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  • It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.

    Fannie Flagg (2013). “Fried Green Tomatoes, Can't Wait to Get to Heaven, and I Still Dream About You: Three Bestselling Novels”, p.60, Random House
  • They are so filthy and bestial that no honest man would admit one into his house for a water-closet doormat.

    Men   Water   House  
    Charles Dickens, Madeline House, Graham Storey (1974). “Letters: Edited by Madeline House & Graham Storey. Associate editors: W.J. Carlton [and others]”
  • Truth is as straight as an arrow, while a lie swivels all over the place. You can hide Truth under a doormat, but eventually the mat will rise very high with Time -- forcing it to reveal all the truths it conceals.

    Lying   Arrows   Truth Is  
  • I'm a bit of a tomboy, but when it comes to love I am a doormat.

    Doormat   Bits  
  • There's no such thing as intelligent vanity. It's an instinct. And you'll never find a man who is not first and foremost vain.

  • I'm not just a doormat. I'm not just being stepped on all over the place. If you look at the bulk of my material, it's about trying to find some strength through that.

  • I'm an expert in hookers. I'm an expert in doormats. I'm an expert in victims. They were the best parts. And when I woke up--sociologically, politically, and creatively--I could no longer take those parts and look in the mirror.

    Movie   Mirrors   Acting  
  • Hermes rolled his eyes. "Surely you've seen network TV lately. It's clear they don't know whether they're coming or going. That's because Janus is in charge of programming. He loves ordering new shows and cancelling them after two episodes. God of beginnings and endings, after all. Anyway, I was bringing him some magic doormats, and I was double-parked -" "You have to worry about double-parking?" "Will you let me tell the story?" "Sorry."

    Sorry   Eye   Two  
    "The Demigod Diaries". Book by Rick Riordan, August 14, 2012.
  • You can't always be the jokester and the doormat.

    Doormat  
    Source: collider.com
  • The [Carter] administration doesn't know the difference between a diplomat and a doormat.

  • Art teachers are always the doormats of the previous generation.

    Source: www.guernicamag.com
  • There are only two types of women - goddesses and doormats.

    Women   Artist   Two  
  • The altar cloth of one aeon is the doormat of the next.

    Mark Twain (1972). “Everyone's Mark Twain”
  • You're either a goddess ... or a doormat.

  • If you allow people to treat you like a doormat, they will expect you to say WELCOME.

    People   Welcome   Treats  
  • For me, there are two kinds of women - goddesses and doormats.

    Two   Kind   Goddess  
    "Henry Robinson Luce" by Briton Hadden, Time, Vol. 93. p. 66, 1969.
  • If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

    Want   Firsts   Doormat  
  • [On journalists:] They are the scavengers of society who, possessing no guts of their own, tear out the guts of celebrities. They have the sycophantic, false enthusing gush of maiden aunts: who are accustomed to being trampled on doormats.

    Aunt   Tears   Journalism  
  • I refuse to be a doormat to any man. I will never allow anyone to push me around. I am my own mistress.

    Men   Mistress   Doormat  
    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Value yourself. The only people who appreciate a doormat are people with dirty shoes.

    Dirty   Shoes   People  
  • If you behave like a doormat, expect to be stepped on and don't complain about it.

    Suzette Haden Elgin (1980). “The Gentle Art of Verbal Self Defense”, Prentice Hall
  • The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination.

  • I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

    Girly   Time   Peace  
    The Clarion, 14 Nov. 1913
  • Celebrities are the doormats to power.

    Doormat  
    "Critics pan Obama's threat to bypass Congress". "The Five" with Kimberly Guilfoyle, Bob Beckel, Eric Bolling, Dana Perino, and Greg Gutfeld, www.foxnews.com. January 16, 2014.
  • Forgiving is love's toughest work, and love's biggest risk. If you twist it into something it was never meant to be, it can make you a doormat or an insufferable manipulator. Forgiving seems almost unnatural. Our sense of fairness tells us people should pay for the wrong they do. But forgiving is love's power to break nature's rule.

  • American married life is the doormat to the whorehouse.

  • You would be miserable if you had to go through life with a human doormat with 'Welcome' written on him. You want some one made of sterner stuff. You want, as it were, a sparring-partner, some one with whom you can quarrel happily with the certain knowledge that he will not curl up in a ball for you to kick, but will be there with the return wallop.

    P. G. Wodehouse (2009). “Piccadilly Jim: Easyread Super Large 24pt Edition”, p.405, ReadHowYouWant.com
  • Learning to love others begins with learning to love ourselves unconditionally first. I will never let myself down, treat myself like a doormat, or make myself small so others can feel big. I have learned that this is the biggest gift that I give not only to myself, but also to the planet, because I paint others with the same brush as I use on myself.

    Giving   Use   Firsts  
  • "Bloated!" he cried. The corresponding hieroglyph flew through the air, bursting against a demon's chest in a spray of light. Instantly, the demon swelled like a water balloon and rolled screaming down the pyramid. "Flat!" Thoth blasted another demon, who collapsed and shriveled into a monster-shaped doormat. "Intestinal problems!" Thoth yelled. The poor demon who got zapped with that one turned green and doubled over.

    Pyramids   Light   Air  
    "The Serpent's Shadow". Book by Rick Riordan, October 3, 2017.
  • Once you have a major success with assertiveness, you learn that it's a much healthier path than being a doormat to the insensitive folks. You gain respect for yourself, have more time for your priorities, and develop authentic and healthier relationships.

    Priorities   Gains   Path  
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