Doors Closing And New Ones Opening Quotes & Sayings

I was flying out to Connecticut for the express purpose of breaking up with my boyfriend and I bought this set of three paperbacks to read on the plane and by the time I got to New Haven I was so worried about Frodo and Sam that I said to my boyfriend, "It's awful. They're trying to sneak into Mordor and the Ringwraiths are after them and I don't trust Gollum and ... " and I completely forgot to break up with him. And, as of yesterday, we've been married thirty-nine years. — Connie Willis

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

Every person is the creation of himself, the image of his own thinking and believing. As individuals think and believe, so they are. — Claude M. Bristol

Until I was 27, I'd maybe been to America once and, like, Ibiza when I was 18. That was it. — Michelle Dockery

Christianity is completely and radically anti-democratic; it is committed to spiritual aristocracy, — R.J. Rushdoony

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

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

I didn't think; I experimented. — Anthony Burgess

Reality stripped of the armor of optimism was nothing but naked truth - pale and weak. — Jamie Ford

Increase in passion gives empowerment to reap the harvest — Sunday Adelaja

If poor [African] families spent only as much on educating their children as they do on beer and prostitutes, there would be a breakthrough in the prospects of poor countries...What matters to the children's well-being isn't so much the level of the family's wealth as whether it is controlled by the mother or by the father...One early pair of studies found that when women hold assets or gain incomes, family money is more likely to be spent on nutrition, medicine, and housing, and consequently children are healthier. — Nicholas D. Kristof

A good story is elegantly wrapped, and the child discovers things bit by bit. — Robert Ingpen

Layla brought her arms around herself, no doubt because she was remembering the feel of another, stronger set. "I have wanted to, but he holds back. I hope ... I believe it is because he wishes to mate me properly first, in ceremony."
Payne felt the awful weight of premonition. "Beware, sister. You are a gentle soul."
Layla got to her feet, her smile now saddened. "Yes, I am. But I would rather my heart be broken than unopened and I know that one must ask if one is to receive. — J.R. Ward

stay curious and stay the brave, strong, unrelenting soldier of love that you are. — AVA.

Creating a character on or off the stage is an escape. — Roger Moore

The unlimited creativity of humanity has created cruelty so chilling that death itself has become a welcomed and kind benefactor. — Bryant McGill

A nation is not a budget, no matter how much ideologues want it to be so. — Steven Weber