Doors Quotes - Page 7

• Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

  Pauline Kael

  Feet, Needs, Want

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• It is something that is just there, and it is huge, and everything has been built around it, and wherever one happens to be going to the fridge, to bed, to the bathroom, or out the front door - the tree has to be taken into account. It cannot be gone through; it must respectfully be gone around... it is beautiful, unique, exotic: but also. Let's face it, it is at times an enormous inconvenience.

  Mike Mason

  Marriage, Beautiful, Taken

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• There was a proposal in California that would keep out Wal-Mart but allow Costco. You opposed it. Are you nuts? That's true: I always oppose these kinds of things. Competition makes us better. Some of our best stores have a Sam's Club next door.

  James Sinegal

  Business, Nuts, California

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• A life of love is one of continual growth, where the doors and windows of experience are always open to the wonder and magic that life offers. To love is to risk living fully.

  Leo Buscaglia

  Love, Life, Risk

  "Leo Buscaglia - An Exclusive Interview". Interview with Veronica M. Hay, www.peopleandpossibilities.com. 1998.

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• Love opens the doors into everything, as far as I can see, including and perhaps most of all, the door into one's own secret, and often terrible and frightening, real self.

  May Sarton

  Real, Believe, Struggle

  May Sarton (2015). “May Sarton: A Self-Portrait”, p.11, Open Road Media

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• When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

  Charles L. Allen

  Hope, Faces, Situation

  Charles L. Allen (2003). “All Things Are Possible Through Prayer: The Faith-Filled Guidebook That Can Change Your Life”, p.51, Revell

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• Death hath a thousand doors to let out life. I shall find one.

  Thomas Browne

  Suicidal, Thousand

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• The really explicit phrase is doors of perception.

  Marianne Faithfull

  Perception, Phrases, Explicit

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• The Doors embodied—incarnated—a major upheaval in popular culture. Their music was of the times and it shaped the times.

  Jac Holzman

  Culture, Upheaval, Majors

  Jac Holzman, Gavan Daws (1998). “Follow the Music: The Life and High Times of Elektra Records in the Great Years of American Pop Culture”, First Media Books

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• Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

  Mae West

  Sarcastic, Witty, Humorous

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

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• It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door.

  Plato

  Men, Poetry, Sober

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• I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say it is a step we must all take, but that it is a horrible and dirty adventure.

  Albert Camus

  Life, Death, Believe

  Albert Camus (2012). “Lyrical and Critical Essays”, p.76, Vintage

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• When you follow your bliss...doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors, and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.

  Joseph Campbell

  Inspiring, Success, Hero

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• My sisters and mom raised me to respect women and open doors for them.

  Milo Ventimiglia

  Mom, Mother, Sisterhood

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• I couldn't have found a better man than Brad. He still opens doors for me and brings me flowers. He's the sweetest goofball on the planet.

  Jennifer Aniston

  Flower, Men, Found

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• Everybody needs his memories. They keep the wolf of insignificance from the door.

  Saul Bellow

  Memories, Needs, Moments

  SAUL BELLOW (1971). “MR. SAMMLER'S PLANET”

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• It is difficult for the common good to prevail against the intense concentration of those who have a special interest, especially if the decisions are made behind locked doors.

  Jimmy Carter

  Decision, Political, Special

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• We make our friends; we make our enemies; but God makes our next door neighbour.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Funny, Friendship, God

  Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.196, Simon and Schuster

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• By and large the United States has been able to resist the temptation to close its doors to the world.

  Roger Mahony

  Temptation, United States, World

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• Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?

  Charles de Lint

  Real, Dark, Men

  "The Little Country". Book by Charles de Lint, Part Two: The Lost Music, "The Touchstone", 1991.

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• You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

  Maxwell Maltz

  Adversity, Imperfect World, May

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• This is the strangest life I've ever known.

  Jim Morrison

  Known

  "Song: 'Waiting for the Sun'". 1970.

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• A college degree is the key to realizing the American dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.

  Dan Rather

  Dream, Sacrifice, Opportunity

  "I’ve Discovered Facebook" by Dan Rather, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 24, 2012.

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• Patriotism, when it wants to make itself felt in the domain of learning, is a dirty fellow who should be thrown out of doors.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Dirty, Patriotic, Naughty

  "Counsels and Maxims". Book by Arthur Schopenhauer, Vol. 2, Ch. 21, § 255, 2007.

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• I believe in a long, prolonged, derangement of the senses in order to obtain the unknown.

  Jim Morrison

  Music, Hippie, Believe

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