Quotes About Behind Closed

#1. Pakistan's foreign policy should be discussed on the floor of the Parliament, not behind closed doors.

Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri

#2. No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be."
"Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?"
"No."
"Then you didn't even get a taste.

Jennifer A. Nielsen

#3. There's one thing I want you to do for me."
"Anything." He pleaded.
"When you're all alone, sitting in the silence behind bars, separated from your freedom. Ask yourself. Was it worth it?" She closed her eyes and pulled the trigger.

Michelle Umland

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

Sorin Cerin

#5. What the military will say to a reporter and what is said behind closed doors are two very different things - especially when it comes to the U.S. military in Africa.

Nick Turse

#6. 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

#7. Landon spun the wheel. The Land Rover nearly careened, turning off the road. Landon parked and bolted out of the car, slapping the driver's door closed behind him.

Ilona Andrews

#8. Once in the shower, I let the water run over my face, keeping my eyes closed. The delicate outlines of Abby's features were burned behind my eyelids. It wasn't the first time; I saw her every time my eyes closed. Now that she was gone, it was like being stuck in a nightmare.

Jamie McGuire

#9. Behind closed doors they had what were legendary battles I hear but when the doors opened there was absolute unity. Not a crack could be found. No separation whatsoever. They were locked together for the good of the community.

Maynard Jackson

#10. His door is closed behind me. It's staying closed. He's letting me go. I think I've made myself very clear, but no ones stepping forward to stop me. A lot of you cared, just not enough. And that ... that is what i needed to find out. And I did find out. And I'm sorry.

Jay Asher

#11. 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

#12. I'm sometimes shocked by the way scientists huddle behind closed doors to discuss important research results without informing the public about them at all. Academic caution is often preferable to premature publication, but fear can also destroy opportunities.

Giulia Enders

#13. He looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from them. each of the closed books was a door, and behind it stirred shadows, voices, sounds, heading toward him from a deep, dark place.

Arturo Perez-Reverte

#14. I, for my part, never looked forward to anything except the moment the office door closed behind me and I was alone and able to write.

Karl Ove Knausgard

#15. 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

#16. All day long he was docile, intelligent, good, Though sometimes changing to a darker mood. He seemed hypocritical, could tell better lies, in the dark he saw dots of colors behind closed eyes, clenched fists, put his tongue out at his elder brother.

Arthur Rimbaud

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

Ray Dalio

#18. Man has gone out to explore other worlds and other civilizations without having explored his own labyrinth of dark passages and secret chambers, and without finding what lies behind doorways that he himself has sealed.

Stanislaw Lem

#19. Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Siri Hustvedt

#20. Monks committed all the same sins that ordinary people did. He had just been shocked by the woman's shamelessness. The sight of her nakedness remained with him, the way the hot heart of a candle flame, stared at for a few moments, would burn on behind closed eyelids.

Ken Follett

#21. 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.

Kirby Wright

#22. When I am not drinking deeply from the inexhaustible well of love that is Jesus, it is impossible for me to share that love with the community behind closed doors as well as my greater community.

Kara Tippetts

#23. It hurts," she whispered, wrapping her arms around a pillow and pulling it closer to her chest. Her eyes stayed closed, and I watched a few tears slip out. "Being left behind hurts.

Brittainy C. Cherry

#24. You never know what someone is dealing with behind closed doors. You only know what you see or what you think you see.

Mackenzie Phillips

#25. The second bathroom's downstairs - that's kind of the emergency backup bathroom when Shane's in there moussing his hair for like an hour or something ... "
"Bite me!" Shane yelled from behind the closed door.

Rachel Caine

#26. 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

#27. She knew she'd wounded him when he'd least expected it, and her satisfaction lasted until the door had closed behind him. Once he was gone, it ebbed away along with her anger, leaving her with naught but the ashes and embers of a dying hearth fire.

Sharon Kay Penman

#28. 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

#29. Way has never opened in front of me ... but a lot of way has closed behind me, and that has had the same guiding effect.

Parker J. Palmer

#30. 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

#31. 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

#32. Behind closed doors, good men are often more mischievous and exasperating than the truly bad ones. The difference is they're naughty because they're happy - boys at heart, no matter how many responsibilities they bear or how old they become.

Kieran Kramer

#33. Kafka could never have written as he did had he lived in a house. His writing is that of someone whose whole life was spent in apartments, with lifts, stairwells, muffled voices behind closed doors, and sounds through walls. Put him in a nice detached villa and he'd never have written a word.

Alan Bennett

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

Monica Murphy

#35. Diplomacy is, perhaps, one element of the U.S. government that should not be subject to the demands of 'open government'; whenever it works, it is usually because it is done behind closed doors. But this may be increasingly hard to achieve in the age of Twittering bureaucrats.

