Top 100 Closes Quotes
#1. If he closes his eyes he sees the streets of Asia full of fire. It rolls across cities like a burst map, the hurricane of heat withering bodies as it meets them, the shadow of humans suddenly in the air. This tremor of Western wisdom.
Michael Ondaatje
#2. God never closes off horizons; He is never unconcerned about the lives and sufferings of His children. God never allows Himself to be outdone in generosity.
Pope Francis
#3. When the star dies,
Its eye closes; tired of watching,
It flies back to its first bright dream.
Dejan Stojanovic
#4. Sometimes love is a wound that opens and closes, opens and closes, all our lives.
Claire Vaye Watkins
#5. Series finales have that responsibility to leave you feeling good about entire series. You want to feel like the viewer closes the book satisfied. And if you strike out on the finale it skews how you feel about the entire series.
Shawn Ryan
#6. The second way to control the light is with the aperture in the lens, which is a diaphragm that opens and closes to control the light. It's measured in cryptic little numbers that only mathematicians and practitioners of the occult understand.
David DuChemin
#7. I'll remember you, he thinks, and as the gun carriage, with its coffin and its dented helmet pass him by, he closes his eyes.
Nothing will bring them back. Not the words of comfortable men. Not the words of politicians. Or the platitudes of paid poets.
Anna Hope
#8. Darkness resides in us all; but when it surrounds us, closes in on us, it's the only time when we truly know the power of our light.
Robert Storey
#9. One can go back to one's own home after a year's absence and immediately the door closes it is as if one had never been away. Or one can go back after a few hours and everything is so changed that one is a stranger.
Graham Greene
#10. The leash snaps loose and trails after the little white dog like a kite streamer; then the knot closes, sealing shut. In seconds, an instant, there's no dog, no leash. No sound in the air.
Then Marcus says, 'The tree just ate the dead dog.'
'Yes,' says Jose. 'So it seems.
Veronica Rossi
#11. Something always turns up. It always seems darkest before the dawn. When God closes a door he opens a window. All things happen for a reason. Into every life a little rain must fall. What doesn't kill us makes us stronger.
Charlaine Harris
#12. If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf, Our lives would grow together, In sad or singing weather, Blown fields or flowerful closes, Green pleasure or grey grief; If love were what the rose is, And I were like the leaf.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#14. Joe lulls the man into the afterlife, places his head gently on the ground, closes the lids over his empty eyes, retrieves his gun and continues to fight for a freedom he would never be fully entitled to.
Bernice L. McFadden
#15. Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.
Mahatma Gandhi
#16. Life is not black and white. The closes we ever get to either of those colors is wearing them.
Karen Marie Moning
#17. When your failures surround you, and all the open doors have closed, look up. There's a door that never closes, a way, when all the other ways have failed you.
Yasmin Mogahed
#18. By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.
Nicholas Sparks
#19. if He closes a door, you may never know what He's saving you from or see the better things He has stored up for you.
Jamie Larbi
#20. Analysis isn't pliers, and truth is not teeth: you can't pull it out by force. A mouth stays closes as long as it wants to. Truth is told when it tells itself.
Jill Alexander Essbaum
#21. You think anything is possible. But that isn't so. The world closes tight around this miracle soon enough; and you don't hope for other miracles.
Anne Rice
#22. When one door closes, find another."
Kylie gazed back up. "And what if there isn't another door?"
"Then you try the window."
"And if there's not a window?" Kylie asked.
"Then you find a sledgehammer and make a window.
C.C. Hunter
#24. Option key means "apply this action to all windows. " For example, Option-double-clicking any title bar minimizes all desktop windows, sending them flying to the Dock.Option-clicking the Close button closes all open desktop
Anonymous
#25. Anastasia, I'm not a hearts and flowers kind of man, I don't do romance. My tastes are very singular. You should steer clear of me." He closes his eyes as if in defeat. "There's something about you, though,and I'm finding it impossible to stay away. But I think you've figured that out already.
E.L. James
#26. 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 that has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
#27. He who closes his ears to the views of others shows little confidence in the integrity of his own views.
William Congreve
#29. There is a dew in one flower and not in another, because one opens in cup and takes it in, while the other closes itself, and the drops run off. God rains His goodness and mercy as widespread as the dew, and if we lack them, it is because we will not open our hearts to receive them.
Henry Ward Beecher
#30. The Champion must not waver. The Champion must not fear. The Gate of Darkness closes.
Rae Carson
#31. As the cleansing ocean closes over bin Laden's carcass, may the earth lie lightly on the countless graves of those he sentenced without compunction to be burned alive or dismembered in the street.
Christopher Hitchens
#32. Victoria closes her eyes, breathing in the familiar scent, and for a moment it's as if they've never been apart. They're still Vixen and Cassandra, summer sisters forever. The rest is a mistake, a crazy joke.
