Quotes About Closed Borders

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

Mike Johanns

#2. Too much of our time is spent trying to chart God on a grid, and too little is spent allowing our hearts to feel awe. By reducing Christian spirituality to formula, we deprive our hearts of wonder.

Donald Miller

#3. There are evils . . . that men inflict upon one another, such as tyrannical domination of some of them over others. - THE GUIDE OF THE PERPLEXED, III, 2

Joel L. Kraemer

#4. 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

#5. Yeah, says the Newsday reporter, he's a real pacifist. He's the Gandhi of Gangsters.

J.R. Moehringer

#6. She reminded Kevin again that she had forced herself to turn and walk away from him when everything in her wanted to stay.

Ann Rule

#7. The framers of our Constitution never exhausted so much labor, wisdom and forbearance in its formation if it was intended to be broken up by every member.

Robert E.Lee

#8. She wanted to be loved. But she deserved a relationship based on honesty, respect and consideration. Mazy was no longer willing to accept any romance that was not a pairing of equals.

Pamela Morsi

#9. Love is a country, with closed borders and a language no foreigner can speak. The only people who can understand its customs, traditions, and history are its citizens. A relationship doesn't have to make sense to all people. It only has to make sense to two people.

Jillian Keenan

#10. Success is not the destination; it's a way to travel.

Denis Waitley

#11. A perfect smile is too often missing from the faces of the world. If cricket can provide more smiles, it is doing its job.

Mahendra Singh Dhoni

#12. When they come to Europe, they are confronted by still closed borders. Thus, the concept of open borders is a very selective concept, one that is not taken seriously at all in the experience of non-Europeans.

Ulrich Beck

#13. Our prayers can go where we cannot ... there are no borders, no prison walls, no doors that are closed to us when we pray.

Brother Andrew

#14. Back in my heyday, when I was out on the streets - I'm engaged now, about to get married - but before that I was quite the sex symbol. My line was, "If I was taller, would I have a chance?".

Kevin Hart

#15. [My mother] closed the school the next day [after a visit from Castro's soldiers], because she knew that the purpose of education was the broadening and opening of children's minds. And she couldn't be a party to the systematic closing of minds, borders, freedoms and ideals.

Gloria Estefan

#16. I made a pleasant discovery. You work hard at something eight hours a day, you get better. Not a lot better necessarily, but a little better, and that's just fine, because improving at golf, or anything else probably, is just a matter of making an endless series of tiny improvements.

James Patterson

#17. My worst hair experience was when I was trying to relax my hair and my grandmother did it. It went all straight and I looked like a black Bee Gee.

Jamie Foxx

#18. Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Margaret Atwood

#19. By facing our challenges and overcoming them, we grow stronger, wiser, and more compassionate.

John Templeton

#20. This hill, though high, I covet to ascend;
The difficulty will not me offend.
For I perceive the way to life lies here.
Come, pluck up, heart; let's neither faint nor fear.
Better, though difficult, the right way to go,
Than wrong, though easy, where the end is woe.

John Bunyan

#21. After school, I'd hang out at the Borders bookstore until it closed.

Garrett Hedlund

#22. In point of fact I was a perfectly devoted and dutiful little Catholic - until the day I learned that animals have no souls.

Susan Kay

#23. I suppose you want me to say I'm at parties all the time and am secretly going out with Tom Cruise, but I am afraid that is not the case. I'm still in my pyjamas at nine o'clock each night, watching ITV2 without telling anyone.

Miranda Hart