Top 100 Quotes About A Door
#1. A door that seems to stand open must be of a man's size, or it is not the door that providence means for him.
Henry Ward Beecher
#2. Because even though I was afraid to admit I, I felt like a door had been cracked in my soul. It was a tiny opening, to be sure, but there was the hint of something new in the air, something unexpected.
Glenn Beck
#3. He was a perfect husband: he never picked up anything from the floor, or turned out a light, or closed a door.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#4. Then a door opened into a kitchen nine feet long, situated between the large store-rooms. There electricity, better than gas itself, did all the cooking.
Jules Verne
#5. When you follow your bliss ... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
#6. This is a door that the Lord holds open for you. Walk through it. He who has called shall also equip. Everything you lack shall be provided.
Tessa Afshar
#8. I remember him watching me through the crack of a door singing with a hairbrush. I was in front of his mirror. I think he wanted me to sing. He would get me on the table and make me sing sometimes or play the piano. He was very encouraging on that front.
Lisa Marie Presley
#9. When little boys have learned a new bad word they are never happy till they have chalked it up on a door. And this also is Literature.
Rudyard Kipling
#10. Real spirituality is about getting the bullshit out of your life and getting real. Real humility knows how to slam a door closed and say no more. You can't be humble without self-love.
Bryant McGill
#11. Dreams: a door through which the dead return.
Marty Rubin
#12. When's a door not a door? she'd said in her thick accent. When? he'd asked When it's ajar.
James Dashner
#13. Sometimes I think the cover of a book as a door to another world ... but other times I think of it as an escape hatch from this one. I guess it's the same thing.
Tom McNeal
#14. A door opens, and hot white light floods the room, blinding him momentarily. He blinks and blinks until the world re-forms.
Anonymous
#15. Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
#16. You know ... it's like you live your life opening doors. One after the other. You open a door onto a hallway, which leads to another door, which leads to another hallway. But then one day you open a door and it's to a closet. It doesn't go anywhere.
Elizabeth Berg
#17. From being a waiter, to a door-to-door salesman, to a car-washer, to a delivery boy - I have done it all.
Randeep Hooda
#18. Prose is like a window; fiction is like a door. But it is not uncommon that he who should come in through the door jumps in through the window.
Mu Xin
#19. Let whoever opens a door make certain there are no enemies hiding behind it.
Miriam Minger
#20. So ludicrous, in fact, do these ceremonies appear to me, that I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude to lift a handkerchief, or shut a door, when the LADY could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#21. As I was saying, that's the dark secret of our time, no one mentions it, but every time one opens a door one is greeted by a shrill, desperate and inaudible scream.
Doris Lessing
#22. I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn't have gone through and couldn't get back to the place I hadn't meant to leave.
William Maxwell
#23. God promises to make the vale of trouble a door of hope
Jill Briscoe
#24. When a contradiction is impossible to resolve except by a lie, then we know that it is really a door.
Simone Weil
#25. I have become my own version of an optimist. If I can't make
it through one door, I'll go through another door
or I'll
make a door. Something terrific will come no matter how dark
the present.
Joan Rivers
#26. Thomas Merton, say it, as he so often does: A door opens in the center of our being, and we seem to fall through it into immense depths, which although they are infinite - are still accessible to us. All eternity seems to have become ours in this one placid and breathless contact.
Richard Rohr
#27. An image means nothing. It is just a door, leading to the next door. It will never happen that we will find the truth we are looking for just in an image; it will happen behind the last door that the spectator discovers the truth, because of his own efforts.
Antoni Tapies
#28. He seemed only ... annoyed. Annoyed, and sweaty, and hot.
"Yeah, well," he said, "the next time you decide to sneak out of our magically warded apartment through a door that shouldn't really exist, leave a note.
Cassandra Clare
#29. Aye: though we hunted high and low,
And hunted everywhere,
Of the three men's fate we found no trace
Of any kind in any place,
But a door ajar, and an untouched meal,
And an overtoppled chair.
Wilfrid Wilson Gibson
#30. If you walk through a door with dead locks,bolts and chains don't betray or turn your back on that trust.The privilege of knowing all that goes on behind that door should be treated as an extraordinary gift.For many people will only ever see half of the real person they've known for years.
Anonymous
#31. I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.
Tama J. Kieves
#32. Don't ever walk through a door first again, okay? And don't argue with me about it or accuse me of being chauvinistic. I don't ever want to see you in that kind of pain again.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#33. But it is impossible that the creative power should exclude itself. Into every intelligence there is a door which is never closed,through which the creator passes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#34. These day's I like to imagine that if a man were to enter through the slash on the book's cover, as if it were a door, he could walk right into the heart of the Inferno.
