Doorstep Quotes

The doorstep to the temple of wisdom is a knowledge of our own ignorance.
Benjamin Franklin

Knowledge, Wisdom, Ignorance

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect upon myself is to live on the doorstep of hell.
Thomas Merton

Live, Hell, Light

The artist's world is limitless. It can be found anywhere, far from where he lives or a few feet away. It is always on his doorstep.
Paul Strand

At the weekend, one of the paparazzi left their lunch box filled with half-eaten pasta salad on my doorstep: it was like a little warning, you know? 'We have been here.'
Katherine Jenkins

Here, Weekend, Left

In the current climate motorists have a long list of issues from which to choose to raise on the doorstep. Policies aimed at reducing emissions - like the changes to Vehicle Excise Duty or here in Manchester the proposals for congestion charges - are not without controversy.
Lucy Powell

Long, Here, Choose

But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. They're spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and we're on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people.
David Axelrod

Change, Health, Great

Gray hats are the ones who think they're doing good, but they're not. You learn that when the FBI shows up on your doorstep.
Sean Parker

Good, Learn, Shows

I have been overwhelmed by the response that I have received on the doorstep during this campaign.
Anne Campbell

Campaign, Response, Received

I need them, need them to give me a kick up the arse. Otherwise I'd just be sat-in getting fat, counting me money. It's good people living on your doorstep and looking through your bins. Gives you energy.
Liam Gallagher

Good, Money, Give

Should we find a second form of life right here on our doorstep, we could be confident that life is a truly cosmic phenomenon. If so, there may well be sentient beings somewhere in the galaxy wondering, as do we, if they are not alone in the universe.
Paul Davies

Life, Alone, May

I have very fond memories of the '80s; they were very formative years for me. I certainly remember the Cold War. It was a closer doorstep for the Brits than the Americans, so it was a very real and palpable threat at the time.
Matthew Rhys

Time, War, Real

A unified theory would put us at the doorstep of a vast universe of things that we could finally explore with precision.
Brian Greene

Put, Universe, Theory

People understand we're on the doorstep of doing something really historic that will help the American people and strengthen our country for the long run.
David Axelrod

Help, Long, Country

Beware the ends of the earth and the exotic: the drama is on your doorstep wherever the slums; are, wherever there is malnutrition, wherever there is exploitation and cruelty.
John Grierson

Earth, Drama, Cruelty

For all of the woes besetting our business, I believe with all my heart that newspapers - whether they are distributed to your doorstep, your laptop, your iPhone or a chip implanted in your cerebral cortex - will be around for a long time.
Bill Keller

Time, Business, Heart

I never got in this business, in cinema, to make horror movies. They arrived on my doorstep and I got typecast. Which was fine, I enjoy it, but I got into this business to make westerns. And the kind of westerns I used to see, they died. So that didn't work out.
John Carpenter

Work, Business, Movies

If there are more and more environmental refugees, they are going to end up on your doorstep too.
Nina Fedoroff

I refuse to put make-up on just because the paparazzi are on my doorstep. I find it morally wrong.
Lily Allen

Find, Put, Wrong

Man is a fire-stealing animal, and we can't help building machines and machine intelligences, even if, from time to time, we use them not only to outsmart ourselves but to bring us right up to the doorstep of Doom.
Richard Dooling

Time, Help, Ourselves

Finally, Colin Farrell showed up on my doorstep, only he wasn't Colin Farrell - he was just this Irish kid who had read the script and wanted to do it.
Robert Towne

Wanted, Read, Irish

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