Top 83 Quotes About Locked Doors
#1. 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
#2. Doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted. In no place save from the windows in the castle walls is there an available exit. The castle is a veritable prison, and I am a prisoner!
Bram Stoker
#3. 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
#4. In office buildings and retail premises in which entry is through double doors and one of those doors is locked for no reason, the door must bear a large sign saying: This Door Is Locked for No Reason.
Bill Bryson
#5. If Grandma Goldman ever smiled, she must have done it in the bathroom with the door locked. She had been the undisputed head of her own family, ruling with an iron hand and a mouth full of rocks.
Edith Konecky
#6. Because forgiveness connects principles, it connects people. It is a key, it opens locked doors, it is the beginning of an honest path, and it is one of our best hopes for a happy family.
Dieter F. Uchtdorf
#7. Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.
Louis L'Amour
#8. Every woman is a hallway full of locked doors under different names: past, future, hopes, fears, lust, and love. Some men come with keys. Some men come with lick picks. Byron St. James comes with a chainsaw.
Jessica Gadziala
#9. Maybe if we'd had more information...It wouldn't have made a difference at all. Those doors were already locked. What was going to happen was already a foregone conclusion. All that could have changed is the details.
Sometimes, it's the details that matter the most of all.
Mira Grant
#10. He had built his own future brick by brick around himself but there were no doors or windows, at least that was the way it seemed at the time he had thought to himself, I am locked in, it was like one of those ghost stories where you wake up and you are sealed in a coffin.
Dan Chaon
#11. Some folks locked the doors of their hearts when they lost someone. Others kept the doors and the windows open, letting memory and love pass through freely. And maybe that was the way it was supposed to be, Harold thought.
Jason Mott
#12. 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
#13. This vacation tip: If you see a gas station with a sign that says Clean Rest Rooms, it means one thing
the door is locked and no one can find the key.
Pat Williams
#14. I've won his heart, but it's like owning a house in which most of the doors are permanently locked. He wants to shield me from all unpleasantness. And it's not really marriage - not like the marriage you have with Cam - until he's willing to share the worst of himself as well as the best of himself.
Lisa Kleypas
#15. The civilized want people to make their living individually, and they want them to live separately, behind locked doors - one family to a house, each house fully stocked with refrigerators, television sets, washing machines, and so on.
Daniel Quinn
#16. Kaylee do you know why you are here?" "Yeah. Because the doors are locked.
Rachel Vincent
#17. A man who will not leave his room because he does not know how, or is afraid to open the door, is trapped just the same whether or not the door is locked.
Thomas Campbell
#18. One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.
Suzan-Lori Parks
#19. We moved around a bit when I was younger, but I grew up primarily in Rhode Island, in a beautiful seaside community called East Greenwich. It was a small town, and so safe that we rarely locked our doors at night.
Michelle Gagnon
#20. I'd felt lost for a long time after he left. It had taken a while to find my strength and independence again. It had meant hardening my heart and creating little locked doors in my soul so that only the people I trusted implicitly could ever make it inside to touch it.
Samantha Young
#21. The secrets of survivors are not easily surrendered. They are locked away behind barricaded doors and accessed at great risk to those who possess them.
Daniel Silva
#22. I like the desert for short periods of time, from inside a car, with the windows rolled up, and the doors locked. I prefer beach resorts with room service.
Anne Lamott
#24. It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.
Jimmy Carter
#25. He's the Wizard because he's magic. He mysteriously passes through locked doors. He seems to read minds. He's able to refuse dessert. And he can give me a hot flash with the touch of a fingertip.
Janet Evanovich
#26. Happy endings are best achieved by keeping the right doors locked
Margaret Atwood
#27. The doors of hell are locked from the inside!
C.S. Lewis
#28. The grand deterrent to the seductive pleas was Joseph's awareness that God is present and sees all, and that a sin that no one else knows about, committed behind locked doors in a dark room, is actually committed in the presence of a holy God.
Anonymous
#29. The old horse is coming back in a high lope. Thousands of people are riding a horse today that five years ago couldn't sit in a Ford with all the doors locked.
Will Rogers
#30. Why do some memories bleed out of nowhere and others stay locked behind doors?
Jodi Picoult
#31. The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.
Mignon McLaughlin
#33. What the hell's wrong with this house?" I asked it. "Locked rooms, and now rooms without doors at all?" I made to turn
Darcy Coates
#34. Most animal species stuck together in packs or schools, flocks or herds. But human beings separated themselves and sat behind locked doors.
Mia Zabrisky
#35. We kept a jarful of keys
on a forgotten shelf
in the house.
What doors they opened,
or what they kept forever locked,
before they came by accident
or chance into our little jar,
we never learned.
Merlie M. Alunan
#36. How about a midnight swim?"
"Swim?" On a sigh,Shelby closed her eyes and let the sensations take her. "I didn't bring a suit."
"Good." Alan led her down the hall to two large double doors. After pulling them open, he nudged Shelby inside, then closed and locked the doors behind them.
Nora Roberts
#37. Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#38. Now, quite apart from the fact that the doors were locked, should he really call out for help? In spite of all his distress, he was unable to suppress a smile at this idea.
Franz Kafka
#39. They didn't tell me I was going into space until after they locked the shuttle doors and started counting down.
Buzz Aldrin
#40. The world was full of locked doors, and he had to get his hand on every key.
Orson Scott Card
#41. We put ourselves there. The door to hell is locked from the inside.
James Pike
#42. People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked.
Paul Newman
#43. Our Heavenly bodies will be able to dematerialise, pass from dimension to dimension, walk right through walls and locked doors as Jesus did, appear and disappear at will and travel with the speed of thought!
