Top 100 Let In Quotes
#1. The Irish tell the story of a man who arrives at the gates of heaven and asks to be let in St. Peter says, "Of course, just show us your scars." The man says, "I have no scars". St. Peter says, "What a pity was there nothing worth fighting for"?
Martin Sheen
#2. I fervently wish no misery ever came near anyone; yet it is that alone that gives us an insight into the depths of our lives, does it not? In our moments of anguish, gates barred forever seem to open and let in many a flood of light.
Swami Vivekananda
#3. What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe?
John Milton
#4. As soon as you open the door wide enough to admit pink nerve-gas-farting dragons, you have let in all of those other possibilities as well.
Neal Stephenson
#5. I should be scared, but I am far too excited to let in any fear.
Aimee DuFresne
#6. Boys don't gush, so I can stand it. The last time I let in a party of girls, one fell into my arms and said, "Darling, love me!" I wanted to shake her,' answered Mrs. Jo, wiping her pen with energy.
Louisa May Alcott
#7. You'll wake up one day and find you're almost forty, and you haven't done any of the things you wanted. That you let in so many voices when you were trying to make decisions, instead of listening to the One voice that mattered, that you never decided anything at all.
Stephanie Morrill
#9. It's the broken that find a way, because the cracks, although deep, let out as much light as the darkness they let in
Tom Kavanagh
#10. There's a place in your mind where any voices you let in slip down your spine and into your lungs and heart, become a thing you breathe and bleed.
Kelly Loy Gilbert
#11. Family are those your born to, those who are born to you, and those who you let in your heart.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#12. Light, when suddenly let in, dazzles and hurts and almost blinds us: but this soon passes away, and it seems to become the only element we can exist in.
Augustus William Hare
#13. We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.
Baruch Spinoza
#14. Sometimes the greatest fear and pain come from a sense of meaninglessness in life. Meaning is a choice, not a search, remember? A sense of meaninglessness is really, therefore, a call to let in higher awareness and truth.
Robert Holden
#15. Let us open up our natures, throw wide the doors of our hearts and let in the sunshine of good will and kindness.
Orison Swett Marden
#16. And then I knew that the voice
of the spirits had been let in
as intense as an epileptic aura
and that no longer would I sing
alone.
Anne Sexton
#17. Let me arise and open the gate,
to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
To let in Life, and to let out Death.
Violet Fane
#18. Damita Jo. Jo. That's my middle name. It's let in about the different characters that live within me. They say we have 200 characters that we portray with different people.
Janet Jackson
#20. Let's detox our cluttered academic brain. That's what the poet does. People call it daydreaming, detoxing our minds and taking care of that clutter. It's being able to let in call letters from the poetry universe.
Juan Felipe Herrera
#21. This is a story about survival.
Letting go and learning to let in.
Getting along and moving on.
The truth about life.
The things left unsaid ...
Nadege Richards
#22. He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in,
Nick Cave
#23. Research indicates that employees have three prime needs: Interesting work, recognition for doing a good job, and being let in on things that are going on in the company.
Zig Ziglar
#24. Away with the joint-stools, remove the
court-cupboard, look to the plate. Good thou, save
me a piece of marchpane; and, as thou lovest me, let
the porter let in Susan Grindstone and Nell.
Antony, and Potpan!
William Shakespeare
#25. Removing prejudices is, alas! too often removing the boundary of a delightful near prospect in order to let in a shockingly extensive one.
Sir Fulke Greville
#26. I still find trusting people quite hard. I've got a couple of mates that I do let in, but that's it. It's something I've got to sort out - I cut people off.
Robbie Williams
#27. Yours is a strange dream, a strange reverie. No, it's a strange beach; each body is a strange beach, and if you let in the excess emotion you will recall the Atlantic Ocean breaking on our heads.
Claudia Rankine
#28. I do like Manny,
crank up the inside volume,
listen to my dreams
as I walk through the school halls,
I choose what words to let in.
Nikki Grimes
#29. The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is not a public democratic organization; it's a private club basically. It's like a private golf club and they decide who they're going to let in the club.
Micky Dolenz
#30. I want," said Defarge, who had not removed his gaze from the shoemaker, "to let in a little more light here. You can bear a little more?
Charles Dickens
#32. Emergence of Muslim communities in their own lands. They let in millions of people from a radically different culture and background. The Europeans have to ask themselves if all these people can be integrated. This has led to major problems. And ... I do not stereotype all Muslims.
Manfred Gerstenfeld
#33. There are two kinds of reading, reading which is contemplation - even a kind of vision & reading for information. For the first only the best will do, for the rest - then one can let in anything one would like to read in the world.
Mary Butts
#34. Always open, to risk and danger, to fun and laughter; to let in life and let out love.
Dave Preston
#35. Its roof sagged and let in water when it rained, its walls groaned and let in wind when it blew, and its doors creaked and let in hypocrites when it suited. There
Derek Landy
#36. O Lord ...
