Top 100 Shut Doors Quotes
#1. You've tried to reform what will not learn. Shut doors on traits that you wish were dead; They will open a window and return.
Jean De La Fontaine
#2. Does it (killing people) get easier, Elliot thought ... or is it just that you shut doors in your own heart, and never open them again for fear of what is behind them?
Sarah Rees Brennan
#3. There is no such thing as shut doors, just ones that have yet to be opened!
Lauren Martin
#4. I get very cranky when interrupted. I snap at people, sigh dramatically and slam my door shut.
Margaret Maron
#5. Do not despair when your lifelong dream is crushed by the darkness of doors that bang shut on it. Face the future with hope that the intelligence that orders our lives will lead you on another path that will open to the daylight of success!
David Mezzapelle
#6. It flashed upon Miss Pross's mind that the doors were all standing open, and would suggest the flight. Her first act was to shut them. There were four in the room, and she shut them all. She then placed herself before the door of the chamber which Lucie had occupied.
Charles Dickens
#7. Babies change things, open doors you thought were shut, close others. Make you into something you never been.
Dorothy Allison
#8. Let the doors be shut upon him, that he may play the
fool no where but in's own house.
William Shakespeare
#9. Perhaps, after all, Susy reflected, it was the world she was meant for, since the other, the brief Paradise of her dreams, had already shut its golden doors upon her.
Edith Wharton
#10. I watch the springs, the summers, the autumns; And when comes the winter snow monotonous, I shut all the doors and shutters To build in the night my fairy palace.
Charles Baudelaire
#11. By the mercy of Allah Paradise has eight doors one of those is the door of repentance, child. All the others are sometimes open, sometimes shut, but the door of repentance is never closed. Come seize the opportunity: the door is open; carry your baggage there at once.
Rumi
#12. One expects decent people to stand up for the good of all. Decent people shut their doors and hide behind them as decent people do. Massacres could never happen if it weren't for decent people.
Jennifer Donnelly
#13. Who can know when his world is going to change? who can tell before it happens ... the doors that were slamming shut while others slid into the clear.Who can sense revelation in the wind? What happened was just this :I got hooked on the story.
William Goldman
#14. If our country has to reach its economic goals, it cannot happen with half its population shut behind doors.
Narendra Modi
#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. She had insisted on keeping the doors and windows shut, as if a sealed chamber could prevent death from entering, or life from leaving her.
Peter Cameron
#17. The thousands of possible lives that used to spread out in front of me have snapped shut into one, and all I get is what I've got. It's time to pass on the possibilities, all those deliciously half-open doors, to my children, and drive them to the airports, and wish them bon voyage.
Barbara Holland
#18. You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.
Tommy Lasorda
#19. If you think Thanksgiving has been fun, just wait until Christmas."...
The doors slammed shut with a muffled thud, and all he could think about was the revenge she could be planning. He'd never looked forward to anything more in his life. "Game on.
Sara Humphreys
#20. Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound union.
Laozi
#21. Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.
Oswald Chambers
#22. Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut.
Frank Lautenberg
#23. I am really bothered when I see my friends facing problems back in Iran, but I tell them that not all the doors are shut.
Bahman Ghobadi
#24. If a man keeps his trap shut, the world will beat a path to his door.
Franklin P. Adams
#25. Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman.
Saadi
#26. I'm not insensitive to the jobs. I'm desperately concerned about those jobs. But you don't fix them by pandering to people and telling them you're going to shut the door. You have to grow jobs.
John F. Kerry
#27. fresh air down inta the mine. When the doors throughout the mine are shut, the air be trapped an' forced inta the side chutes an' minin' chambers. That's why ya be called trappers. Yur job is ta open the doors when a coal car approaches, then shut 'em agin." "Oh." David knew
Gerald N. Lund
#28. Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.
Walt Whitman
#29. Even if I had not been waiting but had shut the doors against you, you should have remembered that no one can possibly shut the doors against love forever.
