Closing Doors Quotes

Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.

I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down.

When one door closes, another one opens.

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library.

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

Nothing in life has happened to you, it's happened FOR You!

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors.

You have to come to your closed doors before you come to your open doors

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.

Nothing in life has happened to you. It's happened for you. Every disappointment. Every wrong. Even every closed door has helped make you into who you are.

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

He [the cat] liked to peep into the refrigerator and risk having his head shut in by the closing door. He also climbed to the top of the stove, discontinuing the practice after he singed his tail.

Democracies die behind closed doors.

Democracies die behind closed doors. . . . When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

A life is a moment in season. A life is one snowfall. A life is one autumn day. A life is the delicate, rapid edge of a closing door's shadow. A life is a brief movement of arms and of legs.

close some doors today. not because of pride, incapacity or arrogance, but simply because they lead you nowhere

We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life's dominant species that it is hard to grasp that we are here only because of timely extraterrestrial bangs and other random flukes. The one thing we have in common with all other living things is that for nearly four billions years our ancestors have managed to slip through a series of closing doors every time we needed them to.

It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator.

Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

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

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us.