1,848 Quotes About Doors

  • Author John Updike
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    Let us not mock God with metaphor, Analogy, sidestepping, transcendence; Making of the event a parable, a sign painted in the Faded credulity of earlier ages: Let us walk through the door.

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  • Author Morihei Ueshiba
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    CONTEMPLATE THE workings of this world, listen to the words of the wise, and take all that is good as your own. With this as your base, open your own door to truth. Do not overlook the truth that is right before you.

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  • Author Peter Ustinov
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    By increasing the size of the keyhole, today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

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  • Author Tracey Ullman
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    I used to dress up and impersonate our next-door neighbor, Miss Cox. She wore rubber boots, a wool hat, and her nose always dripped.

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  • Author Ann Voskamp
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    We can worship Christ in our sanctuaries and we can pray to God on our knees, but how we treat - or neglect - the person next door, the poor, every human being, this is how we truly speak to Christ and this is how we really treat Jesus.

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  • Author Bill Vaughan
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    In addition to wreaking havoc on our bodies, anger close our inner door, making us feel isolated and distrustful, hindering communication.

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  • Author Gore Vidal
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    In large Victorian houses with many rooms and heavy doors, the occupants could be mysterious and exciting to one another in a way that those who live in rackety developments can never hope to be. Not even the lust of a Lord Byron could survive the fact of Levittown.

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  • Author Henry Vaughan
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    Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

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  • Author Swami Vivekananda
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    From the highest god to the meanest grass, the same power is present in all - whether manifested or not. We shall have to call forth that power by going from door to door.

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