Top 100 A Door Opening Quotes
#1. No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.
Thomas Dreier
#2. The realisation that, depending on where we changed from one note to the next in a melodic line, the music could subtly influence the entire meaning of a scene in so many ways was like a door opening to this amazing new world for me.
Steven Price
#3. Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.
Brian Tracy
#4. In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain
it's how to control everything. This is the key.
Marina Abramovic
#5. All of us groping in caverns, our fingertips raw against stone, searching for that slight crack, the edge of a door opening into love.
Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni
#6. 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.
David Mitchell
#7. Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#8. For years that may mean imitation. Then, one day, it is like a door opening, and a new thought comes in. Why not try this instead. Suddenly he is doing something original, almost in spite of himself.
Lukas Foss
#9. It feels like a door opening, and lungfuls of fresh air rushing in.
Laini Taylor
#10. Discomfort is often a door opening to growth.
S.P. Sipal
#11. Don't ever let your door to be a wall! Let your door be a door, opening wide and inviting with goodness!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#12. It was the opposite of love, and yet it wasn't love I was opposed to but the murmurs that said, This is your chance, which seemed less like the promise of a door opening than the threat of one sealing shut.
Melissa Bank
#15. I love 'yes.' It's practically the most interesting word of all, don't you think? Like a hinge opening a door outward. Yes, yes, yes.
Hanif Kureishi
#16. (1)BEING A POET
is like opening a car door
& exposing yourself.
(2)BEING A GOOD POET
is like opening the door
& exposing the passenger
as well.
Chocolate Waters
#17. I can tell you have a good heart ... " I sighed, opening the door to the outside." ... because the minute I met you, I wanted to fight for it.
Rachel Van Dyken
#18. Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
Margaret Atwood
#19. The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
Adolf Hitler
#20. Opening myself to criticism was a big door to go through. You can be afraid about something your whole life, about being out in public where people know your name but not you, and it can cripple your ability to try new things.
Peggy Rathmann
#21. I'm sorry, Imi." His apology whispered in my ears as I left the room. But it was the words that followed that burrowed deep.
"I'm sorry I couldn't be who you deserved."
I stopped just before opening the door.
"I'm sorry I believed that you already were," I responded softly.
A Meredith Walters
#22. She waited the eternal instant that women wait when a horror jumps out at them. It is an instant that men do not use for waiting, an instant that opens a door to life or death. Women look through the opening because something might be alive in there.
Kathleen Winter
#23. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
Ethel M. Dell
#24. It was, of course, odd for a lady to be opening her own door, but from the look of the place, Magnus assumed the entire staff of servants had been given the decade off.
Cassandra Clare
#25. To go into the garden in its snowed-up state is like going into a bath of purity. The first breath on opening the door is so ineffably pure that it makes me gasp, and I feel a black and sinful object in the midst of all the spotlessness.
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#26. The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
Carl Jung
#27. When you walk into your memories, you are opening a door to the past; the road within has many branches, and the route is different every time.
Xinran
#28. Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.
Brian Andreas
#29. I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into my nuts?
Bob Saget
#30. I didn't yet perceive the way everything that happens is connected-didn't realize that opening a door that led to outside exploration would inevitably open a door to the unexplored places inside myself.
Cameron Dokey
#31. He paused for a moment before opening a door on the second story.
Charles Dickens
#32. Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what was seen during a moment.
Carl Sandburg
#33. I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
Odilon Redon
#34. did not have enough substance to trigger the opening of a supermarket door
Jerry Spinelli
#35. I watch the back of Abel's head for a moment before opening the door. Coming to him was the right thing to do, it always was. Abel is my other half. If ever there was someone to release me of a weak heart, it would be him.
Celia Mcmahon
#36. I take my rucksack and go out the opening where the front door used to be. Manchee gets up from where he's curled and follows me. When I sit down, he recurls by my legs and fall asleep, farting happily and giving a doggy sigh. Simple to be a dog.
