Closing Quotes - Page 2

• You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

  James Caan

  Eye, Night, Can Do

  "James Caan: What I've Learned". Interview with Ross Johnson, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• We want to obviously foster a relationship that we're a partner with states; that we all share the same goals of closing the achievement gap, just as the Congress does; and that we're practical and sophisticated enough to understand what they're talking about.

  Margaret Spellings

  Relationship, Talking, Goal

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson, Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• The American people likewise want to see enforcement first, no tricks, no triggers, no amnesty, enforcing existing laws and closing loopholes to reaffirm that our great Republic is, in fact, a nation of laws.

  J. D. Hayworth

  Law, People, Enforcement

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• My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.

  Paddy Ashdown

  Jobs, Doors, Europe

  "Farewell, Sarajevo" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. November 1, 2005.

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• We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

  Gale Sayers

  School, Nfl, Trends

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• I do think we know that a teacher who knows what he or she is doing, knows their subject matter, and knows how to impart knowledge to kids is a critical piece of closing the achievement gap.

  Margaret Spellings

  Teacher, Kids, Thinking

  "The Education Week Interview: Margaret Spellings". Interview with Lynn Olson and Erik W. Robelen, www.edweek.org. February 9, 2005.

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• I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.

  Jim Cantalupo

  Moving, Thinking, Years

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• The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or - somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.

  Kenneth Grahame

  Running, Hunting, Woods

  Kenneth Grahame (1908). “The Wind in the Willows”, p.54

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• When I came to DreamWorks, I was in bad trouble. They were in bad trouble. They were millions of dollars in the hole and a few days from closing their doors. I was on my last leg.

  Toby Keith

  Doors, Dollars, Legs

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• Closing the gap for women entrepreneurs should be a priority for the federal government - and yet the Small Business Administration has failed in their promise to women business owners.

  Ruben Hinojosa

  Government, Entrepreneur, Priorities

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• In the early 1970s. 1971, '72. The rooms were closing down, record labels weren't signing acoustic acts any more. Although they had been pretty much been getting out of that for some time before that.

  Dave Van Ronk

  Labels, Records, Rooms

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• When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.

  Walter Scott

  Friendship, True Friend, Clouds

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• I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

  Joseph Heller

  Writing, Lines, I Can

  Joseph Heller, Adam J. Sorkin (1993). “Conversations with Joseph Heller”, p.108, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The power of a text when it is read is different from the power it has when it is copied out. Only the copied text thus commands the soul of him who is occupied with it, whereas the mere reader never discovers the new aspects of his inner self that are opened by the text, that road cut through the interior jungle forever closing behind it: because the reader follows the movement of his mind in the free flight of day-dreaming, whereas the copier submits it to command.

  Walter Benjamin

  Dream, Book, Reading

  "One-Way Street".

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• From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in Man.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Compass, Harmony

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• I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking.

  Gordie Howe

  Sports, Children, Learning

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• I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap.

  Kevin Rudd

  Lying, Apology, Challenges

  "Late Night Live" with Phillip Adams, www.abc.net.au. August 4, 2010.

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• Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and closing all others.

  Abraham Zaleznik

  Mean, Doors, Issues

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• Depending on their psychic make up, for some people, closing the eyes or being quiet produces anxiety and increases mental agitation. In such situations it is better to undertake the practice of yoga-whether physical yoga or meditation-with other people with whom one is comfortable and at ease. Gradually, as we see more and more clearly their roots, the fears and the imaginings will diminish. Mental distractions are harder to overcome when practicing alone. (109)

  Ravi Ravindra

  Yoga, Eye, Psychics

  Ravi Ravindra (2009). “The Wisdom of Patañjali's Yoga Sutras: A New Translation and Guide”

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• President Obama is closing the prescription drug doughnut hole. He strengthened Medicare! He extended the life of the program by eight years. And what Governor Romney and Congressman Ryan won’t admit is that their plan would require current seniors to pay, on average, $600 more each year for prescription drugs.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  Senior, Eight, Average

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz's Speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, North Carolina, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• The Tea Party isolated Mitt Romney from mainstream voters, linking him to a rabid ideology that he could not shake as he desperately tried to move to the middle in the closing weeks of the campaign. Lesson: The loudest voices don't often command the votes needed to win in November.

  Eliot Spitzer

  Party, Moving, Winning

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• For an adult, the world is constantly trying to clamp down on itself. Routine, responsibility, decay of institutions, corruption: this is all the world closing in.

  Bruce Springsteen

  Responsibility, Trying, Decay

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• I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing. 

  Tammara Webber

  Real, Eye, Trying

  Tammara Webber (2014). “Between the Lines: The Complete Series”, p.273, Tammara Webber

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• I was turning 20 during my first record. Those decade birthdays always kind of cause me, it seems, to reflect, look back, and then look forward. I just was closing this period of my life where I was living in a car and scrambling my whole life to then signing a six-record deal with Atlantic.

  Jewel

  Car, Looks, Records

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• The opening and closing ceremonies of the London Olympics are mass satanic rituals disguised as a celebration of Britain and sport. Their medium is the language of symbolism.

  David Icke

  Sports, London Olympics, Symbolism

  "What the devil's he on about? David Icke says Opening Ceremony was a secret Satanic ritual" by Simon Head, www.mirror.co.uk. August 1, 2012.

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