Top 100 Closed We Quotes

#1. We live behind the closed doors of our own destiny.

Sorin Cerin

Closed We Quotes #12845
#2. But I was in this bowling league with a good number of friends who came from across the line. We got the phone call that the border had been closed, and that absolutely nobody was being allowed to cross
not parents, not children, not anybody. Who knew what disguise the assassin had used.

Alberto Alvaro Rios

Closed We Quotes #33474
#3. block three times in search of a suitable parking space. We got there, and almost before I had closed the door behind him he said all the work was terrible. I

Jojo Moyes

Closed We Quotes #34131
#4. We have a name," said Jace. "Magnes B-"
"Shut up." Alec hissed, thwacking Jace with his closed menu. Jace looked injured.
"Jesus," he rubbed his arm. "What's your problem?

Cassandra Clare

Closed We Quotes #67061
#5. 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

Closed We Quotes #71553
#6. 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

Closed We Quotes #75049
#7. It is because as we are, our hearts are closed, and we cannot place the holy words in our hearts. So we place them on top of our hearts. And there they stay until, one day, the heart breaks and the words fall in.

Parker J. Palmer

Closed We Quotes #89864
#8. The testimony of every scientist is that the frontiers that are opening out ahead of us now are far wider and more spectacular than any frontier of America in the past. Our horizons are not closed. We are going to write a greater development in America than has ever been conceived.

Eric Johnston

Closed We Quotes #93660
#9. As we rolled down the Million Dollar Highway, I closed my eyes and held him close around the waist, and he squeezed my hand like it was forever, like we'd really found a way to stop time, and I wanted so, so badly to believe it.

Sarah Ockler

Closed We Quotes #95680
#10. We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could.

Hamdi Ulukaya

Closed We Quotes #102901
#11. Haunted since the day its discovery was projected all over the world in 1994, I, like many others, have always wanted to see inside the Chauvet cave, site of the world's earliest known cave art. Quite rightly, we will never go. It is closed to the public.

Simon McBurney

Closed We Quotes #110772
#12. Some people are like that - closed - they can't learn from anyone. Us, for example, we can't learn anything, neither I from you nor you from me, nor from anyone, nor from anything, nor from what happens.

Marguerite Duras

Closed We Quotes #111570
#13. The women's movement was always going to work in two parts. With one part, we'd break open the doors that were closed to women, and with the other part, we'd walk through, transforming society for men and women. Turns out it was a lot easier to open the doors.

Ellen Goodman

Closed We Quotes #115026
#14. She's getting pushy and borderline bratty. We need to have a talk with her about that."

"Huh?"

"That's almost topping from the bottom."

Seth closed his eyes and quietly swore. "I have no idea what the fuck you just said.

Tymber Dalton

Closed We Quotes #123928
#15. We did what we always do. We closed ranks, burned our files, and waited for the storm to pass.

Daniel Silva

Closed We Quotes #156932
#16. What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

Ivan Slavkov

Closed We Quotes #161146
#17. She opened her mouth once to speak, closed it, then finally ripped out, "Why aren't you on your way home? I gave you an order, Lieutenant!" Stuben, anticipating a warmer reception, was momentarily nonplussed. "We took a vote," he said simply, as though it explained everything. Cordelia

Lois McMaster Bujold

Closed We Quotes #161510
#18. For her were meant those terrible words of Louis-Philippe, and a night comes when all is over, when so many jaws have closed upon us that we no longer have the strength to stand, and our meat hangs upon our bodies, as though it had been masticated by every mouth.

Henry Miller

Closed We Quotes #163820
#19. We are in the grip of some big machine grinding us along. The force of it simplifies everything. A weird calm settled over me from inside out. What is about to happen has stood in line to happen. All the roads out of that instant have been closed, one by one.

Mary Karr

Closed We Quotes #171338
#20. Rona of the hurting heart. We've all had one of those. We have all picked at the seal of things that have been closed against us, and locked.

Susan Fletcher

Closed We Quotes #172455
#21. Yeah, but Dean and I were both hungry again by the time the restaurant closed. Don't you have guy friends? You should know that we require constant feeding.

