Doorways Quotes - Page 9

I am always safe, no matter which doorway I pass through.

Louise Hay

Safe, Matter

FaceBook post by Louise Hay from Mar 17, 2015

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As he glided stealthily along, creeping beneath the shelter of the walls and doorways, the hideous old man seemed like some loathsome reptile, engendered in the slime and darkness through which he moved: crawling forth, by night, in search of some rich offal for a meal.

Charles Dickens

Wall, Night, Men

Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.78

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This is the Scroll of Thoth. Herein are set down the magic words by which Isis raised Osiris from the dead. Oh! Amon-Ra--Oh! God of Gods--Death is but the doorway to new life--We live today-we shall live again--In many forms shall we return-Oh, mighty one.

John L. Balderston

Life, Death, Isis

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A war is like when it rains in New York and everybody crowds into doorways. They all get chummy together perfect strangers. The only difference, of course, is in a war it's also raining on the other side of the street and the people who are chummy over there are trying to kill the people who are over here who are chums.

Larry Gelbart

New York, War, Rain

"Fictional character: Capt. Benjamin Franklin 'Hawkeye' Pierce". TV Series "M*A*S*H" ("The Interview", 1976), www.imdb.com. 1972-1983.

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Come Senators, Congressman, please heed the call, don't stand in the doorway, don't block the hall.

Bob Dylan

Block, Politics, Congressman

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In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

Peter Gabriel

Religious, Eye, Religion

Song: In Your Eyes Special Mix, 1986

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I grew up in rural Tennessee. There were no bookstores in the town, but the school had a little library and the town had a little library, each with a patient and enthusiastic librarian, and I raced into both as if they were doorways to another world.

Michael Sims

School, Library, Bookstores

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Death is a doorway. It is a very small, thin doorway and only a portion of our being can walk through.

Frederick Lenz

Death, Walks, Portions

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The holy Cross goes forward; it brings joy and consolation to every quarter where Christians live; and these God-fearing people, elated, stand in their doorways and greet it reverently, the strength, the salvation of the universe, the Cross.

C.P. Cavafy

Christian, People, Joy

Constantine P. Cavafy, “A Great Procession Of Priests And Laymen”

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Growing up, I was taught that a man has to defend his family. When the wolf is trying to get in, you gotta stand in the doorway.

B. B. King

Growing Up, Men, Trying

"B.B. King: What I've Learned". Interview with Mike Sager, www.esquire.com. 2005.

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I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.

Alan Rickman

Girlfriend, Morning, Block

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They say there is a doorway from heart to heart, but what is the use of a door when there are no walls?

Rumi

Inspirational, Wall, Heart

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Ranger appeared in the bathroom doorway and I was too relieved to be embarrassed. "I appreciate you coming out in the middle of the night," I said. Ranger smiled. "I didn't want to miss seeing you chained up naked.

Janet Evanovich

Night, Appreciate, Missing

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[He] had a hole in his soul, the kind the devil loves to find. It's like an open doorway for him, lets him enter in and do his wicked work.

Hillary Jordan

Soul, Wicked, Devil

Hillary Jordan (2008). “Mudbound”, p.228, Random House

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Work is an antidote for anxiety, an ointment for sorrow, and a doorway to possibility.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

Anxiety, Sorrow, Each New Day

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Superhero science has taught me this: Entire universes fit comfortably inside our skulls. Not just one or two but endless universes can be packed into that dark, wet, and bony hollow without breaking it open from the inside. The space in our heads will stretch to accommodate them all. The real doorway to the fifth dimension was always right here. Inside. That infinite interior space contains all the divine, the alien, and the unworldly we’ll ever need.

Grant Morrison

Real, Dark, Two

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The wailing of broken hearts
is the doorway to God.

Rumi

Heart, Broken, Wailing

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As long as I talked unceasingly about the Lord,The Lord stayed away, kept at a distance.But when I silenced my mouth, sat very stillAnd fixed my mind at the doorway of the Lord,I was linked to the music of the Word,And all my talking came to an end.

Kabir

Distance, Talking, Long

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I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, men who made you love them then changed their minds.

Janet Fitch

Tired, Men, Mind

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Success is a staircase, not a doorway.

Dottie Walters

Fitness, Baby, Weight Loss

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The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.

Frederick Lenz

Buddhism, Exercise, Other Worlds

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Success is not a doorway, it's a stairway.

Dottie Walters

Stairways

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Into your darkest corner, you are safe in my love, you are protected. I am the openess you seek, I am your doorway. Come sit in the circular temple of my heart, & let yourself be calm.

Agapi Stassinopoulos

Love You, Heart, Safe

Agapi Stassinopoulos (2007). “Gods and Goddesses in Love: Making the Myth a Reality for You”, p.76, Simon and Schuster

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I admire photographers who can take much more ordinarily subject matter and make it transcend that ordinariness, so that it becomes something else fresh and new. It opens this doorway. I really admire people who can do that with photography.

Andy Summers

Photography, People, Matter

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She thinks that happiness is a mat that sits on her doorway.

Rob Thomas

Happiness, Thinking

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