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I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.


Barbara Mandrell

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I DONT KNOW God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.
PATRICIA HEATON Politeness opens doors while rudeness closes them.
JEFFREY BENJAMIN I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
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THE DOORS The Ace of Spades! The Ace of Spades!
THE DOORS Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
THE DOORS I had to overcome all the disappointment, rejection and slammed doors, then picking myself back up. ...
BILL LESTER I'd open doors for anyone who opens doors for me.
QUAVO He (Bopp) has always had the door open to us, ... His doors have always been open to us.
DAVID BRADFORD When I had my television show, 'Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell Sisters,' it was my high h...
BARBARA MANDRELL The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is al...
SIR WILFRED T. GRENFELL Believing in God and trusting in him has giving me strength and peace. He has showed me things about...
CLAUDIA ALAN The good Lord is amazing; He opens up doors. I was close to abandoning the dream, and He was like, &...
DAVID NAIL When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER The same God who opens doors also shuts doors. We must be submissive enough to His will to understan...
JILLIAN HALL Whenever God closes one door He always opens another, even though sometimes it's Hell in the hallway...
UNKNOWN I know Wal-Mart will have a six-month honeymoon where all the traffic will go their way and it will ...
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GERMANY KENT I have witnessed how education opens doors, and I know that when sound instruction takes place, stud...
DANIEL AKAKA When God closes a door He opens a window.
UNKNOWN This is the strangest life I have ever known.
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JENNIFER ANISTON Eric Clapton has earned all of our respect. He is the greatest. He opened the doors for us. Without ...
BUTCH TRUCKS I just want people to know out there no matter what they've done, God doesn't judge us on ho...
LEX LUGER I can always hear the bell when it opens and closes.
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E. E. CUMMINGS To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most o...
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ORISON SWETT MARDEN When I started producing, it was George Abbott directing and he would let me do the scenery. He just...
HAROLD PRINCE The human ego is the ugliest part of man. We lift up men who only show us darkness, and put down tho...
SUZY KASSEM 'Twilight' is such an amazing project, and I think it opened up doors for all of us cast mem...
KELLAN LUTZ When God closes a door, he opens a window. Yeah. The problem was that this particular window opened ...
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V. E. SCHWAB The resolute look on life closes plenty of doors.
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SIMON SINEK No doors are closed. It's very early in the process, obviously but I'll just say in a general sense ...
NEIL ABBOTT Opening doors for us, helping us with our jackets and chairs - we love all that.
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CASSIE COMPTON God created us all for a reason, for a purpose and that is where he expects us to work and develop
SUNDAY ADELAJA Cancer opens many doors. One of the most important is your heart.
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JOHN UPDIKE Thoughts close more doors then they open. This causes limitation.
Action opens more doors then...
CHARLES F. GLASSMAN Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he...
JOSEPH FRANKLIN RUTHERFORD I know there is a God, and that He hates injustice and slavery. I see the storm coming, and I know t...
ABRAHAM LINCOLN God our Heavenly Father knows us by name. Jesus Christ lives; He is the Messiah. He loves us. The At...
DIETER F. UCHTDORF We keep moving forward, opening new doors and doing new things, because we're curious,and curiosity ...
WALT DISNEY COMPANY We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity...
WALT DISNEY You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
SUFJAN STEVENS That baby sees the world with completeness that you and I will never know again. His doors of percep...
TOM WOLFE Beyond happiness or unhappiness, though it is both things, love is intensity; it does not give us et...
OCTAVIO PAZ Bad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life he is leading, ...
PHILLIPS BROOKS The doors of wisdom are never shut.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Owning fewer keys opens more doors.
ALEX MORRITT A small key opens big doors.
TURKISH PROVERB I dont know what was wrong with us. Either we were nervous or were just not that good.
ALEX HERNANDEZ I'm sure that I know that, it's behind one of all doors.
DEYTH BANGER God lives. I know that He lives. I know that Jesus is the Christ and the Redeemer of the world.
EZRA TAFT BENSON God is the only true companion faithful through time.No matter what, He is always there for us. He n...
BHAWANA JAIN I know coach Q. I know him personally as a man and as a coach, and he's just not that type of person...
JASON HORTON Love unlocks doors and opens windows that weren't even there before.
MIGNON MCLAUGHLIN Now that right there was tough on him, I know, because first year as a head coach and you have a dea...
JAMIE WINBORN I think God always has the best for us.
ERNIE HARWELL God will open more doors for you when you have passed through the one he has opened
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BARRETT GREEN Even when it didn't work out the way you thought, you have to give God praise, he has a better plan,...
ARTHLENE LAUDAT LAWRENCE God makes each one of us for the time into which we are born. He creates us for a purpose. Our job i...
ROBIN LEE HATCHER What do you mean, blindly? That baby is a very sentient creature… That baby sees the world with a ...
TOM WOLFE My greatest influence is Jimi Hendrix, and if he's been reincarnated, or if he's looking dow...
MESHELL NDEGEOCELLO The truth is that none of us is wise enough to know our best future. We do not have the vision to se...
JON MORRISON About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an i...
WILL ROGERS We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curio...
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BRANDON HEATH Understanding opens new doors to the person who needs it, and also to the one who gives it.
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COACH LYNN MCCORMICK To exercise at or near capacity is the best way I know of reaching a true introspective state. If yo...
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JOSEPH B. WIRTHLIN I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would ...
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C. JOYBELL C. I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I dont' know whether they were for televis...
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BARBARA KRUGER Look, we're all saddled with things that make us better or worse. This world is a crazy place, a...
BARBARA KRUGER I mean, making art is about objectifying your experience of the world, transforming the flow of mome...
BARBARA KRUGER It's hard for me to understand how working-class people support themselves.
BARBARA KRUGER I'd always been a news junkie, always read lots of newspapers and watched the Sunday morning new...
BARBARA KRUGER I had to figure out how to bring the world into my work.
BARBARA KRUGER Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
BARBARA KRUGER Seeing is no longer believing. The very notion of truth has been put into crisis. In a world bloated...
BARBARA KRUGER I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.
BARBARA KRUGER I try to deal with the complexities of power and social life, but as far as the visual presentation ...
BARBARA KRUGER I'm living my life, not buying a lifestyle.
BARBARA KRUGER We never really know what's around the corner when we're filming - what turn a story will ta...
BARBARA KOPPLE Most of my films have been documentaries, but I'm also very interested in narrative filmmaking.
BARBARA KOPPLE I think I still have that same drive and determination, the same curiosity and passion for filmmakin...
BARBARA KOPPLE I've always been interested in how people think, how they react to challenges in their lives - w...
BARBARA KOPPLE The important thing isn't the house. It's the ability to make it. You carry that in your bra...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER The first sentence of a book is a promise.
BARBARA KINGSOLVER For me, writing time has always been precious, something I wait for and am eager for and make the be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Terms like that, 'Humane Society,' are devised with people like me in mind, who don't ca...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER Readers of fiction read, I think, for a deeper embrace of the world, of reality. And that's brav...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER What you lose in blindness is the space around you, the place where you are, and without that you mi...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort ...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER I'm of a fearsome mind to throw my arms around every living librarian who crosses my path, on be...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying o...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER