Closed Quotes

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The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. — Frank Lebby Stanton
If a dream affords the dreamer some light on himself, it is not the person with closed eyes who makes the discovery but the person… — Michel Leiris
Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. — William Blake
In questions of this sort there are two things to be observed. First, that the truth of the Scriptures be inviolably maintained. Secondly, since Scripture… — Thomas Aquinas
Love looks to the eternal. Love is indeed "ecstasy," not in the sense of a moment of intoxication, but rather as a journey, an on-going… — Pope Benedict XVI
Sick, our nature demanded to be healed; fallen, to be raised up; dead, to rise again... Closed in the darkness, it was necessary to bring… — Gregory of Nyssa
Grieving, like being blind, is a strange business; you have to learn how to do it. We seek company in mourning, but after the early… — Ursula K. Le Guin
Proportion thy charity to the strength of thine estate, lest God proportion thine estate to the weakness of thy charity. Let the lips of the… — Francis Quarles
I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one… — Gordie Howe
But for the Jews this moral-spiritual issue raises the same societal problem it does for the Greeks: how can a man have the "right" to… — Kenny Smith
The American war is over; but this far from being the case with the American revolution. On the contrary, nothing but the first act of… — Benjamin Rush
Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. — William Eldridge Odom
The death of a dear friend, wife, brother, lover, which seemed nothing but privation, somewhat later assumes the aspect of a guide or genius; for… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The business being thus closed . . . dined together and took a cordial leave of each other After which I returned to my lodgings,… — George Washington
Distinguish open-minded people from closed-minded people. Open-minded people seek to learn by asking questions; they realize that what they know is little in relation to… — Ray Dalio
We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow… — Jean Baudrillard
In The Last of Her Kind, Sigrid Nunez once again creates characters of such depth and situations of such vivid moral complexity that reading these… — Margot Livesey
Literature ultimately helps one to ground a deeper and wider outlook. An over-directed life without the inner resource to step outside of itself is closed… — Gwee Li Sui
Since I had the baby I can't tolerate anything violent or sad, I saw the Matrix and I had my eyes closed through a lot… — Lisa Kudrow
I've been looking forward to doing an album, but it's really sad to see how many doors have been closed because of the gay thing.… — Jai Rodriguez

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