Top 30 Quotes About Locking Doors
#1. And yet - when one begins to search for the crucial, the definitive moment, the moment which changed all others, one finds one-self pressing, in great pain, through a maze of false signals and abruptly locking doors.
James Baldwin
#2. Look for the possibilities... rather than... locking doors too soon that might in time have opened.
Aleksandra Layland
#3. We were encouraged to propose safetyprevention suggestions, and write them all down - locking doors, walking or exercising with a friend, wearing shoes that don't hinder running. Erin's suggestion of "Avoid assholes" was popular.
Tammara Webber
#4. for the Christian, good acts are not the cover for improper motives but, instead, the fruit borne of a loving relationship with God.
Timothy Joseph Golden
#5. Most people just want to be part of the world, they want to live, love, and enjoy themselves - to take part in the world around them. Whereas artists are always retreating, locking the door, and inventing other worlds.
Paul Auster
#6. What the Gospels actually said was: don't kill anyone until you are absolutely sure they aren't well connected.
Kurt Vonnegut
#7. Ignisecond, n.: The overlapping moment of time when the hand is locking the car door even as the brain is saying, "my keys are in there!"
Rich Hall
#8. Most people have died before they expire; died to all earthly longings, so that the last breath is only, as it were, the locking of the door of the already deserted mansion.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#9. But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the dreams of later years.
Stephen King
#10. The shutter of the photographer's camera makes that repeated mechanical sound. That unlocking and locking of the doors of light to send momentary images of the present into the light trap of the past.
Simon Mawer
#11. 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
#12. When they pulled into the spot beside her car, Victoria got out as Shea hid the ring under his seat, before locking the doors.
Toni Aleo
#13. I don't know what popping-and-locking is but I know to lock my car door whenever people are doing it.
Daniel Tosh
#14. I got a job as a children's librarian at PS 175 in Harlem, and that changed everything. That was an epiphany. I didn't know Harlem existed. I didn't know there was such a place, because I grew up in white Queens, where five miles is 100 miles.
Lynne Stewart
#15. The world has been busy for some centuries in shutting and locking every door through which a woman could step into wealth, except the door of marriage.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
#16. Love and Death? What has great music or poetry ever been about, but those twin forces that undo a man?
Douglas Wynne
#17. Shoving feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken.
Brad Pitt
#18. It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.
H.G.Wells
#19. When I write, I'm writing as a fan, and trying to come up with songs that I would want to listen to.
Matt Smith
#20. The shudder of awe is humanity's highest faculty, even though this world is forever altering values.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#21. In Hollywood, a starlet is the name for any woman under thirty who is not actively employed in a brothel.
Ben Hecht
#23. Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
Charles De Lint
#24. To love means to open ourselves to suffering. Shall we shut our doors to love, then and 'be safe'?" That's the only alternative, really. But locking ourselves up and never facing another person won't fix what's really going on in our souls.
Elisabeth Elliot
#25. I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
Christopher Bollen
#26. Our ability to study the brain has been limited because of our tools and our tools have only allowed us to look at one neurotransmitter and we haven't looked so much into co-localization and co-release of transmitters. Our thinking is hampered by our tools.
Carl Hart
#27. I was always really inspired by watching the older girls competing, just seeing other Olympians do great things, and I just really wanted to be a part of that whole experience. And to be able to represent USA was always a goal of mine.
Aly Raisman
#28. I'll have wine or a piece of cake once in a while, but I don't look at it as sliding backwards, even if I go a whole week without working out. I don't dwell on it and beat myself up - I just try to have a healthier day tomorrow.
Alison Sweeney
#29. Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds from the protective cages inside me, locking the doors against their return.
Suzanne Collins
#30. What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.
Joanna Newsom
