Quotes About Shutting Yourself Off

#1. You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.

Elias Canetti

#2. 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

#3. War is a big word; it's cruel, it's hard, nobody wants that. Protecting yourself sounds much better. Putting up walls, shutting everyone out. And forgetting that those who you are so afraid of - they're not all that different from you.

C.M. Rayne

#4. The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?

Nanamoli Thera

#5. You didn't mind someone shutting out the world as long as they were happy to take you inside with them.

Lauren Henderson

#6. But on the other hand, there are many corporations who have turned their backs on the American worker, who have said, if I can make another nickel in profit by going to China and shutting down in the United States of America, that's what I will do.

Bernie Sanders

#7. 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

#8. Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.

Richard Engel

#9. The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

Walter Russell

#10. 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

#11. But I won't bore you any longer on the subject of old men. It won't make things any better and all my plans of revenge (such as disconnecting the lamp, shutting the door, hiding his clothes) must be abandoned in order to keep the peace. Oh, I'm becoming so sensible! ...

Anne Frank

#12. 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

#13. I work to loud music - hard-rock stuff like AC/DC, Guns 'n Roses, and Metallica have always been particular favorites - but for me the music is just another way of shutting the door.

Stephen King

#14. Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.

Edwin Hubbel Chapin

#15. 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

#16. The biggest challenge after success is shutting up about it.

Criss Jami

#17. Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.

Zoe Akins

#18. Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.

Susan Kay

#19. Promiscuous reading is necessary to the constituting of human nature. The attempt to keep out evil doctrine by licensing is like the exploit of that gallant man who thought to keep out the crows by shutting the park gate.

John Milton

#20. LEGO has announced that they are shutting down their U.S. factory and moving it to Canada. LEGO employees say it's their fault because they made the factory too easy to take apart and rebuild somewhere else.

Conan O'Brien

#21. I know you don't like me," Kes said to her. "And, frankly, I don't like you. But please do me the service of shutting the fuck up. I'm doing the best I can.

Heather Demetrios

#22. The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.

Marjorie Holmes

#23. All I know is that protecting someone from the truth is just another way of shutting them out.

K. Bromberg

#24. Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

George Clooney

#25. Meditation is neither shutting things out nor off. It is seeing things clearly, and deliberately positioning yourself differently in relationship to them.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

#26. However, in this technique, because your eyes are open and because the gaze in not a tight gaze and because the whole emphasis of the practice is one of openess, even though you're mindful of the out-breath, you're not shutting out all other things that are going on.

Pema Chodron

#27. It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn't matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.

Paulo Coelho

#28. I think that every young person is a little mentally ill, you know? If we're not totally shutting down, we're all a little bit mentally ill in our twenties and maybe into our early thirties.

Gaby Hoffmann

#29. 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

#30. When Minutemen leader Jim Gilchrist and his black colleague Marvin Stewart were invited by the College Republicans to speak at Columbia last year, the tolerant, free-speech-loving Columbia students violently attacked them, shutting down the speech.

Ann Coulter

#31. The E.U.'s Eastern Partnership programme is designed to bind the so-called focus states tightly to itself, shutting down the possibility of co-operation with Russia.

Sergei Lavrov

#32. 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

#33. I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Lara Pulver

#34. Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.

Cassandra Clare