Oscar Wilde
#30. I am profoundly grateful to God that He did not grant me certain things for which I asked, and that He shut certain doors in my face.
D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones
#31. If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter." ...
Catherine Marshall
#33. 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
#34. The doorknobs open the doors. The windows are always either open or shut. We are always either upstairs or downstairs in this house. Everything is the same as it always was.
Carl Sandburg
#35. 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
#36. Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness
Andre Gide
#37. Keep your mouth shut, and close up the doors of sight and sound, and as long as you live you will have no vexation. But open your mouth, or become inquisitive, and you will be in trouble all your life long.
Laozi
#38. I am hindered of meeting God in my brother, because he has shut his own temple doors, and recites fables merely of his brother's, or his brother's brother's God.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#40. I offer you salvation this day; the door of mercy is not yet shut, there does yet remain a sacrifice for sin, for all that will accept of the Lord Jesus Christ. He will embrace you in the arms of His love.
George Whitefield
#41. I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.
William Cowper
#42. By seven o'clock even the long corridor was as dim as the alley outside. No one thought of shutting the windows - I doubt whether they will shut...and the fog rolled over the sill in banks and round the open glass doors, till even the white cap of a Sister could hardly be seen as she passed.
Enid Bagnold
#43. We were at the stage where in a very short period of time, one of the world's biggest banks would have to shut the door and switch off the electricity.
Alistair Darling
#44. Ten doors are opened if one door be shut: the finger is the interpreter of the dumb man's tongue.
Saib Tabrizi
#45. Just as our taste in lovers is far more revealing than our choice of friends, the object of an artist's obsession can open up doors to their soul that might otherwise remain shut tight.
Vince Aletti
#46. When all doors are shut and you have nowhere to go, that is when you go within. Every crisis is an opportunity and you are the beginning.
Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
#47. Come when you're called; And do as you're bid; Shut the door after you; And you'll never be chid.
Maria Edgeworth
#48. I compare human life to a large mansion of many apartments, two of which I can only describe, the doors of the rest being as yet shut upon me.
John Keats
#49. Oh my god will you shut the front door already!
Alex Riley
#50. Do something useful and you will have everything you want. Doors are shut for those who are dull and lazy; life is secure for those who obey the law of work.
Jose Marti
#51. I haven't shut any doors, and I'm really open to anything, so I think it's just about the material and what is going to get made.
Danielle Panabaker
#52. You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.
Maxwell Maltz
#53. Often God has to shut a door in our face, so that He can subsequently open the door through which He wants us to go.
Catherine Marshall
#54. Make the doors upon a woman's wit,
and it will out at the casement;
shut that, and 'twill out at the key-hole;
stop that, 'twill fly with the smoke out at the chimney.
William Shakespeare
#55. Within, walls continued upright, bricks met neatly, floors were firm, and doors were sensibly shut; silence lay steadily against the wood and stone of Hill House, and whatever walked there, walked alone.
Shirley Jackson
#56. The rest of the time Olivia was alone in her big house with all the doors and windows shut to keep out the heat and dust.
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
#57. He has told us to pray, 'Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). And if we have ever prayed that prayer and meant it-even once-we have ourselves shut the door on thousands of things for which we might foolishly ask.
Tom Wells
#58. It's easier to knock on a door that's not shut all the way.
Cynthia Lewis
#60. Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
Confucius
#61. Shut the door not that it lets in the cold but that it lets out the coziness.
Mark Twain
#62. They [Percy and Annabeth] held the Doors shut as the elevator shuddered and the music played, while somewhere below them, a Titan and a giant sacrificed their lives for their escape.
Rick Riordan
#63. Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.
Joel Osteen
#64. Solitude opens all closed doors, even those nailed shut.
Nancy Wood
#65. It is nothing won to admit men with an open door, and to receive them with a shut and reserved countenance.
Francis Bacon
#66. If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith,
DeVon Franklin
#67. When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!
