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Quotes About Doors

Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
~ Gary Locke
Once again the fate of reckless youth was being decided by old men behind closed doors.
~ Louise Penny
Anyone can stop a man's life, but no one his death a thousand doors open on to it.
~ Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Friendship opens many doors, each with a different view, but none could be more welcome than the door that leads to you
~ Unknown
Your kindness cannot be said. You open doors in the sky. You ease the heart and make God's qualities visible.
~ Unknown
A couple of minutes later, the turbolift doors hissed open. Spock was standing in the turbolift. He had the air of a man who had been in an extreme hurry, but who had been stopped in midrush and given something he didn't understand. He was holding a small flat cushion.
~ Diane Duane
The Victorians who had built the place had not intended importunate men friends to batter down the girls' doors. They were a solid job. But in the view of the thin woman's calm assumption that breaking in was within my powers, I didn't care to fail. I broke the lock with my heel, in the end. The wood gave way on the jamb inside the room, and the door opened with a crash.
~ Dick Francis
I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors.
~ Don DeLillo
Thousands of companies shut their doors every year, not because they don't have a great product, but because potential customers can't figure out how that product will make their lives better.
~ Donald Miller
And who knows-but maybe that's what's waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through the doors of it, what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes His hands off our eyes and says: Look!
~ Donna Tartt
maybe that's what's waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through the doors of it, what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes His hands off our eyes and says: Look!
~ Donna Tartt
Peony, Wisteria, Rose, Passion Flower. And who knows- but maybe that's what's waiting for us at the end of the journey, a majesty unimaginable until the very moment we find ourselves walking through the doors of it, what we find ourselves gazing at in astonishment when God finally takes his hands off our eyes and says: Look!
~ Donna Tartt
Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.
~ Lynn Viehl
Try closing your doors to worldliness and you will see a thousand others opened by God Almighty, the Opener of Doors. That is, He is the only one who opens doors. thus, if you wish His door of providence, good pleasure, and appreciation to open to you, then you must keep your doors closed to all worldly expectations for a lifetime.
~ Unknown
Time is the random wind that blows down the long corridor, slamming all the doors.
~ John D. MacDonald
We interpret Jesus through our brokenness. A painful truth, but also a hopeful truth. Maybe we can open up the doors and windows we didn't know we closed.
~ John Eldredge
Only then were the doors of the basilica opened, and the assembled company proceeded in state for prayers at the high altar before going on to Mass in the Sistine Chapel—all except the pope, who, as one of the Venetians explained in his report, "never attended these long services.
~ John Julius Norwich
Upper education used to open doors. Not so true anymore. The degree used to be a screening tool, but that is falling by the wayside as there are a glut of college grads on the market.
~ Dale Archer
Like a small coffeehouse on the street of exiles That is love, it opens its doors to all.
~ Mahmoud Darwish
But sometimes illumination comes to our rescue at the very moment when all seems lost; we have knocked at every door and they open on nothing until, at last, we stumble unconsciously against the only one through which we can enter the kingdom we have sought in vain a hundred years - and it opens.
~ Marcel Proust
The doors opened. We shuffled out, stepped through the doorway onto the gangplank, and were immediately swarmed by apparently all the small flying insects that ever existed in the history of the universe.
~ John Scalzi
There's not a lot of towns that I can go to and take family - too many incongruous knocks on doors - "Hello, honey. Have you missed me?"
~ Robert Plant
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
Many pass through the doors of education. You have gained a knowledge and foundation to pursue a dream of worldly success, but remember life is not just in what you know, but in the truth you know and walk in
~ Ritu Ghatourey