Once I wanted You so much
I didn't even dare walk past Your house-
And now
I am not even worthy to be let in
Rabia Basri
#37. One couple described the effects as being, "dated hard, married quick, and then ignored." They got into church alright, but the church never got into them; they were let in easily enough, but they never felt they were counted on.
Sue Mallory
#38. I guess it's a choice we make," she said. "What's a choice?" I asked. And she said, "How much of the world we let in.
David Levithan
#40. It is a thorough process, this war with the wilderness - breaking nature, taming the soil. feeding it on oats. The civilized man regards the pine tree as his enemy. He will fell it and let in the light, grub it up and raise wheat or rye there. It is no better than a fungus to him.
Henry David Thoreau
#41. I knew I wasn't attractive, and I was very happy about that. I didn't want to be attractive. I didn't want to attract. As long as no one wanted to be let in, I didn't have to shut anyone out.
Portia De Rossi
#42. Men like Carew, he knows, tend to blame him, Cromwell, for Anne's rise in the world; he facilitated it, he broke the old marriage and let in the new. He does not expect them to soften to him, to include him in their companionship; he only wants them not to spit in his dinner.
Hilary Mantel
#43. We get to choose who we let in to our weird little worlds.
Robin Williams
#44. Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.
Jonathan Carroll
#45. I don't know the right number of immigrants to let in.
Marvin Olasky
#46. I think of it as a good opportunity to let, in particular, school kids know that this job and other interesting jobs in science and engineering are open to anyone who works hard in school and gets a good education and studies math and science. And that it's not just for a select group of people.
Ellen Ochoa
#47. Drive out the tiger by the front gate and let in the wolf by the back gate, ...
Pearl S. Buck
#48. Is that what relationships become? A reduced version of the hurt, nothing else let in.
David Levithan
#49. If there was a God," I said, "I'd say with confidence that he hates me. Because my life is the sum of bad things. The more people you let in, the more bad you let in.
Tarryn Fisher
#50. Whatever's inside making me what I am, it's like film. Film only works in the dark. Tear it all open and let in the light and you kill it.
James Dean
#51. It was foolish to even start down this road, when every other man she'd let in had left some wound, in one way or another, accidentally or not.
Sarah J. Maas
#52. 'Everything has its place. Let in only those things that are greatly desired, no more and no less. That's how to make sense of the world, and the only real way to achieve happiness.'
Vicki Pettersson
#53. Shall I let in the stranger,
Shall I welcome the sailor,
Or stay till the day I die?
Hands of the stranger and holds of the ships,
Hold you poison or grapes?
Dylan Thomas
#54. We cannot continue to allow immigrants to come here illegally. And in this age of terrorism, we must not let in refugees whose intentions cannot be determined.
Nikki Haley
#55. I haven't read a newspaper in 20 years. I don't look at the computer or anything. You have to have a filter on what you let in.
Eddie Murphy
#56. Egwene didn't notice someone new entering the tent. Rand did, however, and he spun as the flaps parted and let in light. He frowned at the interloper.
His frown died as soon as he saw the person who entered.
Moiraine.
Robert Jordan
#57. Guard your heart:
Mysterious things happen in there.
Stand as the watchman of your soul,
And be careful about what you let in.
For, therefrom, come all your life's issues.
Manuela George-Izunwa
#58. Be it concluded,
No barricado for a belly. Know't,
It will let in and out the enemy
With bag and baggage.
William Shakespeare
#59. I helped those in, who were locked out, others i helped keep out, what couldn't be let in, so that they could sleep without nightmares.
Nicole Krauss
#60. He had the effect on her of a window being thrown open and fresh air and sunlight being let in
Elizabeth Von Arnim
#61. Orthodox devotions that do not let in the light of modern knowledge are no more than a form of ancestor worship.
E.L. Doctorow
#62. And to understand the workings of our own heart we have to keep on making new reference cards. We have to dust things off every once in a while, let in fresh air, change the water in the flower vases.
Haruki Murakami
#63. If our family was poor, of what did our poverty consist? If our clothes were torn the torn places only let in the sun and wind. In the winter we had no overcoats, but that only meant that we ran rather than loitered. Those who are to follow the arts should have a training in what is called poverty.
Sherwood Anderson
#64. Joel sat back in his chair and laughed at what seemed to be an inside joke, one in which I wanted very much to be let in on. An amiable smile stretched across his lips quoted by perfect dimples. I stared at him wanting nothing more than to indulge myself in that smile.
Shawn Kirsten Maravel
#65. With Ed, I always pushed away the good and only heard the bad. Today, I let in the good.
Jenni Schaefer
#67. The senses at first let in particular Ideas, and furnish the yet empty Cabinet: And the Mind by degrees growing familiar with some of them, they are lodged in the Memory, and Names got to them.
John Locke
#68. I can't let in the light.It will destroy my performance like light destroys film
James Dean
#69. Eat to Live, Not Live to Eat, Be Shadows of the Night, Be One With the Darkness, And Never Let in the Light
Pierre Roustan
#70. If you stay in the mainstream of life, you let in the suffering of the world that invariably enters all of our lives by the time we're in our middle years, when we've experienced a few deaths and read a few headlines.
