Closed If Quotes

#1. Unfelt feelings don't cease to exist; they stay bottled up in our minds and our bodies. They dissipate when given expression. A heart can break only if it is closed - if it remains open there is nothing to break.

Jewel

#2. After completing a Delaware State education, they were afforded opportunities beyond anything they might have imagined - and they opened doors for themselves that surely would have remained closed if they only had a high school education.

Michael N. Castle

#3. Not unless he crossed the line.' Holly supposed she should let this go, but she was tired of Vera's bullying. 'Ah, that line . . .' Vera leaned back in her chair with her eyes half-closed. 'If only we knew exactly where it was.' There

Ann Cleeves

#4. If our hearts are closed, if our hearts are made of stone, the stones find their way into our hands and we are ready to throw them.

Pope Francis

#5. Newspapers are closed if they print the wrong things in Iran. Iranian journalists or Iranian-American journalists, for that matter, I think are pressured in a lot of different ways, expected to give information to intelligence services. Americans can be thrown out of the country.

Steve Inskeep

#6. Personally I thought you had to go into something like this with your eyes closed. If you thought about it too much you'd almost certainly not do it because there were just too many reasons not to. Rather the only thing to do was jump in and then take a peek at where you'd landed.

Cathy Rogers

#7. Keep your eyes and ears wide open - and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision.

Napoleon Hill

#8. 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.

Edith Widder

#9. What good are dreams if they lie only in closed boxes.

Nadia Janice Brown

#10. Good. Or instead, what if I just told you that I love you?" Payton gazed
into his eyes. "What would you say, J. D. Jameson, if I told you that?"
J.D. smiled. He touched his forehead to Payton's, closed his eyes, and
answered her with one word.
"Finally.

Julie James

#11. I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me.

Adam Goldberg

#12. They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

Ken Kesey

#13. If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

George Bernard Shaw

#14. Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed.

Samuel R. Delany

#15. The Singaporean government, which represents legal migrant workers in employment disputes and claims of exploitation, requires that they stay in the country until the disputes are settled. If they leave, their claims are closed.

Alan Huffman

#16. Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed.

Rumi

#17. What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

Bono

#18. He tried to recall the look of her eyes the day they first met. He closed his eyes and concentrated, but as he envisioned Kalila's car passing by, he couldn't decide if it was a memory or a dream.

Christian F. Burton

#19. The quality of rhetoric emanating from the psychedelic community must improve radically. If it does not, we will forfeit the reclamation of our birthright and all opportunity for exploring the psychedelic dimension will be closed off.

Terence McKenna

#20. The world is moving ahead on its own without my being aware of it, as if we're playing a game in which everybody else can move only when I have my eyes closed.

Haruki Murakami

#21. Are you in love with him?'
She kept her lips tightly closed as if holding something back.
'Are you in love with me?'
She tried to answer but nothing came out. She lowered her eyes to the floor.

Tan Redding

#22. The massive doors of Area 51 closed behind him, echoing like iron thunder. Carl stood for a moment, inhaling the hot desert air, wondering whether to tell the world the wonders he had seen, and, if so, how. Amazing things. Other-worldly things. Also a set of car keys. And one brown sock.

Ron Brackin

#23. One question remained to me. "If a higher level of bujutsu involves fighting with the mind, what then is the very highest level?" He closed his eyes for a while, seeing things he would never show me. "That," he said, "would be never to fight at all.

Tan Twan Eng

#24. I remember an immense feeling of possibility at the idea, as if I had been ushered into a vast building filled with closed doors and had been given leave to open any I liked. There were more doors than one person could ever open in a lifetime, I thought (and still think).

Stephen King

#25. Don't assume a door is closed; push on it. Don't assume if it was closed yesterday that it is closed today. Don't ever stop learning and improving your mind. If you do, you're going to be left behind.

Marian Wright Edelman

#26. 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?

Bobby Womack

#27. What if her heart had hardened so much that she closed herself off in order to survive?

Penelope Douglas

#28. If a poem is concentrated, a closed fist, then a novel is relaxed and expansive, an open hand: it has roads, detours, destinations; a heart line, a head line; morals and money come into it. Where the fist excludes and stuns, the open hand can touch and encompass a great deal in its travels.

Sylvia Plath

#29. If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed.

Elizabeth Berg

#30. What's this all about?" Anne asked as I closed the door, pressing my ear up against it. "Can you hear anything?" I asked. They both put their ears to the door, too, waiting to see if something intelligible came through.

Kiera Cass

#31. Ya've got no respect, woman," Beck retorted. After the door closed behind him she realized what he'd said.
"Woman?" He wasn't calling her girl any longer.
If that wasn't a sign the world was ending, what other proof did she need?

Jana Oliver

#32. Have you ever heard the phrase, it is better to keep your mouth closed and have people wonder if you are stupid than open it and remove all doubt? (Hakim al Harbi)

Vince Flynn

#33. When he closed his eyes, everything around him just felt empty and cold, as if he was in the loneliest place in the world. The middle of nowhere.

John Boyne

#34. My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would.

Lauren Myracle

#35. At the most difficult moments of my life, when it seemed that every door was closed to me, the taste of those apricots comes back to comfort me with the notion that abundance is always within reach, if only one knows how to find it.

Isabel Allende

#36. If a single act of folly was more responsible for this explosion than any other it was the arbitrary and dangerous announced decision that the Straits of Tiran would be closed. The right of innocent, maritime passage must be preserved for all nations

Lyndon B. Johnson

#37. If everyone in the world sat quietly at the same time, closed their eyes and concentrated as hard as they could on peace and goodwill, all the killing and cruelty in the world would continue. And probably increase.

George Carlin

#38. Relax, Xander. It's only two lines."
He closed his eyes and leaned into her, his arms wrapping her back. "But it's still lines in a real film, and if I mess it up-"
"They'll have you do it again. And again... and again." Liv laughed. "No big deal. Life is full of second chances.

Danika Stone

#39. Nissa stirred as she felt the soft brush of something -- lips - tease against her neck. With her eyes closed, she smiled. Thomas' spicy, masculine scent was unmistakable. "What are you doing?" she murmured.
"If you have to ask, I must be doing it wrong.

Savannah Stuart

#40. Who was never vexed by the great exactions he made of her in return for the riches he might have given her if he had ever had them, and who lovingly closed his eyes upon the Marshalsea and all its blighted fruits.

Charles Dickens

#41. Always act like a lady in front of closed doors. Never show emotion if it means risking your power.

Ellen Hopkins

#42. I have passed out of childhood into old age. I have had no youth - no womanhood; the hopes of womanhood have closed for me - for I shall never marry; and I anticipate cares and sorrows just as if I were an old woman, and with the same fearful spirit.

Elizabeth Gaskell

#43. A closed mind is like a parachute malfunction, a mind like a parachute only works if it is fully open.

Brian Michael Good

#44. His teeth closed on her ear. "Do I still feel far away?"
She'd probably feel the heat of him lingering on her skin for days. "No."
His voice was a low, teasing whisper, shivering in her ear. "Even if I slide back down and fuck you with my tongue?

Kit Rocha

#45. He closed his eyes, shook his head. If he could get her alone somewhere, somewhere completely private, he'd kill her. He would break a rock over her head and split her skull open so that he could see, just for a second, what the fuck was in her mind.

Adam Ross

#46. 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.

Gordie Howe

#47. God always drops love like rainfall and if you walk in it, you shall always be refreshed by it in so far as it continues to shower. Note however that you may never be able to quench your test no matter how long you shall keep standing in the rains whilst you keep your lips closed.

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#48. He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it.

Marcus Sedgwick

#49. If you try to make your circle closed and exclusively yours, it never grows very much. Only a circle that has lots of room for anybody who needs it has enough spare space to hold any real magic.

Zilpha Keatley Snyder

#50. You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more.

Deva Premal

#51. If the present is left unopened,
now, it is closed.

Khang Kijarro Nguyen

#52. If only your ears were not so formless, so clogged with meaning(s), that they are closed to what does not in some way echo the already heard" (p. 113, The Sex Which is Not One)

Irigaray, Luce

#53. I was afraid that if I closed my eyes, I might never open them again, only ... well ... dawn came after all.

George R R Martin

#54. Nothing is forever, he thought beyond closed eyelids somewhere over Asia Minor. Maybe unhappiness is the continuum through which a human life moves, and joy just a series of blips, of islands in the stream. Or if not unhappiness, then at least melancholy.

Salman Rushdie

#55. You can't see something shining if you're eyes are closed.

Shey Stahl

#56. If having true love and love that is expressive and free outside of work affects a project where you have to be restrained and in denial and fixed and closed off. This doesn't mean you go out and just destroy your love outside of your life and kind of mirror your movie.

Heath Ledger

#57. Curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen - a place a mouse could go to.

Cynthia Voigt

#58. A challenge to us is a great joy to us! If you see an open door, there is no challenge there and therefore there is no joy! A door must be closed so that we can obtain the joy of trying to open it!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#59. Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.

Anonymous

#60. What rights have women? ... [they are] punished for breaking laws which they have no voice in making. All avenues to enterprise and honors are closed against them. If poor, they must drudge for a mere pittance if of the wealthy classes, they must be dressed dolls of fashion parlor puppets ...

Ernestine Rose

#61. Relaxation is the point. And if you can relax with an enlightened person his enlightenment will start penetrating you, because when you are relaxed you become porous. When you are tense you are closed; when you relax he will enter

Rajneesh

#62. But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

Catherynne M Valente

#63. Sometimes I think: if they want to walk around armed and build fences and let a church tell them what to do, let them wallow in it. They can build their own town of closed thinking, and live there, and find out later what a shitty place it really is.

Erika Johansen

#64. If ye were no longer there - or somewhere - " he said very softly, "then the sun would no longer come up or go down." He lifted my hand and kissed it, very gently. He laid it, closed around my ring, upon my chest, rose, and left.

Diana Gabaldon

#65. They were outside. It was oddly quiet, with just a muffled roar from behind the closed door, as if the ocean were contained on that side.

Eloisa James

#66. He knows that behind each false door is a drop. And if we enter it, we will fall. In His mercy, He keeps those false doors closed.

Yasmin Mogahed

#67. If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture.

Dan Phillips

#68. If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

George Carlin

#69. And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong.

Anthony Marra

#70. Money and success can never make you happy if your heart is closed.

Lucinda Riley

#71. By nature he is more closed-up than I am, I agree, but I know - and from my own experience - that at some time or other even the most uncommunicative people long just as much, if not more, to find someone whom they can confide in.

Anne Frank

#72. I closed my eyes as if to join the maiden as the droplets rearranged themselves, forming a pattern resembling an elongated island on the rim of an undisturbed blankness

Patti Smith

#73. For a man filled with a great, true and unselfish love, even if it be on one side only, there open horizons and possibilities and paths which are closed and unknown to so many clever, ambitious, and selfish men.

Ivo Andric

#74. You can tell if someone is about social intercourse or just about browbeating somebody with their opinion. It's no fun arguing with a closed-minded person.

John Schneider

#75. She closed the cupboard door, holding a red plate in front of her like she'd go all Tangled on me and hit me with it if I argued with her.

Emily Snow

#76. If you keep your eyes closed, your mind will show you all kinds of crazy movies ... But with your eyes open, all you had to face was the nothingness of what you were really doing.

Adam Johnson

#77. Montalbano and Valente seemed not to have heard him, looking as if their minds were elsewhere. But in fact they were paying very close attention, like cats that, keeping their eyes closed as if asleep, are actually counting the stars.

Andrea Camilleri

#78. Percy pushed on his side furiously and the crack closed. His eyes blazed with anger. She hoped he wasn't mad at her, but if he was she couldn't blame him.
If it keeps him going, she thought, then let him be angry.

Rick Riordan

#79. Do not enter, closed for repairs, zombies will eat your face if you try to touch this vagina.

Tara Sivec

#80. I don't want the world. I want you, Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt.

Cassandra Clare

#81. One of the problems with hedge funds is that they are changing so rapidly. If you have the balance sheet that closed business last night, by 11 A.M. this morning, that won't tell you very much about what they're doing.

Alan Greenspan

#82. A linguist would be shocked to learn that if a set is not closed this does not mean that it is open, or again that "E is dense in E" does not mean the same thing as "E is dense in itself".

John Edensor Littlewood

#83. They seal the subway change-booth guy up inside this thing with bullet-proof glass, closed in on all sides, it's like some kind of Houdini torture tank of doom. How do you breathe in there? It looks like if you put your hand over the change slot, you could suffocate him in thirty seconds.

Jerry Seinfeld

#84. What about the teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#85. If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in.

Eckhart Tolle

#86. If all the Bibles in America were simultaneously dusted, the sun would be obscured for a week. It's not a magic talisman that works without being read. A Bible does us no harm as long as it remains closed.

Randy Alcorn

#87. Did you know that those Microwave units with the cute little flip-button on the lid? Well if you leave the thing closed when you heat them up, it gives a great bang. The kids love it!

Chris Ward

#88. Because no man can ever feel his own identity aright except his eyes be closed; as if darkness were indeed the proper element of our essences, though light be more congenial to our clayey part.

Herman Melville

#89. Tell about the quality of light coming in through your window. Jump in and write. Don't worry if it is night and your curtains are closed or you would rather write about the light up north - just write. Go for ten minutes, fifteen, a half hour.

Natalie Goldberg

#90. I think I can be closed in. I can close this outer shell, cut myself off and be quite cold. I can cut other people off if I need to. I don't think I'm angry, though ... Maybe my wife would disagree.

John Simm

#91. But sometimes, like tonight, she feels plugged in to the raw emotion of it all, a closed circuit, and if she doesn't keep it at arm's length, it still has the power to break her.

Blake Crouch

#92. It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed.

Saint Augustine

#93. If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new.

Kathie Lee Gifford

#94. Everyone who has eyes to see can see that if the God of Abraham exists, He is an utter psychopath
and the God of Nature too. If you can't see these things just by looking, you have simply closed your eyes to the realities of our world.

Sam Harris

#95. Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you.

Mandy Hale

#96. Her face was made of angular planes, the shape of her mouth clear-cut, a sensual mouth held closed with inflexible precision. She kept her hands in the coat pockets, her posture taut, as if she resented immobility ...

Ayn Rand

#97. What I'm trying to do is make impressions. I think of myself as a colourist, adding different colours and shades by using different techniques and touching the guitar in different ways. I'd like to play sounds you can see if you've got your eyes closed.

Lenny Breau

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

Janette Rallison

#99. If we throw ourselves open to God, He will reveal. The trouble comes when we have closed areas, locked and barred places in our hearts, where we think, with pride, that we are right.

Watchman Nee

#100. 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!

Sanjo Jendayi