Entrances Quotes - Page 11

• It is not uncommon for those who at their first entrance into the world were distinguished for attainments or abilities, to disappoint the hopes which they had raised, and to end in neglect and obscurity that life which they began in honour. To the long catalogue of the inconveniences of old age, which moral and satirical writers have so copiously displayed, may be often added the loss of fame.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Loss, Long, Age

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• To create, I destroyed myself; I made myself external to such a degree within myself that within myself I do not exist except in an external fashion. I am the living setting in which several actors make entrances, putting on several different plays.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Fashion, Play, Degrees

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• It is through the tender austerity of our troubles that the Son of Man comes knocking. In every event He seeks an entrance to my heart, yes, even in my most helpless, futile, fruitless moments. The very cracks and empty crannies of my life, my perplexities and hurts and botched-up jobs, He wants to fill with Himself, His joy, His life...He urges me to learn of Him: 'I am gentle and humble in heart.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Hurt, Jobs, Heart

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• A moment after the fairy's entrance the window was blown open by the breathing of the little stars, and Peter dropped in.

  James M. Barrie

  Stars, Breathing, Littles

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.16, 谷月社

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• I thought about the cameras following me in the terminal and pictured my family watching my entrance on TV. I hoped they’d be proud.

  Kiera Cass

  Cameras, Proud, Tvs

  Kiera Cass (2015). “The Selection Series 4-Book Collection: The Selection, The Elite, The One, The Heir”, p.41, HarperCollins

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• Together we made our way from the service entrances in back to the front, Jenks shedding clothes and handing them to me to stuff in my bag every few yards. It was terribly distracting, but I managed to avoid running into the Dumpsters and recycling bins.

  Kim Harrison

  Running, Clothes, Together

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• You notice how they always put the fruit and veg at the entrance to the supermarket? You go in thinking 'this is a fresh shop, everything in here is FRESH! I will do well to shop here'. You never go straight to the bit with the toilet paper, loo brushes and such do you? You'd think 'this is a POO shop! Everything in here is themed on POO!

  Eddie Izzard

  Thinking, Paper, Toilets

  "Eddie Izzard: Definite Article ", www.imdb.com. 1996.

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• And the silken sad uncertain rustling of each purple curtain Thrilled me — filled me with fantastic terrors never felt before; So that now, to still the beating of my heart, I stood repeating, Tis some visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door — Some late visitor entreating entrance at my chamber door; — This it is, and nothing more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Heart, Doors, Purple

  Edgar Allan Poe (2015). “A Classic Crime Collection”, p.168, Simon and Schuster

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• Entrance into Heaven is not at the hour of death, but at the moment of conversion.

  Benjamin Whichcote

  Heaven, Moments, Hours

  Benjamin Whichcote (1751). “The works of ... Benjamin Whichcote”, p.194

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• Many of us knock on the door but remain outside, because knocking and entering are entirely different actions. Knocking is necessary, consisting of reading books, attending meetings, asking questions. But entrance requires much bolder action. It requires one to enter into himself, to uncover hidden motives, to see contradictions, and to realize his actual power for self-change.

  Vernon Howard

  Motivational, Book, Reading

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• If by some magic, autism had been eradicated from the face of the Earth, then men would still be socializing in front of a wood fire at the entrance to a cave.

  Temple Grandin

  Men, Fire, Autism

  "Thinking in Pictures : My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition)". Book by Temple Grandin, 2006.

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• He's marked his entrance with an error of some momentum

  Barry Davies

  Soccer, Football, Errors

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• One should never make one's entrance with a scandal. One should reserve that to give an interest to one's old age.

  Oscar Wilde

  Giving, Luck, Age

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• For forty years did unbelief, murmuring, and rebellion shut out ancient Israel from the land of Canaan. The same sins have delayed the entrance of modern Israel into the heavenly Canaan. In neither case were the promises of God at fault. It is the unbelief, the worldliness, unconsecration, and strife among the Lord's professed people that have kept us in this world of sin and sorrow so many years

  Ellen G. White

  Israel, Years, Land

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• My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes a direct entrance to the fearful, commonplace, splendid and the average grotesque banality in life.

  Max Beckmann

  Art, Average, Fairy Tale

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• Thus with the year Seasons return; but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of even or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, or human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me; from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of Nature's works, to me expung'd and raz'd, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.

  John Milton

  Summer, Sweet, Book

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 3, l. 37

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• Arsenal have class. I remember when I was at Spurs, the Arsenal players would arrive for matches in their navy blazers with the gold gun emblem sewn into their pockets and grey slacks. We couldn’t match their ground with that beautiful main entrance, marble halls and spiral staircase. Even in 1961 when we won the Double, we were never as big a club as Arsenal.

  Jimmy Greaves

  Beautiful, Gun, Player

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• I find that when you open on a group of people sitting down and talking, the scene sits down with them. The best antidote for that is an entrance. Begin the scene with someone entering, and somehow it’s more interesting.

  Howard Hawks

  Talking, People, Interesting

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• On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that knows every hidden entrance into collar and shopping bag. The quiet rain that can rust a tin roof without the tin roof making a sound in protest. The shamanic rain that feeds the imagination. The rain that seems actually a secret language, whispering, like the ecstasy of primitives, of the essence of things.

  Tom Robbins

  Rain, Fall, Essence

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• By divine mandate the interpreter and guardian of the Scriptures, and the depository of Sacred Tradition living within her, the Church alone is the entrance to salvation: She alone, by herself, and under the protection and guidance of the Holy Spirit, is the source of truth.

  Pope Pius XII

  Church, Sacred, Scripture

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• The day when the Jew was first admitted to civil rights, the Christian state was in danger...the entrance of the Jew into {White) society marked the destruction of the State, meaning by State, the Christian State.

  Bernard Lazare

  Christian, Rights, White

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• According to my views, aiming at quantitative investigations, that is at establishing relations between measurements of phenomena, should take first place in the experimental practice of physics. By measurement to knowledge [door meten tot weten] I should like to write as a motto above the entrance to every physics laboratory.

  Heike Kamerlingh Onnes

  Writing, Knowledge, Science

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• The really creative person is not interested in dominating anybody. He is so utterly rejoicing in life - he wants to create, he wants to participate with God. Creativity is prayer. And whenever you create something, in those moments you are with God, you walk with God, you live in God. The more creative you are the more divine you are. To me, creativity is religion. Art is just the entrance to the temple of religion.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Prayer, Creativity

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• A transition from an author's book to his conversation is too often like an entrance into a large city, after a distant prospect. Remotely, we see nothing but spires of temples and turrets of palaces, and imagine it the residence of splendour, grandeur, and magnificence; but when we have passed the gates, we find it perplexed with narrow passages, disgraced with despicable cottages, embarrassed with obstructions, and clouded with smoke.

  Samuel Johnson

  Fear, Book, Writing

  Samuel Johnson (1827). “The Rambler”, p.13

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• In a word, I consider hospitals only as the entrance to scientific medicine; they are the first field of observation which a physician enters; but the true sanctuary of medical science is a laboratory; only there can he seek explanations of life in the normal and pathological states by means of experimental analysis.

  Claude Bernard

  Life, Mean, Science

  Claude Bernard (2012). “An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine”, p.168, Courier Corporation

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