Shutting Quotes
102 quotes by 91 authors
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In a global race, can we really justify the huge number of expensive peripheral European institutions? Can we justify a commission that gets ever larger?…
— David Cameron
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I was in end stage heart failure, liver and kidneys shutting down, and on an emergency basis they went in and planted a pump in…
— Dick Cheney
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Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
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When you enter a grove peopled with ancient trees, higher than the ordinary, and shutting out the sky with their thickly inter-twined branches, do not…
— Seneca the Younger
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Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay…
— Conan O'Brien
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When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant,…
— Ann Coulter
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Every day I strive to get to a place where I'm not effected by the external world, and I don't use the external world to…
— Laurel Holloman
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Fear, anger, stubbornness, and distrust portray themselves as your rescuers. Actually these energies only make you more closed off. Tell yourself: Nobody ever solved a…
— Deepak Chopra
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My highest achievement: never shutting my heart down. Even in my darkest moments - through sexual abuse, a pregnancy at 14, lies and betrayals -…
— Oprah Winfrey
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Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
— Grover Cleveland
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But big people’s illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if…
— Khushwant Singh
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How many examples do we have of these bodies [of the state] set up to eliminate a problem, actually eliminating it, shutting down their operations…
— Greg Sams
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l am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground. So it is, and so it will be, for so…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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One of the primary conditions for suffering is denial. Shutting our mind to pain, whether in ourselves or others, only ensures that it will continue.…
— Sharon Salzberg
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You know, my boy, he said, it's impossible to love men such as they are. And yet we must. So try to do good to…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In this media-drenched, data-rich, channel-surfing, computer-gaming age, we have lost the art of doing nothing, of shutting out the background noise and distractions, of slowing…
— Carl Honore
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Midsummer Night was roasting hot. The shore, of red granite, glowed with the heat; the dark blood of the earth seemed to be rising from…
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
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You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
— Elias Canetti
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Many of the vicious criminals held there have been caught on the battlefield fighting against American troops and shutting down Guantanamo Bay would just require…
— Bill Shuster
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If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
— Les Wexner
Who Wrote These Shutting Quotes
91 authors contributed a total of 102 Shutting Quotes, led by these top contributors: