When You Open The Door Quotes

#1. 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

#2. I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through.

Kirsten Gillibrand

#3. Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#4. When you open the door to hate, you will find/ it swallows you whole/ and there is no/ life left inside.

Skila Brown

#5. For me, it's nice to have a character who can never find love and have that be the running theme, but I think when you open the door to a story line about relationships, you open the door to another realm of comedy.

Jordana Spiro

#6. That's the way it is with dreams. They scratch at your door. You see them through the peep hole: a stray dream looking for a home. You think it might go away if you ignore it. Wrong. It's still there when you open the door, smiling. Wagging its tail.

Monique Duval

#7. I stare into the fridge. Like a mirrored image of myself. Cold and empty, and the lights come on only when you open the door. Otherwise ice-cold purring darkness.

Hallgrimur Helgason

#8. When you open the door and invite in all sentient beings as your guests, you have to drop your agenda.

Pema Chodron

#9. Sometimes when you open the door to the past, what you confront is your destiny.

Diane Setterfield

#10. To truly prepare for the unexpected, you've got to position yourself to keep a couple of options open so when the door of opportunity opens, you're close enough to squeeze through.

Pierre Omidyar

#11. The reality is when you open a door, there is no sense in closing it - so I would never say, 'I'll never act again.' But it's definitely not my priority.

Evangeline Lilly

#12. Don't open the box until I arrive. Wear something unbearably sexy that you think will drive me crazy. Because it will. And have a drink ready for me when I walk in the door. Whiskey will do.

Lauren Blakely

#13. I'm going to break into your room when you're sleeping at night and take a shit on your face if you ever forget to hold the door open for another person again.

Mariana Zapata

#14. We had firsthand witnessed the ethereal evil of crushing hope just when it had peaked - like an open door, visible to you as you approach it from miles away, just closing on you when you have only two more yards to go.

Pawan Mishra

#15. When you're going out of your mind always leave the door open!

Benny Bellamacina

#16. How many times ... have you encountered the saying, 'When the student is ready, the Master speaks?' Do you know why that is true? The door opens inward. The Master is everywhere, but the student has to open his mind to hear the Masters Voice.

Robert Anton Wilson

#17. You little know what you have done, when you have first broke the bounds of modesty; you have set open the door of your fancy to the devil, so that he can, almost at his pleasure ever after, represent the same sinful pleasure to you anew.

Richard Baxter

#18. That is what happens when the heart door opens- you become less yourself than part of everything.' Many are the sentinels who guard that door: our fears, our self-importance, our meanness, our greed, our bitterness, and others.

Roger Housden

#19. Perfectionism is simply putting a limit on your future. When you have an idea of perfect in your mind, you open the door to constantly comparing what you have now with what you want. That type of self criticism is significantly deterring.

John Eliot

#20. When opportunity knocks, you have to open the door, with or without your confidence.

Richard Dashut

#21. The devils enter uninvited when the house stands empty. For other kinds of guests, you have to first open the door.

Dag Hammarskjold

#22. Don't open that door," she said. "The hallway is full of difficult dreams." And I asked her: "How do you know?" And she told me: "Because I was there a moment ago and I had to come back when I discovered I was sleeping on my heart.

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

#23. You feel that a door will open and you will be summoned, and horrid things will happen to you before they let you go. You can not mark these houses with any homely flavor of living. When they are emptied after occupancy, they have the look of places where the blood has recently been washed away.

John D. MacDonald

#24. Dedicating time when I really can't afford to be
I'll provide protection if you open up the door for me

Drake

#25. When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There's a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.

Yasmin Mogahed

#26. I went down to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours. He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.

Steven Wright

#27. It's important to air your concerns and fears with someone you trust. When you're honest about how you can change and grow, and where your weaknesses are, then you open the door for improvement and change.

Matt Dillon

#28. Opportunity will not only knock on the door when you are ready, it will stand just next to the door to open it.

Debasish Mridha

#29. You showed mercy, Kaz. You were the better man."
There she went again, seeking decency when there was none to be had. "Inej, I could only kill Pekka's son once." He pushed the door open with his cane. "He can imagine his death a thousand times.

Leigh Bardugo

#30. You are not my sunshine. Sorry. You're more like a gust of arctic wind that bursts in and blows out all the candles when the door cracks open.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#31. She had the look in her eye when you kick and kick at the door and it doesn't open, when you write a boy letters and letters and he never loves you, not 'til the day he dies. Not even then.

