Doorstep Quotes - Page 2

• Learn the language that they understand, and when they come upon our doorstep to talk we can talk, and they will get the point. There will be a dialog, there will be some communication, and I am quite certain that then there will be some understanding.

  Malcolm X

  Communication, Understanding, Language

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• We read the Golden Rule and judge it to be a brilliant distillation of many of our ethical impulses. And then we come across another of God’s teachings on morality: if a man discovers on his wedding night that his bride is not a virgin, he must stone her to death on her father’s doorstep (Deuteronomy 22:13-21).

  Sam Harris

  Father, Teaching, Night

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• It's hard when you look a certain way. I look All-American, sweet, girl-next-door, so naturally those are the parts that are going to land on my doorstep.

  Melissa Joan Hart

  Girl, Sweet, Doors

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• Don’t complain about the snow on your neighbor’s roof when your own doorstep is unclean.

  Confucius

  Snow, Complaining, Neighbor

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• Few Americans born after the Civil War know much about war. Real war. War that seeks you out. War that arrives on your doorstep - not once in a blue moon, but once a month or a week or a day.

  Nick Turse

  Real, War, Moon

  "American War Versus Real War" by Nick Turse, www.motherjones.com. July 13, 2010.

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• I opted for the rear door, both as a courtesy and so she couldn't freak out about me showing up on her front doorstep for all of East Falls to see. Being the village pariah does make social calls most trying. -Paige

  Kelley Armstrong

  Fall, Doors, Trying

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Dime Store Magic: Women of the Otherworld”, p.255, Vintage Canada

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• I've covered a lot of the British countryside and the UK from top to bottom and side to side. It's such a pity more people don't appreciate what's on their doorstep.

  Alan Titchmarsh

  People, Appreciate, Sides

  Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

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• We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media, but I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow.

  Anderson Cooper

  Media, Unicorn, Tomorrow

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• Ignorance may find a truth on its doorstep that erudition vainly seeks in the stars.

  George Iles

  Stars, Truth, Ignorance

  George Iles (1918). “Canadian Stories”

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• I leave you, home,
  when I'm ripped from the doorstep
  by commerce or fate. Then I submit
  to the awful subway of the world.

  Anne Sexton

  Home, Fate, World

  Anne Sexton (1978). “Words for Dr. Y.: uncollected poems with three stories”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• You don't have to worry about the guy that threatens to beat you up. Worry about the guy that shows up on your doorstep, looking for a fight.

  John Layfield

  Fighting, Worry, Guy

  John Layfield (2007). “Have More Money Now”, p.173, Simon and Schuster

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• The war in Yemen is not a war that we wanted. We had no other option - there was a radical militia allied with Iran and Hezbollah that took over the country. It was in possession of heavy weapons, ballistic missiles and even an air force. Should we stand by idly while this happens at our doorstep, in one of the countries in which al-Qaida has a huge presence? So we responded, as part of a coalition, at the request of the legitimate government of Yemen, and we stepped in to support them.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, War, Government

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Plan ahead or find trouble on the doorstep.

  Confucius

  Trouble, Plans, Foresight

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• When a really cute dog shows up on your doorstep, you can't be like, Yeah, no. You're like, Oh, yay, puppy!

  Emmy Rossum

  Cute, Dog, Yay

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• People who keep a large snake in their apartment building, which happens quite a bit, all of a sudden, within two summers, have a 14-foot animal that's eating adult rabbits, and needs quite a bit of room and quite a bit of heat. That's the animal that gets put in the back of a pick-up truck and dumped into the Florida Everglades or the city lake, or just left on a doorstep - again, it's quite often the animal that suffers.

  Henry Rollins

  Summer, Animal, Feet

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• I won't have you electioneering on my doorstep. Every time you get in trouble in Parliament you run over here with your shirttail hanging out.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Running, Trouble, Parliament

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• Poetry is a sleep-maker for that which sits up late in us listening for the footfall of the future on to-day's doorstep.

  Laura Riding

  Sleep, Poetry, Listening

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• I came to all the realizations about sustainability and biodiversity because I fell in love with the way food tastes. And because I was looking for that taste I feel at the doorsteps of the organic, local, sustainable farmers, dairy people and fisherman.

  Alice Waters

  People, Realization, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Sometimes I like to get drunk and buy things on the internet, and then I wake up the next day and find 'em on my doorstep, and it's like Christmas. I get excited.

  Marilyn Manson

  Next Day, Drunk, Wake Up

  Reddit AMA, www.reddit.com. April 3, 2015.

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• We welcome all republican endorsements, no question. We'd be happy to have that. We'd be happy to have more fair treatment in the media. But I'm not going to find unicorns on my doorstep tomorrow either.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Media, Tomorrow, Unicorn

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• Britain wants the single currency to be a success. It is massively in our interests that we have a stable financial system on our doorstep.

  George Osborne

  Want, Financial, Currency

  Source: www.economist.com

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• The moment when the finished book or, better yet, a tightly packed carton of finished books arrives on my doorstep is the moment of truth, of culmination; its bliss lasts as much as five minutes, until the first typographical error or production flaw is noticed.

  John Updike

  Book, Errors, Lasts

  John Updike (2013). “More Matter: Essays And Criticism”, p.866, Penguin UK

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• A group of national security experts, military intelligence experts, issued a very concerning statement about Senator Bernie Sanders's views on foreign policy and national security, pointing out some of the comments he has made on these issues, such as inviting Iranian troops into Syria to try to resolve the conflict there; putting them right at the doorstep of Israel.

  Hillary Clinton

  Military, Israel, Views

  Hillary Clinton's speech at the Clinton-Sanders Democratic presidential debate in Durham, New Hampshire, hosted by MSNBC, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2016.

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• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  Nate Berkus

  Running, Hands, Textiles

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• One of the reasons why I, 'a medical man' decided to give up medicine was a firm conviction of the extraordinary influence on health of pleasurable excitement, especially when combined with fresh air and exercise. How frequently have I, with great difficulty, persuaded patients who were never off my doorsteps to take up golf, and how rarely, if ever, I have seen them in my consulting room again.

  Alister MacKenzie

  Giving Up, Exercise, Golf

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