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“Broke my femur on a cruise with my wife in Italy. I'd walked back to my cabin after dinner with half a plate of spaghetti when I leaned in to open the door. Turns out it was already open, so I fell flat on my face like something from the Keystone Kops.”

Faces Turns Half Wife Doors Dinner My Wife Broke Flats Plates Like Something Cruise Cabins Spaghetti Keystones

Author:Art Donovan

“I have learned that God’s silence to my questions is not a door slammed in my face. I may not have the answers—but I do have him.”

May Faces Answers Silence Doors I Have Learned

Author:Dave Dravecky

“It is an accurate statement that the followers of Witchcraft do not usually proselytize, which means you aren't going to find us standing on your local street corner thumping our Books of Shadows. Nor do you have to worry about jumping out of the shower to answer our serene and smiling faces at the door with your clothes stuck to various uncomfortable places on your wet body. But just because we (hopefully) aren't the forcible type doesn't mean we don't exist.”

Source: To Ride a Silver Broomstick: New Generation Witchcraft

“Sometimes, you need a door slammed in your face before you can hear opportunity knock.”

Needs Sometimes Faces Opportunity Doors Your Face Opportunity Knocks Opportunity Knocking

Book:Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

Source: Geary's Guide to the World's Great Aphorists

“Always walk towards open doors. And if they slam shut in your face, kick that sucker in and keep going.”

Ifs Funny Faces Walks Doors Kicks Keep Going Your Face Sucker Slam

Author:Richard Gere

“The rum fiend would like to go and hang up a skeleton in your beautiful house so that, when you opened the front door to go in, you would see it in the hall; and, when you sat at your table you would see it hanging from the wall; and, when you opened your bedroom you would find it stretched upon your pillow; and, waking at night, you would feel its cold hand passing over your face and pinching at your heart. There is no home so beautiful but it may be devastated by the awful curse.”

“Piety is indifferent whether she enters at the eye or at the ear. There is none of the senses at which she does not knock one day or other. The Puritans forgot this, and thrust Beauty out of the meeting-house and slammed the door in her face.”

Doe Eye Faces House Doors One Day Ears Meetings Senses Indifferent Thrust Piety Puritan

Book:Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

Source: Conversations on Some of the Old Poets

“As long as I can run fast, track will always be an option. But right now I'm focused on football because the NFL is knocking on my door and I'm not going to slam it in its face.”

Long I Can Running Faces Doors Football Right Now Track Focused Nfl Knocking Slam

Author:Robert Griffin III

“Never lose hope when the beloved sends you away. If you're abandoned if you're left hopeless tomorrow for sure you'll be called again. If the door is shut right in your face keep waiting with patience don't leave right away. Seeing your patience your love will soon summon you with grace raise you like a champion.”

Ifs Faces Left Waiting Loses Grace Seeing Doors Tomorrow Raises Beloved Champion Hopeless Your Face Abandoned Never Lose Hope

Author:Rumi

“It's horrible to get a cameraphone shoved in your face every time you walk out the door.”

Faces Walks Doors Horrible Your Face

Author:John Simm

“How foolish to think that one can ever slam the door in the face of age. Much wiser to be polite and gracious and ask him to lunch in advance.”

Thinking Age Faces Asks Doors Aging Foolish Lunch Wiser Polite Gracious Slam

Book:The Letters of Noel Coward

Source: The Letters of Noel Coward

“It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.”

Faces Rooms Wife Doors Century Husband Blow Revenge Drawing Contempt Nineteenth Century

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“We have observed for thirty centuries that a large nose is a sign on the door of our face that says 'Herein dwells a man who is intelligent, prudent, courteous, affable, noble-minded and generous'. A small nose is a cork on the bottle of the opposite vices.”

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Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“On my face extended flat I was walloped with a cat For listening at the key-hole of the door.”

Faces Doors Keys Listening Discipline Cat Holes Flats

Author:W. S. Gilbert

“In 24 years in the movie business, you have a lot of doors slammed in your face, and a lot of people say mean things. Every time, I'm constantly surprised at how the span of time gets quicker that I get okay with it, and I'm over it. That's been an interesting thing to learn.”

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Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“Everything in business is to get you face to face with people to respond to your offer. You have to realize the Internet is merely a door opening, and it has to be followed up by aggressive sales activity by the business owner.”

People Faces Realizing Doors Internet Offers Activity Opening Owners Aggressive Face To Face Business Owners

Author:Brian Tracy

“Last Halloween a kid tried to rip my face off. He thought it was a mask. Now it's different when I open the door the kids hand me candy.”

Different Humor Hands Kids Funny Lasts Faces Doors Mask Halloween Candy Rip

Author:Rodney Dangerfield

“The minute you walk through the door and your kid runs into your arms, you're smacked in the face with a dose of reality: It's like, this is my real life.”

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Author:Faith Hill

“Madam, if your son were to come home and try to shirk duty, you ought to shut your door in his face and treat him as a renegade unworthy of your name or regard.”