David Berg
#44. I know what the fear is.
The fear is not for what is lost.
What is lost is already in the wall.
What is lost is already behind the locked doors.
The fear is for what is still to be lost.
Joan Didion
#45. -The provisions you need to fulfill you ministry or mission is locked up in the open doors of utterance, faith and call
-During your waiting time look inward to yourself, upward to God, then outward to ur environ
Ikechukwu Joseph
#46. You cannot!' Tatiana said sharply. 'If you order a gun there is only a single shot, and once delivered the doors are locked and will not open until it has been fired.
R.D. Ronald
#47. 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
#48. When she was a child, the witch locked her away in a tower that had neither doors nor stairs.
Marissa Meyer
#49. My only complaint with 'Dickie' Bird is that he requires a degree of certainty that is almost neurotic; like the man who has to keep going to the front door to make certain that he's locked it.
Mike Brearley
#50. For the cowards, all doors are locked; for the daring, all doors are open!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#51. If the door is locked, try the window.
Lynn Caine
#52. If Luke and John were simply constructing narratives to combat Doceticism, they surely shot themselves in the foot with both barrels when they spoke of Jesus appearing through locked doors, disappearing again, sometimes being recognized, sometimes not, and finally ascending into heaven
N. T. Wright
#53. Prohibition is a hard sounding word, worthless as a rallying cry, hard as a locked door or going to bed without your supper.
Nellie L. McClung
#54. Those were comfortable, carefree years. The word I'd use now is idyllic. On Friday nights, we cheered on the Bulldogs of Midland High. On Sunday mornings, we went to church. Nobody locked their doors. Years later, when I would speak about the American Dream, it was Midland I had in mind.
George W. Bush
#55. I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.
Mihail Sebastian
#56. Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.
Israelmore Ayivor
#57. I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?
Richard Russo
#58. Now I'm in a rougher neighborhood. The kind of neighborhood where you keep your rover doors locked and never come to a complete stop at intersections.
Andy Weir
#59. If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.
Martin Zwilling
#60. People who believe in ghosts think that dead people can walk through locked doors. Nonsense - they have to use a key like the rest of us.
John Avery
#61. God will close a door, in order to protect you from someone that is not capable of helping you fulfill your life mission. Overtime these become the doors you are grateful to have locked.
Shannon L. Alder
#62. The last place I want to be is the hospital, but I'm not stupid. I know when it's time to go in. I am so terrified of myself and of the vast, frightening world, that the psych ward, with its safe locked doors, sounds like a relief.
Marya Hornbacher
#63. Come to him. He turns no penitent one away. Would you, if you had paid so much in suffering? Would you ever give up? All the doors that are locked against the Lord are locked by us.
Truman G. Madsen
#64. Remember the story of the Spanish prisoner. For many years he was confined in a dungeon ... One day it occurred to him to push the door of his cell. It was open; and it had never been locked.
Winston Churchill
#65. There's a lot of conflict and darkness inside everybody's family. We all pretend to outsiders that it's not so, but behind locked doors, there are usually high emotions running.
Salman Rushdie
#66. If I don't have to act, I'd rather not. I'd rather not act cold. I'd rather actually be cold. That's my weird way of acting. If the door is supposed to be locked, I'd rather have it locked. But of course, most of the time, we have to act, and that's okay, too.
Lea Thompson
#67. My doors enter from the sidestreet,
my windows painted basement black,
my mouth kisses the blues harp,
my heart hides like notes
locked in a cedar chest.
Yusef Komunyakaa
#68. People will never know how hard it is to get information, especially if it's locked up behind official doors where, if politicians had their way, they'd stamp 'top secret' on the color of the walls.
Helen Thomas
#69. When the locked door opens, and there comes in a young woman, deadly pale, and with long fair hair, who glides to the fire, and sits down in the chair we have left there, wringing her hands.
Charles Dickens
#70. Ask yourselves this question: How often is Jesus inside and knocking at the door to be let out, to come out? And we do not let him out because of our own need for security, because so often we are locked into ephemeral structures that serve solely to make us slaves and not free children of God.
Pope Francis
#71. She kept her doors and windows locked, unless she was using them.
Arundhati Roy
#72. She had been desperate to feel something, anything. She needed a window, because she had broken her heart throwing it at locked doors.
Amy Zhang
#73. Life is beating against the school windows. You must quickly open the doors and go out to learn that no door must be locked against you.
Margaret Bourke-White
#74. Aren't hidden doors the most alluring? The old stories point that out surely. Even the greatest heroes and heroines fall under the spell of a locked door.
Jane Yolen
#75. Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.
Gloria Steinem
#76. You may go anywhere you wish in the castle, except where the doors are locked,
Bram Stoker
#77. What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!
Frankie Boyle
#78. I willingly believe that the damned are, in one sense, successful, rebels to the end; that the doors of hell are locked on the inside.
C.S. Lewis
#79. Because to hackers, passwords were even more odious than locked doors.
Steven Levy
#80. Many a cat can only be lured in by switching off all the lights and keeping very still. Until the indignant cry of a cat-locked-out comes at the door.
Pam Brown
#81. And she said the most powerful and dangerous things were locked up behind doors of death with keys of pain in the hopes that people would realize life was far too precious and the power was not worth the price.
Megan Derr
#82. I'd always felt safe behind locked doors, but locks, I discovered, only locked you in. I
Adam Johnson
#83. If getting is the key to your happiness your key will open few doors. If giving is the key to your happiness you will find few doors locked.
James Howe
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