Quotes about Closed

So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment. Votes: 4

I thank God for Closed Doors Votes: 3

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed. Votes: 3

Closed minds do not inspire faith, courage, and belief Votes: 3

Closed head trauma is about as much fun as nude paintballing. Votes: 3

MISUNDERSTANDING arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes Votes: 3

MISUNDERSTANDING" arises only when you see the things with Closed Eyes Votes: 3

Closed doors simply means God is protecting us from having not the best. Votes: 3

Closed mouths don't get fed, and I'm gonna eat every time I get on the court. Votes: 3

In my opinion the Open variation is absolutely correct - and more interesting than the Closed. Votes: 3

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out. Votes: 3

Closed timelike curve is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. Votes: 3

Closed timelike curve' is the jargon for time travel. It means you go out, come back and meet yourself in the past. Votes: 3

My heart is closed, but open. Closed to one woman in particular, but open to the public. Guided tours are offered Monday through Friday 9-5. Votes: 3

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed. Votes: 1

When one door is closed, don't you know, another is open. Votes: 1

Every closed eye is not sleeping, and every open eye is not seeing. Votes: 1

Bridge the gap with closed minds though careful dissection of ideas and solid presentation of fact. Votes: 1

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed. Votes: 1

You may live in an imperfect world but the frontiers are not closed and the doors are not all shut. Votes: 1

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. Votes: 1

Try to keep your mind open to possibilities and your mouth closed on matters that you don't know about. Limit your 'always' and your 'nevers.' Votes: 1

Personally, when things upset me, I get quiet and closed off. I have nothing to say, and a chill sets in while I think about what's going on. Votes: 1

Christianity is, I believe, about expanded life, heightened consciousness and achieving a new humanity. It is not about closed minds, supernatural interventions, a fallen creation, guilt, original sin or divine rescue. Votes: 1

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. Votes: 1

I have absolutely no idea what my generation did to enrich our democracy. We dropped the ball. We entered a period of complacency and closed our eyes to the public corruption of our democracy. Votes: 1

When the missionaries came to Africa they had the Bible and we had the land. They said 'Let us pray.' We closed our eyes. When we opened them we had the Bible and they had the land. Votes: 1

You gotta bear in mind, the youth - and this is just in Britain alone - have nowhere to go in the evenings. They've closed all the social centers. There's not even a patch of grass to kick a ball on. Votes: 1

Back then people closed their eyes and listened to music. Today there's a lot of images that go with the music. A lot of music is crap and it's all commercial and the images are all trying to sell the record. Votes: 1

One of my most sentimental items is my grandmother's engagement ring that my mom gave me a few years ago. It's a Victorian-style setting that's closed in the back, so it doesn't sparkle the way diamonds do now. I wear it as a pendant. Votes: 1

After some time, with my eyes closed, I began to enjoy this wonderful play of colors and forms, which it really was a pleasure to observe. Then I went to sleep and the next day I was fine. I felt quite fresh, like a newborn. Votes: 1

When I started getting so many haters and closed doors, I decided to prove that it could be done. I was a divorced single mother of three at the time and a size 12 - not your typical model artist that labels feel work for the music industry. Votes: 1

I grew up where, when a door closed, a window didn't open. The only thing I had was cracks. I'd do everything to get through those cracks - scratch, claw, bite, push, bleed. Now the opportunity is here. The door is wide open, and it's as big as a garage. Votes: 1

Immediately after 11 September, the U.S. closed down the Somali charitable network Al-Barakaat on grounds that it was financing terror. This achievement was hailed one of the great successes of the 'war on terror.' In contrast, Washington's withdrawal of its charges as without merit a year later aroused little notice. Votes: 1

There'd never been a more advantageous time to be a criminal in America than during the 13 years of Prohibition. At a stroke, the American government closed down the fifth largest industry in the United States - alcohol production - and just handed it to criminals - a pretty remarkable thing to do. Votes: 1

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. Votes: 1

When I was 14, I thought I looked terrible. I wore these typical Slavic shoes with metal bottoms so you could always hear me coming and this really ugly princess skirt and blouse with the top button closed. I had a boy haircut, a baby face covered with pimples, and a really big nose. Votes: 1

Candidate Obama was either exceptionally naive or willfully disingenuous when he vowed to change the way Washington works. The very promise of Hope and Change was rooted in uprooting the Washington modus operandi. But instead of rejecting it, he embraced it all - the secrecy, the closed doors, the political favors, the near-criminal negligence. Votes: 1

You have to come to your closed doors before you get to your open doors... What if you knew you had to go through 32 closed doors before you got to your open door? Well, then you'd come to closed door number eight and you'd think, 'Great, I got another one out of the way'... Keep moving forward. Votes: 1

My husband and I have known each other since kindergarten. I had a crush on him in school, but we never dated. Then we saw each other again after high school, and there was something instantly familiar about him. I'm a very shy person and was very closed off. But he allowed me to be myself. And there's a safety in that. Votes: 1

Democracies die behind closed doors. Votes: 0

I don't like closed systems. Votes: 0

A closed mouth catches no flies. Votes: 0

You're driving with your eyes closed. Votes: 0

Some doors are best left closed. Votes: 0

Without curiosity, all doors remain closed! Votes: 0

A closed mouth gathers no feet. Votes: 0

The past is a closed door. Votes: 0

A closed mouth gathers no foot. Votes: 0

A closed mouth gathers no foot. Votes: 0

A closed mouth doesn't get fed. Votes: 0

All the cul-de-sacs are closed for Scotland. Votes: 0

Everything looks better with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

I almost died, secretly, behind closed doors. Votes: 0

With her mouth closed, her mind screamed. Votes: 0

Behind closed doors, I'm a crafty person. Votes: 0

You'll see more with your eyes closed. Votes: 0

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. Votes: 0

Fear sees, even when eyes are closed. Votes: 0

My life closed twice before its close Votes: 0

A closed mind is a dying mind. Votes: 0

My eyes were closed, they're open now Votes: 0

I prefer to see with closed eyes. Votes: 0

Normally people can't keep their goddamn mouth closed! Votes: 0

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed. Votes: 0

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? Votes: 0

Let the eye of vigilance never be closed. Votes: 0

Keep your head up, Legs closed, Eyes open. Votes: 0

The worst prison would be a closed heart. Votes: 0

You can't shake hands with a closed fist. Votes: 0

I can get money with my eyes closed Votes: 0

When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded. Votes: 0

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own. Votes: 0

Keep your mouth closed, and let your eyes listen. Votes: 0

The circle of divine love has not remained closed. Votes: 0

The New York State Freeway's closed, man. Far out! Votes: 0

People should fall in love with their eyes closed. Votes: 0

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque. Votes: 0

An open umbrella is just a closed beautiful sky. Votes: 0

The gym is always open, except when it's closed. Votes: 0

I won't say I've closed the door on acting. Votes: 0

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence. Votes: 0

If one door is closed, find another open door. Votes: 0

The hardest thing to open is a closed mind. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes and dived into foreign water. Votes: 0

I would assume the case will never be closed. Votes: 0

The only real stupidity is that of a closed mind. Votes: 0

This tragic brow, these closed eyes, eyebrows raised and knotted. Votes: 0

They key of persistence opens all door closed by resistence Votes: 0

Dustfinger closed his eyes and listened. He was home again. Votes: 0

Yesterday was a closed book, tomorrow, however, was another story. Votes: 0

Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed. Votes: 0

Write with the door closed, rewrite with the door open. Votes: 0

I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed. Votes: 0

No one can hit their target with their eyes closed. Votes: 0

Being closed to outsiders made the iPhone reliable and predictable. Votes: 0

If the present is left unopened,now, it is closed. Votes: 0

My heart was closed. Cold. I was self-conscious and cynical. Votes: 0

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind. Votes: 0

My eyes are open now and can never be closed. Votes: 0

What consenting adults do behind closed doors is not my business. Votes: 0

The mobile world is very closed and proprietary just by definition. Votes: 0

Don't watch" the redheaded mind reader whispered. I closed my eyes. Votes: 0

It is Stoicism that demands a closed universe, not the Bible. Votes: 0

The closed door and the sealed lips are prerequisites to tyranny. Votes: 0

Favor opens any door while it remains closed for everyone else. Votes: 0

The more you think you know, the more closed-minded you'll be. Votes: 0

Success comes from keeping the ears open and the mouth closed Votes: 0

You showed me everything was black cause my eyes were closed. Votes: 0

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves Votes: 0

The door can never be closed for good to any player. Votes: 0

I paint the stuff I see when my eyes are closed Votes: 0

I think you have to be guarded but not closed off. Votes: 0

I'm a Pisces, so I'm a very closed-book kind of person. Votes: 0

Death always waits. The door of the hearse is never closed. Votes: 0

Nothing sickens me more than the closed door of a library. Votes: 0

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. Votes: 0

The opposite of "˜open' isn't closed. The opposite of open is broken. Votes: 0

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness Votes: 0

Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors. Votes: 0

After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed. Votes: 0

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors! Votes: 0

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. Votes: 0

A closed mind stumbles over the blessings of life without recognizing them. Votes: 0

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds." Votes: 0

What is Milan's character? Let's not be closed in by our provincialism. Votes: 0

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. Votes: 0

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person. Votes: 0

The only place opportunity cannot be found is in a closed-minded person. Votes: 0

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors. Votes: 0

A clever, imaginative, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. Votes: 0

