Best window & doe Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The faithful man perceives nothing less than opportunity in difficulties. Flowing through his spine, faith and courage work together: Such a man does not fear losing his life, thus he will risk losing it at times in order to empower it. By this he actually values his life more than the man who fears losing his life. It is much like leaping from a window in order to avoid a fire yet in that most crucial moment knowing that God will appear to catch you.”

Source: Killosophy

“Without going out-of-doors, one can know all he needs to know. Without even looking out of his window, one can grasp the nature of everything. Without going beyond his own nature, one can achieve ultimate wisdom. Therefore, the intelligent man knows all he needs to know without going away, And sees all he needs to see without looking elsewhere, And does all he needs to do wihout undue exertion.”

Knows Men Needs Doe Doors Achieve Window Ultimate Intelligent Going Away Elsewhere Going Out Exertion Intelligent Man

Author:Laozi

“Surface is a modernist concept. What surface does is to encourage one to see the painting as object rather than as a window on the world.”

World Doe Objects Painting Concepts Window Surface Modernism

Author:Kay WalkingStick

“The towns and countryside that the traveller sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate.”

Should Mind Doe Window Towns Train Slow Down Traveller Countryside

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“I think that at the end of the day I'm drawn to a certain level of ambiguous storytelling that requires hard thought and work in the same way that the New York Times crossword puzzle does: Sometimes you just want to put it down or throw it out the window, but there's a real rewarding sense if you feel like you've cracked it.”

Ifs Thinking Way Want Feels Doe Real Ends Sometimes Hard Certain Levels New York Like You Window Storytelling The End Of The Day Puzzles New York Times Cracked Ambiguous Crosswords

Author:Damon Lindelof

“What does NOT work best for anyone, though, is being forced to keep a Windows partition around just to play video games. The best operating system for playing games is the one that lets you keep your word processor, instant messenger, email, and music player open in the background while you play. The worst is the one that will force you to shut all that down just to screw around for a few minutes.”

Doe Play Games Force Player Minutes Worst Window Backgrounds Video Instant Screws Email Messengers Playing Games Operating Systems Partition Processors Keeping Your Word

Author:Ryan C. Gordon

“Whatever is pure is also simple. It does not keep the eye on itself. The observer forgets the window in the landscape it displays. A fine style gives the view of fancy--its figures, its trees, or its palaces,--without a spot.”

Giving Doe Eye Simple Forget Views Tree Style Figures Fine Pure Window Spots Landscape Fancy Display Observers Palaces

Book:Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

Source: Pleasures,objects and advantages of literature

“I was sickly as a child and gravitated to books and drawing. During my early teen years, I spent hundreds of hours at my window, sketching neighborhood children at play. I sketched and listened, and those notebooks became the fertile field of my work later on. There is not a book I have written or a picture I have drawn that does not, in some way, owe them its existence.”

Way Years Children Doe Book Play Hours Existence Written Fields Window Drawing Neighborhood Notebook Fertile Sketching

Author:Maurice Sendak

“How does light enter a house? If the windows are open. How does light enter a human? If the door of love is open.”

Ifs Humans Doe Light House Love Is Doors Window

Author:Paulo Coelho

“I bought Windows 2.0, Windows 3.0, Windows 3.1415926, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows ME, Windows RSVP, The Best of Windows, Windows Strikes Back, Windows Does Dallas, and Windows Let's All Buy Bill Gates a House the Size of Vermont.”

Doe Humor Funny House Window Bills Size Strikes Gates Microsoft Dallas Vermont Strike Back

Book:Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

Source: Boogers Are My Beat: More Lies, but Some Actual Journalism

“Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.”

Doe Window Escaping

Author:Kevin James

“An actor goes crazy in a hotel room, gets trashed, throws a bench, breaks a window, and he is considered a rock star. An actress does that and she’s sent to rehab and is thought to have problems and issues and can’t get a job.”

