“Liberty is a harsh mistress. You cannot pick and choose what you like and dislike about her. Liberty will not change her principles for you, no matter how much you claim to love her. She will stand fast in her demands for total acceptance. If you can't receive her, she will recognize you as a false lover and leave you. And when you hear that door slam, it will take every tear in your eye, every ounce of blood in your veins, and all the nerve in your heart to win her back.” IfsHeartMatterEyeWinningLibertyPrinciplesDoorsBloodAcceptanceTearsLoversDemandPicksClaimsNervesDislikeHarshVeinsMistressSlamLike And DislikeTears In Your Eyes Author:William H. Masters
“In 1776, 1950, or now, there's never been a golden age of liberty, and there never will be. People who value freedom will always have to defend it from those who claim the right to wield power over others. ... And, in today's world, that means more than a musket by the door. It means being an active citizen.” PeopleWorldMeanAgeTodayValuesLibertyDoorsCitizensClaimsActiveGoldenGolden AgeToday's WorldPower Over Others Author:David Boaz
“The energy necessary to create a wormhole or to wrap time into nuts is incredible. It's not for us. It's maybe for our descendants who have mastered the energy of this technology. So if one day, somebody knocks on your door and claims to be your great great great great granddaughter, don't slam the door.” IfsEnergyTechnologyDoorsOne DayClaimsIncrediblesNutsWrapsDescendantsSlamGranddaughterGrand DaughterWormholes Author:Michio Kaku
“Yet far from putting any meaningful constraints on law enforcement in this war, the U.S. Supreme Court has given the police license to stop and search just about anyone, in any public place, without a shred of evidence of criminal activity, and it has also closed the courthouse doors to claims of racial bias at every stage of the judicial process from stops and searches to plea bargaining and sentencing.” WarLawGivenProcessDoorsStageActivityEvidenceClaimsPoliceCourtCriminalsMeaningfulSupremeBiasSupreme CourtLaw EnforcementEnforcementLicenseConstraintsJudicialBargainingCourthousesRacial Bias Author:Michelle Alexander
“When you are happy, so happy you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted to feel His claims upon you as an interruption, if you remember yourself and turn to Him with gratitude and praise, you will be — or so it feels— welcomed with open arms. But go to Him when your need is desperate, when all other help is vain, and what do you find? A door slammed in your face, and a sound of bolting and double bolting on the inside. After that, silence.” IfsNeedsFeelsHelpingRememberFacesTurnsSoundSilenceDoorsArmsGratitudeClaimsPraiseVainDesperateYour FaceTemptedInterruptionsOpen ArmsGrief Observed Book:A Grief Observed Source: A Grief Observed
“You go first. Go through the door before me. Enter the limousine while I wait by your side. Enter the shops while I stand behind, guarding your back. Sit at the table before me. Please, sample the tastiest morsels while I sit quietly. My desire is that you go first, in every occasion of earthly life. Only once will I go before you, And that will be at my last moment. For when death claims us, you must go last. Because I can't live one second without you.” FirstsI CanMomentsLastsDesireWaitingSidesBehindsDoorsPleaseClaimsTablesOccasionsShopsWithout YouBecause I CanYour SideSampleGuardingLimousinesEvery Occasion Author:Jean Sasson
“There is no absolute knowledge. And those who claim it, whether they are scientists or dogmatists, open the door to tragedy.” DoorsScientistClaimsTragedyAbsolutes Book:The Ascent of Man Source: The Ascent of Man
“The wolf in him demanded he kick (the door) down and claim her. The man in him just wanted to hold her close and protect her. He’d never been so torn. So confused. So damned horny!” MenWantedDoorsProtectClaimsDown AndKicksConfusedTornHornySo Confused Book:Night Play Source: Night Play
“The antitheist is quick to excoriate all religious belief by generically laying the blame at the door of all who claim to be religious, without distinction. By the same measure, why is there not an equal enthusiasm to distribute blame for violence engendered by some of the irreligious?” BeliefReligiousViolenceDoorsEqualClaimsBlameAtheistEnthusiasmDistinctionReligious Belief Book:Can Man Live Without God Source: Can Man Live Without God
“To be ordinary is the greatest virtue - because when you are just ordinary, nothing to claim, of this world or that, the ego disappears. The ego feeds on imbalance, the ego feeds on extremes. The ego lives on the polarities - in the middle it disappears. And in every area, in every direction of life, remember this: just stop in the middle and soon you will find the mind has stopped, the ego has stopped. Nothing to claim, it disappears. And when it disappears you have become virtuous. Now the door is open for the divine. In the middle you meet him; at the extremes you miss.” WorldMindRememberVirtueDoorsMiddleMissingThis WorldDivineEgoOrdinaryAreasClaimsExtremesDisappearVirtuousImbalancePolarity Author:Rajneesh