Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just… — Gilbert Highet
Boredom or discontent is useful to me when I acknowledge it and see clearly my assumption that there's something else I would rather be doing.… — Hugh Prather
Knowing when to keep your mouth shut is invariably more important than opening it at the right time. — Malcolm Forbes
Pop culture used to be like LSD – different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. It’s now like crack – isolating, wasteful and with no redeeming qualities… — Peter Saville
The more I was treated as a woman, the more woman I became. A adapted willy-nilly. If I was assumed to be incompetent at reversing… — Jan Morris
Missionary work isn't the only thing we need to do in this big, wide, wonderful Church. But almost everything else we need to do depends… — Jeffrey R. Holland
You're the only one who knows when you're using things to protect yourself and keep your ego together and when you're opening and letting things… — Pema Chodron
Nature always takes you at your own valuation. Believe you are the child of God-really believe it. Believe that you express Divine Life, Divine Truth,… — Emmet Fox
Leaders are problem solvers by talent and temperament, and by choice. For them, the new information environment-undermining old means of control, opening up old closets… — Harlan Cleveland
Christ teaches by the Spirit of wisdom in the heart, opening the understanding to the Spirit of revelation in the word. — Matthew Henry
Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening… — George Bernard Shaw
Andy Paley got us a show opening for his band at an outdoor show at Simmon's College, on a Friday. — Jonathan Richman
I'll tell you this. Leaving that which you love breaks your heart open. But you will find a jewel inside, and this precious jewel is… — Jacqueline Winspear
I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma… — Peter A. Levine
I used to think God guided us by opening and closing doors, but now I know sometimes God wants us to kick some doors down. — Bob Goff
The proper education of the young does not consist in stuffing their heads with a mass of words, sentences, and ideas dragged together out of… — John Amos Comenius
You must not for one instant give up the effort to build new lives for yourselves. Creativity means to push open the heavy, groaning doorway… — Daisaku Ikeda
To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it… — Clifford Geertz
People who turn to philosophy expecting to harvest a crop of formulas of wisdom or understanding do not understand-philosophy has such things, but they are… — Kenny Smith
One of the objectives of opening play is to try to surprise your opponent. — Edmar Mednis
Psychologically, the choice of an appropriate opening is of the utmost importance for a player's success in a tournament. — Savielly Tartakower
The Yoga of the Dream State has always held to be one of the fastest, most efficient ways of reaching a plateau experience of subtle… — Ken Wilber
We may tell ourselves that love is not really available. but the deeper truth is that we don't entirely trust it, and therefore have a… — John Welwood
To suppress minority thinking and minority expression would tend to freeze society and prevent progress. Now more than ever we must keep in the forefront… — Wendell Willkie
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities… — John Vianney

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