A Quote by Andre Gide

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

Andre Gide

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Andre Gide
French - Writer
November 22, 1869 - February 19, 1951

If you married me,it would be scandalous and innapropriate, and doors would be closed to you." "Good God, woman, I let two of my sisters marry Gypsies. Those doors have already been closed, bolted, and nailed shut.

Lisa Kleypas

I hate to be enclosed. I don't like bathroom doors - I don't shut them. In fact, in my house, I have no doors.

Patti Smith

the habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Marjorie Holmes

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut.

Maxwell Maltz

Let's face it: families behind closed doors are the funniest thing ever - the way people talk to each other, the way you fight for 30 seconds, and then all of a sudden you're crying. Families are just ripe for comedy.

Wendi McLendon-Covey

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward.

Joel Osteen

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.

James Lankford

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

Joyce Maynard

I will not allow anyone to shut me up or shame me into silence, and I'm not going to rot away behind closed doors.

Yolanda Hadid

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

It's impossible to know what everyone does behind closed doors. Even in families, you don't know sometimes what's going on.

Bob Stoops

And then sometimes I think the people to feel saddest for are people who once knew what profoundness was, but who lost or became numb to the sensation of wonder – people who closed the doors that leads us into the secret world – or who had the doors closed for them by time and neglect and decisions made in times of weakness.

Douglas Coupland

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds.

Percy Ross

Never hate jealous people. They are jealous because they think you are better than them.

Paulo Coelho

I rescue families who are losing their homes because they have no jobs and they can't pay the mortgage and the banks are foreclosing on their homes.

will.i.am

I hate the uneducated and the ignorant. I hate the pompous and the phoney. I hate the jealous and the resentful. I hate the crabbed and mean and the petty. I hate all ordinary dull little people who aren't ashamed of being dull and little.

John Fowles

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