Quotes About Shutting People Out

#1. We hide behind our assumptions and preconceptions as if they were fortresses - shutting people out. I love to witness the fall of a preconception; the way it renders you naked

Karen Hitchcock

#2. If he's shutting people out, what makes you think I'll be able to reach him?" "Because he loves you! It's obvious." Nic

Emily March

#3. Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.

Sarah Jessica Parker

#4. Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.

Kristin Hannah

#5. A person who doesn't breathe deeply reduces the life of his body. If he doesn't move freely, he restricts the life of his body. If he doesn't feel fully, he narrows the life of his body. And if his self-expression is constricted, he limits the life of his body.

Alexander Lowen

#6. All my day is spent dealing with other people. When I come home I like it to be empty. The presence of others in my house kind of annoys me. I love coming home and shutting the doors. I feel brain dead. I'm relatively available, but not to live with.

Graham Norton

#7. No one knows the future, but the present offers clues and hints on its direction.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#8. To love people as they are is impossible. And yet one must. And therefore do good to them, clenching your feelings, holding your nose, and shutting your eyes (this last is necessary). Endure evil from them, not getting angry with them if possible, 'remembering that you, too, are a human being'.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. He kept telling me I was queer, and I didn't like it. The word, I mean. Shutting you away, somehow; roping you off with a lot of people you don't feel much in common with, half of whom hate the other half anyway, and just keep together so that they can lean up against each other for support.

Mary Renault

#10. I always appreciate people's opinions, but sometimes I have to take a step back and remember why I'm writing and what I want to do with it. Shutting out the voices is difficult but it's been good for me.

Veronica Roth

#11. But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?

Mark Steyn

#12. I'm sick to death of famous people standing up and using their celebrity to promote a cause. If I see a particular need, I do try to help. But there's a lot that can be achieved by putting a check in the right place and shutting up about it.

Russell Crowe

#13. Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.

Blaize Clement

#14. Egypt has responded to hundreds of thousands of protesters by shutting down the Internet. Just a word of advice: If you want people to stay at home and do nothing, you should turn the Internet back on.

Conan O'Brien

#15. I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.

L.M. Montgomery

#16. Keep reaching out because you may help pull someone out of darkness and guide them into light. - Caroline Naoroji

Kathryn Perez

#17. In the end though, everybody dies, but not everybody lives - the climber, though he may die young, will have lived.

Mark Lawrence

#18. I feel vulnerable a lot interacting with human beings and being honest with people, and if I read their energy kind of not getting or shutting me down or this feeling of where we're not connecting, that's kind of a vulnerable place for me.

Matt Nathanson

#19. Shutting people down creatively often doesn't get the best performance out of them.

Seth Rogen

#20. People can get into very bad habits of arguing ideas and shutting them down.

Megan Smith

#21. But in life people come and go. We don't always have control over it. But we can control how we respond. We can keep going, keep living the best we can. We can love the people we have instead of shutting them out. We can do our best to get to know them in the time we have.

Suzanne LaFleur

#22. I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, No, we don't use this heart anymore. It's too fragile.

Courtney C. Stevens

#23. But big people's illnesses are always made to sound big. The simple shutting and opening of the royal arse-hole was made to sound as if the world was coming to an end.

Khushwant Singh

#24. She went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes:

Lewis Carroll

#25. Woody Allen once said that 90 percent of life is about showing up. Ninety percent of healing people in psychological pain is shutting up - at least long enough to let them bleed the truth. That sounds easy, but it isn't. (68)

Keith Ablow

#26. Instead of planning the retirement of the Space Shuttle program, America should be preparing the shuttles for their next step in space: evolving, not shutting them down and laying off thousands of people.

Buzz Aldrin

#27. I'm a really smiley person, so I've just learned when I'm doing my own makeup, I have to make sure it's smile ready and not too heavy. As amazing as the Victoria Beckham pout is for photos, I just can't do it!

Rosario Dawson