Richard Rohr
#71. I think if you open the door to government control of television, then you let in a host of questions about rights.
Michael Moriarty
#72. Friendship is a sacred thing and I do not extend the word lightly. I've had long-term romances in my life but few genuine friendships. I am exceedingly picky about who I let in my inner circle and because of that I have a few friends and many acquaintances.
Donna Lynn Hope
#73. I suppose there are two worlds-the small, protected one we carve out for ourselves, where we fret about a whole lot of nothing, and the other world, the real one, which comes knocking at the door, demanding to be let in and given a seat.
Amy Hill Hearth
#74. In fact, Saint Maxwell's received, and often accepted, applications from preschoolers slated to die criminal deaths. It was just a question of, well, the quality of the crime. You let in the cocaine overdoses; you kept out the crack overdoses.
Ryan North
#75. Filters let in a cup of water," he says, "but keep out the ocean.
Gloria Steinem
#76. Only palteia can be let in the way one allows a small child into one's life. Only a palteia wouldn't take information and turn it against you. They are gifts. They are to be trusted and cherished and protected. All palteia are. You are my palteia.
Lyn Gala
#77. Faces like yours are carved into statues, immortalized in stone for the world to see over the ages." He let in a deep breath then exhaled slowly. "You ... are art.
Belle Aurora
#79. But I felt them ... hungry shadows who knew my name, clawing at my mind and my soul to be let in - and if I let them in there would be nothing left of me but skin; nothing but a shadow inside, like themselves. (By Moonlight)
Peter S. Beagle
#80. My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction.
Janine Turner
#81. We slept, all six of us, beneath a wooden roof that let in the stars, warming one another, our legs intermingled. I dreamed: and in my dreams saw women. But my heart, stained with bloodshed, grated and brimmed over.
Isaac Babel
#82. There is no ill which may not be dissipated, like the dark, if you let in a stronger light upon it.
Henry David Thoreau
#83. But again, to dealing with border security, is an issue that - it's like having a fire in the back of your house that you need to put out first before you talk about who, who you're going to let in the front door.
Henry Bonilla
#84. Trust. We stake our lives on it, but it's a subject that not even the Gallagher Academy can teach. When do you let your guard down? Who do you let in? And I knew at that moment, as I sat beside my mother, bathing in the warm spring light, that those were the questions a good spy never stops asking
Ally Carter
#85. During the say the traces of summer , reluctant to depart, still set the sand afire, and their bare feet could not stand it for more than five minutes at a time. But when the sun set, the crack-ridden walls of the room let in the cold night damp.
Kobo Abe
#86. THE AIR IN THE ROOM TASTES STERILE. THE LINGERING scent of bleach is mixing with the fresh white paint on the walls, and I wish my teacher would open the window to let in a breeze. But we're on the third floor so the pane is sealed shut - just in case anyone gets the urge to jump. I
Suzanne Young
#87. I don't like them fellas who drive in two runs and let in three.
Casey Stengel
#88. We are here to let in the light of Liberty upon political superstition.
Benjamin Tucker
#89. Germans are flummoxed by humor, the Swiss have no concept of fun, the Spanish think there is nothing at all ridiculous about eating dinner at midnight, and the Italians should never, ever have been let in on the invention of the motor car.
Bill Bryson
#90. Once you let in the word, once you allow it to take root, it will spread like a mold through all of your corners and dark spaces - and with it, the questions, the shivery, splintered fears, enough to keep you permanently awake.
Lauren Oliver
#91. Always keep open the window of your mind to let in love.
Debasish Mridha
#92. We don't have to limit how many people we love. Our hearts make room for as many people as we want to let in.
Rachel Higginson
#93. Blessed are the cracked, for they shall let in the light.
Groucho Marx
#94. The soul shall mightily rule in all hidden secrets: but it must not let in the devil.
Jakob Bohme
#95. Open yer mind to the world, kids. No point havin' yer windows open if yer don't pull back the curtains to let in the light! - Grandpa's favourite saying to Kirsten and Jeremy. Quoted in The Hybrid and the Emeralds of Elisar
Suellen Drysdale
#96. But you cannot know a place without loving it and hating it and feeling everything in between. You cannot understand a complex people by only looking at data - something inside you has to crack to let in the light so your eyes and brain and heart can adjust properly.
Silas House
#97. If you come into success too soon, you'll burn out and be finished before you know it. If you let the maturation process happen naturally, you'll be happier with yourself in the end.
Lucinda Williams
#98. In the future if my mother tries to shame me with her disapproval, I will let her know in no uncertain terms that I reject her and all of her codependent baggage. I am Codependent No More.
Susan Juby
#99. He looks up, sees me in the window, and jumps a little. Good. Let him think I'm a weird Mexican place mat ghost.
Anna Breslaw
#100. The most valuable thing we can do for the psyche, occasionally, is to let it rest, wander, live in the changing light of room, not try to be or do anything whatever.
May Sarton
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