Closing Doors And Opening New Ones Quotes & Sayings

Praise and blame, good and bad, even heat and cold, must be equally acceptable to us. — Swami Vivekananda

Every one complains of a poor memory, no one of a weak judgment. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth. — Michael Ondaatje

I think music talks to you on an emotional level, regardless of where you're from. I guess I related to the tempo of rap, the aggressiveness. — Iggy Azalea

If you're going to rattle my cage, you better make sure I'm padlocked in it. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

I would hope that people would feel that they achieved a greater opportunity in life living here in California than they had prior to when we came in. That they had a better opportunity of getting better education.That they had a better opportunity of getting a job once they had an education or training. And that overall, that their quality of life had improved. — George Deukmejian

It was to Hofmeister, working as a young man, an amateur and enthusiast, in the early morning hours of summer months, before business, at Leipzig in the years before 1851, that the vision first appeared of a common type of Life-Cycle, running through Mosses and Ferns to Gymnosperms and Flowering Plants, linking the whole series in one scheme of reproduction and life-history. — Arthur Harry Church

I ripped his spine straight out from him and watched as Raz folded into himself like crumpled paper. — Jennifer L. Armentrout

It's awful, telling it like this, isn't it? As though we didn't know the ending. As though it could have another ending. It's like watching Romeo drink poison. Every time you see it you get fooled into thinking his girlfriend might wake up and stop him. Every single time you see it you want to shout, 'You stupid ass, just wait a minute,' and she'll open her eyes! 'Oi, you, you twat, open your eyes, wake up! Don't die this time!' But they always do. — Elizabeth Wein

Toyota is smarter about defining the customer and thinking like the customer. In designing new doors for a car targeted largely toward women, Toyota engineers put on long fingernails to see how this would affect opening and closing the doors. — Anonymous

The marriage broker had assured her the groom's family was more concerned about the colour of Malli's skin than the size of her dowry. — Rasana Atreya

I insist upon 'doing it alone' ... I have always worked better alone and from my own impressions. — Claude Monet

Stand-up is probably the most solo performance in art. — Louis C.K.

If an opportunity does not knock why not build a door? — Gloria D. Gonsalves

Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes. — Jan Myrdal