Closed Quotes

1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God. — Aiden Wilson Tozer
I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false... — Rainer Maria Rilke
At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.... The various qualities of my readings seem to permeate my every muscle, so that when… — Alberto Manguel
A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really… — Hamdi Ulukaya
Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside. — Millicent Fenwick
After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon.… — E F Schumacher
You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just… — Deva Premal
There is nothing more personal than your values. What you will and won't do to get ahead, the lines you will and won't cross to… — Patti LaBelle
My art school rejection letter arrived as a cold manila fist that closed around my fragile hopes ... The fear was practically edible. Nothing would… — Grant Morrison
For the believer in divine creation, the open question of the Mystery of Being is like an open wound. It stings and gapes, and the… — Robert M. Price
Surfing frees everything up, it's just the best soul fix. Life should be stress-free, and that's what surfing is all about. It's something you do… — Rell Sunn
Me being a shy kid, very closed off, showing vulnerability in a character was sort of a safe space on stage. It's always been in… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
To the old our mouths are always partly closed; we must swallow our obvious retorts and listen. They sit above our heads, on life's raised… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Thus, from the first divine contract, and the pure region where truth abides, a continuous chain of mercies and light extends to humanity, through every… — Louis Claude de Saint-Martin
What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and… — Philibert Joseph Roux
The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty. — Andre Gide
The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes. — John Keble
There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book. — Kate Morton
Pathos activates the eyes and ears to see and hear. At times of pathos, illness opens doors to a reality which is closed to a… — Jean Houston
A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are… — Robert Bloch
Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. — Ruben Blades
If we are on the outside, we assume a conspiracy is the perfect working of a scheme. Silent nameless men with unadorned hearts. A conspiracy… — Don DeLillo
As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major… — Doris Kearns Goodwin
The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests… — Robert Waterman McChesney
I closed my eyes. The only things I knew about why Empty Ones worked the way we did was that we had room for extra… — Kiersten White

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