Shut Quotes
1936 Shut quotes by 1298 unique authors
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Jesus lost all his glory so that we could be clothed in it. He was shut out so we could get access. He was bound,…
— Timothy Keller
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People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction.
— James A. Baldwin
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The more two people open to each other, the more this wide-openness also brings to the surface all the obstacles to it: their deepest, darkest…
— John Welwood
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Musical compositions, it should be remembered, do not inhabit certain countries, certain museums, like paintings and statues. The Mozart Quintet is not shut up in…
— Unknown Author
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There cannot always be fresh fields of conquest by the knife; there must be portions of the human frame that will ever remain sacred from…
— John Eric Erichsen
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The hood-winked husband shows his anger, and the word jealous is flung in his face. Jealous husband equals betrayed husband. And there are women who…
— August Strindberg
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I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it…
— Garrett Hedlund
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For a man needs only to be turned around once with his eyes shut in this world to be lost...Not 'til we are lost do…
— Henry David Thoreau
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If I were to say what I really think I would be arrested or shut away in a lunatic asylum. Come on, I am sure…
— Roberto Bolano
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If you don't think, and you have no wit and you have so many hangups that you can't look beyond your cup of coffee then…
— Tori Amos
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It may be tempting and more comfortable to just keep your head down, plod along, and appease those who demand: 'Sit down and shut up,'…
— Sarah Palin
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To all those whove tried to belong, and just didnt fit inyou are loved. To all those whove tried to stand out and be heardyoure…
— Gerard Way
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When you finish a poem, it clicks shut like the top of a jewel box, but prose is endless. I haven't experienced an awful lot…
— Kenneth Koch
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More than by fear of going astray, my hope is that we will be moved by the fear of remaining shut up within structures which…
— Pope Francis
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When I pick up a person from the street, hungry, I give him a plate of rice, a piece of bread. But a person who…
— Mother Teresa
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My father was often impatient during March, waiting for winter to end, the cold to ease, the sun to reappear. March was an unpredictable month,…
— Tracy Chevalier
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God has strewn our paths with wonders and we certainly should not go through life with our eyes shut
— Alexander Graham Bell
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Never miss an opportunity to keep your damn mouth shut.
— Duff McKagan
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Pain could be killed. Sadness could not, but the drugs did shut its mouth for a time.
— Colson Whitehead
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In the end, there is no ideal condition for creativity. What works for one person is useless for another. The only criterion is this: Make…
— Twyla Tharp
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