The watchful mother tarries nigh, though sleep has closed her infants eyes. Votes: 0

I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism. Votes: 0

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after. Votes: 0

Kitsch is certainly not "bad art," it forms its own closed system. Votes: 0

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me. Votes: 0

The past is closed and limited; the future is open and free. Votes: 0

We are closed in, and the key is turned / On our uncertainty... Votes: 0

As long as your not hiding behind a closed door, he'll come. Votes: 0

No domain of nature is quite closed to man at all times. Votes: 0

And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed. Votes: 0

I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space. Votes: 0

Italians have a very closed life. Football is all their life is. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes, held my breath and then everything went black. Votes: 0

There is no office now closed to a Jew, including the presidency. Votes: 0

When you're unsure, jump with your eyes closed and legs wide open Votes: 0

Yes, I was going to law school and it was closed in '69. Votes: 0

The Past, being in the mode of memory, is closed, inalienable, and irreparable ... Votes: 0

Unlike an inexorable, Newtonian "great machine", the economy is not a closed system. Votes: 0

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal. Votes: 0

In principle, skeptics are neither closed-minded nor cynical. We are curious but cautious. Votes: 0

God Ain't no stained glass window, cause he never keeps his window closed. Votes: 0

Is that all?" she whispered. Gansey closed his eyes. "That's all there is. Votes: 0

Answers are closed rooms; and questions are open doors that invite us in. Votes: 0

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. Votes: 0

I've kissed so many women I can do it with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

I closed my mouth and spoke to you in a hundred silent ways. Votes: 0

For every door the computers have closed they have opened a new one. Votes: 0

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. Votes: 0

The fashion industry can in a certain way be very hard and closed. Votes: 0

I was a big Nancy Drew reader. Nancy figures it out. Case closed. Votes: 0

He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes, thinking, Let me love you, Hardy, just let me. Votes: 0

One eye is open to all truth, the other closed to all deception. Votes: 0

The walls of people hardly affected me. You closed your mind to such things. Votes: 0

I'm very closed off when it comes to working with people, I'm very selective. Votes: 0

A doctor's door should never be closed, a priest's door should always be open. Votes: 0

So keeping the box closed just keeps you in the dark, not the universe. Votes: 0

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away? Votes: 0

Allah is too big and open for my deen to be small and closed. Votes: 0

And I closed my eyes because I wanted to know nothing but her arms. Votes: 0

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw. Votes: 0

There's a big tendency to gravitate toward a closed and proprietary approach too easily. Votes: 0

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. Votes: 0

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas. Votes: 0

Women are on the outside when the door to the smoke-filled room is closed. Votes: 0

The door of illumination is open to those for whom other doors are closed. Votes: 0

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. Votes: 0

The one thing I could do with my eyes closed is my Grandma's schnecken. Votes: 0

Reality is what trips you up when you walk around with your eyes closed. Votes: 0

Nothing is more pleasing to God than an open hand, and a closed mouth. Votes: 0

Don't thank me,' Mr. Curtain called as the door slid closed. 'Impress me! Votes: 0

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. Votes: 0

I saw a sign it said left lane closed so I went someplace else. Votes: 0

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. Votes: 0

The door is closed to prayer unless it is opened with the key of trust. Votes: 0

You have to come to your closed doors before you come to your open doors Votes: 0

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time. Votes: 0

You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch. Votes: 0

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! Votes: 0

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . . Votes: 0

Any man can fart in a closed room and say that he commands the wind Votes: 0

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one. Votes: 0

The period of debate is closed. Arms, as a last resource, must decide the contest. Votes: 0

The Black Pit of Despair is temporarily closed for renovations. We apologize for any inconvenience. Votes: 0

You won't find another Chaplin, you won't find another Keaton, because the school is closed. Votes: 0

I definitely can relate to being down and closed-off at certain times in my life. Votes: 0

Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed! Votes: 0

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed; Votes: 0

Minds, like parachutes, function better when open, but, like fists, they strike harder when closed. Votes: 0

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls. Votes: 0

The lips are closed, for the dancer has plenty of other voices at his service. Votes: 0

My free hand reached for something to hold on to, and closed on liquid nothing. Votes: 0

That's the kind he usually knocks in in his sleep - with his eyes closed. Votes: 0

The home was a closed sphere touched only at its edge by the world's evolution. Votes: 0

That bitter word, which closed all earthly friendships and finished every feast of love farewell! Votes: 0

Software entities (classes, modules, functions, etc.) should be open for extension, but closed for modification. Votes: 0

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change. Votes: 0

This alone is to be feared: the closed mind, the sleeping imagination, the death of spirit. Votes: 0

Most closed heavens for the Christian are between his ears. Believing a lie empowers the liar. Votes: 0

The frontier has gone, and with its going has closed the first period of American history. Votes: 0