Judy Blume
#33. Woe to him who neglects to recommend himself to Mary, and thus closes the channel of grace!
Alphonsus Liguori
#34. If love closes, the self contracts and hardens: the mind having nothing else to occupy its attention and give it that change and renewal it requires, busies itself more and more with self-feeling, which takes on narrow and disgusting forms, like avarice, arrogance and fatuity.
Charles Horton Cooley
#35. As we come marching, marching, we battle too for men,
For they are women's children, and we mother them again.
Our lives shall not be sweated from birth until life closes;
Hearts starve as well as bodies; give us bread, but give us roses!
James Oppenheim
#36. There's a law in life: whenever a door closes, a new one will open.
Andre Gide
#37. When life closes a door, God opens a window.
Paul Smith
#38. Jealousy is the lock that closes your heart, understanding is the key that opens it.
Ken Petti
#39. I don't doubt that a man can live perfectly well on his own, but I'm convinced that he begins to die as soon as he closes the door of his house behind him.
Jose Saramago
#40. 'Onward' was a song I wrote in Montreux, in Switzerland, when we were there camping out for the whole winter. In the summer, Montreux is a really, really big summertime-touristy, full-of-life kind of place. In the winter, it closes down.
Chris Squire
#41. My mouth is an inch from hers, and I wait for her to slap me or push me away, but then she closes her eyes, and that's when I know - I'm in. Okay
Jennifer Niven
#42. Hamm: What's he doing?
(CLOV raises lid of NAGG's bin, stoops, looks into it. Pause.)
Clov: He's crying.
(He closes lid, straightens up)
Hamm: Then he's living.
Samuel Beckett
#43. When one door closes another door opens; but we so often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
#44. For the crown of our life as it closes Is darkness, the fruit thereof dust; No thorns go as deep as a rose's, And love is more cruel than lust.
Algernon Charles Swinburne
#45. Moses Never Closes was something folks counted on. It was a certain place in an uncertain world. Folks wanted it to stay the way it was, because once you change one part of a thing, all the other parts begin to shift, and pretty soon, you just don't know what's what anymore.
Jenny Wingfield
#46. I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.
Tama J. Kieves
#47. As in everything else, I find that age is not good for much, that one becomes deafer and less sensitive. Also, the higher up the mountain you climb, the less of a view you get. A mist closes in and cheats you of the hoped-for and expected opportunity to see far and wide ...
Kathe Kollwitz
#48. Your expectations opens or closes the doors of your supply, If you expect grand things, and work honestly for them, they will come to you, your supply will correspond with your expectation.
Orison Swett Marden
#49. Fear closes all doors to the true self, that brilliant center where the ecstasy lies.
Kenny Werner
#50. People feel guilty. And guilt is stymieing. Guilt immobilizes. Guilt closes the air ducts and the veins, and makes people ignorant.
Maya Angelou
#51. You're a taker. And you've been taking for a long time. And I think that you can only take so much from the universe before it closes shop.
J.T. Lawrence
#52. Art work is inconclusive. It opens your mind up. At least, that's what I hope it does. And advertising, using exactly the same photograph, closes things down. It makes it conclusive. It sells a product, and that is its primary function.
Alison Jackson
#53. If Penelope were her, I'd tell her she's wrong about me. She thinks I solve everything with my sword. But apparently, I can also solve things with my mouth -- because, so far, every time I lean into Baz, he shuts up and closes his eyes.
Rainbow Rowell
#54. I believe that God opens doors but closes them if you don't act when given the opportunity.
Shellie M. Saunders
#55. He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
#56. The idea of perfect closes your mind to new standards. When you drive hard toward one ideal, you miss opportunities and paths, not to mention hurting your confidence. Believe in your potential and then go out and explore it; don't limit it.
John Eliot
#57. Certainty closes many doors," he replied. "It leads to dogmatism. Souls accept what they know and stop striving upwards.
Jo Walton
#58. His smoke eyes lighten as she closes the gap between them, and he slowly seals it wrapping his arms about her.
Solange Nicole
#61. Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience ... . When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance. BRIAN ADAMS
Jack Canfield
#62. Well, you know, I might try out for the musical," I say real quick.
[ ... ] She nods and says, "You should. We need guys." [ ... ] She smiles and says, "Break a leg" as I walk out.
That was uncalled for. "Bitch," I say under my breath as the door closes.
Brent Crawford
#63. When a window closes another one opens
Apl.de.ap
#64. Encountering rhyme out of the blue is like finding a long-lost twin (fraternal), or a suitcase that closes with a particularly satisfying click.
Matthea Harvey
#65. It (Twitter) closes the six degrees of separation to one degree of separation
Gary Vaynerchuk
#66. Washington is like a self-sealing tank on a military aircraft. When a bullet passes through, it closes up.