Patrick Ness
#37. The long horizon, the lunging, clotted sea like a swinging door opening, closing, opening.
Annie Proulx
#38. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
Michel De Montaigne
#39. I paused in the act of opening the door and looked at him with what were probably cartoon-wide eyes. "Wait a second," I said. "So, you're best friends with a hot vampire chick who likes leather."
"Yeah."
"And together, you fight crime?" I couldn't help it. I cracked up.
Rachel Caine
#40. I am capable of opening my own door," I said, getting out of the car. "Why do today's women think it's important to open a door themselves?" he said sharply.
Deborah Harkness
#41. But I forgot to tell him," I said quietly, opening the door, "that the villain is usually the person who locks up the maiden and throws away the key."
"Oh?"
I shrugged. "He was the one who let me out.".
Sarah J. Maas
#42. Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.
Tibor Fischer
#43. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Matthieu Ricard
#44. Opening a book was like opening a door to another world, and once she stepped across the threshold, she was transported. When she was reading a story, she lived inside a different skin. She
Susan Wiggs
#45. You should do the dramatic door-opening thing," I told Curran. "Would you like to see me do the dramatic door-opening thing?" "Yes, I would. Very much." A quick smile bent his lips. We
Ilona Andrews
#46. The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.
Andy Rooney
#47. I do not enjoy writing at all. If I can turn my back on an idea, out there in the dark, if I can avoid opening the door to it, I won't even reach for a pencil.
Richard Bach
#48. Prayer is so simple. It is like quietly opening a door and slipping into the very presence of God. - Unknown
Kenneth W. Osbeck
#49. Once opening the door was a promise of happiness, now my surroundings seem to have appointed me the keeper of sadness.
Nancy B. Brewer
#50. Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.
Laozi
#51. The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.
Rita Dove
#52. She craned her neck, glared at me through the small opening, and took a step back.
And then she kicked my door in.
Was it any wonder I was falling for her?"
"Chapter 24
Alyxandra Harvey
#53. God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.
Elizabeth Gilbert
#54. I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.
Mary Balogh
#55. In every country where there is a vicious oppression, a peaceful and a continuous civil disobedience is the magical door opening to the freedom!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#56. I just feel like if I start opening the door to talking about my university experience, then people just kind of ... own everything. There was a lot of stuff a couple of years ago saying that I was bullied at Brown and awful things like that, none of which were true.
Emma Watson
#57. I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
Nan Kempner
#58. Yes' is a very powerful word. It's like opening a door. It's like fanning a flame. It's the most powerful word in the world.
Kenneth Oppel
#59. The robot successfully dismounted the car, proceeding at a slight crouch, and with exaggerated caution, toward the door; these movements it performed in the manner of a prodigiously shitfaced man intent on demonstrating that he had only had a couple of sherries with dinner.
Mark O'Connell
#60. I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for her, even if it's just in the beginning.
Lauren Conrad
#61. I always thought that feminine, softer side was just too vulnerable to put out there, because then it's like you're opening up a door for everybody to come in, and you don't know who's going to come in that door.
Grace Jones
#62. Sometimes, as I feel a door or an exit point in my work is closing, I'll try to create an opening so as not to stifle the creative process, which I see as a process that's never-ending.
Chris Ofili
#64. When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.
Behdad Sami
#65. Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.
Deepak Chopra
#66. If you're not connected emotionally to a story, then you're dead. You're really just opening the door for people to lose interest and their minds to wander, for them to start picking it apart.
Paul Feig
#67. Furthermore, the initial page, always crucial, passed every test, with its promises and divisions, its portentous opening paragraph like the great door of a church, its exotic setting and strange names, the rolling orchestration of its prose.
William H Gass
#68. If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car!
Prince
#69. If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
Hayley Mills
#70. As soon as a person sits down in front of a medium asking for a reading they are opening a door and extending an invitation to Satan to come in. Satan is a master of disguise.
K.J. Masters
#72. I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.
Bebe Neuwirth
#73. Because that's what heaven is ... it's opening the door of a house in twilight and everyone you love is there.