R.S. Grey

Closed We Quotes #189682
#22. Give me a minute,' I told her. I sat on the cold, clumpy ground. I turned my back on the smudgy sunrise so that I was facing west, facing you. I closed my eyes and I did something I've been thinking about: I sent you a message. A question. I hope you receive it.
Then I got up and we left.

Jerry Spinelli

Closed We Quotes #207161
#23. For too long, decisions have been taken behind closed doors - tablets of stone have simply been past down to people without bothering to involve people, listen to their views or give them information about what we are doing and why.

Peter Mandelson

Closed We Quotes #220854
#24. We all came from houses with doors, doors that were supposed to be closed when there were things going on that we weren't supposed to see, and when our pants were down.

Lynette Fromme

Closed We Quotes #223430
#25. We have nothing to hide and it should be clear for the international community whose fault it was that the last closed European border was not open.

Serzh Sargsyan

Closed We Quotes #237136
#26. I closed my eyes. I used to think I was protecting the world, too. But it wasn't that simple. Nothing was. Who were we to decide that anyone or anything didn't deserve the spark of life they had been given?

Kiersten White

Closed We Quotes #249944
#27. We are becoming like cats, slyly parasitic, enjoying an indifferent domesticity. Nice and snug in the social, our historic passions have withdrawn into the glow of an artificial coziness, and our half-closed eyes now seek little other than the peaceful parade of television pictures.

Jean Baudrillard

Closed We Quotes #252024
#28. A sit-down strike is just one step short of saying, "Look, instead of sitting down, we'll run this place. We don't need owners and managers." That's huge. That could be done in Detroit and in other places that are being closed down.

Noam Chomsky

Closed We Quotes #260166
#29. By the time we hit the streets they were silent and closed in on us, and they had assumed the Nonchalant Look, an expression that said, I am not a nurse escorting six lunatics to the ice cream parlor. But they were, and we were their six lunatics, so we behaved like lunatics.

Susanna Kaysen

Closed We Quotes #284683
#30. In the end, we forget the details of our lives that embarrass us or are too painful. We just lie back and allow ourselves to float along calmly over the deep waters, with our eyes closed.

Patrick Modiano

Closed We Quotes #295612
#31. Albert Einstein: The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed... Elegantly

Matthew Cross

Closed We Quotes #298622
#32. And all the restless energy floating through me keeps connecting to him and coming back twice as strong, like we're this closed circuit, and the longer we stay linked, the more powerful the pull between us becomes.

Cora Carmack

Closed We Quotes #303407
#33. T.S Elliot was wrong. My world ended with a bang the minute we entered the Compound and the silver door closed behind us.
The sound was brutal.
Final.

S.A. Bodeen

Closed We Quotes #305400
#34. I closed the box and put it in a closet.
There is no real way to deal with everything we lose.

Joan Didion

Closed We Quotes #311349
#35. Astronomers still can't decide what the shape of our universe is. Is it closed and finite, which is to say, is there a countable tally of all the galaxies that exist, even beyond the ones we can see? Or is it infinite? The latter possibility is still on the table.

Seth Shostak

Closed We Quotes #312137
#36. Hate lawyers all you want. Unlike you, we'll never be replaced with robots. Case closed!

Natalya Vorobyova

Closed We Quotes #318913
#37. We are retracing the lines and windows that are no longer there. We are rebuilding from our memory, trying to do with our eyes open what we usually do with our eyes closed.

David Levithan

Closed We Quotes #329623
#38. We stiffened the penalties for fraud, we extended nationwide efforts to make sure that payments are accurate and they closed a loophole in which people were gaming the system. We didn't change eligibility requirements or reduce the level of benefits.

Kevin Drum

Closed We Quotes #329652
#39. We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

James Douglas

Closed We Quotes #337349
#40. 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

Closed We Quotes #365333
#41. We parked in the lot by the lake and as we emerged from the car, the mountains seemed to have closed in around us and the quiet was palpable, inescapable, underlined by the distant, humming rush of Poulnapass Waterfall.