Dean Acheson
#67. It is true that the heart has its seasons, just as a flower opens to the sunlight and closes to the night. We need to be respectful of those rhythms. But we can't close down for long. It is our true nature to have an open heart.
Jack Kornfield
#68. Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods.
Alfred Tennyson
#69. I only know there's something unsettling about a door that closes forever. I feel a vague lament about the changing of my body, the alterations in my appearance, the bleeding out of motherhood, the fear that I will not find the mysterious green fuse again.
Sue Monk Kidd
#70. And then, despite the fact that A. J. does not believe in God, he closes his eyes and thanks whomever, the higher power, with all his porcupine heart.
Gabrielle Zevin
#71. Dallas closes the leather case, set to store it away in her closet. She looks at the message one last time, memorizes it, and leaves the postcard on the table before she walks away. You matter.
Suzanne Young
#72. Sorrow is my own yard where the new grass flames as it has flamed often before but not with the cold fire that closes round me this year.
William Carlos Williams
#73. There is a way between voice and presence, where information flows. In disciplined silence it opens; with wandering talk it closes.
Rumi
#74. Take a chance. Don't fear change. Life won't hand you your dreams. Every time a door closes or you let go of something, you will find that there is room for new possibilities to enter. You aren't saying goodbye. You are saying hello.
Brittany Burgunder
#75. I understand Mother's need, whatever she might say on the phone, what she really wants is to hear, before she closes her eyes, the voice of someone who loves her. Love is at last, our only rejoinder to darkness.
Scott Russell Sanders
#76. Every human thought, word, or deed is based on fear or love. Fear is the energy which contracts, closes down, draws in, hides, hoards, harms. Love is the energy which expands, opens up, sends out, reveals, shares, heals. You have free choice about which of these to select.
Neale Donald Walsch
#77. Another chapter closes before it has the chance to begin
Faith Sullivan
#78. Gratitude also opens your eyes to the limitless potential of the universe, while dissatisfaction closes your eyes to it.
Stephen Richards
#80. You have to think there's a reason for everything. When a door closes another door opens.
Chris Daughtry
#81. Irrevocable commitment to any religion is not only intellectual suicide; it is positive unfaith because it closes the mind to any new vision of the world. Faith is, above all, openness - an act of trust in the unknown.
Alan W. Watts
#82. I'm for Simpson-Bowles. It doesn't raise taxes, it closes loopholes and takes the money we would give to a few people and put it on the debt
Lindsey Graham
#83. That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
Maya Angelou
#84. Life is a play that does not allow testing. So, sing, cry, dance, laugh and live intensely, before the curtain closes and the piece ends with no applause.
Charlie Chaplin
#85. The emotional equivalent of jet lag is the end of a love affair and yet you, foolish and besotted lover, won't let go. You're still keeping time by his sun and moon, waking when he wakes, and sleeping only when he closes his eyes.
James Oseland
#86. My roommate's not suicidal
But it sounds sexier than saying
that she closes her eyes sometimes
when she's changing lanes.
Chad Anderson
#87. For certain, neither of them sees a happy Present, as the gate opens and closes, and one goes in, and the other goes away.
Charles Dickens
#88. Lover, she whispers, and closes her eyes.
It falls upon her.
Love is like dying.
Stephen King
#89. If one wants to be loved
and return it full score
dagger of silence
closes the door.
David W. Earle
#90. At least it feels that way standing here with you." He closes his blue eyes and breathes in. When he opens them again, he says, "Actually, standing next to you makes it feel as high as Everest." I
Jennifer Niven
#91. Dear girl with the red scarf,
People will come and go in our lives. Most of them we won't give a second thought to as soon as the door closes behind them. But I had always imagined that you would leave the deepest, everlasting mark.
-Mr. Universe.
Maria La Serra
#92. I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men
and closes its hearts to none.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#93. So war and peace start in the human heart. Whether that heart is open or whether that heart closes has global implications.
Pema Chodron
#95. When one door opens another one closes....so carry a lot of door stoppers!
Julie Darley
#96. I think if religion closes discussion or exchange of ideas or curiosity about other views, it's not true to its core.
David O. Russell
#97. An act of justice closes the book on a misdeed; an act of vengeance writes one of its own
Marilyn Vos Savant
#98. He that seeks popularity in art closes the door on his own genius: as he must needs paint for other minds, and not for his own.
Anna Brownell Jameson
#99. At the circus, a careless mother may let her child take part in the experiments of a Chinese magician. He puts him in a box. He opens the box; it's empty. He closes it again. He opens it; the child reappears and goes back to his seat. Now it is no longer the same child. Nobody doubts it.
Jean Cocteau
#100. And I am aware of my heart: it opens and closes
Its bowl of red blooms out of sheer love of me.
Sylvia Plath
