Shutting Quotes

102 Shutting quotes by 88 unique authors

There is no reason why you should be bored when you can be otherwise. But if you find yourself sitting in the hedgerow with nothing… — Emily Post
Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The… — Roland Barthes
Father monks, why do you fast! Why do you expect reward in heaven for that?...No, saintly monk, you try being virtuous in the world, do… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
For that moment, at least, all our doors and windows were wide open; we were not carefully shutting out God's purifying light, in order to… — Madeleine L'Engle
You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon… — Suzanne Collins
D.H. Lawrence had the impression – that psychoanalysis was shutting sexuality up in a bizarre sort of box painted with bourgeois motifs, in a kind… — Gilles Deleuze
I didn’t want any flowers, I only wanted To lie with my hands turned up and be utterly empty. How free it is, you have… — Sylvia Plath
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out. — Blaize Clement
Secret to what?" "Secret to shutting you up," he said. "I just have to beat you till you're half-dead, then give you chicken soup and"--he… — Ilona Andrews
Empathy took the edge off, and the truth is, we need our edge. Our edge is trying to speak to us, and we are too,… — Deb Caletti
One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the… — Paulo Coelho
There's nothing quite as good as folding up into a book and shutting the world outside.If I pick the right one I can be beautiful,… — Bill Condon
I understood at once, I am not living, but actively dying. I am smoking, living unhealthily. I’m shutting down. I need to go the other… — Augusten Burroughs
I can just imagine myself sitting down at the head of the table and pouring out the tea," said Anne, shutting her eyes ecstatically. "And… — Lucy Maud Montgomery
It would be erroneous to say Sohrab was quiet. Quiet is peace. Tranquility. Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life. Silence is pushing… — Khaled Hosseini
Yes, well," said his da with a hint of a grow that told him just how worried Bran had been about him, "that'll teach you… — Patricia Briggs
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful. — Virginia Woolf
You may have succeeded in shutting down the attack simulation, girl, but it was by luck alone, not skill. I would die of shock if… — Veronica Roth
If those sorts of moments would be the only pleasure life offered me, I'd be better off shutting out that one brilliant source of light… — Arthur Golden
It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it;… — Paulo Coelho
Stop it," he hissed in her ear. "You'll just make it worse for yourself. It's better if you don't look." "Like you do?" she hissed… — Cassandra Clare
Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace. — Cassandra Clare
Good work is no done by "humble" men. It is one of the first duties of a professor, for example, in any subject, to exaggerate… — G. H. Hardy
Years of imprisoning and beheading writers never succeeded in shutting them out. However, placing them in the heart of a market and rewarding them with… — Arundhati Roy
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work. — George Clooney

Who Wrote These Shutting Quotes

88 authors contributed a total of 102 Shutting Quotes, led by these top contributors: