Quotes of Entrance - somelinesforyou

“ Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll, I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul. ”

- William Ernest Henley

“ When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. - Alexander Graham Bell. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other ones invariably slink in after it. ”

- Baltasar Gracian

“ The truth knocks on the door and you say, go away, I'm looking for the truth, and it goes away. Puzzling. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ Who dares think one thing, and another tell, My heart detests him as the gates of hell. ”

- Homer

“ There was the Door to which I found no key; There was the Veil through which I might not see. ”

- Omar Khayyam

“ Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean. ”

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“ When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Hateful to me as are the gates of hell, Is he who, hiding one thing in his heart, Utters another. ”

- Homer

“ The courage of the poets is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness. ”

- Christopher Morley

“ Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ We must open the doors of opportunity. ”

- Lyndon B. Johnson

“ My wife met me at the door the other night in a sexy negligee. Unfortunately, she was just coming home. ”

- Rodney Dangerfield

“ Far off I hear the crowing of the cocks, And through the opening door that time unlocks Feel the fresh breathing of To-morrow creep. ”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“ When poverty comes in at doors, love leaps out at windows. ”

- John Clarke

“ How lovely are the portals of the night, When stars come out to watch the daylight die. ”

- Thomas Cole

“ Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone. ”

- Elizabeth Bowen

“ There are things known, and there are things unknown. And in between are the doors. ”

- Jim Morrison

“ Be an opener of doors. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size, or it is not the door that Providence means for him. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. ”

- Bible

“ Reality is a sliding door. ”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

“ Willingness opens the doors to knowledge, direction, and achievement. Be willing to know, be willing to do, be willing to create a positive result. Be willing, especially, to follow your dream. ”

- Peter McWilliams

“ It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, 'Go away, I'm looking for the truth.' and so it goes away. Puzzling. - Robert M. Pirsig. ”

- Robert Maynard Pirsig

“ Though you are disappointed is hope; never let hope fail you! Though one door is shut, there are thousands still open to you. ”

- Unknown

“ The only thing you will take through those pearly gates is what you have given away. ”

- Marcia Moore

“ A man of genius makes no mistakes; his errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery. ”

- James Joyce

“ I've decided I will open the door to all books as potential Oprah's Book Club selections,... I feel this will give the book club a whole new range of opportunities to explore the world through words. ”

- Oprah Winfrey

“ Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes
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