Close Your Door Quotes

#1. Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.

Tibor Fischer

#2. A man who is afraid of death will be afraid of life also, because life brings death. If you are afraid of the enemy and you close your door, the friend will also be prohibited.

Rajneesh

#3. Twinkle twinkle little whore, close your legs they're not a door.

Jay McLean

#4. When I read it now it's like I have broken into a reality that is not mine, and when I step out of it, as if I had removed my headphones and heard the city again, it is easy to close the door behind me.

Olivia Sudjic

#5. Not every door you opened will bring you light; some will bring you storms and darkness; you must be strong enough to push the door back and close it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#6. She ran from the shame, slammed his door behind her and ran, away from the pain and the moment when he had been so close to her mouth he could have kissed her, the thought that made her feel like her heart would burst.

Laure Eve

#7. 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

#8. People get caught up in wonderful, eye-catching pitches, but they don't do enough to close the deal. It's no good if you don't make the sale. Even if your foot is in the door or you bring someone into a conference room, you don't win the deal unless you actually get them to sign on the dotted line.

Donald Trump

#9. 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

#10. Leaving the day to itself, you close the door behind you and pour a bowl of cereal, then another, and would a third if you didn't interrupt yourself with the statement - you aren't hungry.
Appetite won't attach you to anything no matter how depleted you feel.

Claudia Rankine

#11. I need to be alone. After a full day of talking, smiling, listening, showing, nodding, translating, I want to be alone. I want simply to come home, close the door, and sit in silence, gathering up the bits of myself that have come loose. I want to think, or not think. I want to rest.

Jamie Zeppa

#12. It's hard to close the door on optimistic expectations when you love someone.

Dennis Lehane

#13. I felt like you could open a door in my hollow, tin chest
just flip it open, easy
and see my heart throbbing, raw and bloody and sore. You could even reach in and squish it if you wanted to. I didn't want anyone getting close enough to open that door and see that mess (250-251).

Natalie Standiford

#14. The night will close the door & fasten my anchor within the veil and I shall go away to sleep.

Samuel Rutherford

#15. 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

#16. O darkness, the sky is a gloomy precinct Whose door you close, and whose key the soul owns; And night divides itself in half, being diabolical and holy, Between Ilis, the black angel, and Christ, the starry Human Being.

Victor Hugo

#17. There's no future in our past. Just experience. We want to return to it, but we don't want to close the door on it either.

Mike Tyson

#18. Let's chow, and then we'll get our books," Tony said. Just as the door was about to close behind us, he added, "You act like you've never had food before.

Rebecca Maizel

#19. Since I'm a man of my word, I don't show up at her door. I do end up driving over to the trailer park with my SUV. Parking, I crawl into the backseat, play tunes on my phone, and doze as close to my woman as I can manage without breaking my promise.

Bijou Hunter

#20. The only way to survive your past was to find a way to close it off behind you, to shut one door before passing into another, brighter room.

Alexandra Bracken

#21. she steps up to the front door of the Strongs' Colonial-style house, with Linc, Neil, and I close on her heels.

Heather Hildenbrand

#22. The function of hate, as Sarai saw it, was to stamp out compassion - to close a door in one's own self and forget it was ever there. If you had hate, then you could see suffering - and cause it - and feel nothing except perhaps a sordid vindication.

Laini Taylor

#23. As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back there behind you, or is the door going to blow open at some point?

Dani Shapiro

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

Napoleon Hill

#25. Oh, and Mr. Montgomery? I think I counted about four dozen important-sounding words and almost no substance at all in that explanation. I don't think you should close the door on your diplomatic career entirely.

Elle Lothlorien

#26. 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

#27. The more you gaze into her eyes, the more you will see what you want, what is actually inside your heart. And then she will suddenly vanish and you will wonder how you lost her. So you must close the door on your emotions. Eros is not a painter and he often spoils our work.

Michael Harrington

#28. Ma'am," Augustus said, nodding toward her, "Your daughter's car has just been deservingly egged by a blind man. Please close the door and go back inside or we'll be forced to call the police.

