Opening And Closing Doors Quotes

#1. I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

Bob Goff

#2. Car horns, shrill and prolonged, blared one after another. Flashing sirens heralded endless emergencies, and a fleet of buses rumbled past, their doors opening and closing with a powerful hiss, throughout the night. The noise was constantly distracting, at times suffocating.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#3. If you didn't have a real good imagination you'd probably think those noises were the sounds of some kid blowing a horn for the first time, but I knew better than that. I could tell those were the squeaks and squawks of one door closing and another one opening.

Christopher Paul Curtis

#4. Also, right at that particular time in the music business, because of people like the Beatles, people began owning their own publishing. I'll just say this really quickly - they used to divide the money for the music that was written in two, just equal halves.

Jackson Browne

#5. Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

Lady Gaga

#6. I seek God even though I don't believe in Him.

Paulo Coelho

#7. There was our father, the heart we knew held all of us. Held us heavily and desperately, the doors of his heart opening and closing with the rapidity of stops on an instrument, the quiet felt closures, the ghostly fingering, practice and practice and then, incredibly, sound and melody and warmth.

Alice Sebold

#8. I do try very hard to develop themes that are easily understood and that, hopefully, will paint vivid images of the legal principles and implications of the ruling that will stick in the Justices' heads and will help influence how they think about the case.

Patricia Millett

#9. Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

Jan Myrdal

#10. I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

Michael Ondaatje

#11. I'll never know what possessed my mother to steal my father's lions that night.

Laura Shepard Townsend

#12. In Georgia it's a little different because of the East Cobb program. It's such a strong program that we see a lot of kids that come through here on a lot of different teams from across the country that come here to play in tournaments.

Roy Clark

#13. My sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she's a swinger dating a singer, I can't decide which is worse.

Tom Petty

#14. There were spells on opening doors and closing them, spells to ward your door, and even one to discourage Jehovah's Witnesses from your door,

Juliet Dark

#15. The cupboards start opening and closing by themselves, drawers slamming shut and the walls start to bleed. Slamming doors and smashing plates. Anna is acting like a common poltergeist. How embarrassing.

Kendare Blake

#16. Being afraid is part of living, Rory, just as much as being scared is part of being courageous. You can only be happy when you're brutally honest with yourself.

Winna Efendi

#17. If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

Marshall Goldsmith

#18. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.

Matthieu Ricard

#19. No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.

Thomas Dreier

#20. I like the old wisdom
puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

Mason Cooley

#21. I did almost two years on 'One Life to Live,' so I was thinking, 'Oh yeah, I'm an actor now.'

Teddy Sears

#22. Mostly, videogames are about men shooting men in the face. Sometimes they are about women shooting men in the face. Sometimes the men who are shot in the face are orcs, zombies, or monsters.

Anna Anthropy

#23. Toyota is smarter about defining the customer and thinking like the customer. In designing new doors for a car targeted largely toward women, Toyota engineers put on long fingernails to see how this would affect opening and closing the doors.

Anonymous

#24. There's an Oriental saying I like: If aggression meets empty space it tends to defeat itself.

Matthew Reilly

#25. Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one's way through.

Kate Morton

#26. Sometimes it's best to start moving in the direction you think God may want you to go, and then trust Him to lead you - closing doors He doesn't want you to go through and opening up others.

Billy Graham

#27. Concerning culture as a process, one would say that it means learning a great many things and then forgetting them; and the forgetting is as necessary as the learning.

Albert J. Nock

#28. I think unhappiness comes from unfulfilled expectations.

Kasie West

#29. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

Ethel M. Dell

#30. Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.

Gillian Flynn

#31. I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.

Parker Palmer