Closed Quotes

1459 Closed quotes by 1055 unique authors

The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. — Ahmed Kathrada
I always wanted a father. Any kind. A strict one, a funny one, one who bought me pink dresses, one who wished I was a… — Judy Blundell
I'm like the opposite of one of those comedians who's funny on stage and depressed behind closed doors . On record, I can get pretty… — Adele
As far as I'm concerned, I'm now in the business of making spiritual records and using my voice for that purpose. I'm not going to… — Sinead O'Connor
With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without. — Henri Cartier-Bresson
In some inland post feel the savagery, the utter savagery, had closed round him--all that mysterious life of the wilderness that stirs in the forest,… — Joseph Conrad
The reaches opened before us and closed behind, as if the forest had stepped leisurely across the water to bar the way for our return.… — Joseph Conrad
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been,… — Alice Sebold
There is one expanding horror in American life. It is that our long odyssey toward liberty, democracy and freedom-for-all may be achieved in such a… — Norman Mailer
Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a… — Deepak Chopra
Each moment of my life I was dreaming of how great I could be, and continued working hard. Each time I closed my eyes I… — Kobe Bryant
The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. — Frederick Jackson Turner
My eyes were closed, they're open now — Damien Rice
Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves — Chinua Achebe
The world, in resting upon the earth, strives to surmount it. As self-opening it cannot endure anything closed. The earth, however, as sheltering and concealing,… — Martin Heidegger
The rejection of all abstract formalism. Materialism reminds every science of its real source: the world men transform. No science can, whether in its history… — Louis Althusser
Insofar as the theorist wins, therefore, by constructing an increasingly closed and terrifying machine, to that very degree he loses, since the critical capacity of… — Fredric Jameson
Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed — John D. Rockefeller
Art is not ideology. It is completely impossible to explain art on the basis of the homological relation that it is supposed to maintain with… — Alain Badiou
It's the loneliest feeling in the world-to find yourself standing up when everybody else is sitting down. To have everybody look at you and say,… — Robert E. Lee

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