John Green

#29. To begin loving people today, we must close the door on the past. And that cannot happen without forgiveness! Forgive those who have hurt you - for your sake, not because they deserve it.

Rick Warren

#30. 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.

Liz Murray

#31. And just like in your house, your flat, or your cardboard box, if you put too much in there, you can't close the door anymore... Two

Tom Trott

#32. 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

#33. The tough thing about writing is you go into a room alone, you close the door and you do your work.

Randy Wayne White

#34. 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

#35. it would be hard to believe that a man had invented walls when most of them couldn't even be bothered to close the bathroom door while they're using it.

Jenny Lawson

#36. For every door your enemies close,
knowledge can open a hundred for you,
wisdom can open a thousand for you,
faith can open a million for you,
and God can open countless for you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#37. To possess another language, Charlemagne tells us, is to possess another soul. German is such a language. Once you have it in your head, you can go there anytime, you can close the door, you have a refuge.

John Le Carre

#38. Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don't try to figure out what other people want to hear from you; figure out what you have to say. It's the one and only thing you have to offer.

Barbara Kingsolver

#39. Why do you have your gun out?" she whispers, following right behind me. "Always be prepared," I tell her as we step inside. I close the door behind me, locking the deadbolt and the top lock. "Boy Scout motto, isn't it?" "Yes, but when they go camping, they bring extra matches. Not firearms.

Karina Halle

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

Rumi

#41. Mal!"
"What?"
"Close the door down there and lock it," David yelled. "Don't you come up here under any circumstances. Not till I tell you it's okay. Understood?"
There was a pause then Mal yelled back. "What if there's a fire?"
"Burn.

Kylie Scott

#42. opened the door with a smile. The man bowed slightly, then stepped quickly over the threshold and grabbed the door from her hand to close it firmly behind him. "Here," she said angrily. "What's - " The man pushed her disdainfully aside with the walking stick

Felicia Andrews

#43. A door shuts in my face, but my face is already looking at another door, wondering when that one will close too and how many good things I would have gotten out of it when it does.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#44. Sometimes you don't get to close one door before another opens. We're not all given that luxury, for closure.

Abby Slovin

#45. Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.

Jennifer Yane

#46. Making a film from the point of view of a young boy's eyes opened the door to another universe with lots of freedom and to explore a new dimension. This was achieved as I started doing things that were close to what exists in a child's universe.

Alex Abreu

#47. The aunts' conception of the right to privacy went far enough to allow you to close the toilet door when you were peeing, but no further.

Zen Cho

#48. I never want to fall in love again,
Loneliness is vastly under rated.
On and off causes so much pain,
Vanity is why I still waited.
Every time I try to get close,
You close yet another door.
Our story is a ridiculous prose,
Understand I won't take anymore.

Ritoban Chakrabarti

#49. I know this messenger, guard," said Mr. Lorry, getting down into the road - assisted from behind more swiftly than politely by the other two passengers, who immediately scrambled into the coach, shut the door, and pulled up the window. "He may come close; there's nothing wrong.

Charles Dickens

#50. I unplug the phone and close the door and just stick with it. I don't ever go out for lunch and I don't take vacations. I like to be awake when no one else is: either just before dawn in the morning or late, late at night. Silence helps.

Mona Simpson

#51. When I first got to New York, all I did was musicals. After a few years I had to make a conscious choice to close the door on musicals, because I was getting pigeon-holed as a musical theater performer.

Tamara Tunie

#52. You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash

#53. Sometimes I open or close the store. I have keys. I can go in any time I want. Some days, when it's my duty to open the store, I go in at eight o'clock, just to be alone and smell all those books around me. Each one is a door. Each one is a world.

Robert Goolrick

#54. when you conclude a paper, you should always close a door and open a window

Benjamin K. Bergen

#55. The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.

Ogden Nash

#56. A lot of people give up, but you can't stop me. If you close the door, I'll just jump out the window.

Diane Warren

#57. 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

#58. The pain is there; when you close one door on it, it knocks to come in somewhere else ...