The day is coming when even the most closed-minded ridiculers will have to face the truth. Votes: 0

What people do behind closed doors is certainly not my concern unless I'm there with them. Votes: 0

Today you closed your eyes on violence, tomorrow, the violence will close your eyes on you. Votes: 0

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling. Votes: 0

That is a good book which is opened with expectation, and closed with delight and profit. Votes: 0

Acts of terror have never brought down liberal democracies. Acts of parliament have closed a few. Votes: 0

We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. Votes: 0

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes. Votes: 0

I watch what I eat every day. I mean, who actually eats with their eyes closed? Votes: 0

Wicca has been, up until the past decade or so, a closed religion, but no more. Votes: 0

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. Votes: 0

Popular broadcast shows and movies have their closed captions stripped when they go to the Internet. Votes: 0

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed. Votes: 0

At night I closed my eyes and saw my bones threading the mud of my grave. Votes: 0

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern. Votes: 0

Have you ever closed your eyes and listened to the sound of your own mother's voice? Votes: 0

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new. Votes: 0

I've come up with my own cure for a closed mind: try it once, and see. Votes: 0

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.' Votes: 0

We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands. Votes: 0

A door opens to me. I go in and am faced with a hundred closed doors. Votes: 0

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. Votes: 0

Awareness is an inner quality of consciousness; it has nothing to do with closed or open eyes. Votes: 0

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers. Votes: 0

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow. Votes: 0

Even when our eyes are closed, there's a whole world that exists outside ourselves and our dreams. Votes: 0

I have always noticed that in portraits of really great writers the mouth is always firmly closed. Votes: 0

I have to believe that when my eyes are closed, the world's still there. (Leonard Shelby, Memento) Votes: 0

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet. Votes: 0

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed. Votes: 0

Many Muslim countries are closed to missionaries, a policy Christians see as a denial of religious liberty. Votes: 0

Bars are closed on Election Day so people won't vote under the influence. Why are libraries closed? Votes: 0

I hated Sundays when I was growing up in Streatham, south London. Everything closed down and stopped. Votes: 0

I like to be in the laboratory with the doors closed. I like experimenting and trying things. Votes: 0

All art is a form of hacking, it's a kind of breeching open of a closed system. Votes: 0

Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. Votes: 0

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music. Votes: 0

The spaces between the perceiver and the thing perceived can [...] be closed with a shout of recognition. Votes: 0

Here you discover that so long as books are kept open, then minds can never be closed. Votes: 0

I kissed her hard and held her tight and tried to open her lips; they were closed tight. Votes: 0

So for a long time I closed my eyes to the possibility of America having a white voice. Votes: 0

Don't say God is silent when your Bible is closed. Open it and read it. God will speak. Votes: 0

Having a kid is great.... as long as his eyes are closed and he's not moving or speaking. Votes: 0

Hip-hop can be a very closed-off community. Sometimes these barriers are demographic but it can be musical, too. Votes: 0

I think I developed a very closed personality. I didn't really have friends. I changed schools every year. Votes: 0

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons. Votes: 0

Arrogance and Conceit are the mother and father of a closed mind.Charles Jennings, "Journey of the Chosen". Votes: 0

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life. Votes: 0

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art! Votes: 0

The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might. Votes: 0

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision. Votes: 0

Walked right by an ex-girlfriend today. Not on purpose, I just didn't recognize her with her mouth closed. Votes: 0

I try not to be surprised. Surprise is the public face of a mind that has been closed. Votes: 0

I'm almost exclusively interested in what happens behind closed doors, between people. The removal of their public face. Votes: 0

My pillows are dreaming, not me.With my eyes closed I only try to feel how they dream. Votes: 0

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out. Votes: 0

To go through life without love is to travel through the world in a carriage with closed windows. Votes: 0

That six or seven hours you have to be in bed with your eyes closed. What a waste! Votes: 0

Have Tottenham closed the gap on Arsenal? Last time I checked they were still 4 miles and 11 titles away Votes: 0

On respect for the Queen: When I lick a stamp I always do it with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

she slammed the door andwas gone.I looked at the closed doorand at the doorknoband strangelyI didn't feelalone. Votes: 0

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes to watch tiny dancers like jeweled birds cross the dark screen of my eyelids. Votes: 0

When you or your closed ones face danger, you'd tend to get closer to God and be good. Votes: 0

Racism is dead only to those who've closed their eyes and ears to the whole world around them. Votes: 0

You grow and learn a lot about the industry and what happens behind closed doors over the years. Votes: 0

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside. Votes: 0

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. Votes: 0

He who looks through an open window sees fewer things than he who looks through a closed window. Votes: 0

There's nothing wrong with making love with the light on. Just make sure the car door is closed. Votes: 0