Doe Problem Jobs Actors Stars Rooms Break Issues Crazy Rocks Window Actresses Hotel Rock Star Benches Rehab Hotel Rooms

Author:Mila Kunis

“Instead of discussing with myself every morning whether I feel inspired or not, I step into my office every day at nine sharp, open the window and politely ask the muse to enter and kiss me. Sometimes she comes in, more often she does not. But she can never claim that she hasn't found me waiting in the right place.”

Feels Doe Sometimes Asks Found Waiting Steps Morning Kissing Office Window Claims Inspired Nine Every Morning Muse Right Place Discussing Kiss Me

Author:Peter Prange

“Window-breaking does not necessarily occur on a large scale because some areas are inhabited by determined window-breakers whereas others are populated by window-lovers; rather, one unrepaired broken window is a signal that no one cares, and so breaking more windows costs nothing.”

Doe Care Broken Lovers Cost Areas Window Determined Scales Signals Large Scale No One Cares Broken Windows

Book:On Character: Essays

Source: On Character: Essays

“If one door closes and another does not open, try climbing thru a window, either way, make your way in.”

Ifs Way Trying Doe Doors Window Climbing

Author:Behdad Sami

“When a man is driving in a car and looks out the window and notices a woman with a great body, as he strains to check her face out, how does she know to keep turning so the back of her head is always toward him?”

Knows Men Looks Doe Body Faces Car Window Driving Checks Strain

Author:Woody Allen

“Microsoft fears Intel is eventually going to create its own operating system and optimize its chips for its own OS, cutting Microsoft out of the picture. Kind of like what Microsoft allegedly does to people who write applications for Windows.”

People Writing Kind Doe Cutting Window Application Chips Microsoft Operating Systems

Author:John C. Dvorak

“I was a great one as a kid for standing and just looking out a window for hours and hours and hours. Now the TV does that for me, except for the view changes immensely.”

Doe Kids Hours Views Tvs Standing Window Great Ones

Author:John Lennon

“We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.”

Way Doe Sometimes Whole Stories Light Turns Dark Window Versions Locked Good Friend Turn-on Locked Up

Book:Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

Source: Bittersweet: Thoughts on Change, Grace, and Learning the Hard Way

“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

“Dramatic reading and writing for kids can open a window to individuality and to expression that nothing else does, because all of a sudden the pressure is off and they just bring themselves to the table.”

Writing Doe Kids Reading Expression Window Pressure Tables Individuality Dramatic Reading And Writing

Author:Emma Walton Hamilton

“There is no one, says another, whom fortune does not visit once in his life; but when she does not find him ready to receive her, she walks in at the door, and flies out at the window.”

Doe Walks Doors Ready Window Fortune

Author:Baron de Montesquieu

“Israel welcomes the wind of change, and sees a window of opportunity. Democratic and science-based economies by nature desire peace. Israel does not want to be an island of affluence in an ocean of poverty. Improvements in our neighbours' lives mean improvements to the neighbourhood in which we live.”

Want Mean Doe Desire Opportunity Poverty Economy Wind Ocean Window Democratic Israel Improvement Islands Neighbour Affluence Life Means Neighbourhoods Window Of Opportunity Winds Of Change

Author:Shimon Peres

“The pursuit of happiness is a matter of choice...it is a positive attitude we choose to express. It is not a gift delivered to our door each morning, nor does it come through the window. And it is certain that our circumstances are not the things that make us joyful. If we wait for them to get just right, we will never laugh again.”

Ifs Doe Matter Certain Choices Waiting Attitude Morning Laughing Doors Circumstances Window Pursuit Positive Attitude Joyful Pursuit Of Happiness

Book:Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life

Source: Laugh Again Hope Again: Two Books to Inspire a Joy-Filled Life

“So imagine a fire going -- wood snapping the way it does when it’s a little green — the wind rattling the windows behind the curtains -- and one of those Chopin melodies that feel like sorrow and ecstasy all mixed together pouring from the keys -- and you have my idea of happiness. Or just reading, reading and lamplight, the sound of pages turning. And so you dare to be happy. You do that thing. You dare.”

