Time To Close The Door Quotes

#1. Every time you close another door - be it the door of immediate satisfaction, the door of distracting entertainment, the door of busyness, the door of guilt and worry, or the door of self-rejection - you commit yourself to go deeper into your heart and thus deeper into the heart of God.

Henri J.M. Nouwen

#2. Every time I close the door on reality it comes in through the windows.

Jennifer Yane

#3. Sometimes I open or close the store. I have keys. I can go in any time I want. Some days, when it's my duty to open the store, I go in at eight o'clock, just to be alone and smell all those books around me. Each one is a door. Each one is a world.

Robert Goolrick

#4. You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the past. You don't try to forget the mistakes, but you don't dwell on it. You don't let it have any of your energy, or any of your time, or any of your space.

Johnny Cash

#5. I never want to fall in love again,
Loneliness is vastly under rated.
On and off causes so much pain,
Vanity is why I still waited.
Every time I try to get close,
You close yet another door.
Our story is a ridiculous prose,
Understand I won't take anymore.

Ritoban Chakrabarti

#6. Those who are good will qualify themselves.

Gavin De Becker

#7. But I couldn't think it more hateful of them to have taken my fur tippet. Burglars never seem to realize one might feel the cold. How would they like it if I took away their wife's shawl?

Nancy Mitford

#8. Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

Lev Grossman

#9. Though the little voices cautioned it was time to settle, settle in, settle for, settle down, I muzzled these mutterings. One more love affair before marriage. One more trip before stagnation. One more adventure before I turn in my car keys and close the front door.

Lili Wright

#10. Don't' pin this on me, Mr. Irresistible.

Lucian Bane

#11. The money I've earned has enabled me to keep my life in my own hands. I had a terrific body, and I got paid for using it.

Carmen Dell'Orefice

#12. Stress comes from fear of the unknown, so have faith and fear will disappear and stress will melt away.

Debasish Mridha

#13. I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself.

Tina Turner

#14. Let your true love be your lifetime treasure and beyond.

Angelica Hopes

#15. I have spent so long erecting partitions around the part of me that writes - learning how to close the door on it when ordinary lfe intervenes, how to close the door on ordinary life when it's time to start writing again - that I'm not sure I could fit the two parts of me back together now.

Anne Tyler

#16. Insomnia's different," I said. It was hard to explain this to people. "You know the light that comes on when you open the refrigerator door? Just imagine it stays on all the time, even after you close the door. That's what it's like in my head. The light stays on.

Barbara Kingsolver

#17. None of us can be in the present and the past at the same time. Not even when we
try to understand the things that happen to us. Close the door, change the record, clean the house. Stop being who you were, become who you are NOW.

Paulo Coelho

#18. deliberately look for God in the ordinary moments of everyday life.

John Ortberg

#19. I'm spending way too much time test running my Vine videos. I'll go into a room and close the door and be in there for an hour workshopping a Vine video that I never even post. So that's probably a huge time suck.

Gillian Jacobs

#20. I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that.

Glenn Close

#21. All that time I thought she was my future, I was wrong. She wasn't my future at all. She was the door to my future. But I'm through that door now, and ready to close it behind me.

Liz Kessler

#22. The bulk of the crowd looked like professors and their wives from Amherst. One of the problems, according to a bushy young radical-talking non-student from Boston, was that you had to pay a "registration fee" of two dollars before you got a vote.

Hunter S. Thompson

#23. Somebody will come on TV singing, and you're like, 'Oh my God! I mean, they suck! You know, who signed them?' Well, it's just because she's good lookin', or it's because he's takin' his shirt off and he's muscley or something, or else he wouldn't have gotten his chance.

Blake Shelton

#24. The right word at the right time will unlock the door to treasures - the wrong one will close it forever

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#25. I cannot be made into the commentator for the unspoken black masses.

Aaron McGruder