There's still is a status-quo group at City Hall who likes things done the old way, behind closed doors. Votes: 0

When one cow was found with BSE in 2003, many of our trading partners closed their borders to our beef. Votes: 0

To live without philosophizing is in truth the same as keeping the eyes closed without attempting to open them. Votes: 0

Others like City Hall the old way, when they could make deals behind closed doors with your tax money. Votes: 0

If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work. Votes: 0

They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them. Votes: 0

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets - Votes: 0

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered. Votes: 0

Despite popular belief, hitting someone with a closed fist actually hurts the hitter almost as much as the hittee. Votes: 0

To pray with your fists closed means you're hanging onto something. Let it go. Open your hands to God. Votes: 0

I don't know why I felt so closed and bitter and threatened by the things I did not like. Votes: 0

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families. Votes: 0

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open. Votes: 0

Erase the word "failure" from your vocabulary. No case is ever truly closed, and no challenge is ever over. Votes: 0

He fell in love with the way she closed her eyes, long before he fell in love with her. Votes: 0

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart. Votes: 0

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home. Votes: 0

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. Votes: 0

When the judges shall be obliged to go armed, it will be time for the courts to be closed. Votes: 0

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart. Votes: 0

The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living. Votes: 0

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed. Votes: 0

I'll do my dreaming with my eyes wide open, and I'll do my looking back with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

There must be freedom for all to live, to think, to worship, no book, no avenue must be closed. Votes: 0

For me, ‘Dog Days' symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed Votes: 0

The jobs left, and the factories closed... the wealth, strength and confidence of America has disappeared over the horizon. Votes: 0

I think that certainty is a closed door, It's the end of the conversation. Doubt is an open door. Votes: 0

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table. Votes: 0

I know that gaps can be closed. And they can be closed substantially, more than I think we believe. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes during a flute solo, wishing I could wrap the silvery sound around me like armor. Votes: 0

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors. Votes: 0

Music is an extraordinary locksmith; it is so competent that it can open our soul's door even with closed eyes! Votes: 0

REVOLUTION, n. A bursting of the boilers which usually takes place when the safety valve of public discussion is closed. Votes: 0

Santiago Nasar had often told me that the smell of closed-in flowers had an immediate relation to death for him. Votes: 0

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you. Votes: 0

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn Votes: 0

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance. Votes: 0

Gaily! gaily! close our ranks! Arm! Advance! Hope of France! Gaily! gaily! closed our ranks! Onward! Onward! Gauls and Franks! Votes: 0

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt. Votes: 0

Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed... Votes: 0

Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed. Votes: 0

Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did. Votes: 0

With eyes closed, a kiss is genderless. Now that mustaches are in fashion, some women are finding more hipster love. Votes: 0

Men resemble great deserted palaces: the owner occupies only a few rooms and has closed-off wings where he never ventures. Votes: 0

One eye of the photographer looks wide open through the viewfinder, the other, the closed looks into his own soul. Votes: 0

No matter how much we disagree with people, demonising them doesn't get us anywhere; it merely indicates a closed mind. Votes: 0

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false... Votes: 0

The world is the closed door. It is a barrier. And at the same time it is the way through. Votes: 0

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile? Votes: 0

On Ernst Lubitsch: He could do more with a closed door than other directors could do with an open fly. Votes: 0

With the one eye that is closed, one looks within, with the other eye that is open, one looks without. Votes: 0

A life that is planned is a closed life, my friend. It can be endured but it cannot be lived. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes. I forced myself to relax, to remember that here, now, and always, I was the predator. Votes: 0

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed. Votes: 0

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors. Votes: 0

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms. Votes: 0

Want? Yes, she whispered, her eyes sliding closed. Yes I want to keep you more than I want to breathe. Votes: 0

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door. Votes: 0

I reckon I closed down at least two films companies, one of which was in Ealing in the mid 1950s. Votes: 0

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight. Votes: 0

The road from the eye to the heart is easy to follow. I am taking it with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

The closed mind is a disease. You need to have an open mind; otherwise life will just pass you by. Votes: 0

When I was 11, the whole world was closed to me. I just felt I was on the outside of the world. Votes: 0

And the last thought he had that morning as he closed his eyes was: I hope the tornado hit the moose. Votes: 0

Be safe, she whispered. Then she closed her eyes and said in a low, broken monotone, I love you.KailaniSiobhan Fallon Votes: 0

I don't plot my books rigidly, follow a preconceived structure. A novel mustn't be a closed system - it's a quest. Votes: 0

I closed the box and put it in a closet. There is no real way to deal with everything we lose. Votes: 0

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar?The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. Votes: 0

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful. Votes: 0

I can hurt myself more than anyone else can, she told her sister. I can do it with my eyes closed. Votes: 0

