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Doors have an immediate familiarity. They're everywhere. They're scaled to our bodies, so there's something human about them.
A picture book is a small door to the enormous world of the visual arts, and they're often the first art a young person sees.
Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.
If you give me the chance and give me your vote I will protect America from the wars that are being brought to our door step.
God, please now my future see, make it clear where I should be. Open windows, close the doors, not my will, my God, but Yours.
Open the doors of opportunity to talent and virtue and they will do themselves justice, and property will not be in bad hands.
I do believe that at times God opens some doors and closes others, but our mistake is to confuse an open door for an easy door
So requisite is the use of Astrology to the Arts of Divination, as it were the Key that opens the door of all their Mysteries.
Thierry had no idea why they were called French doors. His native countrymen weren't stupid enough to put them in their homes.
She doesn't understand that doors, walls, fences, ceilings - they're helpless to keep out what determinedly desires to get in.
That's one thing I find about having children - it does unlock a door that separates you from other women who've had children.
Sometimes we don't know how afraid we are until we've reached a strange door and we don't know what will be on the other side.
I am flattered to have been the woman to have opened the door for female rockers to be accepted into the mainly male industry.
When I had money, money, O! I knew no joy till I went poor; For many a false man as a friend Came knocking all day at my door.
You never know what doors are going to open up and why they are going to open up. You've got to be ready to walk through them.
There should be something revelatory about art. It should be totally creative and open doors for new thoughts and experiences.
Of all the various out-door recreations I have tried, when it comes to genuine, exciting sport, give me hunting with a camera.
To decide upon the answer is not scientific. In order to make progress, one must leave the door to the unknown ajar ajar only.
One could get locked in by the Pulitzer, thinking, 'This is who I am.' Doors open with it, but doors in your mind could close.
The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. My wife dresses to kill. She cooks the same way.
I thought of breaking down the door, but there's nothing left to say. That Chevy four by four says it all, sitting in my place.
All obstacles now vanish from my pathway. Doors fly open, gates are lifted and I enter the kingdom of fulfillment, under grace.
If you're an extraordinarily gifted woman, the door is open. What women are fighting for is the right to be as mediocre as men.
Food is kind of my entry card into everything. Food kind of opens the doors... because food is peace. It's good; it's positive.
When Aretha Franklin came on the radio when I was in college, we would stop the car, throw open the doors, jump out, and dance.
Evie ” came his faint whisper “I’m going to your mother see…she’s got ’em to leave a back door open…so I can steal into ’eaven.
Where charity stands watching and faith holds wide the door the dark night wakes - the glory breaks, Christmas comes once more.
Henry: Well I'm sorry about your head though, but I thought you were one of them. Indiana: Dad, they come in through the doors.
I think everything moving forward will just be instinctual, like we'll know exactly which doors to walk through when they open.
Education has become a prisoner of contemporaneity. It is the past, not the dizzy present, that is the best door to the future.
There is a certain... chivalry to the style of singing I normally do. Part of the fun for me will be to leave that at the door.
Be careful, then, and be gentle about death. For it is hard to die, it is difficult to go through the door, even when it opens.
I have lived on the lip of insanity, wanting to know reasons, knocking on a door. It opens. I've been knocking from the inside.
I hope to continue to open more doors and inspire more people, especially other amputees, to know that they are beautiful, too.
Pedigree matters: if you break your shoulder trying to open a door, it's much harder to play the game once you get in the room.
He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
If your house is really a mess and a stranger comes to the door greet him with, 'Who could have done this? We have no enemies!'
Once we open the door to the plutonium economy, we expose ourselves to absolutely terrible, horrifying risks from these people.
The truth is humbling, terrifying, and often exhilarating. It blows the doors off the hinges and fills the world with fresh air.
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.
The day will come when those knocking at the door will see it open; those who ask will receive; those who weep will be consoled.
There is a difference between him who claspeth his mistress in his arms, and him whose eyes are fixed on the door expecting her.
The heat of charity opens the doors of the heart. The heat of charity brings solar faith to the Mind. Charity is Conscious Love.
No business can stay in business without customers. How you treat - or mistreat - them determines how long your doors stay open.
In Buddha we had the great, universal heart and infinite patience, making religion practical and bringing it to everyone's door.
I've lived publicly and never hidden behind closed doors. Therefore, if I have gone over the top sometimes, it has been visible.
My door will always be open to those who genuinely renounce violence and seek peaceful accommodation into our nascent democracy.
Yalena: Could you always open your door? Kiki: Yes. Fence, too. Yalena Why don't you? Kiki: Hay sweet. Fresh water. Peppermints.
I cannot sleep for dreaming; I cannot dream but I wake and walk about the house as though I'd find you coming through some door.