Closed Doors Quotes - Page 3

• I respect the social graces enormously. How to pass the food. Don't yell from one room to another. Don't go through a closed door without a knock. Open the doors for the ladies. All these millions of simple household behaviors make for a better life. We can't live in constant rebellion against our parents - it's just silly. I'm very well mannered. It's not an abstract thing. It's a shared language of expectations.

  Jack Nicholson

  Silly, Simple, Doors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings.

  Megan Whalen Turner

  Kings, Doors, Done

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• Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

  Lewis H. Lapham

  Doors, Democracy, Quiet

  Lewis H. Lapham (2004). “Gag Rule: On the Suppression of Dissent and the Stifling of Democracy”, p.162, Penguin

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• Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Doors, Good Man, Manners

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• Our goal in the '70s was to end the closed door era. There were so many things that were off limits to women, policing, firefighting, mining, piloting planes. And the stereotypical view of people of a world divided between home and child caring women and men as breadwinners, men representing the family outside the home.

  Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  Children, Home, Caring

  "Exclusive Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg interview: Full transcript". "The Rachel Maddow Show", www.msnbc.com. February 17, 2015.

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• I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.

  Tama J. Kieves

  Doors, Somewhere Else, Arrows

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• There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to win, whom you will and won't step on for personal gain, are at the very core of your code of honor. And your code of honor determines your character. And your character is who you are. Behind closed doors. When nobody is watching.

  Patti LaBelle

  Character, Winning, Doors

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• Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

  Constance Briscoe

  Children, Doors, Abuse

  "Jury clears judge of libelling mother in 'misery memoir'" by Rachel Williams, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2008.

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• There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them; we’ve jammed the lock. Children are the only ones who might crouch down on all fours to stare at the red glow coming from under the door, as they wonder what lies behind it. But Vango had always been afraid of the glow.

  Timothee de Fombelle

  Children, Lying, Doors

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• Women are now more aggressive than men! And I don't put them down for it. I think it's great. My attitude with sex with any woman I've ever been with is, I want you to be exactly who you want to be behind closed doors. Don't ever hold back with me.

  Andrew Dice Clay

  Sex, Attitude, Men

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• The first lesson, for all Canadians, is that the closed door, top down approaches to constitution making do not provide the public input or debate necessary to achieve a constitutional consensus that will be supported by the people.

  Preston Manning

  Top Down, Doors, People

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.

  Rachel Zoe

  Wise, Home, Night

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• The people want government that works for them at every level. They want good government that begins at their doorstep in the barangay, and does not end before the closed door of a bureaucrat in Metro Manila.

  Gloria Macapagal Arroyo

  Government, Doors, People

  State of the Nation Address, July 25, 2005.

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• Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

  Alan Bennett

  Wall, Nice, Writing

  Alan Bennett (2008). “Writing Home”, p.193, Faber & Faber

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• What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business.

  Shelley Berkley

  Doors, Adults, Behinds

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• I think behind closed doors people behave differently no matter what period we're looking at, because people have to stand up straight in public but can slouch behind closed doors - can you imagine wearing those corsets?

  Brenda Blethyn

  Thinking, Doors, People

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• What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

  Philibert Joseph Roux

  Doors, Judging, Guilty

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• Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own room. From the standpoint of living faith, I cannot fundamentally believe in anyone's damnation but my own; as far as my neighbor is concerned, the light of resurrection can never be so obscured that I would be allowed or obliged to stop hoping for him.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Spiritual, Believe, Doors

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1986). “Prayer”, p.266, Ignatius Press

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• I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

  Randi Zuckerberg

  Thinking, Doors, People

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

  Martin Zwilling

  Doors, Mentoring, Busy

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• I like to imagine a person's psyche to be like a boardinghouse full of characters. The ones who show up regularly and who habitually follow the house rules may not have met other long-term residents who stay behind closed doors, or who only appear at night. An adequate theory of character must make room for character actors, for the stuntmen and animal handlers, for all the figures who play bit parts and produce unexpected acts. They often make the show fateful, or tragic, or farcically absurd.

  James Hillman

  Character, Night, Animal

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• President Obama spent Election Day away from any press coverage, attending closed-door meetings inside the White House. But on the bright side, it is nice to see some doors actually closed at the White House. It's a whole new Secret Service security thing.

  Jimmy Fallon

  Nice, Doors, White

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• As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Doors, Chloe, Curse Words

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Obviously, certain sins often may escape detection. Homosexuals who practice behind closed doors are out-of-bounds for the courts, of course, unless others witness their criminal behavior. Such behavior may not be dealt with by courts in history, but will be dealt with by God, either in history (e.g., AIDS) or eternity. The law that requires the death penalty for homosexual acts effectually drives the perversion of homosexuality underground, back to the closet, to the dark realm of shameful activity.

  Gary DeMar

  Dark, Practice, Doors

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• Anything you think of doing, however insignificant, should be done immediately. Spur yourself on and carry it through without becoming discouraged. If this becomes an ingrained habit, things you thought were impossible will become possible, and closed doors will open, as you will discover in many ways.

  Shinichi Suzuki

  Thinking, Doors, Becoming

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