Soren Kierkegaard
#68. The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
Marjorie Holmes
#69. The media called us ruthless terrorists. We're not. We're just fighting for what's right. Being born a nought shouldn't automatically slam shut myriad doors before you've even drawn your first breath.
Malorie Blackman
#70. I try, but they always see through me. The passages will never lead anywhere, the doors will always be shut.
Jean Rhys
#71. Happiness finds its way to those who have their doors open. Don't shut the door on its face and complain of never finding it.
Mansi Soni
#72. If you can't do, you had best shut up. He started to slam the door, thought better of it. If you can't do, you'd best not slam doors.
Esther Forbes
#73. The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of Absurdity, and when we have lightly stepped inside, slams it shut behind us.
Umberto Eco
#74. I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.
Patti Smith
#75. He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.
Lloyd Alexander
#76. After I went to bed I had a curious fancy as to dreams. In sleep the doors of the mind are shut, and thoughts come jumping in at the windows. They tumble headlong, and therefore are so disorderly and strange. Sometimes they are stout and light on their feet, and then they are rational dreams.
James Boswell
#77. Learn to keep the door shut, keep out of your mind and out of your world every element that seeks admittance with no definite helpful end in view.
George Matthew Adams
#78. Love does not come on schedule or on time. It comes unexpected, it comes unplanned. Do not shut your doors on love just because you've been hurt before. Let go of the need to be loved. Just be loving. Others will be able to see how loving and lovable you are when you express it
Rita Zahara
#79. My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut.
Max Irons
#80. You get older, and you make your choices, and one by one the doors shut.
Rebecca Podos
#81. Unfortunately, it is much easier to shut one's eyes to good than to evil. Pain and sorrow knock at our doors more loudly than pleasure and happiness; and the prints of their heavy footsteps are less easily effaced.
Thomas Huxley
#82. Those whose business it is to open doors, so often mistake and shut them!
George MacDonald
#83. Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot.
Alex Riley
#84. There is a hearty Puritanism in the view of human nature which pervades the instrument of 1787. It is the work of men who believed in original sin, and were resolved to leave open for transgressors no door which they could possibly shut.
James Bryce
#85. So I knocked on the door at this bed & Breakfast and a lady stuck her head out of the window and said: 'What do you want', I said, 'I want to stay here'. She said, 'Well stay there' and shut the window.
Tommy Cooper
#87. Having looked the past in the eye, having asked for forgiveness and having made amends, let us shut the door on the past - not in order to forget it but in order not to allow it to imprison us.
Desmond Tutu
#88. 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
#89. When the mischief is done the door is shut.
Juvenal
#90. Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.
Richard Gere
#91. Roy Blount's stuff makes me laugh so hard, sometimes I have to go sit in a room and shut the door
Garrison Keillor
#92. . Well, Teclan, wanna know something? Your government may have shut down my church. They may have closed the doors of our building and made us all go home. But no matter where true believers are, you can't shut down their soul.
Bernadette Allen
#93. Then the elves put thongs on him, and shut him in one of the inmost caves with strong wooden doors, and left him. They gave him food and drink, plenty of both, if not very fine; for Wood-elves were not goblins,
J.R.R. Tolkien
#94. I discover, too, that grief is different to different people. Comes in many guises. In shocked silences and closed doors around our village, as people try to shut it out. That a blank face or fleeting smile can hide the worst, most private kind of agony.
Debbie Howells
#95. I feel like I've been shut in a closet, and he's on the other side, and he doesn't have the key to unlock the door.
Lisa Kleypas
#96. And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.
Conor Oberst
#97. When universities are forced to recruit more and more from outwith Scotland just to balance the books, it is inevitable that doors are being slammed shut on some of our brightest talent.
Johann Lamont
#98. A friend who loved perfection would be the perfect friend, did not that love shut his door on me.
Logan Pearsall Smith
#99. There is no window to look outside.
There is no window to look within.
Open the doors.
Sanhita Baruah
#100. If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside.
Julius Nyerere
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