Closed Quotes

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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong! — Mangosuthu Buthelezi
There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be… — Al Goldstein
Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one. — Roy H. Williams
TRIGGER CITY secures Sean Chercover's place as one of the best crime writers of his generation. It grabs you hard on the first page and… — Tasha Alexander
The present is always unsettled, no one has had time to contemplate it in tranquillity . I was a painter before I was a writer… — Isak Dinesen
I think when you see so many Hindu temples of the 10th century or earlier disfigured, defaced, you realise that something terrible happened. I feel… — V.S. Naipaul
When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a… — H R Giger
I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. — John Patrick Shanley
Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. — Jan Garbarek
America is also the nameless foreigner, the homeless refugee, the hungry boy begging for a job and the black body dangling on a tree. America… — Carlos Bulosan
Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors. — Paul Schrader
I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots. — Vincent Price
The prevailing attunement is at any given time the condition of our openness for perceiving and dealing with what we encounter; the pitch at which… — Medard Boss
Musically, it's difficult to believe Jim has only two hands and one set of vocal cords. You would think that there were a dozen of… — Unknown Author
I do not want to believe that death is the gateway to another life. For me, it is a closed door. I do not say… — Albert Camus
I saw my husband in his cell for ten minutes. During the interview the cell was packed with officers and a sergeant, who kept a… — Unknown Author
The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that… — Pope Benedict XVI
Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile.… — Mother Teresa
Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe is not closed… — Bill Moyers
Truth walks toward us on the paths of our questions. As soon as you think you have the answer, you have closed the path and… — Jacqueline Winspear

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