Closing Quotes - Page 13

• I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Names, Credit, Pages

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• I would favor three policies: raising the minimum wage to $12, closing the tax loophole where persons only pay a 15% income tax on long term capital gains (tax it at the full tax rate), and institute a progressive tax moving the highest tax rate from 39.6% to 45%. I would favor implementing these three policies in that order, starting with raising the minimum wage, but not stopping there.

  Philip Kotler

  Moving, Order, Long

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Prayer, Suffering

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• In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Hands, Games

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• When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

  Ray Davies

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, World

  Ray Davies (2000). “Waterloo Sunset: Stories”, Hyperion

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• But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Flirting, Thinking, Meals

  George Saintsbury (1922). “A Scrap Book”

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• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

  Andrew Vachss

  Fear, Eye, Looks

  Andrew Vachss (2010). “The Weight”, p.208, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I sat down and tried to rest. I could not; though I had been on foot all day, I could not now repose an instant; I was too much excited. A phase of my life was closing tonight, a new one opening tomorrow: impossible to slumber in the interval; I must watch feverishly while the change was being accomplished.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Feet, Watches, Tonight

  Charlotte Brontë “Jane Eyre”, W. W. Norton & Company

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• A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

  Joni Mitchell

  Light, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Down to You, Album: Court and Spark

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• Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Order, Evil

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.

  Paul Levinson

  Believe, Commitment, Thinking

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• To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Buttons, Use

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.39, Macmillan

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• It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Butterfly, Exercise, Dark

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jun 06, 2013

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• To the extent we are perceiving anyone's guilt -choosing to focus on the errors of their personality rather than the eternal innocence of their spirit - we're closing our hearts, deflecting a miracle and causing our own inevitable suffering.

  Marianne Williamson

  Inspirational, Heart, Errors

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from May 10, 2013

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• The difference between closing or opening your eyes is the choice between the imagined vs real. Blinking is only human.

  John Maeda

  Real, Eye, Differences

  Twitter post from Apr 18, 2009

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• Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Night, Gentle

  "R Is for Rocket". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1962.

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• Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

  Jose Saramago

  Definitions, Mouths, Human Nature

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

  Amartya Sen

  Ideas, Identity, Kind

  "Think a West Tolerant Intolerance Against Muslims Is Wrong and Dangerous". Interview with Mario Baudino, La Stampa, January 30, 2003.

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• Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is
  given to us.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Past, Giving

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• ...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion - whatever they have determined that to be.

  Vin Weber

  Dark, Age, Body

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• The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

  Johnny Mercer

  Running, Children, Wine

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• Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

  Mickey Gilley

  Girl, Unanswered Questions, Closing Time

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• I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, Obamacare

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, blogs.abcnews.com. April 19, 2011.

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• One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, What Matters, Doors

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• Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.77, Anchor

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