Andrew Davidson
#35. I slammed out of the [house] and started walking, heading nowhere in particular. Sometimes you just need to go through a door.
Ransom Riggs
#36. Death is never an end, but always a beginning. A death is a door opening, not a door closing.
Neale Donald Walsch
#37. Happiness always sneaks in through a door you din't know you left open
John Barrymore
#38. Starting a novel is opening a door on a misty landscape; you can still see very little but you can smell the earth and feel the wind blowing.
Iris Murdoch
#40. That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.
Lisa McMann
#42. Laura thought Bell would have a few things to say to Pynchon. And Laura had a few things to say to Bell, like, How the hell was a writer supposed to know when she was one-fifth through her novel-writing, so she could cut a door into the wall and shove her character out into the forest?
L.L. Barkat
#43. Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#44. A door in my chest opens with an unfamiliar happiness. In my arms, there is an echo of his nearness, what it felt like to hold him.
Anna Smaill
#45. It was not possible to hold on to ashes. In my dreams I had always walked out of the past, and it shut behind me, a door I couldn't unlock. Now I intended to do the same in my waking life.
Alice Hoffman
#46. Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.
Don Herold
#47. When life closes a door, God opens a window.
Paul Smith
#48. And then he remembered that in the outside world, no one had to unlock a door before he entered
Jodi Picoult
#49. There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
#50. How did yo do that?"
Ahmose titled his head. "Im am a pathfinder," he said simply.
"But that's not a path. It's a door."
"Yes. I found the path of weakness in the door.
Colleen Houck
#52. The world doesn't owe you a living, but just when you needed it, a door was opened for you to make a difference.
Seth Godin
#53. Syn opened a door to their right. "Sumi? Get in here and let Hauk know that you're okay. I can't do anything with this unreasonable, surly bastard."
"He's not unreasonable. He's just fierce.
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#54. Sometimes people close a door because they're trying to figure out a way to get you to knock.
Andrew Pyper
#55. If I see a door comin' my way, I'm knockin' it down. And if I can't knock down the door, I'm sliding through the window.
Rosie Perez
#56. Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
Kate Atkinson
#57. There is more terror in a day of life than there is at the moment of death. It is as if a door has opened to a prison, though you do not believe it is a prison while you exist within it.
Douglas Clegg
#58. Language is a door. Words en-trance and are an entrance; they draw you in. When you read, the book you cradle disappears and the tales within unfold in your mind. Writing is a shelter of words and reading an interior adventure.
Laurie Seidler
#60. Every now and then one paints a picture that seems to have opened a door and serves as a stepping stone to other things.
Pablo Picasso
#61. I start walking toward my bike with renewed purpose.
"I don't think I need any help to knock on a door."
Carlos yells, "Be careful, my friend. The problem with knocking on doors is you're never quite sure who's going to be on the other side.
Greg Logsted
#62. Then she turned for the great mouth of a door, and by the time it inhaled her, she was a much older woman.
John Hart
#63. Without habit loops, our brains would shut down, overwhelmed by the minutiae of daily life. People whose basal ganglia are damaged by injury or disease often become mentally paralyzed. They have trouble performing basic activities, such as opening a door or deciding what to eat.
Charles Duhigg
#64. Wherever I have knocked, a door has opened. Wherever I have wandered, a path has appeared.
Alice Walker
#65. I lowered the gun but didn't holster it. Not just yet. She could turn out to be psychotic. Or a door-to-door salesperson.
Darynda Jones
#66. Elizabeth's voice had a door in it. When you opened that door you found another door, and that door opened yet another door. All the doors were nice and led out of her.
Richard Brautigan
#67. I was lost
And sang my broken-down songs in the hell of the hour.
Then in my heart moved an oar,
And I was found by a breeze from a door in the sea of forms
And was rowed to the cherry trees on the shore.
Stan Rice
#68. The sufferer who keeps looking for God has, in the end, privileged knowledge. ... She passes through a door that only pain will open, and is thus qualified to speak of God in a way that others, whom we generally call more fortunate, cannot speak. (pg. 122)
Ellen F. Davis
#69. Are you in Portland on business? I ask, and my voice is too high, like I've got my finger trapped in a door or something. Damn! Try to be cool, Ana!
E.L. James
#70. You feel that a door will open and you will be summoned, and horrid things will happen to you before they let you go. You can not mark these houses with any homely flavor of living. When they are emptied after occupancy, they have the look of places where the blood has recently been washed away.
