Top 100 Quotes About Doors Opening
#1. My characters are never heroic. They are mostly lost and trying to find the right door to open and they end up opening the wrong doors.
Gaspar Noe
#2. Every novel is-at the beginning-the same opening of a door onto a completely unknown space.
Margaret Atwood
#3. It feels ... as though doors were opening all over the world... It's bigger, somehow, the world.
Louise Fitzhugh
#4. The beginning of every war is like opening the door into a dark room. One never knows what is hidden in the darkness.
Adolf Hitler
#5. In opening your doors to woman, it is mind that will enter the lecture room, it is intelligence that will ask for food; sex will never be felt where science leads for the atmosphere of thought will be around every lecture.
Harriot Kezia Hunt
#6. Everywhere felt like a jail now- doors opening and closing, and me never feeling safe.
Gillian Flynn
#7. Book marketing is like opening doors for your readers to find you, not a stick you hit them with.
Heather Hart
#8. Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.
Ethel M. Dell
#9. The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul, opening into that cosmic night which was psyche long before there was any ego-consciousness, and which will remain psyche no matter how far our ego-consciousness extends.
Carl Jung
#10. All over the world God is opening doors of opportunity, making it possible for us to take the Gospel to millions who have never heard of Christ.
Billy Graham
#11. Most will regret opening up the doors to truth, while others will cower at thought of living an illusion. In the end, does impracticality defeat curiosity?
Lionel Suggs
#12. pastors throughout the countryside around Rome had reminded their parishioners that Jesus was a Jew in order to coax them into opening their doors. Catholic guilt was a powerful tool,
Amy Harmon
#13. To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.
Eric Brown
#14. The grandest thing has been the lifting up of the gates and the opening of the doors to the women of America, giving liberty to twenty-seven million women, thus opening to them a new and larger life and a higher ideal.
Olympia Brown
#15. Opening a door to the mysteries, hoping to shed a little dark on all the stuff we think we know.
Brian Andreas
#16. I'm a believer that when one door closes another one opens. But why does the one opening always hit me full-speed-knob-first into my nuts?
Bob Saget
#17. Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.
Thomas Ehrlich
#18. 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
#19. God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
Khalil Gibran
#20. 'Twilight' is reaching so many people, and I think it's a really good step in the right direction for diversity and opening up doors.
Justin Chon
#21. I have placed there a little door opening on to the mysterious. I have made stories.
Odilon Redon
#22. Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door.
Arnaud Desjardins
#23. I'm opening the doors, I'm buying dinner. Yeah, I'm romantic.
Evan Rachel Wood
#24. 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
#25. Life was like that, doors of possibility constantly opening and closing as one blindly made one's way through.
Kate Morton
#26. We're getting close to making our vision a reality. It's exciting to be on the cusp of opening our doors to the public. We're right on schedule.
James K. Coyne, III
#27. 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
#28. You should be careful with opening doors to secrets, says Claude. Sometimes secrets are secrets because that's the best way.
Claire King
#29. Courtesy is a science of the highest importance. It is ... opening a door that we may derive instruction from the example of others, and at the same time enabling us to benefit them by our example, if there be anything in our character worthy of imitation.
Michel De Montaigne
#30. 'A Chorus Line' never dies; it just keeps opening doors and giving back to me - but there was a time when I considered it an albatross around my neck.
Donna McKechnie
#31. In an age of deeply embedded bigotries and clashes, he stood for a universal spirituality, opening his doors to people of all backgrounds.
Elif Shafak
#32. Opening the fridge door, I found a rat eating the cheese. My dealings with rodents, particularly those tagged verminous, have been few, but generally the pattern has been one of man, the boss, the caretaker of creation, the namer, appearing and the lower orders hitting the road.
Tibor Fischer
#33. When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you're opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.
Ed Helms
#34. No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.
Thomas Dreier
#35. Complacency in the presence of miracles is like opening the door to your own tomb.
Rod Steiger
#36. When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
Matthieu Ricard
#37. My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking down, sideways, or looking up, I just wanted to tell him that I love him and thank him for opening doors for me. I just wanted to make it beautiful for him.
Meshell Ndegeocello
#38. Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.
