Eloisa James
#69. He knows that behind each false door is a drop. And if we enter it, we will fall. In His mercy, He keeps those false doors closed.
Yasmin Mogahed
#70. I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.
Burl Ives
#71. I closed the door and sank into my desk chair. My heart was pounding even harder. I felt like someone who had just staggered out of her car after an accident on a freeway. This was different from the cockroach and the books and the Barbie. I'd been injured. Someone had tried to physically harm me.
Kate White
#72. She closed the cupboard door, holding a red plate in front of her like she'd go all Tangled on me and hit me with it if I argued with her.
Emily Snow
#73. Everyone who turns up on 'X Factor' does it because a door has been closed to them at some time in their lives, and this is the only shot they have got.
Simon Cowell
#74. See you around," I said.
"See you around," said one.
"See you around," said the other.
The phrase echoed in my heart for a long while.
The bus door closed with a bang, and then they were waving to me from the window. Everything repeats itself...
Haruki Murakami
#75. There is something about a bathroom that feels like a fortress. A closed bathroom door may only be about two inches of plywood, but it feels like an iron bar.
Ursula Vernon
#76. I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage.
Dwayne Johnson
#77. The door doesn't have a knob, just a latch held closed by a chain, another victim of Dede's shears.
James Patterson
#78. The hallway grew darker still as the big door closed over several guards' bodies behind them with a crunchy squish.
Jeremy Robinson
#79. President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice to see some doors actually closed at the White House. It's a whole new Secret Service security thing.
Jimmy Fallon
#80. Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you.
Mandy Hale
#81. Ready, Rachel? I'd like your opinion on the lab that was broken into." His eyes flicked past us to the closed nursery door before coming back to us, his smile fading as he noticed Ceri's tension. I was such a coward. "You want me to look at a crime scene? That's a switch," I said
Kim Harrison
#82. Life carried on, but all of a sudden it wasn't the same. There was a change in me. I couldn't put my finger on it but somewhere in my brain a new door had appeared and despite my hardest efforts to keep it closed, my thoughts kept going there, wandering around in the empty room ...
Tarryn Fisher
#83. Every closed door isn't locked and even if it is ... YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!
Sanjo Jendayi
#84. The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.
Paul Samuelson
#85. Can I see you outside for a second?" Kat glared at Hale, then walked to the patio doors and out onto the veranda.
As Hale closed the door behind him, Kat heard Angus say, "Ooh, Mom and Dad are going to fight now.
Ally Carter
#86. On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.
Pope Francis
#87. In places like South Afghanistan, where cultural norms prevent men from entering homes, female vaccinators often make the difference between a closed or opened door.
Ksenia Solo
#88. If you feel as if your legs have been cut from underneath you, get back up. If a door closes, don't spend time staring at it. Be at peace and look for the open one. It'll be there. Then, walk through it into the next phase of your life.
Jake Byrne
#89. The door of the Free Exercise Clause stands tightly closed against any government regulation of religious beliefs as such. Government may neither compel affirmation of a repugnant belief, nor penalize or discriminate against individuals or groups because they hold views abhorrent to the authorities.
William J. Brennan
#90. All too often we fail to see the good in a difficult situation. Our minds are wired in such a funny way that we tend to believe just because a door closed it must be a bad thing.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#91. He stood up. His heart was leaping against his ribs like a frantic bird. Perhaps it knew it had little time left, perhaps it was determined to fulfill a lifetime's beats before the end. He did not look back as he closed the office door.
J.K. Rowling
#92. It's not often that you have me at a disadvantage, is it? I wouldn't get used to it."
Aimi laughed. "All talk, big man. We'll see how you go at training this afternoon, sunshine." She blew him a kiss and closed the door softly on her way out.
Phillip W. Simpson
#93. Don't you let them forget about you, she said. But this was not about being forgotten. This was about being in a file cabinet with my name on it and they closed the door. I was a corpse with a tag on my toe.
Janet Fitch
#94. I'm very busy."
"The sign on the door said closed."
Finbar shook his head. "Never trust a door; they'll always lie to you.
Derek Landy
#95. Leo had once joked about writing an allegorical sketch where Parody packed its bags, shut up shop and put a sign on the door which read: "Closed. Any inquiries please contact the Real".
Patrick McGuinness
#96. A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.
Antonio Porchia
#97. And don't put a bunch of bullshit in my mouth, or get cute and try to make me look stupid. Now if you'll excuse me, I have to go to the salon to have my pubic hair straightened and dyed white so that my dick looks like Santa Claus." He closed the door, farting loudly all the way to his car. I went
David Wong
#98. This is still the age of grace. God's offer of forgiveness and a new life still stands. However, the door will one day be closed. Someday it will be too late. This is why the Bible continually warns and challenges: "Now is the accepted time" [2 Corinthians 6:2 NKJV].
Billy Graham
#99. We have a very intelligent team. I've had clubs that when you tell a guy to go back door, he leaves the gym. Or you tell the team you're going to have a closed practice and eight guys don't show up.
Jim Valvano
#100. God has always opened one door after another. Sometimes you think all the doors are closed and just when you think that, a door opens.
Laura Allen
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