Justin Cronin
#74. Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
Billy Joel
#75. Only Marxists," Dr. Iggy concluded, opening the door to usher Joe into the chapel room, "still
believe in an objective history. Marxists and a few disciples of Ayn Rand.
Robert Shea
#76. Without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life. People whose basal ganglia are damaged by injury or disease often become mentally paralyzed. They have trouble performing basic activities, such as opening a door or deciding what to eat.
Charles Duhigg
#77. God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.
Zig Ziglar
#78. I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.
Andie MacDowell
#79. Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Iris Murdoch
#80. Is it always in the interest of the public safety to seek the prosecutor's traditional solution
the harshest penalty possible? Or is the public best served by finding ways to change a kid's lot in life for the better, even if that means opening the prison door?
Edward Humes
#81. I had never been in a supermarket before coming to America. At home, my parents wouldn't let me open the refrigerator, because they worried I'd damage the door by opening it too many times.
Wendi Deng Murdoch
#82. Assuming that everything is your fault is a shortcut for finding those areas where you have control, and opening the door to exerting that control for positive change.
Tynan
#83. You know ... it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads to another door, which leads to another hallway. But then one day you open a door and it's to a closet. It doesn't go anywhere.
Elizabeth Berg
#84. Well," he said, opening the door to his car, "all you can do is put on an appearance of confidence sometimes. And after a while, others will start to believe it." [Eric Weber] grabbed the door handle to pull it closed. "And then you die.
Neil Strauss
#86. Because even though I was afraid to admit I, I felt like a door had been cracked in my soul. It was a tiny opening, to be sure, but there was the hint of something new in the air, something unexpected.
Glenn Beck
#87. That's too bad," Mr. Hall said, opening Door 1. "You've won a goat."
"But you didn't open another door yet or give me a chance to switch."
"Where does it say I have to let you switch every time? I'm the master of the show.
Monty Hall
#88. This time when she picked up her paints, she didn't think, she just painted. It was like opening the door onto a storm. The canvas was her doorway and the paint all the thunder and lightning, the wild pain-filled sky caught inside her.
Michelle Frost
#89. Now that she had got over the surprise, there was something offensive about this lack of reaction. It was like someone opening a door just before your battering ram hit it; suddenly you were running through the building and not certain how to stop.
Terry Pratchett
#90. But just as she turns to walk away she hears him behind her, the word like the opening of some door, like an ending and a beginning, like a wish.
"Wait," he says, and so she does.
Jennifer E. Smith
#91. Parks is on his knees now, a few feet to Justineau's left. He's working the crank to open the door. But it's not opening, even though he's encouraging it with a continuous stream of bad language. Caldwell must have disabled the emergency access. Melanie
M.R. Carey
#92. I'm sorry! I just ... I have this thing about opening stuff. I see a door or a lid that's closed, I just gotta open it! Our family therapist says I'm obsessive-compulsive.
Gary Whitta
#93. I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping.
Lauren Myracle
#94. In a nutshell though, it's just all about opening up to the people that really care about my career and really listening to everybody who is listening to me. It's just made me stronger, to really be able to open up that door and listen to everybody else's opinions.
Raekwon
#95. I should have known that every time I open the door of my room I am literally opening a Pandora's Box.
John Kennedy Toole
#96. Without someone giving you a shot, opening a door, believing that your obsession is a real thing when you're young, you don't get the opportunity. Every single day I'm reminded of that.
Ryan Seacrest
#97. Yesterday is a closed door. Tomorrow is the opening of a new one. What are you doing to seize the moment?
D. Allen Miller
#98. The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.
Ken Wilber
#99. Maybe I am becoming a hermit,
opening the door for only
a few special animals?
Maybe my skull is too crowded
and it has no opening through which
to feed it soup?
Anne Sexton
#100. What fortitude the Soul contains, That it can so endure The accent of a coming Foot- The opening of a Door.
Emily Dickinson
