A good example is like a bell that calls many to church. — Danish Proverbs
Of all sound of all bells... most solemn and touching is the peal which rings out the Old Year. — Charles Lamb
People who live in a glass house have to answer the door. — Karl Pilkington
ask not for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee — John Donne
The door handle is the handshake of the building. — Juhani Pallasmaa
The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers. — Matsuo Basho
An old bandit adage: A bell is a cup until it is struck. — Colin Meloy
Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells Of youth and home, and that sweet time When last I heard their soothing chime! — Charles Lamb
Isn't it funny? You hear a phone ring and it could be anybody. But, a ringing phone has to be answered doesn't it? — Kiefer Sutherland
The sound of a church bell at times has more effect than a sermon. — American Proverbs
You might as well answer the door, my child, the truth is furiously knocking. — Lucille Clifton
Short Doorbell Quotes
Obama's dense as a doorbell; not much going on up there - it's a wooden top. — John Lydon
Next time y'all need to find me, just rub these two wires for the doorbell. — Redman
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date. — Olin Miller
If you think there are no new frontiers, watch a boy ring the front doorbell on his first date. — Richard Miller
Kissing's a good thing, man. It's the doorbell of intimacy. — Thomas Haden Church
[On the ringing of her doorbell or telephone:] What fresh hell is this? — Dorothy Parker
There is nothing like a doorbell to precipitate the potential into the kinetic. — Wallace Stegner
Democracy means that if the doorbell rings in the early hours, it is likely to be the milkman. — Winston Churchill
Never knock on death's door. Ring the doorbell then run. He totally hates that. - T-shirt — Darynda Jones
When the doorbell rings at three in the morning, it's never good news. — Anthony Horowitz
Door Knock Quotes
Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur
There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting. — Keith Richards
As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya
The exclusion of the weak and insignificant, the seemingly useless people, from a Christian community may actually mean the exclusion of Christ; in the poor brother Christ is knocking at the door. — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door. — Milton Berle
And so I tell you, keep on asking, and you will receive what you ask for. Keep on seeking, and you will find. Keep on knocking, and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives. Everyone who seeks, finds. And to everyone who knocks, the door will be opened. — Luke the Evangelist
That was the big thing when I was growing up, singing on the radio. The extent of my dream was to sing on the radio station in Memphis. Even when I got out of the Air Force in 1954, I came right back to Memphis and started knocking on doors at the radio station. — Johnny Cash
Halloween is a liberal holiday because we're teaching our children to beg for something for free. … We're teaching kids to knock on other people's doors and ask for a handout. — Sean Hannity
O, once in each man's life, at least, Good luck knocks at his door; And wit to seize the flitting guest Need never hunger more. But while the loitering idler waits. Good luck beside his fire, The bold heart storms at fortune's gates, And conquers its desire. — John L. Bates
I knew well that the only way I could get that door open was to knock it down; because I knocked all of them down. — Sadie Tanner Mossell Alexander
Front Door Quotes
When I came back, after all those stories about Hitler and his snub, I came back to my native country, and I could not ride in the front of the bus. I had to go to the back door. I couldn't live where I wanted. Now what's the difference? — Jesse Owens
Leave your front door and your back door open.
Allow your thoughts to come and go.
Just don't serve them tea. — Shunryu Suzuki
A photographer went to a socialite party in New York. As he entered the front door, the host said 'I love your pictures - they're wonderful; you must have a fantastic camera.' He said nothing until dinner was finished, then: 'That was a wonderful dinner; you must have a terrific stove. — Sam Haskins
Many of us in our praying are like nasty little boys who ring front door bells and run away before anyone answers. — D. A. Carson
It's the three pairs of eyes that mothers have to have...One pair that see through closed doors. Another in the back of her head...and, of course, the ones in front that can look at a child when he goofs up and reflect 'I understand and I love you' without so much as uttering a word. — Erma Bombeck
A country without a border is like a person in a house without a front door. Anybody can enter and you cannot ask anybody to leave. — Geert Wilders
I think that people should come to Australia through the front door, not through the back door. If people want a migration outcome, they should go through the migration channels. — Tony Abbott
Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? — Jake Paul
When somebody comes to your front door, and they're screaming obscenities at you and telling you to come outside, and you've had your life threatened several times, you take it pretty seriously. It's the reason I have a Rottweiler. — Willie Aames
The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door — Erki Nool
Doorway Quotes
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you give other folks the same chances that helped you succeed. — Michelle Obama
