Window Quotes - Page 3

• Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane.

  George Orwell

  Writing, Window Panes, Should

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• If the door is locked, try the window.

  Lynn Caine

  Creativity, Doors, Trying

  Lynn Caine (1978). “Lifelines”

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• A pessimist doesn't see the sunset outside, he sees the dirt on the window.

  Jim Rohn

  Sunset, Dirt, Pessimist

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• The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Graduation, Education, Wall

  Sydney J. Harris (1985). “Pieces of Eight Pa”, Mariner Books

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• I sometimes say to people, "I am a window frame - no more. The window frame is not that important. What is important is the light that comes through the window.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Light, People, Important

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• Sometimes the best of gods gift's arrive by the shattering of all the window panes.

  Paulo Coelho

  Window Panes, Sometimes, Shattering

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• A habit cannot be tossed out the window; it must be coaxed down the stairs a step at a time.

  Mark Twain

  Time, Steps, Habit

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• You can't make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it.

  Frank Lloyd Wright

  Art, Light, Doors

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• This world is full of remedies. But you have no remedy until God opens a window for you. You may not be aware of that remedy just now. In the hour of need it will be made clear to you. The Prophet said God made a remedy for every pain.

  Rumi

  Wisdom, Pain, Islamic

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• Close a door, and you'd still feel a breeze through the window.

  Jodi Picoult

  Doors, Breeze, Feels

  Jodi Picoult (2003). “Second Glance: A Novel”, p.92, Simon and Schuster

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• Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart.

  Desmond Tutu

  Air, Order, Shining

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• There is much virtue in a window. It is to a human being as a frame is to a painting, as a proscenium to a play, as 'form' to literature. It strongly defines its content.

  Max Beerbohm

  Play, Literature, Painting

  Sir Max Beerbohm (1958). “Mainly on the Air”

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• In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe.

  Samuel Beckett

  Knows, Universe

  Samuel Beckett (2007). “I Can't Go On, I'll Go On: A Samuel Beckett Reader”, p.276, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open.

  Harold Klemp

  Heaven, Trying, Truth Seekers

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• Bad weather always looks worse through a window.

  Tom Lehrer

  Rainy Day, Weather, Looks

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• Strange things blow in through my window on the wings of the night wind and I don't worry about my destiny.

  Carl Sandburg

  Blow, Night, Destiny

  Carl Sandburg, Margaret Sandburg, George Hendrick (1999). “Ever the Winds of Chance”, p.156, University of Illinois Press

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• Keep passing the open windows.

  John Irving

  Life, Depression, Encouraging

  FaceBook post by John Irving from Aug 06, 2014

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• What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind.

  Vernon Howard

  Break Through, Always Trying, Mind

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• A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.

  Anais Nin

  Love, Good Morning, Peace

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• Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

  Henry James

  I Hate You, Doors, Imagination

  Henry James (2015). “The Portrait of a Lady (Unabridged): From the famous author of the realism movement, known for The Turn of The Screw, The Wings of the Dove, The American, The Bostonian, The Ambassadors, What Maisie Knew…”, p.36, e-artnow

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• All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my existence. The only thing I’ve ever really cared about is my inner life. My greatest griefs faded to nothing the moment I opened the window onto my inner self and lost myself in watching. I never tried to be anything other than a dreamer. I never paid any attention to people who told me to go out and live. I belonged always to whatever was far from me and to whatever I could never be. Anything that was not mine, however base, always seemed to be full of poetry. The only thing I ever loved was pure nothingness.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Grief, Self

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.194, Profile Books

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• May I kiss you then? On this miserable paper? I might as well open the window and kiss the night air.

  Franz Kafka

  Kissing, Night, Air

  Franz Kafka (2013). “Letters to Felice”, p.94, Schocken

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• There was something awesome in the thought of the solitary mortal standing by the open window and summoning in from the gloom outside the spirits of the nether world.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  World, Spirit, Solitary

  Sir Arthur Conan Doyle “Mysteries and Adventures”, Lulu.com

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• There are possibilities that dreams are our little windows upon a parallel timeline.

  Tom DeLonge

  Dream, Littles, Possibility

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• I went window shopping today! I bought four windows.

  Tommy Cooper

  Funny, Humor, Window Shopping

  "Jus' Like That" by Michael Billington, www.theguardian.com. April 9, 2003.

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