Ifs Trying War Home Faces Names Doors Son Duty Ought Treats Regard Coming Home Unworthy Your Son Shirk Renegades

Author:Stonewall Jackson

“Henry Kissinger should have the door shut in his face by every decent person and should be shamed, ostracized and excluded.”

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Author:Christopher Hitchens

“The first time I heard Bob Dylan, I was in the car with my mother listening to WMCA, and on came that snare shot that sounded like somebody'd kicked open the door to your mind.”

“Turn off your computer and go out of doors. Dig a large enough hole to transplant a mature apple tree. Nurture the tree, feed it, coddle it so that its fruit will be ample, bright and firm. Practice open-hand strikes against the rough bark of the trunk until it's time to harvest. Choose the champion of your apple crop, pluck it from the tree, and beat yourself about the face and tits with it until your mettle will suffice.”

Enough Hands Faces Turns Practice Doors Tree Computer Beats Fruit Strikes Holes Firm Champion Apples Rough Mature Nurture Harvest Crops Bark Trunks Turn Off Pluck Transplants Apple Trees Mettle

Author:Nick Offerman

“I shall never forget the faces of the boys and the girls in that little Welhausen Mexican School, and I remember even yet the pain of realizing and knowing then that college was closed to practically every one of those children because they were too poor. And I think it was then that I made up my mind that this nation could never rest while the door to knowledge remained closed to any American.”

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Author:Lyndon B. Johnson

“If your every human plan and calculation has miscarried, if, one by one, human props have been knocked out, and doors have shut in your face, take heart. God is trying to get a message through to you, and the message is: "Stop depending on inadequate human resources. Let me handle the matter.".”

Ifs Trying Humans Heart Has Beens Matter Faces Plans Doors Messages Resources Let Me Handle Your Face Inadequate Calculations Human Resources Props

Author:Catherine Marshall

“Since war often enters homes through the "kitchen door," we need to understand women's attempts to keep life going in the face of shortage of food, closing of schools and reduced freedoms.”

Needs War Home School Faces Doors Kitchen Closing Shortage

Author:Zainab Salbi

“I'm grew up a huge fan of The Three Stooges and Monty Python, so somebody getting slapped in the face with a fish, or falling out of a chair, or running into a door, or tripping over their own feet and eating it, is all stuff I find really, really funny.”

Running Faces Fall Three Stuff Doors Feet Fans Huge Grew Eating Grew Up Fishes Chairs Python Tripping Monty Stooges Three Stooges Tripping Over

Author:Thomas Sadoski

“You don't get rich, you don't often have much fun. Sometimes you get beaten up or shot at or tossed into the jail house. Once in a long while you get dead. Every other month you decide to give it up and find some sensible occupation while you can still walk without shaking your head. Then the door buzzer rings and you open the inner door to the waiting room and there stands a new face with a new problem, a new load of grief, and a small piece of money.”

Source: The Long Goodbye: A Novel

“Now little kids come to my front door and give me cookies. You see that smile on their face, they're looking at me the same way I used to look at Hulk Hogan and Bret Hart, and that's pretty cool.”

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Author:Edge

“I really hope it engenders a lot of conversation because I believe there are a lot of people who put on faces. We all do it, every time we walk out the door. And there are a lot of people who have to hide who they are. And I think this story speaks to that.”

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Author:Glenn Close

“At 50, I thought proudly: Here we are, half century! Being 60 was fairly frightening. You want to know how I spent my 70th birthday? I put on a completely black face, a fuzzy black Afro wig, wore black clothes and hung a black wreath on my door.”

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Author:Bette Davis

“The Spirit continued to stir and declare, "You cannot be afraid to face the wolf at the door. Don't let the fear paralyze you. When you get in fear and get paralyzed, sometimes somebody has to come and get you. Whatever is swarming around you that thinks you are dead. you tell it that you are not dead! Tell the vultures you are not dead and that they have to move on! Say, 'Vultures, I am not the meal you thought I was going to be!”

Thinking Sometimes Faces Moving Spirit Doors Meals Paralyzed Vulture

Author:Chuck Pierce

“Every day at about four o'clock, I would go up to a farmhouse - or whatever kind of house was around - and knock on the door and say, "Hi, I'm biking across Canada, and I'm wondering if I could pitch my tent on your land." And sometimes people slammed the door in my face, but the vast majority of the time they said, "Of course," and then they said, "Come for dinner," and then they packed me food the next day and fed me breakfast and sometimes they got out the bottle of wine they'd been saving for a special occasion.”

“Seeing my children makes me come most alive. I come home and I see my kids' faces light up when they see me at the door with my guitar case. They run to me, we hug. I never go beyond a few weeks without being in their presence, so they have adjusted quite well.”

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Author:Richard Patrick

“I didn't want to take the typical action roles that everybody was expecting me to take, because I was going to get typecast as that guy, the action guy who didn't have anything really bright to say and who just kicked in doors and punched people in the face and shot people and drove off in a cool car. I didn't want to be that guy.”

People Want Action Faces Guy Roles Doors Car Shots Expecting Typical That Guy Cool Cars

Author:Dave Bautista

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