Top 42 Ajar Quotes
#1. When's a door not a door? she'd said in her thick accent. When? he'd asked When it's ajar.
James Dashner
#2. I had moved on to another life. I could not expect the old one to be held ajar for me forever.
Robin Hobb
#3. Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.
Taylor Mead
#4. I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.
Andre Breton
#5. When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
Billie Jean King
#7. Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#8. Dollars damn me; and the malicious Devil is forever grinning in upon me, holding the door ajar ... What I feel most moved to write, that is banned - it will not pay. Yet, altogether, write the other way I cannot. So the product is a final hash, and all my books are botches.
Herman Melville
#9. Aye: though we hunted high and low,
And hunted everywhere,
Of the three men's fate we found no trace
Of any kind in any place,
But a door ajar, and an untouched meal,
And an overtoppled chair.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
#10. All day long the door of the sub-conscious remains just ajar; we slip through to the other side, and return again, as easily and secretly as a cat.
Walter De La Mare
#11. Buttercup," I say. Thousands of people are dead, but he has survived and even looks well fed. On what? He can get in and out of the house through a window we always left ajar in the pantry. He must have been eating field mice. I refuse to consider the alternative. I
Suzanne Collins
#12. To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.
Richard P. Feynman
#13. The dream might have been more than a dream. It was as if a door in the wall of reality had come ajar ... and now all sorts of unwelcome things were flying through.
Stephen King
#14. Lexi glanced around the studio. She heard him in the bathroom. The door was slightly ajar, but she couldn't see him.
"A pity," she whispered.
Donna Grant
#15. Life is a journey. Time is a river. The door is ajar
Jim Butcher
#16. Why is it, when a door is open it's ajar, but when a jar is open, it's not a door?
Steven Wright
#17. The basis of all human fears, he thought. A closed door, slightly ajar.
Stephen King
#19. That was a while ago now.
My bedroom door, which leads into
the living room and to him, is ajar.
"So that your dreams can come out to me,"
Daddy said when I left.
Stein Erik Lunde
#20. The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.
Emily Dickinson
#21. So we must keep apart, You there, I here, With just the door ajar
Emily Dickinson
#22. From my locker I collected my sneakers, jock strap, and gym pants and then turned away, leaving the door ajar for the first time, forlornly open and abandoned, the locker unlocked. This was more final than the moment when the Headmaster handed me my diploma. My schooling was over now.
John Knowles
#23. THE soul should always stand ajar,
That if the heaven inquire,
He will not be obliged to wait,
Or shy of troubling her.
Depart, before the host has slid
The bolt upon the door,
To seek for the accomplished guest,
Her visitor no more.
Emily Dickinson
#25. If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.
Julius Nyerere
#26. But there I was, surrendering to a most extraordinary call from the grave, the mass-grave-to-be of Europe, as if somewhere ahead lay an iron gateway, slightly ajar, leading to a low and sombre country, with an incalculable crowd on sides eager to pass into it, and bearing me along.
Thomas Pynchon
#27. If the gate to your precious room is always left ajar, people shall least knock before entering into your precious room!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#28. I woke to find every window open I woke to find the heavy door ajar And I walked outside and stood upon the hilltop And gazed once more on a bright morning star I walked outside and every bird was singing As I found again my bright morning star
Mary Chapin Carpenter
#29. I believe that to solve any problem that has never been solved before, you have to leave the door to the unknown ajar.
Richard Feynman
#30. Are you decent?" a woman's voice called, pushing the door cautiously ajar.
"Nay, but we're clothed," Cian purred.
Karen Marie Moning
#31. If I see a door ajar, I push on it to see how far it will open, and if it opens wide I go through it.
Paul Johnson
#32. Leave the door to happiness always ajar;
The key to that door lies in our hearts
Let happiness just sneak in!
Balroop Singh
#33. The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
Christopher Morley
#34. She had entered him like he was water. Like he was a dictionary and she was a word he hadn't known was in him. Or she had entered him more simply, like he was a door and she opened him, leaving him standing ajar as she walked straight in.
Ali Smith
#35. I can hear my steps echo as I follow him to the end of the hall. The door to the small closet under the steps is standing ajar. He closes the door and latches it.
Nancy B. Brewer
#36. "And all the bars at which we fret, That seem to prison and control, Are but the doors of daring set Ajar before the soul.
Kate Douglas Wiggin
#38. Although we kept the door ajar so that we could hear, we could not see beyond the gentlemen standing in front of the door in the crowded room. I felt trapped behind a wall of men that separated me from the main event.
Tracy Chevalier
#39. I am not afraid to be a pioneer. When a door is ajar, you need to open it fully. And once you are in that room, you need to see what other doors there might be and where they might lead.
Gurinder Chadha
#40. I don't consider myself to be definite, but in waiting position and eventual appearance
Romain Gary
#41. I am weak, I say with no presumptions. I have no merit, I note it, that is all. There are times that I feel so weak there most be a mistake, and as I don't know what I mean with this, I am not going to say anything else
Romain Gary
#42. They thought I suffered from lack of exterior, when I suffered from excess of interior
Romain Gary
