Close Doors Quotes

#1. Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.

Sam Owen

#2. Words are powerful. Words make a difference. They can create and destroy. They can open doors and close doors. Words can create illusion or magic, love or destruction. ... All those things.

R.M. Engelhardt

#3. Closed minds close doors.

Tonya Sheridan

#4. God can take better care of you than you could ever take of yourself. He could open doors for you that you could never open. He can close doors that will keep you out of trouble. God can give you favor everywhere that you go.

Joyce Meyer

#5. It's crazy to close doors to any genres.

David Lynch

#6. We are not only to use our armor to protect and defend ourselves from them - as important as that is - but also to go on the offensive against them as well. When we do that, we close doors to the enemy and open doors to the will of God to be done on earth. We advance God's kingdom.

Stormie O'martian

#7. To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

E. O. Wilson

#8. A diagnosis . . . should not be used to close doors, but rather to open them wider, by making modifications in programs to accommodate special needs, by adding to the understanding that teachers, social workers, lawyers and judges have for affected individuals.

Bonnie Buxton

#9. I don't just pray for God to open doors, I also pray for God to close doors.

Joyce Meyer

#10. By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

Roger Mahony

#11. Sometimes doors open and other close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging. That's where I think you live your life to the fullest.

Gisele Bundchen

#12. In life sometimes, in the universe, you have to close some doors to have others open.

Gene Ween

#13. The first time it felt really dangerous, like the sort of thing you had to lock the doors and close the curtains on because if anybody saw you, God would strike you down with a thunderbolt. But I took to it like a duck to water.

Jamie Muir

#14. Most people have never known solitude ... But there are a few of the other kind who can go back to their rooms anywhere and close the door on the whole world, and feel that they need never emerge.

Louis Aragon

#15. There is how we
were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing
which doors to open, and which to close.

Karen White

#16. When you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

Charles R. Swindoll

#17. It behooved wise people to play the part of their own police, and to guard themselves well, and care must be taken to duly close, bar and barricade their houses, and to fasten the doors well.

Victor Hugo

#18. I like rust on a nail, fog on a mountain. Clouds hide stars, rooms have doors, eyes close, and the same words that began love end it with changed emphasis.

David Ignatow

#19. In a way it doesn't matter whether you open doors or close them, you still end up in a box.

Marilyn French

#20. Some truths should perhaps be left unsaid. Some doors unopened. An angel once told me to let go of the ills I held too close, to let go of the flaws that shaped me.

Mark Lawrence

#21. We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough

Karen White

#22. We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.

James K. Coyne, III

#23. At the end of the month, the doors will close on our little club for the last time. The end of an error.

Ivan Vladislavic

#24. American education is still the wonder of the world, and we must open the schoolhouse doors, not close them.

Lincoln Chafee

#25. No ... Ana. Don't go.
"Good-bye, Christian."
"Ana ... good-bye."
The doors close, and she's gone.
I sink slowly to the floor and put my head in my hands. The void is now cavernous and aching, overwhelming me.
Grey, what the hell have you done?!

E.L. James

#26. I would have dearly liked to close the French doors between us for a bit of peace, but Mam wouldn't allow it; she said that solitude would give me ideas and the last thing a boy of my age needed was ideas.

John Boyne

#27. We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

Merle Haggard

#28. One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.

Suzan-Lori Parks

#29. If your Bible tells you that gay people ought not be married in your church, don't tell them they can't be married at city hall. Marriage is a civil rite as well a civil right, and we can't let religious bigotry close the door to justice to anyone.

Julian Bond

#30. The problem with any philosophical consideration is that once you open a door in your mind, you can never close it. Once you learn something, you can never convince your mind that you didn't learn it. If you learn the world is round, you can never fit in with a world that thinks it's flat.

Ted Dekker

#31. Close the language-door,
and open the love-window

Rumi

#32. I got a garage door opener. It can't close. Just open.

Steven Wright

#33. If you over-plan, you close the door on possibilities.

Patti Smith

#34. If you want to do what you want to do, you cannot work. So art is going to be finished, and this is the will of the Islamic republic: to not have any artists or art and close the doors of all the cinemas and music and everything.

