(1194 quotes found)
“When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.”
Jesse Jackson
“Just be honest with yourself. That opens the door.”
Vernon Howard
“There are things known and things unknown and in between are the doors.”
Jim Morrison
“The noblest exercise of the mind within doors, and most befitting a person of quality, is study”
William Ramsay
“The door that nobody else will go in at, seems always to swing open widely for me.”
Clara Barton
“The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.”
Anne Morrow Lindbergh
“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
“I seem forsaken and alone, / I hear the lion roar; / And every door is shut but one, / And that is Mercy's door.”
William Cowper
“A narrative is like a room on whose walls a number of false doors have been painted; while within the narrative, we have many apparent choices of exit, but when the author leads us to one particular door, we know it is the right one because it opens.”
John Updike
“"My door is always open-bring me your problems." This is guaranteed to turn on every whiner, lackey and neurotic on the property.”
Robert F. Six
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