Orna Ross

Closed We Quotes #369210
#42. Family violence is an entrenched epidemic that we've lived with since time began, so we've got a long way to go. But I do believe the tide is turned. It's no longer a subject that only occurs behind closed doors

Rosie Batty

Closed We Quotes #377657
#43. We do not believe that the Marxist program, which embodies the continuity of the experience of the actual class struggle and real revolutions of the last one hundred and fifty years, is a definitely closed book.

Ernest Mandel

Closed We Quotes #380291
#44. We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

Barbara Jordan

Closed We Quotes #384238
#45. While we read a novel, we are insane - bonkers. We believe in the existence of people who aren't there, we hear their voices ... Sanity returns (in most cases) when the book is closed.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Closed We Quotes #384624
#46. The daily routine of most adults is so heavy and artificial that we are closed off to much of the world. We have to do this in order to get our work done. I think one purpose of art is to get us out of those routines. When we hear music or poetry or stories, the world opens up again.

Ursula K. Le Guin

Closed We Quotes #386690
#47. When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us.

Helen Keller

Closed We Quotes #388818
#48. Years ago - I used to be an actor - I was in a production of Vaclav Havel's 'Temptation,' and when we started rehearsals, he was in prison. When we closed the show, he was running for president. And it felt incredibly timely and important and also this lucky thing.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

Closed We Quotes #390980
#49. The big challenge our society faces is that we live in an increasingly open world with increasingly closed communities. This is also due to the evolution of the Internet, where people only read things that won't challenge their beliefs.

Patrick Chappatte

Closed We Quotes #395623
#50. A girlfriend went on a couple of dates with a guy who criticized the color of her nail polish. She said, "The suggestion department is closed for the evening, but fax your idea tomorrow and we'll file it right over there in the suggestion box." (Then she pointed to the kitchen trash.)

Sherry Argov

Closed We Quotes #400895
#51. My attorney put down the phone after making several calls. "There's only one place where we can get fresh salmon," he said, "and it's closed on Sunday." "Of course," I snapped. "These goddamn Jesus freaks! They're multiplying like rats!

Hunter S. Thompson

Closed We Quotes #408560
#52. The eyes of the dead are closed gently; we also have to open gently the eyes of the living.

Jean Cocteau

Closed We Quotes #416987
#53. We are part of each other's live in much the same way a lover is only slightly beneath closed lids in sleep.

Jane Hamilton

Closed We Quotes #418685
#54. We were two halves to a whole. Water, the mother of creation. Land, the father who supported it. We were forever joined, our souls tethered. In this moment, the truth came to life: Whether the gate closed or not, I would never be whole without this man by my side.

Denise Grover Swank

Closed We Quotes #423384
#55. Guys are totally stupid when it comes to unrequited love. We females pine away and keep our thighs closed for the most part when we love someone we can't have. Guys swing their shit around at anything that has a hole, trying to forget the one they want.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

Closed We Quotes #430979
#56. 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

Closed We Quotes #434082
#57. The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.

John Speed

Closed We Quotes #437763
#58. 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

Closed We Quotes #440787
#59. There is an ever-widening gap between what science allows and what we should actually do. There are many doors science can open that should be kept closed, on prudential or ethical grounds.

Martin Rees

Closed We Quotes #445259
#60. The book is closed, the year is done, the pages full of tasks begun. A little joy, a little care, along with dreams, are written there. This new day brings another year, Renewing hope, dispelling fear. And we may find before the end, a deep content, another friend.

Arch Ward

Closed We Quotes #446577
#61. We're going to open this bookcase and remove the grimoire."
Now I wasn't surprised so much as shocked. "No way," I shot back. "This thing is enchanted to hell and back-maybe literally."
Dad closed his eyes and took a deep breath, like he was having to physically restrain himself from yelling.

Rachel Hawkins

Closed We Quotes #449988
#62. We are born with our eyes closed and our mouths open, and we spend
our whole lives trying to reverse that mistake of nature.

Dale E. Turner

Closed We Quotes #461290
#63. 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.