Golshifteh Farahani

#35. Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

Jodi Picoult

#36. Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

Neil Gaiman

#37. And what unity is to be had, at a time when orchestras are dying out, and when opera houses are about to close their doors; what's going to come next - when nothing new in music, for the orchestra, is truly lasting: pieces are performed once, and then they're thrown away.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

#38. Funny how nobody talks on the tubes, isn't it? I rarely catch the tube myself, or lifts. Confined spaces, everybody shuts down. Why is that? Perhaps we think everybody on the tube is a potential psychopath or a drunk,so we close down and pretend to read a book or something.

John Hannah

#39. I had always assumed that the right way to do it was to these engineers, put them in offices by themselves with doors that they could close so they could think deep thoughts. This is a terrible idea.

Eric Schmidt

#40. Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.

Joyce Meyer

#41. If you see only problems, then the doors of opportunities will close. If you see only opportunities, then problems will fly away.

Debasish Mridha

#42. I saw him making love to you, you forgot to close the garage door.

Bob Dylan

#43. Insomnia's different," I said. It was hard to explain this to people. "You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.

Barbara Kingsolver

#44. I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

Geena Davis

#45. There is no easy method of learning difficult things. The method is to close the door, give out that you are not at home, and work.

Joseph De Maistre

#46. In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

Bill Vaughan

#47. God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours.

Karen Kingsbury

#48. I will never close the door that has not been opened.

Stephon Marbury

#49. You should open these doors with care and caution-but, first, you must know how to close them. And above all, you must know which doors should be left unopened ...

Michael Bentine

#50. Just a simple choice, right now, between fear and love. 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.

Bill Hicks

#51. Can our morrows be foretold?
Your Grace might ask instead should our morrows be foretold? And to that I should answer no. Some doors are best left closed.
See that you close mine as you leave.

George R R Martin

#52. His hands had dropped to the worn butts of his guns. "Those do not open doors, gunslinger; those only close them forever.

Stephen King

#53. There are no limits when you are surrounded by people who believe in you, or by people whose expectations are not set by the short-sighted attitudes of society, or by people who help to open doors of opportunity, not close them.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#54. Men at forty Learn to close softly The doors to rooms they will not be Coming back to.

Donald Justice

#55. If outer doors close seem to close to you, do not hesitate. Perist in inner preparations. The inner realm of thought controls all outer action. When you get the right attitude, the outer world of results and personalities must conform to it. That is the law of mind-action.

Catherine Ponder

#56. All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

Darius Rucker

#57. Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.

Dorothy Allison

#58. I believe in taking chances and living your life. Sometimes doors open and others close and you have to figure out which one you're going to take. I'm always for the one that's challenging.

Gisele Bundchen

#59. Nothing but physical impossibility, lack of space and money would make me close my doors to Allied refugees.

Edith Cavell

#60. Doors close. That's life, but they don't necessarily have to hit my nose, and leave me hanging and shocked every time they do.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#61. It is unbelievable what a person of prayer can achieve if he would but close the doors behind him.

Soren Kierkegaard

#62. Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.

Andrew Pyper

#63. The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her. The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her. He'd never been so torn. So confused. So damned horny!

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#64. They'll try to close the door on you ... Just open it.

DJ Khaled

#65. The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, 'Hey, slow down there, buddy.'

David Nail

#66. When you close the door of your mind to negative thoughts, the door of opportunity opens to you.

Napoleon Hill

#67. I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

Shehan Karunatilaka

#68. Belief In Self
If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing.

Kamil Ali

#69. The doors of every house have a unique sound when they open and close.

James Patterson

#70. I have an idea. Why don't we build a house honoring the Lord and go inside and close the doors and never come out again." Though she jested, he saw the desperate unhappiness in her eyes. "What light can shine from a closed house, beloved? God wants us in the world, not hiding from it." Her

Francine Rivers

#71. Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#72. The company was ready to close its doors; there was real financial distress. But on the other side, there was high brand awareness, but that was negative because Puma was perceived as low-priced. It had lost its cachet. It was a well-known brand without a presence.

Jochen Zeitz

#73. Love is just like a breeze: it comes, but you should not close your doors to keep the breeze inside.

