I opened the door proverb

 I opened the door for a lot of people, and they just ran through and left me holding the knob.
  Bo Diddley

 In a situation where you don't think any of your roommates are home and you locked the door before you left, the first thing you should do before even putting the key in the door is turn the knob, ... If it turns, you should already be thinking that something might be wrong.

 Anyone who watches even the slightest amount of TV is familiar with the scene: An agent knocks on the door of some seemingly ordinary home or office. The door opens, and the person holding the knob is asked to identify himself. The agent then says, "I'm going to ask you to come with me."

 We're hoping that nature has left a door open. If we just find the right door ... we're trying every door knob. One of these days we'll find an open door.

 He left and then returned. Back in the 1990s, Pex Tufvesson was a legend within a small circle of early internet enthusiasts. She opened the door and stabbed him in the chest.

 The guy looked through the hole and he assumed it was somebody coming to work. He opened the back door and as soon as the back door opened, that's when the whole incident took place.

 When the door was opened the occupant was confronted by a man armed with a handgun, ... A shot was then fired through the locked security door, hitting the wooden door.

 The first sign of maturity is the discovery that the volume knob also turns to the left.

 He can take a batch of words and scramble them together and leaven them properly with a hunk of oratory and knock the White House door-knob right out of a candidate's hand.
  Will Rogers

 I went and looked out my door and he's got a big old brick banging and smashing my windshield in and I opened my door and yelled at him, 'hey!' but he just looked crazy so I slammed the door and locked it, called 9-1-1 and I went for my gun.

 That opened the door for a lot of people who may not have thought they could make films,

 They brought the left-hander to turn Lance around and he came up with a big hit immediately, ... Lane did a great job battling against Devine getting a single. They all had good at-bats, but Lance's was the one that opened the door.

 I think God opened the door for him. That makes him train even harder. If God's going to open the door for you and you don't step through it, shame on you.

 When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.
  Helen Keller

 When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.


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