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“The Son of the Carpenter made the door of heaven so low that you must either take off your plumes or stoop humbly to enter it.”

Made Heaven Doors Son Lows Carpenter Stoops

Author:Austin O'Malley

“When hopes and dreams are loose in the streets, it is well for the timid to lock doors, shutter windows and lie low until the wrath has passed. For there is often a monstrous incongruity between the hopes, however noble and tender, and the action which follows them. It is as if ivied maidens and garlanded youths were to herald the four horsemen of the apocalypse .”

Source: The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements

“Visiting any shop for the first time is exciting. There's always that buzz as you push open the door; that hope; that belief - that this is going to be the shop of all shops, which will bring you everything you ever wanted, at magically low prices.”

Firsts Wanted Belief Doors Lows First Time Exciting Shops Visiting Buzz

Book:Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)

Source: Shopaholic Abroad: (Shopaholic Book 2)

“The Miss America contest isthe most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.”

Way Want America Culture Class Doors Middle Missing Anxiety Ambition Lows Theater Entertainment Middle Class Ritual Capture Contests Polished Vulgarity Respectability Miss America High Class

Author:Gerald Early

“Junior was being chided for his low grades. Little Robert, who lived a few doors away, was held up as an example. "Robert doesn't get C's and D's does he?" asked his father. "No," Junior admitted, "but he's different. He has very bright parents".”

Littles Doe Different Father Parent Doors Example Intellectual Lows Grades Juniors

Book:Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers

Source: Braude's Handbook of Stories for Toastmasters and Speakers

“The clean clear colours were in my head. But one day as I looked at the brown burned wood of the Shanty, I thought 'I can paint one of those dismal-coloured paintings like the men. I think just for fun I will try - all low-toned and dreary with the tree besides the door.' In my next show, 'The Shanty' went up. The men seemed to approve of it. They seemed to think that maybe I was beginning to paint. That was my only low-toned dismal-coloured painting.”

Thinking Men Trying I Can Shows Next Fun Clear Doors Tree He Man Painting One Day Lows Clean Paint Woods Colour Brown Burned Dreary Just For Fun

Author:Georgia O'Keeffe

“No one is banging my door down to be a superhero. I don't know how good I would be. I have low bone density, so I don't know if anyone really wants to put me in a cape and chuck me out a window. But a lot of my friends, who are great actors and who come from film, are doing TV because that's where the opportunities are. For us, it does feel like it's similar to making the movies that we used to make.”

Ifs Knows Want Feels Doe Would Be Film Used Actors Opportunity Know How Doors Tvs Lows My Friends Window Bones Superhero Chuck Great Actors Banging Capes Density

Author:Winona Ryder