Evgeny Morozov

#36. You'd better be upstairs already, Maxim. You'd better be out of sight, asleep, behind a closed door. I can't fight myself anymore tonight. I

Melanie Harlow

#37. When the door closed behind him, I cried. I was still crying when my mom returned, and I continued to cry through the night. And then I stopped crying. And started to live for me.

J.B. Hartnett

#38. Things done in the dark hours of night, behind closed doors, or in the heat of the moment looked a lot different in the morning, out in the open, and with a clear head.

Penelope Douglas

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

John Lasseter

#40. Debates educated a nation. That educative function had atrophied during decades of making decisions behind closed doors.

Robert A. Caro

#41. I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

Randi Zuckerberg

#42. The Spirit's fullness is not the reward of our faithfulness, but God's gift for our defeat. He was not given to the disciples in Acts 28 as the culmination and reward of their wonderful service, but in Acts 2 when they had proved themselves cowards, meeting behind closed doors.

Roy Hession

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

Mandy Hale

#44. Behind the door was where bad things happen. No matter how many blankets I used or extra pairs of panties I wore. None of it mattered. The monster always came. His face obscured in the shadows, partially hidden behind the cloak rack. Hot breath breathing over my face as soon as I closed my eyes.

Hannah Baston

#45. I've always been interested in family secrets and what happens behind closed doors. I find that fascinating and creepy - that's why I read: because I want to know other people's secrets.

Ottessa Moshfegh

#46. The only people who should know what is happening behind closed doors are the people living within the four walls.

Carlos Wallace

#47. I do think, even though you are a public figure, I do think you should be entitled to your privacy, and I do think that there are things that go on in relationships and behind closed doors that are completely private.

Tamara Ecclestone

#48. Evidence ... proves that prohibition only drives drunkenness behind closed doors and into dark places, and it does not cure it or even diminish it.

Mark Twain

#49. When I closed the door and turned to the guys, I saw they were all leaned slightly to the right, heads tipped, eyes on my behind or, in the case of the lanky guy, my legs. I

Kristen Ashley

#50. Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it with devotional zeal. Feel yourself inside it: That is where God dwells.

Paramahansa Yogananda

#51. Father worked behind closed doors inside the house, had a huge ancient Latin dictionary on a wrought-iron stand, spoke Spanish on the phone, and drank sherry and ate raw meat, in the form of chorizo, at five o'clock. Until the day in the yard with my

Alice Sebold

#52. Democracies die behind closed doors ... When government begins closing doors, it selectively controls information rightfully belonging to the people. Selective information is misinformation.

Damon Keith

#53. [Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors? ... Why shouldn't executions be public?

Phil Donahue

#54. If you stand behind a closed door and try to hear a private conversation not intended for your ears, you're most likely to hear something derogatory about yourself." From A Good Girl

Chandana Roy

#55. I closed my eyes, seeking a moment of peace but finding none. Behind my eyelids, an entirely new nightmare was waiting. This wasn't another haunting memory. This was a new form of torture.

Nicole Sobon

#56. I didn't come here to talk politics with you, baby ," Brady said, pushing the door closed behind them. "Lecture me after I'm done with you.

K.A. Linde

#57. The light which still shone was derived mainly from a large hole in the western bank of cloud; it was like a piece of day left behind by accident, dusk having closed in elsewhere.

Thomas Hardy

#58. Shoved him backwards out of her lab, pulling its door closed behind them.

Karen Miller

#59. Show a human a closed door, and no matter how many open doors she finds, she'll be haunted by what might be behind it.

James S.A. Corey

#60. Maybe there is an invisible world working behind our own, maybe words in the silence, maybe movements in what looks completely still. When every door is closed, maybe doors are opening that can't be seen.

Lene Fogelberg

#61. There's no platform for an unsigned music scene in the main cities - it's all hyped acts or showcases behind closed doors. I read about artists that are doing it 'the old-fashioned way' and touring, as if that's a unique thing to do - well, that should just be the way it is.

Ben Lovett

#62. Goldman Sachs did not leave the house before it began to burn; it was merely the first to dash through the exit - and then it closed the door behind it.

Michael Lewis

#63. The room is full of you! - As I came in
And closed the door behind me, all at once
A something in the air, intangible,
yet stiff with meaning, struck my senses sick! -

Edna St. Vincent Millay

#64. The whole process of getting licenses to broadcast, which took place decades ago, was done behind closed doors by powerful lobbies, and wealthy commercial interests got all the licenses with no public input, no congressional input for that matter.

