Top 100 Doors Closed Quotes
#1. When you have these van tours, you drive six hours with the doors closed and windows rolled up. You pull into the venue, check into the cheap hotel you can afford, eat whatever is there, sleep, wake up, and repeat. You're not really participating in the community.
Ben Sollee
#2. 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
#3. The women at Dachau knew they were about to be gassed when they pushed back the Nazi guard who wanted to die with them, saying he must live. And sang for a little while after the doors closed.
Jack Gilbert
#4. I am frightened. I have known fear before, but there was always an escape; even during the terror of the military coup there was the salvation of exile. Now I am in a blind alley with all doors closed to hope, and I don't know how to handle so much fear.
Isabel Allende
#5. Beyond speech and mind,
Into the river of ever-effulgent Light
My heart dives.
Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia,
Are opened wide.
Sri Chinmoy
#6. You have no idea how many doors closed on me and how many adults were either initially reluctant to take a chance working with me or who outright laughed at me behind my back.
Kendall Jenner
#7. I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things.
Nigel Godrich
#8. For a person who grew up in the '30s and '40s in the segregated South, with so many doors closed without explanation to me, libraries and books said, 'Here I am, read me.' Over time I have learned I am at my best around books.
Maya Angelou
#9. The doors closed, behind him; he turned,
and saw Laurent.
His stomach dropped, a moment of
confused shock
he'd never expected to
see Laurent here.
C.S. Pacat
#10. Dixie Clay knew now that the world was full of secret sorrowing women, each with her own doors closed to rooms she wouldn't be coming back to, walking and talking and cutting lard into flour and slicing fish from their spines and acting as if it were an acceptable thing, this living.
Tom Franklin
#11. When the doors closed behind me I felt like a bird had got inside my chest and was beating its wings trying to get loose, and it wasn't leaving much room for me to breathe.
Glenda Millard
#12. The Red Door was a part of me and being there was an escape right up until the doors closed. I didn't want it to be over. Not even just for the night. After
Jamie McGuire
#13. No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.
Jennifer A. Nielsen
#15. We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.
Sorin Cerin
#16. The doors to Wisdom & Glory are never closed, they just favor the undaunted
Arjun Pawar
#17. The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.
Daniel Gilbert
#18. Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed, so you can open one that leads you to the perfect road.
Katy Perry
#19. I remember an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given leave to open any I liked. There were more doors than one person could ever open in a lifetime, I thought (and still think).
Stephen King
#20. Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.
Maynard Jackson
#21. 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
#22. Closed doors are a test of our faith. Keep moving forward, being your best, living with determination and faith. When you do, you'll see amazing changes all around you.
Joel Osteen
#23. What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!
Ivan Slavkov
#24. Solitude opens all closed doors, even those nailed shut.
Nancy Wood
#25. No matter what I do now, there are certain doors I have already closed, certain opportunities I'll never get back. There's nothing to be done, I guess. It is what it is.
Blake Nelson
#26. Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors.
Ray Dalio
#27. Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.
Thomas Ehrlich
#28. Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.
Siri Hustvedt
#29. Hearing God's voice is indispensable to moving through or around closed doors.
Gary Rohrmayer
#30. Always act like a lady in front of closed doors. Never show emotion if it means risking your power.
Ellen Hopkins
#31. 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
#32. When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for children. Children are excited by new ideas; they have not yet closed the doors and windows of their imaginations. Provided the story is good ... nothing is too difficult for children.
Madeleine L'Engle
#33. Suicide. A sideways word, a word that people whisper and mutter and cough: a word that must be squeezed out behind cupped palms or murmured behind closed doors. It was only in dreams that I heard the word shouted, screamed.
Lauren Oliver
#34. When I am not drinking deeply from the inexhaustible well of love that is Jesus, it is impossible for me to share that love with the community behind closed doors as well as my greater community.
Kara Tippetts
#35. Wrestling hurts. Your body's not meant to take that abuse. I've closed that door, but I don't know that I've locked it for good.
Stacy Keibler
#36. There is no window to look outside.
There is no window to look within.
Open the doors.
Sanhita Baruah
#37. Open doors are blessings. Closed doors are extraordinary blessings.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#38. Some things, however, are true no matter how hard you might try to block them out,
and a lie is always a lie, no matter how prettily told. Some doors, once they're opened,
can never be closed again, just as some trust, once it's been lost, can never be won back.
Alice Hoffman
#39. The Land of Civilian was a dry bitter place where you sat in your car staring at drawn curtains and closed doors for hours on end, and where everything was a big, freaking secret.
Lily Gardner
#40. Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading ... Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what's going on with you and God behind closed doors.
Vicky Beeching
#41. There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.
Martin Rees
#42. The Walt Disney Animation studio is the studio that Walt Disney started himself in 1923, and it's never stopped and never closed its doors and never stopped making animation, and it keeps going as kind of the heart and soul of the company.
John Lasseter
#43. Behind closed doors, good men are often more mischievous and exasperating than the truly bad ones. The difference is they're naughty because they're happy - boys at heart, no matter how many responsibilities they bear or how old they become.