I closed my eyes and abandoned myself to my grief. It felt better, somehow, to be helpless. I didn't feel ashamed. Votes: 0

What deep wounds ever closed without a scar? The hearts bleed longest, and heals but to wear That which disfigures it. Votes: 0

The door that closed kept us from entering a room, but what now lies before us is the rest of reality. Votes: 0

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government. Votes: 0

I knew something was wrong with the economy when the shampoo girl at my salon closed on a six bedroom house. Votes: 0

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home. Votes: 0

Maybe you're reason why all the doors are closed, so you can open one that leads you to the perfect road. Votes: 0

Spiritual practice is the capacity to offer your love even when you feel hurt, closed down, tense, angry, misunderstood, or hated. Votes: 0

A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government." Votes: 0

I closed my eyes and rested my head against his chest, wishing sincerely that Rhiannon would get hit by a bus. Votes: 0

I'm a sucker for the big, gruff, distant, emotionally closed-off hero who sloooowly warms up to the feisty, awesome, sweet heroine. Votes: 0

The world is so closed off to the inner beings of ourselves, I refuse to ever lower my energies to that. Votes: 0

Grace reached over and began stroking her fingers through my hair. I closed my eyes and let her drive me crazy. Votes: 0

As a boy, I used to marvel that the letters in a closed book did not get scrambled and lost overnight. Votes: 0

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience. Votes: 0

In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance. Votes: 0

Beyond speech and mind,Into the river of ever-effulgent LightMy heart dives.Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia,Are opened wide. Votes: 0

Frustration is a sign I am acting independently. The more you try your own way, the tighter the doors will stay closed. Votes: 0

Night is the best time to visit sewers, because the businesses dispelling the most waste are closed, and the flows are calmer. Votes: 0

I have gained so much more from my experiences of being open and loving humanity rather than being jaded and being closed-off. Votes: 0

The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned. Votes: 0

I never get used to it, the unknowable mystery of a person so suddenly, totally closed, snapped shut like a half-read novel. Votes: 0

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again." Votes: 0

We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again. Votes: 0

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open. Votes: 0

Often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one that has been opened for us. Votes: 0

Imagination doesn't always mean looking outside of the box, but taking a closed box and seeing a different world from within it. Votes: 0

Without silence, there cannot be any real appreciation in life, which is as delicate in its inner fabric as a closed rosebud. Votes: 0

Fashion was a very insider industry then - it was very closed. So I didn't really know what I wanted to do. Votes: 0

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space. Votes: 0

You do not think much of me, do you, Cogburn?" "I don't think about you at all when your mouth is closed. Votes: 0

He who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead; his eyes are closed. Votes: 0

I am the lord of Redmont Fief. He is my tenant. I am his commander. End of story. Ipso facto. Case-o closed-o. Votes: 0

I am, by nature, an honest person. I wear my emotions on my sleeve. There is no 'behind closed doors' with me. Votes: 0

I had my eyes closed in the dark, I sighed a million sighs, I told a million lies, to myself, to myself. Votes: 0

We don't want an America that is closed to the world. What we want is a world that is open to America. Votes: 0

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that. Votes: 0

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside. Votes: 0

It is a strange thing ,that every child is born with a closed hand , and every body dies with an open hand ! Votes: 0

Drinking a cup of coffee with your eyes closed isn't a sophisticated task for a person, but it's hard for a robot. Votes: 0

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death. Votes: 0

I will take the sun in my mouth and leap into the ripe air Alive with closed eyes to dash against darkness Votes: 0

You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see. Votes: 0

Every man is a door; when the door is closed, just search for the key gently! Remember that every door has a key! Votes: 0

She leaned into me, and when I closed my eyes, I knew I wanted nothing more than to hold her this way forever. Votes: 0

[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed. Votes: 0

You may be a little older, or a little more neurotic, or a little more closed off. But inside, you're just the same. Votes: 0

The game's in the refrigerator, the door's closed, the light's out, the eggs are cooling, the butter's getting hard and the Jell-O's jiggling, Votes: 0

The main evolutionary significance of humor is that it gets us from the closed mode to the open mode quicker than anything else. Votes: 0

The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace. Votes: 0

Hopelessness sets in, when a man is bound up in his shame -- living small, within that closed horizon of fantasy and self-absorption. Votes: 0

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor. Votes: 0

Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me. Votes: 0

Real people have a way of banging against the doors you've closed; they know your name, your phone number. They live with you. Votes: 0

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched. Votes: 0

The difference between a dreamer and a visionary is that a dreamer has his eyes closed and a visionary has his eyes open Votes: 0

People always ask me: 'When is the new Pele going to be born?' Never. My father and mother have closed the factory. Votes: 0

A path toward Truth is darkness; a journey through the woods, at night, blindfolded. Find 'Self' & you can find Light with eyes closed. Votes: 0

