Front Doors Quotes - Page 5

• Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of what we'll feel some day on arriving at the place our Father has lovingly and personally prepared for us in heaven. We will finally - and permanently - be 'at home' in a way that defies description.

  Charles Stanley

  Father, Home, Thinking

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• Seventeen, eh!" said Hagrid as he accepted a bucket-sized glass of wine from Fred. "Six years to the day we met, Harry, d’yeh remember it?" "Vaguely," said Harry, grinning up at him. "Didn’t you smash down the front door, give Dudley a pig’s tail, and tell me I was a wizard?" "I forge’ the details," Hagrid chortled.

  J. K. Rowling

  Wine, Glasses, Pigs

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• They crashed the front door and grabbed at a woman, though she was not running, she was not trying to escape. She was only standing, weaving from side to side, her eyes fixed upon a nothingness in the wall as if they had struck her a terrible blow upon the head. Her tongue was moving in her mouth, and her eyes seemed to be trying to remember something, and then they remembered and her tongue moved again: "Play the man, Master Ridley; we shall this day light such a candle, by God's grace, in England, as I trust shall never be put out.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Ray Bradbury (2016). “Fahrenheit 451”, p.17, Hamilton Books

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• Michael!” Oliver’s voice came faint through the front door. “Something you should see, my boy! Look out your windows!” “Trap,” Shane said instantly, and reached out to grab Michael’s arm as he walked by. “Don’t, man.” “What’s he going to do? Make faces at me?

  Rachel Caine

  Boys, Men, Doors

  Rachel Caine (2010). “The Morganville Vampires:”, p.322, Penguin

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• Are you happy?" she [Clarisse] said. "Am I what?" he [Montag] cried. But she was gone- running in the moonlight. Her front door shut gently.

  Ray Bradbury

  Running, Doors, Gone

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• [On stereotyping:] It's the mind's way of processing a lot of information quickly. If we had to sort through every bit of data before making a decision, most folks would still be going out the front door when it was time to come home for the night.

  Fay Faron

  Home, Night, Doors

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• Death can sneak up on you like a silent kitten, surprising you with its touch and you have a right to act surprised. Other times death stomps in the front door, unwanted and unannounced, and makes its noisy way to your seat on the sofa.

  Hugh Elliot

  Death, Doors, Way

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• While your client is watching for you at the front door, slip out at the back.

  Horace

  Doors, Clients, Slips

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• Somebody once asked Niels Bohr why he had a horseshoe hanging above the front door of his house. Surely you, a world famous physicist, can't really believe that hanging a horseshoe above your door brings you luck? Of course not, Bohr replied, but I have been reliably informed that it will bring me luck whether I believe in it or not.

  Arthur Koestler

  Believe, Doors, House

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• Our goal is to give all Americans front-door access to the truth.

  Robert C. Maynard

  Doors, Giving, Goal

  Robert C. Maynard, Dori J. Maynard (1995). “Letters to my children”, Andrews McMeel Pub

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• You must maximize the probability that someone shows up at front door of your store or website and ends up with a solved problem.

  Drew Houston

  Doors, Problem, Ends

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• Mexico is the front door to South America - and the back door to the states.

  Tennessee Williams

  America, Doors, Mexico

  Tennessee Williams (2009). “The Night of the Iguana”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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• I don't have to pad my resume. Normal people are astounded by my resume, because normal people never let their dreams get beyond their front door, because they are scared of failure. I have never been scared of failure, and I have never failed.

  John Layfield

  Dream, Doors, People

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• There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.

  J. K. Rowling

  Reflection, Echoes, Doors

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows”, p.39, Pottermore

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• People can only function at their best if they know that what they do actually matters beyond the corporate front door.

  Mal Fletcher

  Doors, People, Matter

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• Now little kids come to my front door and give me cookies. You see that smile on their face, they're looking at me the same way I used to look at Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart, and that's pretty cool.

  Edge

  Kids, Doors, Giving

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• 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

  Thinking, Doors, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• But Tudor mansions on manicured grounds didn't look right with their grand front doors wide open to the night. It was like a debutante flashing her bra thanks to a wardrobe malfunction.

  J.R. Ward

  Night, Doors, Tudors

  J.R. Ward (2008). “Lover Enshrined: A Novel of The Black Dagger Brotherhood”, p.226, Penguin

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• I remember when my mother, Shyamala Harris, bought our first home. I was thirteen. She was so proud, and my sister and I were so excited. Millions of Americans know that feeling of walking through the front door of their own home for the first time - the feeling of reaching for opportunity and finding it.

  Kamala Harris

  Mother, Home, Opportunity

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• I can make going to the dry-cleaners last an entire day, and the dry cleaners might be 150 yards from my front door. You might find it hard to believe, but I am bone-idle lazy.

  Noel Gallagher

  Believe, Doors, Lazy

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• I can walk through the front door of any factory and out the back and tell you if it's making money or not. I can just tell by the way it's being run and by the spirit of the workers.

  Harvey S. Firestone

  Running, Doors, Way

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• I'm very lucky. I am one of those people who is able to go home, shut the front door and completely focus on the kids.

  Nick Clegg

  Kids, Home, Doors

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• one thing I don’t need is any more apologies i got sorry greetin me at my front door you can keep yrs i don’t know what to do wit em they don’t open doors or bring the sun back they don’t make me happy or get a mornin paper didn’t nobody stop usin my tears to wash cars cuz a sorry.

  Ntozake Shange

  Sympathy, Sorry, Apology

  Ntozake Shange, “'Sorry'”

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• The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door, the scream of fire engines, or the realization that today is the Monday which on Friday night was a comfortably long way off. A dog's wet nose is not strictly speaking the worst of the bunch, but it has it's own peculiar dreadfulness which connoisseurs of the ghastly and dog owners everywhere have come to know and dread. It's like having a small piece of defrosting liver pressed lovingly against you.

  Terry Pratchett

  Friday, Dog, Monday

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Moving Pictures: (Discworld Novel 10)”, p.231, Random House

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• I had a dream that I would be here this week, receiving something from the president, but I thought it would be the front door key.

  Bob Dole

  Dream, Keys, Doors

  "Clinton Honors Dole With Medal Of Freedom". www.cnn.com. January 17, 1997.

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