Kieran Kramer
#44. Poets, come out of your closets, Open your windows, open your doors, You have been holed up too long in your closed worlds ... Poetry should transport the public/to higher places/than other wheels can carry it ...
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#46. Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.
Alan Bennett
#47. What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature ... That baby sees the world with a completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of perception have not yet been closed. He still experiences the moment he lives in.
Tom Wolfe
#48. Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.
Lewis H. Lapham
#49. A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.
Percy Ross
#50. The thing I love about live performance the most, is that the doors are closed, the lights are turned down, and the audience has to be reverential to what's happening onstage.
Cate Blanchett
#51. Things done in the dark hours of night, behind closed doors, or in the heat of the moment looked a lot different in the morning, out in the open, and with a clear head.
Penelope Douglas
#52. I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me.
John Lasseter
#53. Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.
Robert A. Caro
#54. God can bring good out of everything; both the open doors and the closed doors.
Jamie Larbi
#55. The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.
Roy Hession
#56. I'm not a child," Eliza argued with the closed double doors. "I'm a grown woman. With accomplishments and bosoms and everything.
Tessa Dare
#57. That's not to say that all software project management books are crap. Just most of them. One of the few that I've found compelling enough to finish is Johanna Rothman's "Behind Closed Doors: Secrets of Great Management." She co-wrote it with Esther Derby.
Jeff Atwood
#58. 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
#59. I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.
Tamara Ecclestone
#60. 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
#61. Father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on the phone, and drank sherry and ate raw meat, in the form of chorizo, at five o'clock. Until the day in the yard with my
Alice Sebold
#62. Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.
Joel Osteen
#63. He simply wishes to make it possible for a man to be both a Negro and an American without being cursed and spit upon by his fellows, without having the doors of Opportunity closed roughly in his face.
W.E.B. Du Bois
#64. [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors? ... Why shouldn't executions be public?
Phil Donahue
#65. It's never easy to leave one's home, especially when there are only closed doors ahead of you.
Nadia Hashimi
#66. If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.
William Blake
#67. 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
#68. And call me a pig, but isn't it brilliantly refreshing how early the Dutch eat dinner? When they're still laying out the cutlery in achingly hip Barcelona, they're hanging the Closed sign on the restaurant doors of old Amsterdam.
Julie Burchill
#69. When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There's a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#70. Our prayers can go where we cannot ... there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.
Brother Andrew
#71. If priest is closed to forgiveness, he won't receive it, because he locked the door from the inside. And what remains is to pray for the Lord to open that door. To forgive you must be willing. But not everyone can receive or know how to receive it, or are just not willing to receive it.
Pope Francis
#72. Does anyone believe that Goldman Sachs is gonna give up a deal that would yield millions of dollars because someone fussed at them behind closed doors?
Elizabeth Warren
#73. You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.
Meridel Le Sueur
#74. Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.
Rita Mae Brown
#75. Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money.
Laura Miller
#76. I'd stopped giving a damn about the human world a long time ago. It's our basis. Our cradle. But we are Others. We walk through closed doors and we maintain the balance of Good and Evil. There are pitifully few of us, and we can't reproduce - it
Sergei Lukyanenko
#77. Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#78. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.
Nalini Singh
#79. Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#80. We all have our methods for coping and they usually happen behind closed doors.
Josh Lanyon
#81. Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.
John Niven
#82. If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.
Martin Zwilling
#83. You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors ... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way' ... Keep moving forward.
Joel Osteen
#84. People only look at you and say, 'You are black and you are from the banlieue,' and all the doors are closed. I had the desire to be something else. If I see a door that is a little open, I will find a way to get through.
Omar Sy
#85. I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed.
Frank Carson
#86. When you go behind closed doors, then anything goes.
Tassa Desalada
#87. The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.
Preston Manning
#88. There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors.
Laura Miller
#89. At Fantasy's Bar & Grill we're serving up things behind closed doors that are hotter than anything you'll order from the menu!
Michelle Hughes
#90. Whatever happens in your life, no matter how troubling things might seem, do not enter the neighborhood of despair. Even when all doors remain closed, God will open up a new path only for you. Be thankful!
Elif Shafak
#91. We interpret Jesus through our brokenness. A painful truth, but also a hopeful truth. Maybe we can open up the doors and windows we didn't know we closed.
John Eldredge
#92. What had
seemed so simple then seemed so complicated now.
Doors had closed and opportunities had opened. She
felt lost, at a crossroads, not knowing which path to
take.
Lorraine Heath
#93. Friendship is a door you will never need to knot on as you will always have a key.
Wes Adamson
#94. Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since Bobrick transitioned to plastic laminates removing the opportunity to defame others behind those closed doors.
Delia J. Colvin
#95. What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.
Shelley Berkley
#96. Welcome and embrace closed doors, as they are gateways to new opportunities.
Lasean Rinique
#97. They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#98. I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.
Avi Lewis
#99. People tend to think of Brisbane as a sleepy, sub-topical place. I don't know. It's like Baltimore or something. I don't know. You would hear the family dramas going on behind closed doors.
Geoffrey Rush
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