Way Feels Littles Doe Ideas Together Reading Sound Behinds Fire Imagine Wind Keys Sorrow Pages Window Green Dare Woods Melody Ecstasy Curtains Pouring Snapping Pages Turning

Book:The King in the Tree

Source: The King in the Tree

“Rumour is information distilled so finely that it can filter through anything. It does not need doors and windows -- sometimes it does not need people. It can exist free and wild, running from ear to ear without ever touching lips.”

People Needs Doe Sometimes Running Doors Information Window Ears Lips Touching Filters Discworld Rumours

Book:Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)

Source: Feet Of Clay: (Discworld Novel 19)

“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House”

Doe Sometimes Eye House Window Ancestor Frightening Peers Her Eyes Haunted Houses

Author:Angela Carter

“"Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" asked Simon. "No," Jace said. "Sometimes he sits on the couch and does it."”

Doe Said Sometimes Blood Standing Window Jace Couches Silhouettes City Of Ashes Muttering

Author:Cassandra Clare

“Does somebody have an explanation why there's human flesh on the hall window upstairs?”

Humans Doe Window Flesh Explanation Halls Upstairs

Author:David Foster Wallace

“Who shall blame him? Who will not secretly rejoice when the hero puts his armour off, and halts by the window and gazes at his wife and son, who, very distant at first, gradually come closer and closer, till lips and book and head are clearly before him, though still lovely and unfamiliar from the intensity of his isolation and the waste of ages and the perishing of the stars, and finally putting his pipe in his pocket and bending his magnificent head before her—who will blame him if he does homage to the beauty of the world?”

Source: To the Lighthouse

“I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”

“I wonder," she said. "Does this castle have a moat?" A group of servants were busy emptying the privy buckets into the moat when they were startled by a sudden drawn-out cry. They looked up in time see a scarlet-and-gold clad figure sail out of a first-story window, turn over once and then land with an enormus splash in the dark, rancid waters. They shrugged and went back to work.”

Firsts Doe Said Stories Turns Water Dark Wonder Groups Land Cry Figures Window Gold Busy Servant Sail Castles Buckets Scarlet Back To Work Moats

Author:John Flanagan

“But it is the knowledge of how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby that wails beneath my window one day and does not wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me, the greatest indifference to annihilation. I know somewhat too much; and from this knowledge, once one has been infected, there seems to be no recovering. I ought never to have taken my lantern to see what was going on in the hut by the granary. On the other hand, there was no way, once I had picked up the lantern, for me to put it down again. The knot loops in upon itself; I cannot find the end.”

Knows Way Doe Has Beens Ends Hands Seems Next Taken Too Much Worst Baby Ought One Day Window Shame Indifference Dependent Knots Annihilation Loops Recovering Huts Lanterns

Book:Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

Source: Waiting for the Barbarians: A Novel

“But this is touching, Severus,” said Dumbledore seriously. “Have you grown to care for the boy, after all?” “For him?” shouted Snape. “Expecto Patronum!” From the tip of his wand burst the silver doe. She landed on the office floor, bounded once across the office, and soared out of the window. Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears. “After all this time?” “Always,” said Snape.”

Doe Said Eye Care Boys Tears Office Window His Eyes Silver Touching Faded Wands Fly Away Snape

Author:J. K. Rowling

“And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come —it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw.”

Thinking Trying Doe Cold Spring Window Breaths Notes Glasses Despite

Author:Ally Carter

“Magnus stood up and went to the window. He pushed the curtain back, letting in just enough light to silhouette his hawklike profile. "Blood," he said, half to himself. "I had a dream two nights ago. I saw a city all of blood, with towers made of bone, and blood ran in the streets like water." Simon slewed his eyes over to Jace. "Is standing by the window muttering about blood something he does all the time?" "No," said Jace, "sometimes he sits on the couch and does it.”

Source: Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels

“Unlike my mother, my father does not cry quietly. His wails roll out like a wave of pain, and I scramble to roll up my window. My mother cannot hear that. I cannot bear to hear it myself. I am not used to my father's crying. I've had no time to harden my heart against him.”

Heart Doe Pain Used Mother Father Cry Bears My Heart Window Wave Protectiveness

Book:Double Identity

Source: Double Identity

“Poor? What does that matter? When poverty creeps in at the door, love flies in through the window.”