Daniel Handler

#32. I'm absolutely terrified that people can get into cars. It's like the car is a face, and the headlight is eyes, and when you open the car door it's like you're climbing into the ears. (I cannot) be inside a giant rolling robot head.

Thom Yorke

#33. When you forget yesterday and embrace the new vision of what you are to become through the eyes of your best friend, you have found a new sister standing by the open door that was once closed in your heart.

Shannon L. Alder

#34. Every talent you have is not wasted. It is there because of a reason and God will open that door when the right time comes along to use it.

Shannon L. Alder

#35. You understood that proof of your friendship lay in keeping your distance, in accepting what was told you, in turning and walking away when the door was shut in your face instead of trying to force it open again.

Hanya Yanagihara

#36. When one door closes another one opens but if you keep looking back at the closed one you'll never see the one that's open ahead of you.

Christopher Sharp

#37. But then life is never neat, it is made up of doors and trapdoors. You move down baroque corridors, and even when you think you know which door to open, you still need to have the courage to choose.

J.M. Ledgard

#38. You're going to go after that dream for both of us. And then, one day when it all comes true, I want you to look back and remember me as the open door--not the cage.

Mercy Brown

#39. When you knock on the door and the selectors do not open it, then knock harder,' has been his idol Sunil Gavaskar's recurring advice to all youngsters, and Rahul set out to do just that.

Devendra Prabhudesai

#40. Sometime, somewhere you take something to be the truth. But if you cling to it too strongly, then even when the truth comes in person and knocks on your door, you will not open it.

Gautama Buddha

#41. Finally, when happiness came knocking on my door, I'd be waiting. I'd open the door and say: "Where have you been? What took you so long? And if you just give me a moment I'll pack and go with you."

Constance Briscoe

#42. The door slammed open. Vivenna jumped, putting a hand to her chest.
Vasher walked in. 'Start reaching for that sword when you're startled,' he said. 'There's little reason to grab your shirt, unless you're planning to rip it off.

Brandon Sanderson

#43. When someone you love says goodbye you can stare long and hard at the door they closed and forget to see all the doors God has open in front of you.

Shannon L. Alder

#44. Immy knocked on his open door. "Mr. Mallett?"
The look on his narrow face was pained. "What's with the Mr. Mallett? When you don't call me Mike, it's usually trouble.

Kaye George

#45. You know, you think about who you might meet and when they might come. You always know that someday a door will open and in will come the one you've waited for. And then the waiting is done. And the rest of your life can begin. And the minute I looked up and saw you there, I thought, There he is.

Catherine Ryan Hyde

#46. When you're a housekeeper's daughter, you see the world through a half-open door.

Laraine Day

#47. There are people who believe once somebody gets you a job in show business you are set and the truth is you have to fight for every job. People opened the doors for me for sure and hopefully I've helped open the door for some people but when you're there it's on you and you better be ready for it.

Tom Arnold

#48. When someone sends you an email, they are knocking on your door. And when you open the attachment, without looking through the peephole to see who it is, you just opened the door and let a stranger into your life, where everything you care about is.

James Comey

#49. The truth, it seems, is not just what you find when you open a door: it is itself a door, which the poet is always on the verge of going through.

Margaret Atwood

#50. You just have to believe in yourself when you've got something, and just keep pounding on the door, because if you pound long enough, somebody is going to open it.

Cynthia Weil

#51. In the name of friendship you should make sure your door is always open to listen. Don't feel you need to provide unsolicited possible solutions, answers or even ideas. Listening without judgment and offering assistance when asked should be enough. That's friendship's high calling.

Amy Dickinson

#52. Maggie scoffed. "Denial will not save you when Cupid's arrow find its mark."
"If i see Cupid anywhere in the vicinity, I'm ripping his chubby little arms off." Vanda yanked the door open to Romatech.

Kerrelyn Sparks

#53. It makes me so happy. To be at the beginning again, knowing almost nothing ... A door like this has cracked open five or six times since we got up on our hind legs. It's the best possible time of being alive, when almost everything you thought you knew is wrong.

Tom Stoppard

#54. When God closes a door He does not always open a window. Sometimes He wants you to sit in the quiet darkness while He transforms your fear into trust. How long that takes, is often up to you!

