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«I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.»
Author: Elizabeth Taylor (Actress) | About: Fear | Keywords: adventurous, doors, opened
«If I had my hand full of truth, I would take good care how I opened it.»
Author: Fontenelle (Man of letter, Scientist) | Keywords: opened
«I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief»
Author: Gerry Spence | About: Mind | Keywords: belief, By belief, closed, opened, wonder
«I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming that comes when you finish the life of the emotions and of personal relations; and suddenly find - at the age of fifty, say - that a whole new life has opened before you, filled with things you can think about, study, or read about...It is as if a fresh sap of ideas and thoughts was rising in you.»
«If you follow your bliss, doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.»
«I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke in me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.»
«I'm not the kind of guy to knock at a door and then when the door is opened not go in.»
Author: William Saroyan (Writer) | Keywords: go in, knock, opened
«No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars or sailed to an uncharted land or opened a new heaven to the human spirit.»
«If I ever opened a trampoline store, I don't think I'd call it Trampo-Land, because you might think it was a store for tramps, which is not the impression we are trying to convey with our store. On the other hand, we would not prohibit tramps from browsing, or testing the trampolines, unless a tramp's gyrations seemed to be getting out of control.»
«If the fish had not opened its mouth, it would not have been caught»
Author: Proverb | Keywords: caught, fish, opened, the fish