Opening Quotes

1144 Opening quotes by 922 unique authors

The American Colossus was fiercely intent on appropriating and exploiting the riches of all continents - grasping with both hands, reaping where he had not… — Gifford Pinchot
Seeking knowledge is like opening doors. And I know the doors are everywhere. — Georges St-Pierre
If you are psychic, you can see into the minds of others. You can use that opening to aid somebody. Sometimes someone's trying to tell… — Frederick Lenz
Knapsack of the Metaphysicians.- Those who boast so mightily of the scientificality of their metaphysics should receive no answer; it is enough to pluck at… — Friedrich Nietzsche
China is doing lots of things right. It's investing in education and R&D, it's opening up, it's more cosmopolitan than it's ever been. I think… — Amy Chua
Whether advanced driver training helps drivers in the long term is one of those controversial and unresolved mysteries of the road, but my eye-opening experience… — Tom Vanderbilt
Sometimes men and women prefer the darkness to the light because they are attached to their sins. Nevertheless it is only by opening oneself to… — Pope Benedict XVI
From the opening lines, Sleeping with Schubert is a hilarious, whimsical romp through the looking glass of a great musical mystery. The writing snaps, crackles,… — Jonis Agee
To better understand God we must first shatter our own idea of God - maybe even day after day. Maybe he's too great to stay… — Criss Jami
In an effort to reclaim our humanity, let us find new motivation for living by opening our minds to broader concepts of spirituality. — Kevin Powell
There are some closed doors we’re so frightened of opening that we don’t see them any more. We’ve pushed furniture in front of them; we’ve… — Timothee de Fombelle
Let opening roses knotted oaks adorn, And liquid amber drop from every thorn. — Alexander Pope
Thus suicidal selfishness, that blights The fairest feelings of the opening heart, Is destined to decay, whilst from the soil Shall spring all virtue, all… — Percy Bysshe Shelley
To many of us now, computers, silicon chips, data processing, cybernetics, and all the other innovations of the dawning high technology age are as mystifying… — Ronald Reagan
Cheap music, childish images, the vulgate in language, in its crassest sense, can penetrate to the deeps of our necessities and dreams. It can assert… — George Steiner
I have my small little cult following, I play random shows from house parties to opening up for rock bands. — Girl Talk
People are renovating places and opening ambitious new venues. That's one thing that music does. It gets people out of their houses, and gets them… — David Byrne
In the Church, and in the journey of faith, women have had and still have a special role in opening doors to the Lord. — Pope Francis
The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a… — Milton Friedman
Talking is a hydrant in the yard and writing is a faucet upstairs in the house. Opening the first takes the pressure off the second. — Robert Frost
I think with one exception I've never changed an opening sentence after a book was completed. — William Gibson
For a free country to continue thriving, there have to be regular reforms, because any society, any economy that stays in place, you're going to… — Al Gore
An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type. — Stanislav Grof
One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it. — Tom Colicchio
I'm not old-fashioned when it comes to dating, but there's something nice about a guy pulling out a girl's chair and opening the door for… — Lauren Conrad

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