Desmond Tutu

Closed We Quotes #464795
#64. We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

Paul Prudhomme

Closed We Quotes #464898
#65. In today's overpopulated world, we simply cannot continue to live with those old styles of closed-mindedness.

Wayne W. Dyer

Closed We Quotes #465032
#66. I think we're at risk with our democracy. I think we're dealing with the most closed, imperialistic, nastiest administration in living memory. They even put Richard Nixon to shame.

Wesley Clark

Closed We Quotes #465385
#67. We have been talking with leaders: Change is coming; you can no longer have a closed regime with an open society - satellites, social media, the Internet - you have this kind, this kind of society moving forward, and you are running this closed regime; this is not sustainable. This cannot continue.

Ali Babacan

Closed We Quotes #467017
#68. "A closed mouth doesn't get fed." Oftentimes, we feel not worthy or we don't want to bother people. We forget to ask for help or what we need or would like. My grandmother used to say that quote to us as kids. It's kind of always stuck with me.

Kevin Daniels

Closed We Quotes #467678
#69. Each of us comes into life with fists closed, set for aggressiveness and acquisition. But when we abandon life our hands are open; there is nothing on earth that we need, nothing the soul can take with it.

Fulton J. Sheen

Closed We Quotes #470090
#70. What the hell am I looking at?" he barked. "It's a nope GIF. You've never seen a nope GIF? There are hundreds on the Internet." She smiled. "We literally never have to have this conversation again. You'll bring it up again, and I'll just send you a GIF. Subject closed.

Thea Harrison

Closed We Quotes #492274
#71. This is right, Kai. We love each other."
He closed his eyes. "I'd do anything for you."
"Just love me," I whispered

Wendy Higgins

Closed We Quotes #521382
#72. I had to wonder whether this interval had any more spread and breadth than just another sequestered moment, bordered by closed doors. We

Don DeLillo

Closed We Quotes #532921
#73. You think back and you ask yourself why you became so interested in wolves. I think it was because when I was very small, growing up in a little hamlet near Shap, we would go to Lowther Wildlife Park for birthday parties. Now closed, it was only three miles from my parents' house.

Sarah Hall

Closed We Quotes #537479
#74. Flash is one of those very useful, very closed, very proprietary non-weblike things that has great tools and serves a need very well. But in the long run, we see video as part of the web, and it should be handled just the way other html elements are.

Mitchell Baker

Closed We Quotes #540986
#75. Joy, shipmate, joy! (Pleased to my soul at death I cry), Our life is closed, our life begins, The long, long anchorage we leave, The ship is clear at last, she leaps! She swiftly courses from the shore, Joy, shipmate, joy!

Walt Whitman

Closed We Quotes #556386
#76. we should have been on top of that. we should have closed it down quick and clean, before anyone knew. in and out. that mess is going to be in the western mail tomorrow, gwen. mystory riot . deaths. we can't paper over it. fast bug out. no time to wipe memories or fake deaths. just a big old mess.

Dan Abnett

Closed We Quotes #565509
#77. 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

Closed We Quotes #569672
#78. We've got to have mind-collecting weeks in our zendos where your mind tries to fly off like a Tinker Toy and like a good soldier you put it back together with your eyes closed except of course the whole thing is wrong.

Jack Kerouac

Closed We Quotes #582464
#79. Ethereal, adj.
You leaned your head into mine, and I leaned my head into yours. Dancing cheek to cheek. Revolving slowly, eyes closed, heartbeat measure, nature's hum. It lasted the length of an old song, and then we stopped, kissed, and my heart stayed there, just like that.

David Levithan

Closed We Quotes #584182
#80. So that's it?" I asked when I could manage it. "We're going to abide by an ancient, narrow-minded agreement made almost a thousand years ago. Case closed.

Deborah Harkness

Closed We Quotes #587045
#81. The tremendous danger is that this belief - that genuine happiness comes only from pleasant feelings - becomes a strong motivation to stay closed to anything unpleasant. But by staying closed to all unpleasantness, we also stay closed to our own wellspring of compassion.