William Branks

#55. This feeling is not unlike the sinking in one's stomach when one is in an elevator that suddenly goes down, or when you are snug in your bed and your closet door suddenly creaks open to reveal the person who has been hiding there.

Lemony Snicket

#56. When you are searching for love, love is standing just outside the door. Just open the door and welcome the love.

Debasish Mridha

#57. Be empty of worrying.
Think of who created thought!
Why do you stay in prison
When the door is so wide open?

Rumi

#58. Leviathan laughs at the javelin, but he trembles at prayer. Sword and spear need furbishing, but prayer never rusts, and when we think it most blunt it cuts the best. Prayer is an open door which none can shut. Devils may surround you on all sides, but the way upward is always open.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#59. A true friend let's you know that the door is always open, even when it's closed.

Charles F. Glassman

#60. Politics, life, and business are not spectator sports. You have to get involved to get ahead. Most importantly, when you reach that level of success, keep the door open and the ladder down for others to follow.

Ron Brown

#61. Rejection Is God's Protection
When someone rejects or breaks up with you, it may be a blessing in disguise. The person was not right for you. Or maybe you would have eventually been miserable with them. Now the door is open for someone else much better to come into your life.

Pamela Cummins

#62. When one door closes another one is supposed to open but, if it doesn't you can always climb out the window

Umknown

#63. When the time comes, don't be afraid to open the door, just make sure you choose the right one.

Alex E. Carey

#64. Once when I asked you if you still loved your wife, you said, Love leaves the back door open. Later, you said, Love like a hospital gown opens at the back. And you slipped out.

Joan Connor

#65. When a man wants you to see his house of pain, he'll open the door and invite you in.

Dannika Dark

#66. Why do you want to open the outside door when there is an inside door?

Yogaswami

#67. When people keep repeating
That you'll never fall in love
When everybody keeps retreating
But you can't seem to get enough
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
Let my love open the door
To your heart.

Pete Townshend

#68. When my first husband died, what I tried to do is to sort of, you know, try to bring some rationale to the circumstance and think about worse circumstances, and also open the door to what other women experienced when all of a sudden they were left alone. And particularly if they had children.

Olympia Snowe

#69. 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

#70. Do not give up when touching the Door of Awareness, you meet its Mindfulness Magic, but let it open wide giving your family a possibility to Create Reality of Your Dreams.

Natasa Nuit Pantovic

#71. The best way to choose the wrong door, or never even open the door, is to let fear run the show. When you reflect on any big-ticket decision you have made on the basis of fear and anxiety, you can almost guarantee you made the wrong decision.

Ramani Durvasula

#72. So when the world knocks at your front door,
clutch the knob and open on up,
running forward into its widespread greeting arms
with your hands before you,
fingertips trembling though they may be.

Anis Mojgani

#73. Action is the difference-make r. Remember that. If you're ready to take a big step forward, seek an open door as if your life depended on it. When you find it, go in bold and make it count.

Simon Black

#74. When you first get married, they open the car door for you. Eighteen years now ... once he opened the car door for me in the last four years - we were on the freeway at the time.

Joan Rivers

#75. When the cardinal came to a closed door he would flatter it
oh beautiful yielding door! Then he would try tricking it open. And you are just the same, just the same." He pours himself some of the duke's present. "But in the last resort, you just kick it in.

Hilary Mantel

#76. When the cow jerks away, it'll yank the door open."
"But what's going to make the cow jerk away?" asked Little Richard.
"You're going to milk it," said Slank.
"But I don't know how to milk a cow!" said Little Richard.
"Exactly.

Dave Barry

#77. Like when the counselor delved into your habits of using a public toilet, such as do you flush with your foot and use your elbow to open the door? If yes, woe unto you. You're crazy.

Charles Frazier

#78. The bathroom. An ingenious idea.
When we reached it, I turned to Noah.
"I'm going to be in here for a while. You probably don't want to wait."
I only briefly caught the horrified expression on his face before I pushed open the door with overwhelming force. Win.

Michelle Hodkin

#79. But it isn't about perfection, and it isn't about performance. You'll miss the richest moments in life - the sacred moments when we feel God's grace and presence through the actual faces and hands of the people we love - if you're too scared or too ashamed to open the door.

Shauna Niequist

#80. I think if you do a lot of interviews, you're laying yourself open. If you put yourself out, accept every invitation to every premiere, then you can't really complain when people knock on your front door and photograph you in the street.

Keeley Hawes