John D. MacDonald
#71. Religious freedom opens a door for Americans that is closed to too many others around the world. But whether we walk through that door, and what we do with our lives after we do, is up to us.
Mitt Romney
#72. He growled and stood up. "There is a knocking without," he said.
"Without what?" said the Fool.
"Without the door, idiot."
The Fool gave him a worried look. "A knocking without a door?" he said suspiciously. "This isn't some kind of Zen, is it?
Terry Pratchett
#73. if He closes a door, you may never know what He's saving you from or see the better things He has stored up for you.
Jamie Larbi
#74. In his heart he knows first isn't touching a door knob, or getting to sit in the front row seat by the window, or making it up to the road before everybody else. First is something deep down inside you that you know and feel and nobody can take away from you
Phoebe Stone
#75. Like every big organisation these days, the BBC is obsessed with the wellbeing of those who set foot on its premises. Studios must display warning notices if there is real glass on the set, and the other day I was presented with a booklet explaining how to use a door. I am not kidding.
Jeremy Clarkson
#76. It was easy as keying in a door code. Somehow he felt that arming fusion bombs to detonate around him should have been more difficult.
James S.A. Corey
#77. Giving thanks is a key that opens a door to greater connectedness and greater participation in the life of the world. It is one of the most powerful spiritual practices available to us.
David Spangler
#78. As soon as a person sits down in front of a medium asking for a reading they are opening a door and extending an invitation to Satan to come in. Satan is a master of disguise.
K.J. Masters
#79. But it doesn't take a thousand men to open a door, my lord."
"It might to keep it open.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#80. All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles
and ghosts of men, and spirits
behind those birds of flame.
I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes,
I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.
Ada Limon
#81. Trying to balance chivalry with equality, I always open a door for a Lady ... then stick my foot out
Josh Stern
#82. Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority - to the very innermost shrine of your being.
Rajneesh
#83. The truth is, I feel myself being fascinated and repelled by her: She's both a mirror of myself and a door to part of this island that I'm not.
Maggie Stiefvater
#84. I think feminism's a bit misinterpreted. It was about casting off all gender roles. There's nothing wrong with a man holding a door open for a girl. But we sort of threw away all the rules, so everybody's confused. And dating becomes a sloppy, uncomfortable, unpleasant thing.
Zosia Mamet
#85. We're here to see Connor," Dad said.
The woman nodded and hit a button on the control panel. "You're set to go down."
"Thank you, Marshie," Dad said. He motioned us over to a door beneath the staircase.
Nick leaned in. " 'You're set to go down'?" he echoed. "That's comforting.
Jennifer Rush
#86. Gwen stopped putting her money in the bag. "You're giving your father a picture of a door for his birthday?" And she'd thought Mitch marking up pages in her copy of Vogue and telling her, "This is what I'd get you for your birthday if I had money" had been cheap.
Shelly Laurenston
#87. If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
Hayley Mills
#88. In the fourth grade, I learned how to fake walking into a door. You know, you hit it with your hand and snap your head back. The girls loved it.
Will Ferrell
#89. I'm very busy."
"The sign on the door said closed."
Finbar shook his head. "Never trust a door; they'll always lie to you.
Derek Landy
#90. As if Spade's chivalry would allow him to do anything to a woman. The harshest punishment she could imagine him dishing out to Cat would be refusing to open a door for her.
Jeaniene Frost
#91. He carried with him, obscured by only the lightest of veils, the awareness that a door was open and that one quick step could carry him to freedom whenever he chose.
Hermann Hesse
#92. To leave a door shut that might be open is in my eyes some form of blasphemy.
Virginia Woolf
#93. At one time, I was very angry. I even treated fashion like a kind of crusade: you were either with us or against us, that kind of feeling. Now I know we need ideas, not kicking down a door.
Vivienne Westwood
#94. Each of us has his place in the world " he said. "If we cannot serve in one way there is always another. If we do what we are able a door always opens to something else.
Marguerite De Angeli
#95. Maybe she'd just say she ran into a door; that seemed infinitely more plausible than the truth.
Kimberly Derting
#97. Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.
Audra McDonald
#98. You walk through a series of arches, so to speak, and then, presently, at the end of a corridor, a door opens and you see backward through time, and you feel the flow of time, and realize you are only part of a great nameless procession.
John Huston
#99. There was a door, but it was terribly bashful, so Auri politely pretended not to see it.
Patrick Rothfuss
#100. Rushing, like wind through a door, and Karou was the door, and the wind was coming home, and she as also the wind. She was all: wind and home and door. She rushed into herself and was filled. She let herself in and was full.
Laini Taylor
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