Back Doors Quotes

• Those who enter through the back door can expect to be shown out through the window

  Aesop

  Doors, Window

  Aesop (2014). “Aesop's Fables”, p.107, Penguin

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• There are some mosques with facilities for women; it's usually a back room with a back-door entrance.

  Ayaan Hirsi Ali

  Doors, Mosques, Rooms

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• The sun will shine in my back door one day.

  Jerry Garcia

  Doors, Shining, One Day

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• We have to find the back door to peoples' hearts because the front door is heavily guarded.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Heart, Doors, Religion

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• We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.

  Heinrich von Kleist

  Journey, Doors, World

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• I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.

  Luther Allison

  Sunshine, Doors, Waiting

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• Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Sunshine, Doors, Sneak In

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

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• 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

  Thinking, Doors, Australia

  "Tony Abbott blames carbon tax for 'uncertainty'". "7.30' with Leigh Sales, www.abc.net.au. August 22, 2012.

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• I don't think it's a very Christian thing to come in by the back door rather than the front door.

  Tony Abbott

  Christian, Thinking, Doors

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• When Satan cannot get a great sin in he will let a little one in, like the thief who goes and finds shutters all coated with iron and bolted inside. At last he sees a little window in a chamber. He cannot get in, so he puts a little boy in, that he may go round and open the back door. So the devil has always his little sins to carry about with him to go and open back doors for him, and we let one in and say, 'O, it is only a little one.' Yes, but how that little one becomes the ruin of the entire man!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Boys, Men

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• We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

  Russ Feingold

  Issues, Doors, Special

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• Comedy's been really liberating for me because I've been able to sneak the singing part in through the back door.

  Ana Gasteyer

  Doors, Singing, Able

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• The more you openly name your struggles, the less people can use your silence as a back door to blackmail you, to sabotage your leadership, or to subvert relationships within the organization.

  Dan B. Allender

  Struggle, Doors, Names

  Dan B. Allender (2011). “Leading with a Limp: Take Full Advantage of Your Most Powerful Weakness”, p.172, WaterBrook

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• Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!

  Joseph Conrad

  Simple, Doors, Ideas

  Joseph Conrad (1905). “Lord Jim”, p.39, McClure, Phillips & Company

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• The Government have consistently made it clear that the mechanism in the United Kingdom whereby the European draft constitutional treaty could be implemented is approval by the House of Commons followed by a referendum of the people of Britain. There is no question of implementing it by the back door.

  Douglas Alexander

  Doors, Government, People

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• If you're a star you go through the front door carrying the roses, instead of through the back door carrying the garbage.

  Robert Stack

  Stars, Doors, Rose

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• And I was booked once to go on 'Ed Sullivan' and I got bumped and ran out the back door crying.

  Aretha Franklin

  Doors, Goes On, Cry

  "New again: Aretha Franklin". Interview with Pat Hackett, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 4, 2012.

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• Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door.

  Jean Wilson

  Discovery, Doors, Wasting Time

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• I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

  Kris Radish

  Thinking, Doors, Years

  Kris Radish (2006). “Annie Freeman's Fabulous Traveling Funeral”, p.235, Bantam

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• We often get in quicker by the back door than by the front.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Doors, Method, Fronts

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• I shut the front door upon Christ and Einstein, and at the back door hold out a welcoming hand to little frogs and periwinkles. I believe nothing of my own that I have ever written. I cannot accept that the products of minds are subject-matter for beliefs.

  Charles Fort

  Believe, Doors, Hands

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• My Mother was a very wild Australian woman. When we were in Africa she could kill a snake with one blow from a crow bar, which she kept at the back door.

  Mem Fox

  Mother, Blow, Doors

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• Sneaking out the back door to hand out with those hoodlum friends of mine.

  Stevie Wonder

  Friendship, Doors, Hands

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• Summer is when we believe, all of a sudden, that if we just walked out the back door and kept on going long enough and far enough we would reach the Rocky Mountains.

  Edward Hoagland

  Summer, Believe, Doors

  Edward Hoagland, HOAGLAND EDWARD. (1995). “Tugman's Passage”, Lyons Press

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• Opportunity ... It has a sly habit of slipping in by the back door, and often it comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat. Perhaps this is why so many fail to recognize opportunity.

  Napoleon Hill

  Opportunity, Doors, Temporary Defeat

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.16, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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