1,848 Quotes About Doors

  • Author John Wayne
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    Most men hate to shop. That's why the men's department is usually on the first floor of a department store, two inches from the door.

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  • Author John Wilmot
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    For Hell and the foul fiend that rules God's everlasting fiery jails (Devised by rogues, dreaded by fools), With his grim, grisly dog that keeps the door, Are senseless stories, idle tales, Dreams, whimseys, and no more.

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  • Author John Wooden
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    Too often we get distracted by what is outside of our control. You can't do anything about yesterday. The door to the past has been shut and the key thrown away. You can do nothing about tomorrow. It is yet to come. However, tomorrow is in large part determined by what you do today. So make today a masterpiece. You have control over that.

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  • Author John Wooden
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    Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

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  • Author Karen White
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    There is how we were before, and how we are now, and the time between is spent choosing which doors to open, and which to close.

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  • Author Karen White
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    We live, we love. These are the choices we are given, to open doors or to close them. It is all we have, and it is enough

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  • Author Ken Wilber
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    The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle and causal realms, thus quickly opening the door to stable adaptation at - and transcendence of - those realms.

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  • Author Laura Ingalls Wilder
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    When Pa was at home the gun always lay across those two wooden hooks above the door. ... The gun was always loaded, and always above the door so that Pa could get it quickly and easily, any time he needed a gun.

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  • Author Ludwig Wittgenstein
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    Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open.

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