Doorstep Quotes

• You don't need to go to the ends of the earth, you don't need to climb Everest to have a great adventure, it's invariably on our doorstep.

  Bear Grylls

  Adventure, Needs, Earth

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction.

  K Hari Kumar

  Moving, Destiny, Knows

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• Just direct your feet to the sunny side of the street.

  Dorothy Fields

  Feet, Sides, Sunny

  "On the Sunny Side of the Street" (song) (1930)

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• The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Honesty, Integrity

  "Gleanings among the Sheaves, The First Lesson", as quoted in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations, p. 878-82, 1922.

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• Faith and hope bring us through time but leave us at the doorstep of eternity. Only love goes with us inside.

  Peter Kreeft

  Faith, Rough Times, Eternity

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.63, Ignatius Press

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• A domain exits where concepts can't go; so leave them on the doorstep to enter.

  Chris Murphy

  Exit, Domain, Concepts

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• Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.

  John Grierson

  Drama, Exotic, Earth

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• The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.

  Paul Strand

  Art, Feet, World

  Catherine Duncan, Paul Strand, Aperture Foundation (1994). “Paul Strand: the world on my doorstep : an intimate portrait”

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• To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.

  Thomas Merton

  Light, Events, Hell

  Thomas Merton (2005). “No Man is an Island”, p.24, Shambhala Publications

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• A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.

  Brian Greene

  Theory, Precision, Unified

  NOVA interview, www.pbs.org. October 28, 2003.

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• The secret of it all, is to write in the gush, the throb, the flood, of the moment – to put things down without deliberation – without worrying about their style – without waiting for a fit time or place. I always worked that way. I took the first scrap of paper, the first doorstep, the first desk, and wrote – wrote, wrote…By writing at the instant the very heartbeat of life is caught.

  Walt Whitman

  Writing, Worry, Waiting

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• Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.

  Robert Towne

  Kids, Scripts, Wanted

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• If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.

  Nina Fedoroff

  Environmental, Ends, Refugee

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• Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.

  Richard Dooling

  Fate, Animal, Men

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• I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.

  Liam Gallagher

  People, Giving, Energy

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• As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

  Margaret Mead

  Travel, Home, Memorable

  "Coming of Age in Samoa". Book by Margaret Mead, 1928.

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• I’m an atheist. The good news about atheists is that we have no mandate to convert anyone. So you’ll never find me on your doorstep on a Saturday morning with a big smile saying ‘Just stopped by to tell you there is no word. I brought along this little blank book I was hoping you could take a look at.’

  Paula Poundstone

  Morning, Atheist, Book

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• Every child should be placed on a doorstep to sell something. It's the best possible training for life.

  Robert Morley

  Children, Business, Training

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• If each of us would only sweep our own doorstep, the whole World would be clean.

  Mother Teresa

  Would Be, World, Clean

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• If you sit on the doorstep long enough, I daresay you will think of something

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, Long, Enough

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.19, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Negative emotions are like unwelcome guests. Just because they show up on our doorstep doesn't mean they have a right to stay.

  Deepak Chopra

  Mean, Negative, Guests

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• Candleford Green was but a small village and there were fields and meadows and woods all around it. As soon as Laura crossed the doorstep, she could see some of these. But mere seeing from a distance did not satisfy her; she longed to go alone far into the fields and hear the birds singing, the brooks tinkling, and the wind rustling through the corn, as she had when a child. To smell things and touch things, warm earth and flowers and grasses, and to stand and gaze where no one could see her, drinking it all in.

  Flora Thompson

  Children, Distance, Drinking

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• A small girl became increasingly paralysed by her parents' frequently violent rows. Sometimes she would spend hours standing completely still in the toilet, simply because that was where she happened to be when the fight began. Finally, in moments of calm, she would take bottles of milk from the fridge or doorstep and leave them in places where she may later become trapped. Her parents were unable to understand why they found bottles of sour milk in every room in the house.

  Sarah Kane

  Girl, Fighting, Sour Milk

  Sarah Kane, David Greig (2001). “Kane: Complete Plays: Blasted; Phaedra's Love; Cleansed; Crave; 4.48 Psychosis; Skin”, p.185, A&C Black

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• When we are succeeding - that is, when we have begun to overcome our self-doubt and self-sabotage, when we are advancing in our craft and evolving to a higher level - that's when panic strikes. When we experience panic, it means that we're about to cross a threshold. We're poised on the doorstep of a higher plane.

  Steven Pressfield

  Mean, Self, Doubt

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• I daydream about things I want to happen, but none of it is more complicated, most of the time, than just really hoping that the good parts and the well-written parts are the ones that turn up on my doorstep.

  Rebecca Hall

  Want, Complicated, Daydreaming

  Source: collider.com

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