Doe Matter Poor Poverty Doors Window Creeps

Book:Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: Picture of Dorian Gray

“At what point does a fly give up trying to escape through a closed window – do its survival instincts keep it going until it is physically capable of no more, or does it eventually learn after one crash too many that there is no way out? At what point do you decide that enough is enough?”

Way Giving Trying Doe Enough Giving Up Survival Capable Window Instinct Crash Survival Instinct Enough Is Enough

Author:Tabitha Suzuma

“Often the answer to our prayer does not come while we’re on our knees but while we’re on our feet serving the Lord and serving those around us. Selfless acts of service and consecration refine our spirits remove the scales from our spiritual eyes and open the windows of heaven. By becoming the answer to someone’s prayer we often find the answer to our own.”

“I stopped in the full force of a patch of sunlight in the lobby window and let my skin soak up the energy. I hadn’t realized I needed it until it reached inside and stilled me in a way that only David’s touch had been able to achieve. “Why does that feel so good?” I asked. “And don’t tell me it’s because we’ve been shut in a room for days.” “Like calls to like,” he said. “You’re made of fire now.” “So I’m going to feel like this every time I pass an open flame? Great. Firegasm.”

Way Feels Doe Made Said Able Energy Force Rooms Fire Achieve Needed Window Skins Flames Sunlight Patches

Author:Rachel Caine

“The city, however, does not tell its past, but contains it like the lines of a hand, written in the corners of the streets, the gratings of the windows, the banisters of the steps, the antennae of the lightning rods, the poles of the flags, every segment marked in turn with scratches, indentations, scrolls.”

Doe Hands Past Turns Lines Cities Steps Written Streets Window Corners Flags Lightning Scratches

Book:Invisible Cities

Source: Invisible Cities

“As we seek the Lord ever more diligently, we will surely find Him. We will see clearly that the Lord does not abandon His Church or His faithful Saints. Our eyes will be opened, and we will see Him open the windows of heaven and shower us with more of His light. We will find the spiritual strength to survive even during the darkest night.”

Doe Light Eye Spiritual Night Heaven Church Lord Window Saint Faithful Abandon Showers Spiritual Strength

Author:Dieter F. Uchtdorf

“You see, Greg, my mother is going through a feline phase. Blinky is a Persian,' Hale said simply, as if that should explain everything. 'Binky has a nasty habit of shedding all over the living room furniture, you see.' Gregory Wainwright nodded as if he understood perfectly. 'And so we had to get new living room furniture, which, unfortunately, does not go with the Monet.' Kat stood there for a moment, staring into that small window of the world where someone would tire of a Monet simply because it clashed with the couch.”

Ifs World Should Doe Said Moments Mother Rooms Habit Understood Window Staring Phases Nasty Furniture Tire Couches Living Room Persian Hale Feline Monet

Author:Ally Carter

“In our absence, the violet early evening light pours in the bay window, filling the still room like water poured into a glass. The glass is delicate. The thin, tight surface of the liquid light trembles. But it does not break. Time does not pass. Not yet.”

Doe Stills Light Water Rooms Break Window Glasses Surface Absence Evening Delicate Violet Filling Liquid Evening Light

Book:Madness: A Bipolar Life

Source: Madness: A Bipolar Life

“I don't know if there is actually more rain here in England, or if it was just that the rain seemed to be so deliberately annoying. Every drop hit the window with a peevish "Am I bothering you? Does this make you cold and wet? Oh, sorry.”

Ifs Knows Doe Cold Rain Window England Sorry Bother Annoying Wet Bothering You

Author:Maureen Johnson

“Civil Rights opened the windows. When you open the windows, it does not mean that everybody will get through. We must create our own opportunities.”

Mean Doe Opportunity Rights Window Civil Rights Hippie

Author:Mary Frances Berry

“Might I trouble you to open the window, for chloroform vapour does not help the palate.”

Doe Helping Might Trouble Humorous Window Sarcasm Palate Vapour Chloroform

Book:Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories

Source: Sherlock Holmes. Selected Stories

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