Dreaming is what you do when your eyes are closed...living is what you do with that dream once you open your eyes! Votes: 0

I trust people who are violent about art, as long as they aren't closed-minded. But, unfortunately, most art blowhards are also art bigots. Votes: 0

It is true that an open door sends an invitation; but for the curious person, a closed door sends even a stronger invitation! Votes: 0

Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. Votes: 0

Holding her gaze, he closed the final distance between them and went down to his knees, that beautiful bruised face looking up at her. Votes: 0

When your life changes and you become a more public person, in some ways you need to be a more closed person, you know? Votes: 0

It was Kovacs who said "Mother" then, muffled under latex. It was Kovacs who closed his eyes. It was Rorschach who opened them again. Votes: 0

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty. Votes: 0

Radical transparency fosters goodness in so many ways for the same reasons that bad things are more likely to take place behind closed doors. Votes: 0

It's a silent witness to the Lord when people go into shopping malls, and everyone is bustling, and you see that Chick-fil-A is closed. Votes: 0

Gratefulness leads to a widely opened heart. You cannot receive anything great in life with a closed heart. Be grateful and reap the benefits! Votes: 0

I would love to compose something for dance before I kick the bucket, and I'm not closed-minded about the dance, or the dance company. Votes: 0

Her body was rounded like earth. Stories. Breath . Her eyes have been painted closed. I understand. To tell a story you must travel inward. Votes: 0

Eyes, so easily deceived, might judge more rightly with lids closed, allowing ears and heart to remain wide open.from The Beauty of Ugh Votes: 0

Perhaps the noblest private act is the unheralded effort to ... open our hearts once they've closed, to open our souls once they've shied away. Votes: 0

In a closed society where everybody's guilty, the only crime is getting caught. In a world of thieves, the only final sin is stupidity. Votes: 0

Trying to always be the nice guy, to appear good, can be limiting. Avoiding confrontation has closed up a number of possibilities for me. Votes: 0

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed. Votes: 0

It got so that when he closed his eyes, letters and words danced in his mind. He thought of little else during that time. Votes: 0

It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not. Votes: 0

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy. Votes: 0

We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature. Votes: 0

She was like a butterfly, full of color and vibrancy when she chose to open her wings, yet hardly visible when she closed them. Votes: 0

My diet plan. 8am to 12noon: only fruits and fruit juice. Noon to 8pm: vegetarian meals. From 8pm to 8am the kitchen is CLOSED. Votes: 0

It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed. Votes: 0

Wrestling hurts. Your body's not meant to take that abuse. I've closed that door, but I don't know that I've locked it for good. Votes: 0

Brandon tilted his head back and closed his eyes. Unbelievable. He had his name. God had given it. Just like Reece said he would. Votes: 0

Every closed door isn't locked and even if it is...YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities! Votes: 0

If it's the first kiss, it's important for the eyes to be closed so you know it's real. It's almost like a Disney movie! Votes: 0

To meditate is to labour; to think is to act. Folded arms work, closed hands perform, a gaze fixed on heaven is a toil. Votes: 0

As he closed the door he said over his shoulder, "Because you're a good lass." A heavy sigh. "And I'm no' a good man. Votes: 0

Do you know that all great spurts in...progress came just after some unorthodox ideas or exotic impressions had penetrated into a closed system? Votes: 0

When the wind blows through a wood, its mass is cut and closed by every leaf, forming a train of jittery vortices in the air. Votes: 0

Sometimes I'm really communicating with the audience and I'm hyper-engaged. Other times my eyes are closed and I just let it be what it is. Votes: 0

I sank back in the gray, plush seat and closed my eyes. The air of the bell jar wadded round me and I couldn't stir. Votes: 0

I'm staying in a lovely hotel, dressing robe behind the door, lovely fluffy sheets - took me a half an hour getting my suitcase closed. Votes: 0

There is a difference between running with all your heart with your eyes closed and running with all your heart with your eyes wide open. Votes: 0

There's a market for mysteries for adults. That feeling of opening a book and delving inside and not coming out until you've closed the book. Votes: 0

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it. Votes: 0

God has always opened one door after another. Sometimes you think all the doors are closed and just when you think that, a door opens. Votes: 0

Father Mapple uplifted his closed eyes, and offered a prayer so deeply devout that he seemed to be kneeling at the bottom of the sea. Votes: 0

The cat is in the sack, but the sack is not closed. The cat is in it, but it's open...and it's a wild cat. Votes: 0

Women are really emotional creatures, and men are kind of closed in terms of emotions. I think women are just a lot more out there. Votes: 0

Love is a time-honored way to transcend the separate-self sense and leap into the sublime; Treya and I held hands, closed our eyes, and jumped. Votes: 0

