"A moving door hinge never corrodes. Flowing water never grows stagnant."
Read quote
11 likes
Doors quotes
Doors
4K quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
Explore further
Topics related to Doors
Browse quotes that often appear alongside doors — connected by shared ideas and recurring themes.
Quote collection
Doors quotes (page 17 of 203)
Follow a thought to its author, or read the full quote page.
"When you write for a living and you can't do anything else, you know that sooner or later that the deadline is going to come screaming down on you like a goddamn banshee. There's no avoiding it...So one day you just don't appear at the El Adobe bar anymore; you shut the door, paint the windows black, rent an electric typewriter and become the monster you always were - the writer."
Read quote
11 likes
"A "portal" is an opening (door, window, or opening). A heavenly portal or a glory portal is a heavenly opening through which God's goodness manifests. I have seen a portal in a vision and it was a circular opening where a column of light poured down into the earth. There were angels ascending and descending."
Read quote
10 likes
"It is vain for the sober man to knock at poesy's door."
Read quote
10 likes
"Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors."
Read quote
10 likes
"Dreams are the subtle Dower That make us rich an Hour Then fling us poor Out of the purple door."
Read quote
10 likes
"The doors of the world are opened to people who can read."
Read quote
10 likes
"The fastest way for you to succeed is by piggy-backing on the good advice and counsel of men and women who have already spent years leaning how to succeed. When you do this on a regular and systematic basis, you will open up doors of opportunity and possibilities for you that today you cannot even imagine."
Read quote
10 likes
"The closet door is open for me, where I left it, since I left it open, it has graciously stayed open."
Read quote
10 likes
"I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed."
Read quote
10 likes
"I've learned a lot about fashion through modeling, but you know what they say, mother knows best. She used to tell me, "Your shoes, bags and belt better match before you walk out the door." I love her, but I don't necessarily agree with that advice anymore!"
Read quote
10 likes
"Put All of your Energy & Attention into Visualizing ... It's then that Doors Begin to Open for You"
Read quote
10 likes
"Men shut their doors against a setting sun."
Read quote
10 likes
"don't just describe an emotion, arouse it, make them experience it, by manipulating the symbol of the emotion, and sometimes we have to come into awareness through the back door."
Read quote
10 likes
"In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity."
Read quote
10 likes
"The gross national product includes air pollution and advertising for cigarettes, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors, and jails for the people who break them ... It does not allow for the health of our families, the quality of thier education, or the joy of their play."
Read quote
10 likes
"The doors of this Library are open now and are all welcome. The judgment of history is left to you, the people. I have no fears of that, for we have done our best. And so I say, come and learn from it."
Read quote
10 likes
"Learn the alchemy true human beings know. The moment you accept what troubles you've been given the door with open."
Read quote
10 likes
"Don’t knock on any random door like a beggar. Reach your long hand out to another door, beyond where you go on the street, the street where everyone says, "How are you?" and no one says How aren’t you?"
Read quote
10 likes
"You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open."
Read quote
10 likes