Brian Tracy
#39. Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious ... and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney Company
#40. In every culture, [there are those] shamans or medicine men who endured incredible physical pain, because it's a door opening to the subconsciousness. And the way we can actually control the pain
it's how to control everything. This is the key.
Marina Abramovic
#41. I'm happy and I'm focused on my work ... it's incredible to be able to work with 20th Century Fox and to keep opening doors for Mexicans and Latins in the United States.
Eiza Gonzalez
#42. 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
#43. Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing.
Laozi
#45. I'm just opening the doors. And a lot of this is new to me - thinking about it, and letting go again and again and again, trusting that if I'm meant to continue working as a musician, it'll happen. If I'm not, then pull out the life support.
Jane Siberry
#46. Affirmative action has been generally cast in terms of race. I think women themselves are not as cognizant of the role affirmative action has played in opening the doors for women.
Faye Wattleton
#47. I live for opening doors for the young generation of creators. If we do nothing else with our success, let's open up some doors.
L.A. Reid
#48. I believe tnat life is very generous with us once we have shown the will to take a positive course. It is ery ready to keep on opening doors for us. It is just that sometimes we lose our willpower and courage adn prefer to stay on the familiar, safe side of each door.
Mary Balogh
#49. I'm still an athlete, I'm still a stockbroker, I'm still an actor. I think of it as more of an opening of new doors than an actual transition. I enjoy all of those things, which is why they remain a part of my life.
Brian J. White
#50. We cannot innovate without opening the door to havoc.
Tom Peters
#51. I wouldn't miss the opening of a door.
Nan Kempner
#52. It's doors I'm afraid of because I can't see through them, its the door opening by itself in the wind I'm afraid of.
Margaret Atwood
#53. I have a general sense of mission, and I intuitively know when something is influencing that mission. I think this is what I'm supposed to be doing. Doors keep opening. In the end, it's the best use of my skills. I've finally consented to the idea that I'm an artist.
Abigail Washburn
#54. High-quality education provided by MOOCs can be a significant factor in opening doors to opportunity - even among the college-educated.
Daphne Koller
#55. When I meet a person that tells me they stopped hooping for no reason, I thank them for opening my door and making it easier.
Behdad Sami
#56. Inertia is depression's best friend. There's always a hump to get over before you can actually change. So pushing yourself over the hump is like opening a door to a new brain pattern.
Deepak Chopra
#57. Don't worry if you miss your cue, because there's always doors opening. They keep opening.
Jim Carrey
#58. In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord.
Pope Francis
#59. I have spent too much of my life opening doors for cats - I once calculated that, since the dawn of civilization, nine hundred and seventy-eight man-centuries have been used up that way. I could show you figures.
Robert A. Heinlein
#60. Never for an instant does God cease to speak; but no one thinks of opening the doors. And yet, with a little watchfulness, it were not difficult to hear the word that God must speak concerning our every act.
Maurice Maeterlinck
#61. Sometimes you're pushing and what you want to do is not coming with ease; doors are not opening. A lot of times we're pushing against resistance. If one looks closely, there is often a message in that resistance: "Wait a minute, maybe it's not what you're supposed to be doing."
Farrah Gray
#62. Everything shifted for me after 'Rush.' It wasn't as financially successful as other things I'd done, but it gave me more movement, more options, more doors opening, more meetings. All of a sudden, it's, 'Oh, wow! You're an actor!'
Chris Hemsworth
#63. This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.
Charles Kennedy
#64. (Discouragement) Can be temporary-or it can destroy our life. The choice is ours. If we refuse to deal with discouragement head-on, we are opening the door for it to completely dominate our life.
Charles Stanley
#65. Duke to Michel: I'm fairly certain that even if
you'd struggle in a quiz against a pigeon, you are capable enough of opening doors.
Elias Zapple
#66. Once I finished, I got that procrastination monkey off my back! And I started seeing doors opening.
Eric Thomas
#67. Nudity is fun, especially out of doors, but it is far more erotic when the wrappings are only partly removed from the treasures they conceal. When you undress a woman you are opening the drapes in a darkened room to gaze upon a glimpse of paradise.