Rajneesh

#74. God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked.

Shannon L. Alder

#75. The best way to clean up a son's room is to close the door and pretend it's not part of the house.

Art Buchwald

#76. Every human being has the ability to completely control his own mind, and with this control, obviously, every person may open his mind to the tramp thought impulses which are being released by other brains, or close the doors tightly and admit only thought impulses of his own choice.

Napoleon Hill

#77. After two or three days, the door will close and you will not be able to make those changes as easily.

Frederick Lenz

#78. I hate you, wardrobe. But here is what's going to happen. I will close the doors, say a magic word, open the doors, and you will present me with a suitable evening gown.
Work, dammit.

A.W. Exley

#79. I close the doors and yank off my sweater, and she pulls off her shirt, and I say, "You are driving me crazy. You have been driving me crazy for weeks." My

Jennifer Niven

#80. Close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

Paulo Coelho

#81. Maybe it's not the doors that open in our lives, but the doors that close that define us. That guide us. Because they force us to move on. Instead of thinking about what we lose, look at what we can gain.

Katie Kacvinsky

#82. It seems easier for her to just close the doors and not think about the stillness of the rooms behind them.

Colleen Hoover

#83. The only way through pain ... is to absorb, probe, understand exactly what it is and what it means. To close the door on pain is to miss the chance for growth.

May Sarton

#84. To me it appears strange that the men against whom I should be enabled to bring an action for laying a little dirt at my door, may with impunity drive by it half-a-dozen calves, with their tails lopped close to their bodies and their hinder parts covered with blood ...

Lord Chesterfield

#85. Doctors say it's okay to have sex after a heart attack, provided you close the ambulance door.

Phyllis Diller

#86. Only the nose knows
Where the nose goes
When the door close.

Muhammad Ali

#87. Your world is reborn each day... And you are allowed to start over, at least in spirit, choosing your way with a beginners mind. Open wide the doors and windows, or close them and sit by the fire. But wherever you are, make room for the new, the uncertain, the mystery.. and love...

Jack Kornfield

#88. When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

Eckhart Tolle

#89. Once the doors close there can be no lie or deception and the lights will tell all!

Walel Watson

#90. Hey, the bait is here. Get in Quebecers, get in the lobster trap, and then we'll close the door. And you'll have a referendum no matter what,

Philippe Couillard

#91. Not everyone's life is like a house that belongs to him and that he can go on decorating ever more richly with the furniture of his memory. Some people live in hotels, in many hotels. The years close behind them like hotel doors - and the only thing that remains is a little courage and no regrets.

Erich Maria Remarque

#92. But the path you end up on means that you have to close a lot of doors, too.

John Slattery

#93. Some doors we close in life are like fire escape doors. When we exit they close and we can't reopen the door from the other side. The purpose is to protect us from going back.

Kasi Kaye Iliopoulos

#94. the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.'" As

Douglas Adams

#95. You have to close some doors, honey, no matter how nice a yard they open out onto.

J.D. Horn

#96. What happens if I try to run?" I ask as the doors close. (jace)
"I'll stop you." (charlie)
"You don't look too quick." (jace)
"You'd be surprised." (charlie)
"I hate surprises." (jace)
"Then don't run. (charlie)

D.D. Barant

#97. The strategy of keeping the studio close, like an outbuilding five paces from the house, or in the loft next door, or with the studio on one end and the bed on the other - makes art always available.

Sara Genn

#98. He climbed into bed himself and kissed his way up her legs. Instincts she didn't even know she possessed made her clench her thighs together. Without any hesitation, he pushed them apart, exposing her to his gaze.
The doors of the temple, darling, never close to the devout acolyte.

Sherry Thomas

#99. If you have a powerful enlightenment experience, do not try to hold on to it, for to do so will take you out of the present moment. You will be caught in the past. You will close the door that gave rise to the experience in the first place.

Leonard Jacobson

#100. The essence of building your own brand. People having heard of you - and having a positive impression - before you've even met them. If you can create that effect, doors open for you. A close second, if that's not possible, is people getting a good impression of o very quickly when they Google you

Michael Ellsberg