Closed Doors Quotes - Page 2

• A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

  Antonio Porchia

  Perseverance, Stay Strong, Persistence

  "Voices". Book by Antonio Porchia, 1943.

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• Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out.

  Lilian Jackson Braun

  Hate, Cat, Doors

  Lilian Jackson Braun (1989). “The Cat Who Went Underground”, p.151, Penguin

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• Imagine any problem you have to be a huge, locked door standing in front of you. Now see yourself taking a golden key out of your pocket. You brought the key here with you when you arrived on this planet, but you sometimes forget to use it. See yourself putting it into the keyhole, then watch the door swing open. On the key are inscribed these words, "Unconditional Love."

  Marianne Williamson

  Unconditional Love, Doors, Keys

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Sep 15, 2011

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• Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!

  Joel Osteen

  Closing Doors, Happened

  Joel Osteen (2014). “Daily Readings from Break Out!: 365 Devotions to Go Beyond Your Barriers and Live an Extraordinary Life”, p.439, Hachette UK

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• I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

  Tiger Woods

  Doors, Perfect, Feelings

  Tiger Woods statement, www.theguardian.com. December 3, 2009.

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• I thank God for Closed Doors

  Tyler Perry

  Doors, Thank God

  Twitter post from Jun 03, 2013

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• [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

  Phil Donahue

  Doors, Rights, Important

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• The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

  Daniel Gilbert

  Eye, Doors, Brain

  Daniel Gilbert (2006). “Stumbling on Happiness”, Vintage

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• There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

  Al Goldstein

  Men, Doors, Robots

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• Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence.

  Reince Priebus

  Doors, Political, Promise

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• When your way doesn't work, don't be disheartened. You must be willing to try another way. A closed door doesn't mean you have been cut off permanently. It is a challenge, an obstacle, a tool to be used.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Mean, Cutting, Doors

  FaceBook post by Iyanla Vanzant from Sep 08, 2014

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• Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

  Margaret Bourke-White

  Doors, Cameras

  Margaret Bourke-White (2016). “Portrait of Myself”, p.99, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• Integrity is what you do behind closed doors or when you think nobody is watching. Integrity is the true essence of who you are, your beliefs and your values. Reputation is the public perception of who you are. It is how others view your integrity or strong moral principles.

  Erik Qualman

  Strong, Integrity, Thinking

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• The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny.

  Frank Lebby Stanton

  Doors, Lips, Tyranny

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• Democracies die behind closed doors.

  Damon Keith

  Peace, Ubuntu, Doors

  "Judge Damon J. Keith – Part 2". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 30, 2015.

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• Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

  Andre Gide

  Jealousy, Hate, Home

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• Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

  Paul Schrader

  Creativity, Artist, Doors

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• Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Doors, Library, Closing Doors

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• The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi

  Doors, Decision, Secret

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• White guilt is more of a sanctioned social convention than a genuine emotional experience. It’s a form of theatrical empathy that’s socially and financially rewarded. When you learn to say and perhaps even believe the right things about race, doors are opened for you. When you say the wrong thing, those doors slam shut. Then, the gossips and church ladies will shame you publicly, demand that you be fired from your job, and use every avenue available to them to coerce a confession, a public apology and a staged conversion that contributes to their progressive narrative.

  Jack Donovan

  Jobs, Believe, Apology

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• 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

  Education, Writing, Opportunity

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• 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

  Doors, African American, Way

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• On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly.

  Billy Wilder

  Doors, Directors, Culture

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• Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.

  Candace Cameron

  Children, Heart, Doors

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• You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

  Meridel Le Sueur

  Ignorance, Doors, People

  Meridel Le Sueur, Elaine Hedges (1990). “Ripening: Selected Work”, p.129, Feminist Press at CUNY

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