The beauty of a woman must be seen from in her eyes, because that is the doorway to her heart, the place where love resides. — Audrey Hepburn
The intellect is a beautiful servant but a terrible master. Intellect is the power tool of our separateness. The intuitive, compassionate heart is the doorway to our unity. — Ram Dass
If I embrace who I am it will open doors not shut them. If your faith won't fit in the door that opens then I argue do not walk through that door. The door that God has opened for you will fit your faith. — DeVon Franklin
Knowledge of languages is the doorway to wisdom. — Roger Bacon
pain, pleasure and death are no more than a process for existence. The revolutionary struggle in this process is a doorway open to intelligence — Frida Kahlo
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway to life. — Daisaku Ikeda
Life does not end when we die. Death is a rebirth into a spirit world of light and love, a transition from the physical to the spiritual that is no more frightening or painful than passing between rooms through an open doorway. It is a joyful homecoming to our natural home, . . . — Betty Eadie
There are a lot of Christians who are halfway fellows. They stand in the door, holding on to the Church with one hand while they play with the toys of the world with the other. They are in the doorway and we can't bring sinners in. — Mordecai Ham
Death is nothing more than a doorway, something you walk through. — George G. Ritchie
As a rule, dictatorships guarantee safe streets and terror of the doorbell. In democracy the streets may be unsafe after dark, but the most likely visitor in the early hours will be the milkman. — Adam Michnik
Dogs have important jobs, like barking when the doorbell rings, but cats have no function in a house whatsoever. — W. Bruce Cameron
You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door, ringing the doorbell. — Tina Turner
That old saying about opportunity only knocking once is as archaic as the flat-earth theory and as patently untrue. Opportunity knocks all the time - and it rings your doorbell, calls you up, and sends you e-mails. — Victoria Moran
Chutzpah' is best defined as a small boy peeing through someone's letter box, then ringing the doorbell to ask how far it went. — Maureen Lipman
I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays. — Graham Greene
The weakest being on earth can accomplish feats of strength. The frailest urchin will ring every doorbell on the street in arctic weather or hoist himself aloft to inscribe his name on a virgin monument. — Honore de Balzac
No, you don’t need to help me. But if you don’t, there’s nothing stopping me from calling you up again and again, now that I know you can’t kill me. Think of it as me leaning against your Heavenly doorbell… forever. — Cassandra Clare
It was then that Marvin got religion. Not the quiet, personal kind, that involves doing good deeds and living a better life; not even the kind that involves putting on a suit and ringing people's doorbells; but the kind that involves having your own TV network and getting people to send you money. — Terry Pratchett
There's a difference between a caper and a prank. A prank is like playing Ding-Dong-Ditch, you know, you ring the doorbell and then run and hide in the ditch. That's a prank. It has no shelf life, like reassembling the principal's car up on the roof of the gym. It's cute and everything but there's no shelf-life, and it can actually be kind of destructive. But a caper is different. It's something where everybody has made it in. — Bob Goff
Doorbells are like a magic game,
Or the grab-bag at a fair --
You never know when you hear one ring
Who may be waiting there. — Rachel Field
My father was never very friendly. When I was growing up, I thought the doorbell ringing was a signal to pretend you weren't home. — Rita Rudner
As a kid I would be put to bed when my parents had guests and because I was such a show-off I would go to my mum's room, put on her nightdress and Jackie Onassis shawl, run downstairs, go outside, ring the doorbell and pretend to be one of the guests. I'd say, 'Hello, I'm Mrs. So-and-So. — Rupert Everett
When I'm on a break from writing, I'll log on to Amazon and eBay. The doorbell is constantly being rung by deliverymen. — Sophie Kinsella
I have always been the lover - never the beloved - and I have spent much of my life waiting for trains, planes, boats, footsteps, doorbells, letters, telephones, snow, rain, thunder. — John Cheever
There are moments in a woman's life when her heart flips in her chest, when the world suddenly seems uncommonly pink and perfect, when a symphony can be heard in the tinkle of a doorbell. — Julia Quinn
Kat," Hale groaned, then fell back onto the pillows. "Funny, I didn't hear a doorbell." "I let myself in; hope that's okay." Hale smiled. "Or the alarm." She stepped inside, tossed a pocket-size bag of tools onto the bed. "You're due for an upgrade." Hale propped himself against the antique headboard and squinted up at her. "She returns." He crossed his arms across his bare chest. "You know, I could be naked in here. — Ally Carter
I’m saying a prayer. Maybe you ought to, too. It’s going to take us a miracle to get through this.” Whether he was serious or not, Claire sent the prayer up toward heaven, and she thought the others did, too. So it seemed kind of miraculous when the doorbell rang. “At least they’re getting more polite when they try to kill us,” Shane said. — Rachel Caine
If she's really psychic," Zack said when he saw Tanisha's photo at school, "why does she need a doorbell? — Joan Bauer
The more Susan waited, the more the doorbell didn't ring. Or the phone. — Douglas Adams
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