Robert McChesney

#65. Poor innocent baby, about to get fleeced. Tut-tut, gorgeous. You know when you play poker with a man behind closed doors, there is only one acceptable currency.

Nalini Singh

#66. Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

Constance Briscoe

#67. Kissing me will not make the horse any smaller."
Laughter rumbled from Gray's chest as he closed his arms around her. He inhaled the sweetness of her hair and nuzzled the warm silkiness just behind her ear. "Kissing ye will no' make me any smaller either.

Maeve Greyson

#68. Non-Muslims in Saudi Arabia can only celebrate Valentine's Day behind closed doors. Apparently, this has led to a huge black market for flowers and wrapping paper.

John Niven

#69. We should talk," he said from behind me.
I closed my eyes. "You always want to talk," I muttered. "But you never actually say anything with meaning.

Scott Tracey

#70. I fell for the feisty, smart-ass Julia that calls me on my shit. But I'm owned by the vixen that you become behind closed doors.

Alessandra Torre

#71. Behind closed doors, I'm a crafty person.

Raven-Symone

#72. Nothing is allowed in public, while everything is permitted behind closed doors.

Shahin Najafi

#73. Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Dean Koontz

#74. As the door closed behind them, the painter flung himself down on a sofa, and a look of pain came into his face.

Oscar Wilde

#75. When you go behind closed doors, then anything goes.

Tassa Desalada

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

Laura Miller

#77. At Fantasy's Bar & Grill we're serving up things behind closed doors that are hotter than anything you'll order from the menu!

Michelle Hughes

#78. What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.

Rachel Zoe

#79. Open eyes are of little use when the mind behind them is closed.

Jim Butcher

#80. the door was closed behind him, hiding in the shadows was Zlo wearing his normal attire but he had his back towards him like he pretended he didn't exist.

"Checkmate.

Charon Lloyd-Roberts

#81. Someone once said, that the internet is the bathroom wall of the 21 century. And that appears to be true, especially since Bobrick transitioned to plastic laminates removing the opportunity to defame others behind those closed doors.

Delia J. Colvin

#82. Sometimes the strongest people are the ones who love beyond all faults, only truly grieve behind closed doors, and fight battles that nobody knows about.

K. Bromberg

#83. Even putting aside the culturally indoctrinated terror that someone in America will assume that two men engage in sodomy behind barely closed doors, there simply isn't an elegant way of asking someone of your gender to hang out for the first time.

Thomm Quackenbush

#84. There was something special about sunrise. I just preferred to experience it behind closed eyelids.

Anne Zoelle

#85. The only time I'm not Hulk Hogan is when I'm behind closed doors because as soon as I walk out the front door, and somebody says hello to me, I can't just say 'hello' like Terry. When they see me, they see the blond hair, the mustache, and the bald head, they instantly think Hulk Hogan.

Hulk Hogan

#86. Energy in itself is a sort of redemption. No wonder we admire Satan. But if the Devil were listless, if he were a pale man in his underwear who watched television by day behind closed venetian blinds - oh if that were the devil I would fear him.

Edmund White

#87. I think that kind of urgency is what makes this stage of the climate movement really different from what it was even a few years ago when it was much more of the professionalized NGOs lobbying behind closed doors and maybe having a march now and then.

Avi Lewis

#88. interruption or a keep-behind-a-closed-door

Nancy Star

#89. Strangely enough, the linking of computers has taken place democratically, even anarchically. Its rules and habits are emerging in the open light, rather shall behind the closed doors of security agencies or corporate operations centers.

James Gleick

#90. It wasn't merely a walk; it was a journey. Behind every opened or closed door, there was a story to tell.

Dhari Buyabes

#91. So Tumpty tried hiding upside down, behind a pot plant, under a large cardboard box, with his eyes tightly closed.

Polly Dunbar

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

Paramahansa Yogananda

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

Patrick White

#94. There was a pot of boiling rage on a private stove behind their closed curtains:

Margaret Atwood

#95. If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.

Tim Gunn

#96. It makes me proud of all of us who are secretly going to pieces behind closed doors but still somehow keeping it together for the public, collaborating in the shaky ongoing effort of not letting civilization fall apart for one more day.

Tim Kreider

#97. Many investigators feel uneasy stating in public that the origin of life is a mystery, even though behind closed doors they admit they are baffled.

Paul Davies

#98. The strongest among us are the ones who cry behind closed doors, have the ability to smile through silent pain, and fight battles that are obscured by shame.

A.L. Smith

#99. I believe that behind every closed door there is an open space.

Ping Fu

#100. I knew I had to keep him to myself, as I'd slowly begun to keep everything. We had secrets now, truths and half-truths, that kept her always at arm's length, behind a closed door, miles away.

Sarah Dessen