Dues Quotes - Page 36

• One door away from heaven And the key is ours to lose. One door away from heaven But oh, the entry dues.

  Dean Koontz

  Keys, Doors, Heaven

  Dean Koontz (2012). “One Door Away from Heaven: A superb thriller of redemption, fear and wonder”, p.593, Hachette UK

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• I will greet this day with love in my heart. And how will I do this? Henceforth will I look on all things with love and be born again. I will love the sun for it warms my bones; yet I will love the rain for it cleanses my spirit. I will love the light for it shows me the way; yet I will love the darkness for it shows me the stars. I will welcome happiness as it enlarges my heart; yet I will endure sadness for it opens my soul. I will acknowledge rewards for they are my due; yet I will welcome obstacles for they are my challenge.

  Og Mandino

  Love, Life, Happiness

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• Socialism is a wonderful idea. It is only as a reality that it has been disastrous. Among people of every race, color, and creed, all around the world, socialism has led to hunger in countries that used to have surplus food to export.... Nevertheless, for many of those who deal primarily in ideas, socialism remains an attractive idea -- in fact, seductive. Its every failure is explained away as due to the inadequacies of particular leaders.

  Thomas Sowell

  Country, Reality, Race

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• Trust was accumulated quickly, due primarily to the brute strength of the man's gentleness, his thereness. (p.36)

  Markus Zusak

  Men, Brutes, Gentleness

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• Everything I’ve ever gotten in life is largely due to the fact that I was born in this country, America, at this time with these opportunities for its citizens. It is the primary obligation of our generation to turn over a similar America to our kids.

  Thomas Friedman

  Country, Kids, Opportunity

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• I shudder at the thought of men.... I'm due to fall in love again

  Dorothy Parker

  Falling In Love, Men, Love Again

  Dorothy Parker (1992). “The Sayings of Dorothy Parker”, Duckbacks

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• So… um… what’s the, er, date? You know, the due date for the little monster.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Monsters, Littles, Due Date

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• We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We must remember always that accusation is not proof and that conviction depends upon evidence and due process of law. We will not walk in fear, one of another. We will not be driven by fear into an age of unreason, if we dig deep in our history and our doctrine, and remember that we are not descended from fearful men – not from men who feared to write, to speak, to associate, and to defend causes that were, for the moment, unpopular.

  Edward R. Murrow

  Fear, Writing, Men

  YouTube Chanel "KD"/ "Edward R. Murrow: 'A Report on Senator Joseph R. McCarthy'", www.youtube.com. November 10, 2014.

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• I once asked a young dissertation writer whether her suddenly grayed hair was due to ill health or personal tragedy; she answered: “It was the footnotes”.

  Joanna Russ

  Hair, Ill Health, Tragedy

  Joanna Russ (1983). “How to Suppress Women's Writing”, p.137, University of Texas Press

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• You gotta pay your dues to sing the blues.

  Carol Plum-Ucci

  Pay

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• Lucy was suffering from the most grievous wrong which this world has yet discovered: diplomatic advantage had been taken of her sincerity, of her craving for sympathy and love. Such a wrong is not easily forgotten. Never again did she expose herself without due consideration and precaution against rebuff. And such a wrong may react disastrously upon the soul.

  E. M. Forster

  Love, Taken, Soul

  E.M. Forster (2012). “A Room with a View”, p.63, Courier Corporation

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• And above all, you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and panelling…the question should never be: ‘Do I like that kind of service?’ but ‘Are these doctrines true: Is holiness there? Does my conscience move me towards this? Is my reluctance to move to this door due to my pride, or my mere taste, or my personal dislike for this particular door-keeper?

  C. S. Lewis

  Moving, Pride, Doors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “Mere Christianity”, p.16, Harper Collins

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• He Sipped his coffee, watched the flames. "You gave me my life, you did," He insisted when Summerset made a protesting sound. "And I worked-in my fashion- to build this place. I asked you to tend it for me. You've never let me down. But I needed her. The one thing, the only thing that could make this place home." "She's not what I would have chosen for you" "Oh, that I know" "But she's right for you. The one for you." Despite, or maybe due to, her many flaws" "I imagine she thinks the same thing about you". Memory in Death, Roarke and Summerset

  Nora Roberts

  Fashion, Memories, Coffee

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• This is my life, I thought...I have excised the cancer from my past, cut it out; I have crossed the high plains, descended into the desert, traversed oceans, and planted my feet in new soil; I have been the apprentice, paid my dues, and have just become master of my ship. But when I look down, why do I see the ancient, tarred, mud-stained slippers that I buried at the start of the journey still stuck to my feet?

  Abraham Verghese

  Cancer, Ocean, Cutting

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• We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.

  George Washington Carver

  Art, Home, Rainy Day

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• Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Thinking, Errors

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.62

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• Let me guess. The big one is due in on the north shore? (Dante) Yes. So let’s make this quick. I have a board, a wave, and a babe with my name on them and I would like to take advantage of all three. (Savitar)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Names, Boards, Three

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2005). “Unleash the Night”, p.175, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux

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• Speaking of, her family is due in any minute to claim her body. What am I supposed to tell them when we can’t give the body over? Again, I don’t think ‘oops’ will quite cover it. (Tate)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Thinking, Giving, Body

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2008). “Dream Chaser”, p.143, Macmillan

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• The greater part of the world's troubles are due to questions of grammar.

  Michel de Montaigne

  World, Problem, Trouble

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• I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.

  John Green

  Death, Real, Loving Someone

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.113, Penguin

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• in due time you'll learn there is life after a lost love!

  Brenda Jackson

  Lost Love, Lost, Due Time

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• Love is a check, that can be forged, that can be cashed. Love is a payment that comes due.

  Janet Fitch

  Love Is, Checks, Payment

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• I was having a mildly paranoid day, mostly due to the fact that the mad priest lady from over the river had taken to nailing weasels to my front door again.

  Warren Ellis

  Taken, Bad Ass, Doors

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• Sleep is the most moronic fraternity in the world, with the heaviest dues and the crudest rituals. It is a mental torture I find debasing... I simply cannot get used to the nightly betrayal of reason, humanity, genius.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Betrayal, Sleep, Humanity

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1989). “Speak, Memory: An Autobiography Revisited”

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• But sometimes the world disrobes, slips its dress off a shoulder, stops time for a beat. If we look up at that moment, it's not due to any ability of ours to pierce the darkness, it's the world's brief bestowal. The catastrophe of grace.

  Anne Michaels

  Darkness, Grace, World

  Anne Michaels (2010). “Fugitive Pieces”, p.175, Emblem Editions

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