Shut Quotes

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The more humanity owes him, the more society denies him. Every door is shut against him, even when he has a right to its being… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
For lo! the board with cups and spoons is crowned.The berries crackle, and the mill turns round ... At once they gratify their scent and… — Alexander Pope
Coffee which makes the politician wise, and see through all things with his half-shut eyes. — Alexander Pope
Ah, these diplomats! What chatterboxes! There's only one way to shut them up - cut them down with machine guns. Bulganin, go and get me… — Joseph Stalin
Tell the negative committee that meets inside your head to sit down and shut up. — Ann B. Davis
In my experience, if you have to keep the lavatory door shut by extending your left leg, it's modern architecture. — Nancy Banks-Smith
But for money and the need of it, there would not be half the friendship in the world. It is powerful for good if divinely… — George MacDonald
We are all too much inclined, I think, to walk through life with our eyes shut. There are things all round us and right at… — Alexander Graham Bell
About midnight the fog shut down again denser than before. One could almost "stand on it." It continued so for a number of days, the… — Joshua Slocum
I have been heart broken. You can't breathe, your eyes are pouring a thousand tears a second and you can't foresee going on with love… — Jennifer Love Hewitt
America shudders at anything alien, and when it wants to shut its mind against any man's ideas it calls him a foreigner. — Max Lerner
When I see a 9/11 victim family on television, or whatever, I'm just like, 'Oh shut up' I'm so sick of them because they're always… — Glenn Beck
The great blessings of mankind are within us and within our reach; but we shut our eyes, and, like people in the dark, we fall… — Seneca the Younger
Everybody shut up. Let us work. — Kobe Bryant
When you've worked hard, and done well, and walked through that doorway of opportunity...you do not slam it shut behind you...you reach back, and you… — Michelle Obama
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law. I love music passionately. And because l love it, I try to… — Claude Debussy
Perhaps all music, even the newest, is not so much something discovered as something that re-emerges from where it lay buried in the memory, inaudible… — Jean Genet
The Divine does not like to be shut up in a building. The Divine likes to be out in the open. It is right here… — Morihei Ueshiba
I am now a man of despair, rejected, abandoned, shut up in this iron cage from which there is no escape. — John Bunyan
The silence of a shut park does not sound like the country silence; it is tense and confined. — Elizabeth Bowen

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