Joseph Goldstein

Closed We Quotes #587835
#82. We dreamt of a crappy apartment somewhere
Making love while we let the midnight air
Flow through the open window, into our closed hearts
Left bitter from heartbreak and too much time apart

Jessica-Lynn Barbour

Closed We Quotes #593489
#83. We only see what others want us to see. We don't know how they suffer behind closed doors. Our

Monica Murphy

Closed We Quotes #596770
#84. Let anyone who comes to you go away feeling better and happier. Everyone should see goodness in your face, in your eyes, in your smile. Joy shows from the eyes. It appears when we speak and walk. It cannot be kept closed inside us. It reacts outside. Joy is very infectious.

Mother Teresa

Closed We Quotes #611340
#85. We went to his room where he closed the door, keeping the lights off. I tried not to breathe because even that seemed too loud. When he whispered my name, I jumped and then couldn't stop giggling. He muffled my giggles with his tongue.

Raziel Reid

Closed We Quotes #661231
#86. It was done the day you took me to that house in Bryanston Square, she said. Or even, the time before that, when you bought me tea. We stood in the sun, and you closed your eyes and I looked at your face ... I think it was done then, Julia.

Sarah Waters

Closed We Quotes #664502
#87. A library is such a potent symbol of a town's values: each one closed down might as well be six thousand stickers plastered over every available surface, reading WE CHOSE TO BECOME MORE STUPID AND DULL.

Caitlin Moran

Closed We Quotes #702164
#88. Afraid of the darkness of the unknown, the spaces in which we see only dimly, we often choose the darkness of closed eyes, of obliviousness.

Rebecca Solnit

Closed We Quotes #705468
#89. Then I closed my eyes.
That was it. That was Before. Now here we go into After.

Jennifer Castle

Closed We Quotes #711344
#90. We don't need more recycling, we need a completely different system of closed-loop manufacturing, and no matter how many cans I crush, my personal actions at the consumer level are of very little importance in getting us there.

Alex Steffen

Closed We Quotes #714313
#91. I have great hopes that we shall learn in due time how to emotionalise and mythologise their science to such an extent that what is, in effect, a belief in us (though not under that name) will creep in while the human mind remains closed to belief in the Enemy. The

C.S. Lewis

Closed We Quotes #716336
#92. 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

Closed We Quotes #725145
#93. The niceties of existence were not a matter of concern, yet everything around was closed down most of the time. If you lived in a middle-class community in Chicago, children and adults came daily to the door saying, 'We are starving, how about a potato?' I speak from poignant memory.

Paul Samuelson

Closed We Quotes #730667
#94. We refuse to acknowledge something that is blatantly obvious because either we are closed or we don't know how to face it.

Santosh Sharma

Closed We Quotes #736572
#95. We will only keep people from fleeing the countryside into urban favelas, villas miseries, shantytowns and squatter villages when the productivity gap is closed between what brute labor on the soil can accomplish and what advanced technology makes possible today - and will make possible tomorrow.

Alvin Toffler

Closed We Quotes #748266
#96. We cannot always judge man for only one part of his attitude. If we did so, we would be like the Pharisees in whose eyes Jesus was seen as bad, because He did not respect their rules about the Sabbath. They closed their eyes entirely to what would have lovable in Jesus, even in their sight.

Richard Wurmbrand

Closed We Quotes #749772
#97. He closed his hand around my wrist and pressed my hand flat against his chest. The way I see it, Elle, scars are proof we can survive.

Megan Hart

Closed We Quotes #750294
#98. We did it Disneyland, in the knowledge that most of the people I talked to thought it would be a financial disaster - closed and forgotten within the first year.

Walt Disney

Closed We Quotes #751151
#99. To buy an Apple product is to bet on the longevity of the closed system to which we've committed ourselves. And that system is embodied - through marketing as much as talent - by Steve Jobs.

Douglas Rushkoff

Closed We Quotes #752680
#100. If it was perfect, we would be rolling around on the sand together, kissing like mad." I stopped walking and looked him straight in the eye. Then I lay down on the sand, and began to roll myself back and forth. He closed his eyes and tilted his face to the sky. "Fucking nuts girl," he sighed.

Alice Clayton

Closed We Quotes #782680

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