Chloe Thurlow
#68. Maximizing your favorable occasions is opening your favorable doors to growth and comfort.
Anyaele Sam Chiyson
#69. I have the greatest picture of Ted [Danson]. That was a big caper: There was one person [opening] the door with a butter knife and another person kicking the door in so I could get a photo. He's decapitated, but totally nude. And he's really well-endowed.
Bebe Neuwirth
#70. 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
#71. Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.
Billy Joel
#72. The opening of the doors to 29 million Romanians and Bulgarians is going to become a huge issue.
Nigel Farage
#73. I see things differently when I'm focused on opening doors for other people, and more often than not, my doors are opened as well.
Seth Godin
#74. God never shuts one door without opening a bigger better door. Hang in there. You are closer to success than you may think.
Zig Ziglar
#75. Contemporary politics is all about phony energy, about running around slamming doors for the sake of it-or, more to the point, opening them and tossing through a huge sack of taxpayer dollars.
Mark Steyn
#76. Knock on the doors with your head, Peregrin Took,' said Gandalf. 'But if that does not shatter them, and I am allowed a little peace from foolish questions, I will seek for the opening words.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#77. Maybe there is an invisible world working behind our own, maybe words in the silence, maybe movements in what looks completely still. When every door is closed, maybe doors are opening that can't be seen.
Lene Fogelberg
#78. I'm in an unusual stage right now, because I haven't dated in so long. The sense of isolation turns it all into a bigger deal. Just taking the risk of opening that door is really hard for me right now.
Andie MacDowell
#79. Outside, the detonation of loudly-slammed taxi doors, suggesting the opening of a cannonade, had died down.
Anthony Powell
#80. Alf's nails wander around his forehead like nails do when wandering among memories and opening doors that have long been closed.
Fredrik Backman
#81. 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
#82. I find British men very gentlemanly ... like opening doors. There is a certain chivalry about British men which I like, and I'm a sucker for an accent.
Rachel McAdams
#83. When seen with imagination, all things shift toward meaning, releasing energies that are hidden within appearances, releasing the inner wings of spirit, opening wide the doors to healing and wholeness.
Michael Meade
#84. 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
#85. There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world.
Hanoi Hannah
#86. I feel that I am merely an agent, giving you some keys that have been given to me to pass on to you. These keys are to unlock doors out of your present prison. Doors opening onto new vistas. Doors beyond where you are now.
John C. Lilly
#88. What she was finding also was how one book led to another, doors kept opening wherever she turned and the days weren't long enough for the reading she wanted to do.
Alan Bennett
#89. Our workforce and our entire economy are strongest when we embrace diversity to its fullest, and that means opening doors of opportunity to everyone and recognizing that the American Dream excludes no one.
Thomas Perez
#90. If you're interested in the door to the heavens opening, start with the door to your own secret self.
Elizabeth Lesser
#91. 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
#92. The fun is in always building something. After it's built, you play with it awhile and then you're through. You see, we never do the same thing twice around here. We're always opening up new doors.
Walt Disney
#93. Don't be afraid of opening the unknown new doors; if you see the Devil inside, just know how to reclose it tightly! We exist in life to discover; if there is no discovery, there is no life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#94. Around here ... we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things.
Walt Disney Company
#95. I wish in the city of your heart
you would let me be the street
where you walk when you are most
yourself. I imagine the houses:
It has been raining, but the rain
is done and the children kept home
have begun opening their doors.
Robley Wilson
#96. Gregor, open up, I'm pleading with you.' But Gregor had absolutely no intention of opening the door and complimented himself instead on the precaution he had adopted from his business trips of locking all the doors during the night even at home.
Franz Kafka
#97. 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
#98. I try to make things that are not elitist. There's enough places in the world where we're excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.
Amanda De Cadenet
#99. While I'm here, I'm gonna milk it for all I can, so when I'm no longer hot - and I know that day is coming - I will step over here and enjoy everything I've created up to this point. The music is just opening all these doors, so I can relax.
Akon
#100. Life has this beautiful way of opening doors when you least expect it. How thy open is sometimes never known. But does that not only further justify the magic and the possibility to the thought, that there is more to life than that which meets thee eye.
Tania Elizabeth
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