Irvin D. Yalom

#59. He turned to shut and lock the door, then
came close, his gaze touching her features. "I missed you, Holly."
Her heart caught painfully. The poor organ seemed to be getting
quite the workout lately.

Jill Shalvis

#60. Every time you close another door - be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection - you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#61. Although proselytizing is not in itself necessarily intolerant, it does close the open-ended door of pluralism

Wendy Doniger

#62. For her, an orgasm felt more like a sneeze, certainly not the earthquake her friends described, and nowhere close to the shrieks of pleasure from the apartment next door. What would that feel like? To be so overwhelmed as to actually scream?

Cherise Sinclair

#63. Arafat's whole life has been governed by struggle and a cause. Everything he has done as leader of the Palestinians is to always leave his options open, never close a door.

Dennis Ross

#64. When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret

Paulo Coelho

#65. Only when I heard her bedroom door open and close did I give in to my beast instincts and do a wild animal dance around the room.

Alex Flinn

#66. I knew it was silly, but I felt better being close to the front door, just in
case I had to make a run for it.

Kaitlin Scott

#67. Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door.

Lili Wright

#68. Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

Lev Grossman

#69. Twice I'd come home as they were finishing, and, honestly, I cannot think of a lonelier sound on a Saturday night than one's roommate having a giant orgasm and then making an embarrassed sssh sound, realizing that maybe through her pleasure she'd heard the front door open and close.

Aimee Bender

#70. There's no dark like it. It's soft to the touch and heavy in the hands. You can open your mouth and let it sink into you 'till it makes a close ball in your belly. You can juggle with it, dodge it, swim in it. You can open it like a door.

Jeanette Winterson

#71. I promise you that when the circumstances arise where I have a difference on policy or on presentation, I have - I can tell you in my heart, I know - I would have no hesitation, were I privileged to be vice president, to walk into the president's office, close the door, and share my heart.

Mike Pence

#72. I am a gardener
I plant hearts
I have no other knowledge
No language now
Close the language door and
open the heart portal
Where everything connects as ONE.

Gabriel Iqbal

#73. Additions like to enter without knocking, you just have to close the door for good ...

Alen Sargsyan

#74. Loneliness comes in two basic varieties. When it results from a desire for solitude, loneliness is a door we close against the world. When the world instead rejects us, loneliness is an open door, unused.

Dean Koontz

#75. But we need to remember that our definition of what is right is, as often as not, simply the way that people in positions of privilege close the door on those on the outside.

Malcolm Gladwell

#76. Closure isn't closure until someone's ready to close the door.

Jonathan Maberry

#77. You'd be surprised just how fast you can close the door on your past. Learn needlepoint. Make a stained-glass lamp.

Chuck Palahniuk

#78. I like kids but I also like the option to close the door. Becoming a parent is a whole other life, and it doesn't stop.

Jon Hamm

#79. She had touched life, played with it a little, but it is a slippery bugger, and finally we must close the door, and leave it behind. A

Rachel Joyce

#80. Use the words that live inside your head. And if the words that live inside your head are those of a sentimental Victorian troubadour, then please close your head in a door jamb until you kill all that overwrought prose in an act of brain damage.

Chuck Wendig

#81. What about your
Your 10,000 promises?
That you gave to me (to me, babe)
Your 10,000 promises
That you promised me
You say I'll take you back
But I close the door
'Cause I don't want 10,000 more

Backstreet Boys

#82. Logan lowers his head close to mine. 'Just know this, Ivy Calhhoun,' he begins. 'If I werena a ghost I would open all door for you, properly.

Cindy Miles

#83. What does he remember? He saw the engineer Bernd close the cellar door and sit on the stairs.

Anthony Doerr

#84. A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

John McAfee

#85. I tend to have to just get away from it all, so it is nice when touring to be able to come home for a week or two and close the door and not really see anybody.

Adam Young

#86. I do, indeed, close my door at times and surrender myself to a book, but only because I can open the door again and see a human face looking at me

Martin Buber