Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going. — Richard Gere
If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere
Love arrives on tiptoe and bangs the door when it leaves. — Robert Lembke
Doors are for people with no imagination. — Derek Landy
Shut the door of that house of pleasure which you hear resounding with the loud voice of a woman. — Saadi Shirazi
[On the 1982 intruder into her bedroom:] I realized immediately that it wasn't a servant because they don't slam doors. — Queen Elizabeth II
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open. — Alexander Graham Bell
A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of. — Ogden Nash
The door of laziness is the goal of misery. — Albanian Proverbs
Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open. — Margaret Bourke-White
Don't let the door hit you where the good Lord split you. — Mikhail Prokhorov
Open your door to a good day and prepare yourself for a bad one. — Moroccan Proverbs
Send a fool to close the shutters and he’ll close them all over town. — Yiddish Proverbs
Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. — Emily Dickinson
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Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, cry behind closed doors and fight battles that nobody knows about.
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Just the other day, it seems, the kids were running through the house, slamming doors, breaking glass, making noise. Time goes by so quickly. Sometimes everything seems so fleeting. — Perry Como
How many slams in an old screen door? Depends how loud you shut it. How many slices in a bread? Depends how thin you cut it. How much good inside a day? Depends how good you live 'em. How much love inside a friend? Depends how much you give 'em. — Shel Silverstein
When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. — Charles L. Allen
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.
It was a dark and stormy night. Suddenly, a shot rang out! A door slammed. The maid screamed. Suddenly, a pirate ship appeared on the horizon! While millions of people were starving, the king lived in luxury. Meanwhile, on a small farm in Kansas, a boy was growing up. — Charles M. Schulz
Good English, well spoken and well written will open more doors than a college degree... Bad English will slam doors you don't even know exist. — William Raspberry
I told my wife she looks sexy with black fingernails. Now she thinks I slammed the car door on her hand on purpose. — Emo Philips
Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.
Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back. — Don Herold
We should think seriously before we slam doors, before we burn bridges, before we saw off the limb on which we find ourselves sitting. — Richard L. Evans
I think there should be laughs in everything. Sometimes, it's a slammed door, a pie in the face or just a recognition of our frailties. — Alan Rickman
The biggest hurdle is rejection. Any business you start, be ready for it. The difference between successful people and unsuccessful people is the successful people do all the things the unsuccessful people don't want to do. When 10 doors are slammed in your face, go to door number 11 enthusiastically, with a smile on your face. — John Paul DeJoria
Japan is dealing us a dead hand. For two years we have watched the Japanese drag their feet and we can't let them continue to slam the door in our faces. — Craig L. Thomas
Time and again human consciousness fixates, and slams the door on its greatest gift, the open-endedness of infinite possibility. As a result we do not experience reality but merely our concept of it. — Jose Arguelles
My name has opened doors and slammed doors shut. — Max Irons
When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first. — Kelly Cutrone
I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all. — Burl Ives
The impatient man is his own enemy; he slams the door on his own progress. — Idries Shah
How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance. — Noel Coward
The door could not be heard slamming; they had probably left it open, as is the custom in homes where a great misfortune has occurred. — Franz Kafka
I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good. — Tamara Ecclestone
Hilary Clinton's great sin was that she left the nicely wallpapered domestic sphere with a slam of the door, took up public life on her own, leaving big feminist footprints all over the place, and without so much as an apology. — Patricia J. Williams
To die is as if one's eyes had been put out and one cannot see anything any more. Perhaps it is like being shut in a cellar. One is abandoned by all. They have slammed the door and are gone. One does not see anything and notices only the damp smell of putrefaction. — Edvard Munch
Doors will slam in your face. You must pick yourself up, dust yourself off, and knock again; it's the only way to achieve your goals in life. — Michael Uslan
Being bipolar and an addict and an alcoholic I have to keep myself very busy. I don't sleep. I am lucky if I get three hours of sleep a night, and so I get up, and my head is full of slamming doors. — David Feherty
I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him. — Dave Dravecky
That was the goth stage, where I decided I'd never get the girl of my dreams because of my scars. Not to mention my hairstyle. (pause) But then she slammed a door handle into my gut. And when a girl does that to a boy, it means she likes him. — Lisa McMann
God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies. — Elizabeth Gilbert
The funniest thing happened in one of my first scenes. In the beginning Emma was really arrogant and punk and in every scene she would slam the door when she walked in or out. — Dannii Minogue
Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock. — James Geary
I slammed the door in the child's face, a horrific scream trapped in my throat. — Nnedi Okorafor
Fiddle-dee-dee. War, war, war. This war talk's spoiling all the fun at every party this spring. I get so bored I could scream. Besides, there isn't going to be any war. . . . If either of you boys says 'war' just once again, I'll go in the house and slam the door. — Vivien Leigh
Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face. — James Russell Lowell
We did some cool wire work in 'The Pact' - they had me strapped to a harness underneath my shirt so they could fling me around the house and slam me into doors. I definitely got some bruises even with all the padding! — Caity Lotz
Municipal networks expand economic opportunities. We've got to open new doors, not slam them shut. — Frank Lautenberg
But the rest of Jace’s mind is watching the door slam behind her and seeing the final ruin of all his dreams. It was one thing to push it to this point. It is another to let go forever. Because he knows Clary, and if she goes now, she will not ever come back. — Cassandra Clare
Never slam a car door. According to the Westchester elite, it's a heinous crime, as heartless as kicking a puppy. — Lisi Harrison
Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back. — Bill Masters
The House Democrats don't want Gore humiliated, so they slammed the door of the Capitol in my face. They are cowards. — Christopher Monckton
The first day I walked into prison, and he slammed that door, I knew the magnitude of the decision that I made, and the poor judgment, and what I allowed to happen to the animals. And, you know, it's no way of explaining the hurt and the guilt that I felt. And that was the reason I cried so many nights. — Michael Vick
She gave him a cool glance over her shoulder. May your balls wither away and you develope an allergy to Viagra and all its counterparts.
He looked at her, stunned. And then he suddenly exploded into laughter.
God, you're a formidable woman
No, I'm not. I'm soft, remember?
She slammed the door behind her. — Iris Johansen
In the years since I worked with John Hughes, there were many years where I literally had hundred of doors slammed in my face because I wasn't that kid anymore, and I wasn't a character actor, and I wasn't a leading man, and I wasn't whatever Hollywood was looking for. — Anthony Michael Hall
It was like a classic thing with Emma. So I walked in and I slammed the door and everything fell off the wall on the set. It was my second or third scene and I was so embarrassed and scared and so nervous about what everyone would say, but everyone just packed up laughing. — Dannii Minogue
Blacks have had to learn to protect themselves by being cynical but not cynical enough to slam the door on potential opportunities. We go through life walking a tightrope to prevent too much disillusionment. — Jackie Robinson
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