Closing Quotes - Page 17

• When we turn away from the reality of what we do to animals for our gustatory pleasure, we play a game of pretend, like the child who covers her eyes and thinks you can't see her. And yet, there she remains. Closing our eyes doesn't make violence disappear; it only closes our minds and hearts and enables the violence to continue.

  Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

  Children, Heart, Eye

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• The enemies of the Soviet state calculate that the heavy loss we have borne will lead to disorder and confusion in our ranks. But their expectations are in vain: bitter disillusionment awaits them. He who is not blind sees that our party, during its difficult days, is closing its ranks still more closely, that it is united and unshakable.

  Lavrentiy Beria

  Party, Loss, Expectations

  "The Current Digest of the Soviet Press". Issued by the Joint Committee on Slavic Studies, p. 9, 1953.

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• The closing period of the fifteenth century witnessed the slow but sure increase of the churches of the Brethren. Although far from being unmolested, they yet enjoyed comparative rest. At the commencement of the sixteenth century their churches numbered two hundred in Bohemia and Moravia.

  Ezra Hall Gillett

  Two, Church, Increase

  Ezra Hall Gillett (1864). “The Life and Times of John Huss: Or, The Bohemian Reformation of the Fifteenth Century”, p.570

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• The unbreakable bond between love of God and love of neighbor is emphasized. One is so closely connected to the other that to say that we love God becomes a lie if we are closed to our neighbor or hate him altogether. Saint John's words should rather be interpreted to mean that love of neighbor is a path that leads to the encounter with God, and that closing our eyes to our neighbor also blinds us to God.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Hate, Lying, Mean

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• People at the top are closing ranks so tightly that all possibility of subjective deviation has gone, and difference can be sought only in the more distinguished cut of an evening dress.

  Theodor Adorno

  Cutting, Differences, People

  Theodor W. Adorno, Rolf Tiedemann (2003). “Can One Live After Auschwitz?: A Philosophical Reader”, p.77, Stanford University Press

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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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• Is it astonishing that, like children trying to catch smoke by closing their hands, philosophers so often see the object they would grasp fly before them?

  Henri Bergson

  Children, Hands, Trying

  Henri Bergson (1949). “An Introduction to Metaphysics”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

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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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• In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'

  Alan Brazil

  Morning, Sorry, Police

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• But now, we are becoming suspicious of the very things we have long celebrated - free markets, trade, immigration, and technological change. And all this is happening when the tide is going our way. Just as the world is opening up, America is closing down.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Technological Change, Opening Up, America

  Fareed Zakaria (2009). “The Post-American World: And The Rise Of The Rest”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• For me, university was just awful because it was closing one door after the other of all these candy shops of professional possibilities.

  Richard Powers

  Doors, Awful, Possibility

  "Magic Powers" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. March 14, 2003.

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• Men, being conditioned badly, are always feeling nooses closing around their necks, even dumpy boors no girl would take on a bet.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Girl, Women, Feelings

  Cynthia Heimel (1983). “Sex Tips For Girls: Lust, Love, and Romance from the Lives of Single Women”, p.93, Simon and Schuster

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• Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

  Tom Waits

  Fading, Closing Time

  Song: I Hope That I Don't Fall in Love with You, Album: Closing Time

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• I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean?

  Scott Baio

  Mean, Doors, Car

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

  Neil Gaiman

  Library, Littles, Corn

  "Neil Gaiman: Libraries are cultural 'seed corn'". Interview with Toby Litt, www.theguardian.com. November 17, 2014.

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• If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

  Marshall Goldsmith

  Doors, People, Opening

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• People say, "I have heart disease," not "I am heart disease." Somehow the presumption of a person's individuality is not compromised by those diagnostic labels. All the labels tell us is that the person has a specific challenge with which he or she struggles in a highly diverse life. But call someone "a schizophrenic" or "a borderline" and the shorthand has a way of closing the chapter on the person. It reduces a multifaceted human being to a diagnosis and lulls us into a false sense that those words tell us who the person is, rather than only telling us how the person suffers.

  Martha Manning

  Struggle, Heart, Justice

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• We keep this love in a photograph
  We made these memories for ourselves
  Where our eyes are never closing
  Hearts are never broken
  And time's forever frozen still

  Ed Sheeran

  Memories, Heart, Eye

  Song: Photograph

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• I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Inspirational, Basketball, Competition

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• Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes

  Ngugi wa Thiong'o

  Wall, War, Eye

  FaceBook post by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o from Aug 09, 2013

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• How far have we come in man's long pilgrimage from darkness toward light? Are we nearing the light-a day of freedom and of peace for all mankind? Or are the shadows of another night closing in upon us?

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Night, Men, Light

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 1953

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• If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

  Pema Chodron

  Running, Reality, Names

  "When Things Fall Apart". Book by Pema Chödrön, December 24, 1996.

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