Closes Quotes
236 quotes by 205 authors
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Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
— Dean Acheson
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the…
— Alexander Graham Bell
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If a mathematician wishes to disparage the work of one of his colleagues, say, A, the most effective method he finds for doing this is…
— Alfred Tarski
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An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
— Marilyn vos Savant
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Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to,…
— Bryan Adams
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Lots of old slaves closes the door before they tell the truth about their days of slavery.
— Martin Jackson
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Bitterness is a result of clinging to negative experiences. It serves you no good, and closes the door to your future.
— Leon Brown
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Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round…
— William Carlos Williams
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Courtesy wins woman all as well. As valor may, but he that closes both is perfect.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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When one door closes, another one opens, but sometimes we wait too long looking at the closed door, and never realize that another door has…
— Helen Keller
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Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and…
— Rose Macaulay
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All who are caught in its seductive, tantalizing web and remain so will become addicted to its immoral, destructive influence. For many, that addiction cannot…
— Richard G. Scott
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...it is proper that the duty of helping the poor and unfortunate should especially stir Catholics, since they are members of the Mystical Body of…
— Pope John XXII
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The American president [George W. Bush] closes his eyes to the economic and human damages that are inflicted on his country and the world economy…
— Jurgen Trittin
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I can't think of anything that brings me closer to tears than when my old dog - completely exhausted after a hard day in the…
— Gene Hill
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In descriptions of Nature one must seize on small details, grouping them so that when the reader closes his eyes he gets a picture. For…
— Anton Chekhov
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As one door closes, another one shuts.
— Howard Wilkinson
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Wine has a drastic, an astringent taste. I cannot help wincing as I drink. Ascent of flowers, radiance and heat, are distilled here to a…
— Virginia Woolf
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Banning books gives us silence when we need speech. It closes our ears when we need to listen. It makes us blind when we need…
— Stephen Chbosky
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The strength and weakness of physicists is that we believe in what we can measure. And if we can't measure it, then we say it…
— Michio Kaku
Who Wrote These Closes Quotes
205 authors contributed a total of 236 Closes Quotes, led by these top contributors: