Back Doors Quotes - Page 3

• Fiction allows for moral questioning, but through the back door. Personally, I like books that make you think - books you're still wondering about three days after you finish them; books you hand to a friend and say "Read this, so we can talk about it."

  Jodi Picoult

  Book, Thinking, Doors

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• "Compromise" means giving up more than the other side is big enough to take; if and when they have the muscle, they'll be back for more, regardless of what has been given up in an attempt to appear reasonable. You can't make a cur dog stay away from your back door by throwing an occasional bone at him.

  Neal Knox

  Dog, Giving Up, Mean

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• You can't have a back door that's only for the good guys.

  Tim Cook

  Doors, Guy, Good Guy

  "Apple v the FBI - a plain English guide". www.bbc.com. 18 February 2016.

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• People abroad always tend to take what the best of what we have and come back through the back door always, say, and hit us with it. And then we wake up one day and say, I think I've heard that. Yeah, it was done by whoever, you know. So, ah, that's been one of our weaknesses we don't tend to hold on as they do there.

  Ben E. King

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• I prefer sneaking in the back door.

  Mark Gatiss

  Doors

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• The discontent with the existing order of things pervaded the atmosphere, wherever the conditions were favorable, long before Columbus, seeking the back door of Asia, found himself knocking at the front door of America.

  James Russell Lowell

  Doors, Order, America

  William Makepeace Thackeray, John Henry Newman, Matthew Arnold, John Ruskin, Walter Bagehot (1910). “Essays, English and American: With Introductions and Notes”

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• Mirthfulness is in the mind, and you cannot get it out. It is the blessed spirit that God has set in the mind to dust it, to enliven its dark places, and to drive asceticism, like a foul fiend, out at the back door. It is just as good, in its place, as conscience or veneration. Praying can no more be made a substitute for smiling than smiling can for praying.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Blessed, Dark, Doors

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.74

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• Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Country, Hair, Doors

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• The director of the FBI has been visiting Silicon Valley companies asking them to build back doors so that it can spy on what is being said online. The Department of Commerce is going after piracy. At home, the American government wants anything but Internet freedom.

  Evgeny Morozov

  Home, Government, Doors

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• I think it's very important to always make sure that you're talking to the entire coalition and to as many Americans as possible; not to go chasing after one little group or another. The Democrats would bring new groups into their party and not notice that larger groups are going out the back door.

  Grover Norquist

  Party, Thinking, Doors

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• Music has always been my back door to life. It is important for people to find something that excites them. I like the concept that if you do what excites you, you will be rewarded generously, whatever form reward takes, which is not necessarily money.

  Brandon Boyd

  Doors, People, Important

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• The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. .... There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment and a choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doors, Choices, Secret

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• It is a great feeling to know that from a window I can go to books to cans of beer to past loves. And from these gather enough dream to sneak out a back door.

  Gregory Corso

  Dream, Book, Beer

  Gregory Corso (1976). “Gasoline & Vestal Lady on Brattle: Pocket Poets Number 8”, p.105, City Lights Books

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• A uniform cordoned off the area with crime scene tape. The M.E. pulled in and parked. There were two EMT trucks idling at the edge of the lot. I’d stayed close to the back door, and one of the Rangeman guys had taken a position two feet from me, standing at parade rest. No doubt in my mind he’d take a bullet for me rather than face Ranger over a dead Stephanie.

  Janet Evanovich

  Taken, Doors, Two

  Janet Evanovich, Lee Goldberg (2016). “Janet Evanovich 3-Book Variety Summer Bundle: The Heist, Wicked Business, Smokin' Seventeen”, p.669, Bantam

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• Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Mother, Doors, Ems

  Lisa Kleypas (2011). “The Devil In Winter: Number 3 in series”, p.50, Hachette UK

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• This is the way the world ends; not with a bang or a whimper, but with zombies breaking down the back door.

  Amanda Hocking

  Doors, Zombie, Bangs

  Amanda Hocking (2010). “Hollowland”

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• In the history of the world there have been lots of onces and lots of times, and every time has had a once upon it. Most people will tell you that the once upon a time happened in a land far, far away, but it really depends on where you are. The once upon a time may have been just outside your back door. It may have been beneath your very feet. It might not have been in a land at all but deep in the sea's belly or bobbing around on its back.

  N.D. Wilson

  Sea, Land, Feet

  N. D. Wilson (2008). “Leepike Ridge”, p.1, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• ...she's leaving now. ... Janis attacks the back door of the school gym and finds herself in a heavy cloud of smoke. She realizes she's found the Goths' hangout. Who knew? "Oof," someone says. She keeps walking, muttering, "sorry" to whomever it was she hit with the flying door. *** Cabel: ... That was the Goth stage where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention the hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And, when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him.

  Lisa McMann

  Girl, Dream, Sorry

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• Truth can break the gates down, truth can howl in the street; unless truth is pleasing, personable and easy to like, she is condemned to stay whimpering at the back door.

  Hilary Mantel

  Doors, Truth Is, Easy

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• I like autumn. The drama of it; the golden lion roaring through the back door of the year, shaking its mane of leaves. A dangerous time; of violent rages and deceptive calm, of fireworks in the pockets and conkers in the fist.

  Joanne Harris

  Drama, Autumn, Doors

  Joanne Harris (2005). “Gentlemen and players”, Doubleday UK

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• A door jumps out from shadows, then jumps away. This is what I've come to find: the back door, unlatched. Tooled by insular wind, it slams and slams without meaning to and without meaning.

  Li-Young Lee

  Doors, Wind, Shadow

  Li-Young Lee (1990). “The City in which I Love You: Poems”, p.16, BOA Editions, Ltd.

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• The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Running, Divorce, Doors

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions. You do not have to tell him not to stand here or go yonder. He will find his 'proper place' and will stay in it. You do not need to send him to the back door. He will go without being told. In fact, if there is no back door, he will cut one for his special benefit. His education makes it necessary.

  Carter G. Woodson

  Cutting, Men, Thinking

  Carter G. Woodson (2006). “The Mis-Education of the Negro”, p.12, Book Tree

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• don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door.

  Tom Wolfe

  Doors, Emotion, Sometimes

  Tom Wolfe (2008). “The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test”, p.214, Macmillan

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• What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Doors, Years, Long

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