There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with. Votes: 0

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. Votes: 0

Beauty is but a flower Which wrinkles will devour; Brightness falls from the air; Queens have died young and fair; Dust hath closed Helen's eye. Votes: 0

Have you ever had so much to say that your mouth closed up so tight, struggling to harness the nuclear force coalescing within your words?" -346 Votes: 0

Cats always seem so very wise, when staring with their half-closed eyes. Can they be thinking, I'll be nice, and maybe she will feed me twice? Votes: 0

There is something I want-something I have come to get, and she fell deeper and deeper without knowing quite what it was, with her eyes closed. Votes: 0

To be closed from everything, and yet to feel, to think...This is the truth of hell, stripped of its gaudy medievalisms. This loss of contact. Votes: 0

Nearly unable to bear the thought of how much he needed her quiet strength, he closed his eyes and leaned his forehead against the cold glass. Votes: 0

When you win, you often lose, that's just a fact. There's no currency to straighten a warped spirit, or open a closed heart, a selfish heart... Votes: 0

Don't go," she whispered, her eyes closed. It was all happening too fast. She couldn't give Daniel up. Not yet. She didn't think she ever could. Votes: 0

A foolish man tells a woman to stop talking, but a wise man tells her that her mouth is extremely beautiful when her lips are closed. Votes: 0

Your slightest look easily will unclose me, though I have closed myself as fingers, you open petal by petal myself a Spring opens her first rose. Votes: 0

I marveled at how they were all closed up, asleep with their secrets unseen until you reached up and took the book down from the shelf. Votes: 0

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length. Votes: 0

It's useless to paint a closed door, in order to change its color. The door needs to be open for both sides to change as same. Votes: 0

That one,"-he nodded toward the closed door-" will rule more than just Attolia before he is done. He is an Annux, a king of kings. Votes: 0

Kino heard the little splash of morning waves on the beach. It was very good -- Kino closed his eyes again to listen to his music. Votes: 0

She closed her eyes, and I closed mine, and even though we weren't holding hands, it felt like we were.Because what we had, we knew. Votes: 0

I delight to lodge in such temples as are not regularly kept closed. None of the gods reject me; they make me partner of their roof. Votes: 0

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking. Votes: 0

A Mac is a closed box, so Apple can make decisions about things that they don't include. That makes, it in some ways, simpler for them. Votes: 0

This life is but a dream. A state of sleep but how unfortunate that man's eyes open only when they are about to be closed (forever). Votes: 0

As a consequence [of a closed economic circle], in 1912 there was not a single Irishman who sat on a single board of a major Boston bank. Votes: 0

It irritates me to be told how things have always been done. I defy the tyranny of precedent. I cannot afford the luxury of a closed mind. Votes: 0

If I were to try to read, much less answer, all the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed for any other business. Votes: 0

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors. Votes: 0

You never know the hurt others endure in this world behind the closed windows of their life, or the joy a simple act of kindness can bring. Votes: 0

Fear is that thing that keeps you up there on that other plateau. Fear is that thing that just keeps you closed down, and quite frankly, alone. Votes: 0

Living is easy with eyes closed Misunderstanding all you see It's getting hard to be someone but it all works out It doesn't matter much to me Votes: 0

At that point I asked myself: How is it that she is not amazed at herself, that she keeps her lips closed and makes no such remark? Votes: 0

A man at his desk in a room with a closed door is a man at work. A woman at a desk in any room is available. Votes: 0

I always felt caged, closed in, like I was punching at things that weren't there. I always had too much energy for the room I was in. Votes: 0

You are only a disciple because your eyes are closed. The day you open them you will see there is nothing you can learn from me or anyone. Votes: 0

Cash or check?” he said cheekily. Even the dullest Ohio girls knew that bit of lingo: Kiss now or kiss later? “Bank’s closed, pal. Votes: 0

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever. Votes: 0

Sometimes I see a bird fly by and I feel jealous. But then other times I see a bird fly into a closed window and I feel laughing. Votes: 0

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them. Votes: 0

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments have not harmed me too much. Votes: 0

Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come! Votes: 0

When the time comes to leap in faith whether you have your eyes open or closed or scream all the way down or not makes no practical difference. Votes: 0

It is better to have a Church that is wounded but out in the streets than a Church that is sick because it is closed in on itself. Votes: 0

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know? Votes: 0

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading. Votes: 0

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep. Votes: 0

I just try to keep my heart open. By this, I mean to try not to let my own programmed reaction to things keep me closed down for too long. Votes: 0

To shame our sins He blushed in blood;He closed His eyes to show us God;Let all the world fall down and knowThat none but God such love can show Votes: 0

Now it's like a fog has lifted. I sense Leetu just as clearly as I can see the moon.' Your eyes are closed, and the moon as a haze around it. Votes: 0