Entrances Quotes - Page 4

• Suffering so unbolts the door of the heart, that the Word hath easier entrance.

  Richard Baxter

  Heart, Doors, Suffering

  Richard Baxter, Benjamin Fawcett (1853). “The saints everlasting rest, or, A treatise of the blessed state of the saints in their enjoyment of God in heaven”, p.167

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• My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of imagination. This process was especially magnified within the fevers of influenza, measles, chickenpox, and mumps. I got them all and with each I was privileged with a new level of awareness. Lying deep within myself, the symmetry of a snowflake spinning above me, intensifying through my lids, I seized a most worthy souvenir, a shard of heaven’s kaleidoscope.

  Patti Smith

  Lying, Imagination, Heaven

  Patti Smith (2010). “Just Kids”, p.5, A&C Black

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• This thought was interrupted, suddenly, by a crash from the front entrance. We all looked over just in time to see Adam bending back from the glass, rubbing his arm. "Pull open," Maggie called out. As Leah rolled her eyes, she said, "He never remembers. It's so weird.

  Sarah Dessen

  Eye, Glasses, Bending

  Sarah Dessen (2009). “Along for the Ride”, p.130, Penguin

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• Luther, bring the gatekeeper quickly!" Bell ordered. "Just how did you get in, Miss Drew?" "I came in at the entrance," Nancy replied. "The larkspur is beautiful.

  Carolyn Keene

  Beautiful, Missing, Bells

  Carolyn Keene (1960). “Nancy Drew 10: Password to Larkspur Lane”, p.102, Penguin

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• Amos stopped before the entrance, which was the size of a garage door—a dark heavy square of timber with no visible handle or lock. “Carter after you.” “Um, how do I—” “How do you think?” Great another mystery. I was about to suggest we ram Amos’s head against it and see if that worked.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Thinking, Squares

  Rick Riordan (2010). “The Kane Chronicles, The, Book One: Red Pyramid”, Hyperion

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• Despite the many iniquities that have found entrance into the practices of image-worship as it is in vogue now, I do not condemn it. Ay, where would I have been if I had not been blessed with the dust of the holy feet of that orthodox, image-worshipping Brahmin!

  Swami Vivekananda

  Blessed, Dust, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.1354, Manonmani Publishers

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• Temptations are enemies outside the castle seeking entrance. If there be no false retainer within who holds treacherous parley, there can scarcely be even an offer.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Temptation, Enemy, Castles

  Henry Ward Beecher (1858). “Life Thoughts”, p.44

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• Beau, will you please watch the entrance for us?" "What should I do if I see anyone suspicious?" "Kick a car," Iain said. "Kick a car?" "To set off the alarm." "Gotcha," Beau said. "Good thinking.

  Kirsten Miller

  Thinking, Car, Alarms

  Kirsten Miller (2010). “The Eternal Ones”, p.243, Penguin

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• Children who are decked with prince's robes and who have jeweled chains round their necks lose all pleasure in play; their dress hampers them at every step. In fear that it may be frayed, or stained with dust, they keep themselves from the world and are afraid ever to move. Mother, it is no gain, thy bondage of finery, if it keep one shut off from the healthful dust of the earth, if it rob one of the right of entrance to the great fair of common human life.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Mother, Children, Moving

  Rabindranath Tagore, “Gitanjali”

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• The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Past, Evolution, Individual

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• Anger turns the mind out of doors and bolts the entrance.

  Plutarch

  Anger, Doors, Mind

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• Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Country, War, Fighting

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.32, Random House

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• We're seniors." "I know," I said "So aren't you... curious?" "About what?" "About life. Out there. Life!" she said again. "Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, "Alive.

  Ally Carter

  Senior, Growing Up, Doors

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• An agony. The exit like the entrance - but reserved. A palindrome: gut-tug.

  Lorrie Moore

  Heartbreak, Agony, Exit

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• A squat grey building of only thirty-four stories. Over the main entrance the words, CENTRAL LONDON HATCHERY AND CONDITIONING CENTRE, and, in a shield, the World State's motto, COMMUNITY, IDENTITY, STABILITY.

  Aldous Huxley

  Community, Identity, Stories

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• Scobe's Eighth Law: The moron will enter the single deck game when the count is sky high and the dealer is deciding whether or not to shuffle. The morons's entrance will convince the dealer that it's time to shuffle. You will now face a new deck with your biggest bet out and the pit boss watching closely.

  Frank Scoblete

  Gambling, Law, Sky

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• The history of a revolution is for us first of all a history of the forcible entrance of the masses into the realm of rulership over their own destiny.

  Leon Trotsky

  Destiny, Rulership, Firsts

  Leon Trotsky, Max Eastman (2008). “History of the Russian Revolution”, p.15, Haymarket Books

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• The good news as Jesus preached it is not just about the minimal entrance requirements for getting into heaven when you die. It is about the glorious redemption of human life-your life.

  John Ortberg

  Jesus, Heaven, News

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• There is a spiritual realm that is available to all who find its many entrances.

  James Melvin Washington

  Spiritual, Realms, Available

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• The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries.

  Charles Stanley

  Wise, Way, Boundaries

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• Smaug certainly looked asleep, almost dead and dark, with scarcely a snore more than a whiff of unseen steam, when Bilbo peeped once more from the entrance. He was just about to step out onto the floor when he caught a sudden thin ray of red from under the drooping lid of Smaug's left eye. He was only pretending to sleep! He was watching the tunnel entrance!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Sleep, Eye, Dark

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• Fight them with your faith in God, fight them in defense of every free honorable woman and every innocent child, and in defense of the values of manhood and the military honor...Fight them because with their defeat you will be at the last entrance of the conquest of all conquests. The war will end with...dignity, glory, and triumph for your people, army, and nation.

  Saddam Hussein

  Children, Military, War

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• At death we cross from one territory to another, but we'll have no trouble with visas. Our representative is already there, preparing for our arrival. As citizens of heaven, our entrance is incontestable.

  Erwin W. Lutzer

  Death, Heaven, Dying

  Erwin W. Lutzer (1978). “You're richer than you think”

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• Were an Asiatic to ask me for a definition of Europe, I should be forced to answer him: It is that part of the world which is haunted by the incredible delusion that man was created out of nothing, and that his present birth is his first entrance into life.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Men, Europe, Answers

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• All but universally, human architecture values front elevations over back entrances, public spaces over private. Danny Jessup says that this aspect of architecture is also a reflection of human nature, that most people care more about their appearance than they do about their souls.

  Dean Koontz

  Reflection, Space, People

  Dean Koontz (2014). “The Odd Thomas Series 7-Book Bundle: Odd Thomas, Forever Odd, Brother Odd, Odd Hours, Odd Apocalypse, Odd Interlude, Deeply Odd”, p.378, Bantam

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