Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

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
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 â€“ different, eye-opening and reasonably dangerous. Itâ€™s now like crack â€“ 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

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