Top 1200 Secret Doors Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

Art and religion, carnivals and saturnalia, dancing and listening to oratory - all these have served, in H. G. Wells's phrase, as Doors in the Wall.

When you're following your inner voice, doors tend to eventually open for you, even if they mostly slam at first.

Get into the habit of doing what you see, not what you know. Human reason cannot foresee the accidents of out-of-doors.

It is a matter mostly of having the time to spare from my finished paintings to put in on travelling and sketching out of doors.

We need to avoid going down a path where we might find the doors slamming shut behind us.

My home nurtured in me an early attachment to books and other things of the intellect, to music, and to the out of doors.

Knowledge was not meant to be locked behind doors. It breathes best in the open air where all men can inhale its essence.

She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.

When I first walked through the doors of Rex Club, I realized that I didn't have to travel to raves outside the city to enjoy techno.

When you try hard at everything you do, even when it feels foolish to do so, you’re opening up doors and possibilities you might not be seeing in the moment.

What I didn't know that by sticking to craft we would blow open some doors that I never saw opened before.

Kindness is a passport that opens doors and fashions friends. It softens hearts and molds relationships that can last lifetimes.

Tonight, somewhere in America, a young person, let's say a young man, will struggle to fall to sleep, wrestling alone with a secret he's held as long as he can remember. Soon, perhaps, he will decide it's time to let that secret out. What happens next depends on him, his family, as well as his friends and his teachers and his community. But it also depends on us - on the kind of society we engender, the kind of future we build.

The fact is... our doors have not exactly been knocked down by companies willing to defend Microsoft's business practices.

I'm not going to lie; having acting greats like Kamal Haasan and Sarika as parents has, in a sense, opened doors.

If you love music, you have to be the one that opens doors. You have to be the one that build bridge on which everybody can be free to walk on. I know that that's my mission.

The secret island had looked mysterious enough on the night they had seen it before - but now, swimming in the hot June haze, it seemed more enchanting than ever. As they drew near to it, and saw the willow trees that bent over the water-edge and heard the sharp call of moorhens that scuttled off, the children gazed in delight. Nothing but trees and birds and little wild animals. Oh, what a secret island, all for their very own, to live on and play on.

We all end up living secret lives. We create what we are willing to admire and admiring what we shouldn't confess to the secret ofour own sin, our own insufficiency, our own sadness. We all end up taking our secrets into the world and handing them over to strangers, only to realize it's often too late to claim them back. The very nature of time passing is sad beyond words. Memories mean they're gone.

My path to motherhood was challenging, to say the least, and I always feel like I'm living a 'Sliding Doors' version of my life.

All the doors that I had to close. All the things I knew but I didn't know. Thank God for all I missed. 'Cause it led me here to this.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

Life, within doors, has few pleasanter prospects than a neatly-arranged and well-provisioned breakfast-table.

God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.

I knock on lots of doors, but you don't reach everyone that way - Twitter is just one of many ways of keeping in touch.

It really comes down to God opening the doors for me, and I'm trying to walk through them doing the best I can.

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

Friend, you are a divine mingle-mangle of guts and stardust. So hang in there! If doors opened for me, they can open for anyone.

It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.

We`re the generous country, we`re the ones that open our doors to other countries, and in many cases we get taken advantage of because of that.

Some Brexiteers are passionate defenders of the benefits of immigration. Others just can't wait to slam the doors shut.

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

Now writing is just working your way toward the border that the innermost secret draws around itself, and to cross that line would mean self-destruction. But writing is also an attempt to respect the borderline only for the truly innermost secret, and bit by bit to free the taboos around that core, difficult to admit as they are, from their prison of unspeakability. Not self-destruction but self-redemption. Not being afraid of unavoidable suffering.

To me, it's all about opening all the doors and getting people to be not only prolific, but creative and having control of their music.

Having the opportunity to work with someone like Beyonce is definitely going to hopefully open a few doors.

When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats.

My friend Sally is a nudist. I went to her house. The closets have no doors. The walls are covered with see-through wallpaper.

Prejudice is a house-plant which is very apt to wilt if you take it out-of-doors among folks.

I was totally romanticizing the idea of Los Angeles when the Doors, Joni Mitchell, and Neil Young were hanging out there.

A Sufi mystic who had always remained happy was asked.... For seventy years people had watched him, he had never been found sad. One day they asked him, 'What is the secret of your happiness?' He said, 'There is no secret. Every morning when I wake up, I meditate for five minutes and I say to myself, 'Listen, now there are two possibilities: you can be miserable, or you can be blissful. Choose.' And I always choose to be blissful.'

When we awaken to the beauty of nature, the doors to our true self are opened up wide, for divine healing on all levels.

I don't think there's ever a story the MCU tells that couldn't be expanded. They always leave it with some lovely doors that get opened.

I once sat next to Jim from Wild Kingdom on a flight from Atlanta. I find mentioning that opens a lot of doors.

As Muslim women, we're not waiting for the president of the United States to open doors for us or to fight our fights.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

Nature is by and large to be found out of doors, a location where, it cannot be argued, there are never enough comfortable chairs.

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straightforwardness; Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of the truth of their reports; Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every kind of warfare; If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the secret was told.

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.

I've always got into stunts; even at drama school, I was falling down trap doors, and swinging in on ropes.

When we became TV presenters, I found a place for myself and Ant bought the house for sale two doors away.

No matter what happens, it will, then, always remain secret: only I know exactly the weight and force of the covenants I have made -- I and the Lord with whom I have made them -- unless I choose to reveal them. If I do not, then they are secret and sacred no matter what others may say or do. Anyone who would reveal these things has not understood them, and therefore that person has not given them away. You cannot reveal what you do not know!

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.

This country has a proud history of opening its doors to generations of people fleeing personal persecution, civil unrest and war.

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

Anytime you get to join a group of people you admire and respect, you want to keep those doors open.

Emigration is no longer a solution; it's a defeat. People are risking death, drowning every day, but they're knocking on doors that are not open.

The ring, the call, the surprise, the shock that you have out-of-doors - be always looking for the unexpected in nature, do not settle to a formula.

In a dark time, doors will sometimes magically open and let us step inside to the warmth and light of a community.