Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

When a seed sprouts, it's a violent process. The skin breaks and splits in two. Something dies and something is born. Anytime you paint a… — Michele Cassou
Through luminous and erudite readings of the texts, Hasana Sharp shows us how profound and radical is Spinoza's conception of nature and his claim that… — Michael Hardt
The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles. — Vincent Canby
There's a policy now of opening the doors to the outside world. — Hanoi Hannah
Mike Keenan has been responsible for creating a lot of good things for coaches, like mid-season job openings. — Marc Crawford
There is abundant proof that the opening of our ports always tends to raise the price of foreign corn to the price in the English… — Joseph Hume
Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. — Thomas Ehrlich
You don't have to say anything. You don't have to teach anything. You just have to be who you are: a bright flame shining in… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
A mantra is basically a means of talking with your thoughts and feelings. It's a time-honored method sometimes referred to as prayer, but really it's… — Tsoknyi Rinpoche
Grace is more than God opening the door to salvation; it’s God bringing people in. — Colin S. Smith
To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of… — Iannis Xenakis
No matter what kind of difficult situation one may find oneself in, some opening, some opportunity to fight one's way out, can always be found.… — Daisaku Ikeda
What has no substance can penetrate what has no opening. — Laozi
Seal the openings, shut the doors, and until your last day you will not be exhausted. Widen the openings, interfere, and until your last day… — Laozi
Seal the openings, shut the doors, dull the sharpness, untie the knots, dim the light, become one with the dust. This is called the profound… — Laozi
The traditional media [in China] is still heavily controlled by the government; social media offers an opening to let the steam out a little bit.… — Yang Lan
I don't think my work is so much about opening up wounds. I think it's about understanding the nature of the wound. I'm not bleeding… — Eric Fischl
Prayer is not an act of worship merely, the bending of the knee on set occasions, and offering petitions in need. It is an attitude… — Hugh Black
Peace is not something you can force on anything or anyone... much less upon one's own mind. It is like trying to quiet the ocean… — Gerald May
In 1862, Abraham Lincoln signed the Homestead Act, a bill opening one half million square miles of territory in the western United States for settlement. — Peter Agre
Good information architecture enables people to find and do what they came for. Great information architecture takes find out of the equation: the site behaves… — Jeffrey Zeldman
Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for… — D.E. Stevenson
Saying yes, opening up, and loving: these are the keys that will unlock the prison door. — Arnaud Desjardins
The capacity to tolerate complexity and welcome contradiction, not the need for simplicity and certainty, is the attribute of an explorer. Centuries ago, when some… — Heinz Pagels
The Bible shows the clear statement of God's purposes concerning the earth, and man once made its prince. Its opening chapters show that it was… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford

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