Closes Quotes

236 quotes by 191 authors

Love is blind; friendship closes its eyes. — Friedrich Nietzsche
About all I can say for the United States Senate is that it opens with a prayer and closes with an investigation. — Will Rogers
Don't waste a minute not being happy. If one window closes, run to the next window- or break down a door. — Brooke Shields
And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me. — Sylvia Plath
nothing which we are to perceive in this world equals the power of your intense fragility:whose texture compels me with the colour of its countries,… — E E Cummings
Your hand opens and closes, opens and closes. If it were always a fist or always stretched open, you would be paralysed. Your deepest presence… — Unknown Author
But then books, as I'm sure you know, seldom prompt a course of action. Books generally just confirm you in what you have, perhaps unwittingly,… — Alan Bennett
A game: say something. Close your eyes and say something. Anything, a number, a name. Like this (she closes her eyes): Two, two what? Two… — Andre Breton
Dullard: Someone who looks up a thing in the encyclopedia, turns directly to the entry, reads it, and then closes the book. — Philip Jose Farmer
Sometimes he thinks that if he could only trace the path of his life carefully enough, everything would become clear. The ways that he screwed… — Dan Chaon
He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again,… — Rainer Maria Rilke
They are not long, the days of wine and roses. Out of a misty dream, our path emerges for a while, then closes, within a… — Ernest Dowson
Youâ€™ll get over itâ€¦â€ Itâ€™s the clichÃ©s that cause the trouble. To lose someone you love is to alter your life for ever. You donâ€™t… — Jeanette Winterson
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I… — Maya Angelou
She closes the door completely, and I crouch there. I allow myself to fall forward and rest my head on the door frame. My breath… — Markus Zusak
[B]riefing is not reading. In fact it is the antithesis of reading. Briefing is terse, factual and to the point. Reading is untidy, discursive and… — Alan Bennett
When God closes one door, He slams another in your face — Marian Keyes
As long as a population can be induced to believe in a supernatural hereafter, it can be oppressed and controlled. People will put up with… — Tom Robbins
i do not know what it is about you that closes and opens;only something in me understands the voice of your eyes is deeper than… — E E Cummings
Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and calm just as a storm ends? Or perhaps you know… — Norton Juster

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