Closing Quotes - Page 7

• The physical act of meditating by closing one's eyes and slowing down the speed of internal thoughts - especially worrisome thinking - results in a physiological response that is well documented in the scientific literature.

  Tim McCarthy

  Eye, Thinking, Literature

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• It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

  Arthur Golden

  Eye, Matter, Way

  Arthur Golden (2008). “Memoirs Of A Geisha”, p.314, Random House

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• During the 1970s and 1980s, the popular television soap opera As The World Turns portrayed sunrise during the opening credits and sunset during the closing credits... The soap-opera sunrise showed the sun moving toward the left as it rose rather than to the right. They obviously had gotten a piece of film showing a sunset and played it in reverse... Had they called their local astrophysicists, any one of us might have recommended that if they needed to save money, they could have shown the sunset in a mirror before they showed it running backward.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Running, Moving, Sunset

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• Alistair Crowley used to define magic as anything in which you can exercise your will in the world through the use of your mind. So what's the magical way of opening or closing that door? Well, to will your body to stand up and close or open that door, that's magic. With the iPhone, it's like you put your intent into it, and it helps you exercise that intent in the world.

  Jason Silva

  Exercise, Iphone, Doors

  Source: www.assignmentx.com

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• I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

  Toni Morrison

  Book, Finishing, Wonderful

  "Toni Morrison Knows All About the 'Little Drop of Poison' in Your Childhood". Interview with Maddie Oatman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2015.

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• If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you.

  Ted Cruz

  Government, Obamacare, Assets

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I often need a limited space. It's like having a house to roam around in and reinvent and have things to happen in, kind of like a French farce. Doors opening, doors closing, new people arriving, and disappearing, and so forth.

  Michael Ondaatje

  Doors, Space, People

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• Unfortunately for humanity, I've gotten into the habit of providing my own closing music for shows by singing a song and playing the ukulele.

  John Hodgman

  Song, Ukulele, Humanity

  "Bewildered Maine resident John Hodgman takes another crack at our 11 Questions". Interview with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. September 3, 2015.

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• Wiped the cold dew-drops from his cheek And sought the mourner's side again. "Once more, dear lady, I must speak: Your last remaining son was slain Just at the closing of the fight; Twas he who sent me here to-night." "God knows," the man said afterward, "The fight itself was not so hard."

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Sad, Fighting, Son

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1912). “Picked Poems”

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• Rain never understands why people hide under their umbrellas! Let us make a surprise to the rain by closing our umbrellas!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Rain, People, Surprise

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• From camp to camp, through the foul womb of night,
  The hum of either army stilly sounds,
  That the fixed sentinels almost receive
  The secret whispers of each other's watch.
  Fire answers fire, and through their play flames
  Each battle sees the other's umbered face.
  Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs
  Piercing the night's dull ear; and from the tents
  The armorers accomplishing the knights,
  With busy hammers closing rivets up,
  Give dreadful note of preparation.

  William Shakespeare

  War, Army, Night

  'Henry V' (1599) act 4, chorus, l. 1

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• Been thinking about having a baby. But if I want to do it, I'd have to do it soon 'cause it's getting near closing time. The clock is ticking. My gynecologist said, if I wanted to have a baby, I would have to do it - the latest - by the ended of this show.

  Carol Leifer

  Baby, Thinking, Clock Is Ticking

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• After the make-up process, I was like, "I never want to do a sci-fi movie where I'm in make-up for seven months." It's interesting. It was my first time ever getting prosthetics. They put this goopy stuff all over your head and they tell you it's like a facial, but it's actually very claustrophobic. All they have are these places where your nostrils are and I kept thinking that they were closing up, but they were like, "No, we're looking at it." So, they made a mold of my face.

  Tinsel Korey

  Thinking, Seven Months, Closing Up

  Source: collider.com

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• Don't say I hate institutionalised religion - rather than saying I hate those things, which I do not, what I'm saying is that perhaps there is a way of opening more doors, rather than closing so many.

  Lady Gaga

  Hate, Doors, Way

  "Lady Gaga: 'My tour is a religious experience'" by Dan Martin, www.theguardian.com. May 12, 2011.

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• Just to let you know that the buffet car will be closing for stocktaking in five minutes. The next station stop is Chesterfield.

  Oscar Wilde

  Car, Buffets, Next

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• I would certainly be open to closing areas where we are at war with somebody. I sure as hell don't want to let people that want to kill us and kill our nation use our Internet.

  Donald Trump

  War, People, Use

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• Power, as it is, has a whole apparatus operating that goes about cutting down, closing doors, so that protests, exercises, platforms, and organizations, such as the Zapatistas, can't grow further in the barrio.

  Bocafloja

  Cutting, Exercise, Organization

  "Decolonial Rap". Interview with Andrew Smolski, www.counterpunch.org. May 15, 2015.

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• As far as the Internet is concerned, we're not talking about closing the Internet. I'm talking about parts of Syria, parts of Iraq, where ISIS is, spotting it.

  Donald Trump

  Isis, Talking, Iraq

  Source: cnnpressroom.blogs.cnn.com

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• When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are.

  Amy Cuddy

  People, Be Who You Are, Who You Are

  Source: www.marieclaire.com

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• A passionately lived life is not always comfortable. Going for it involves being open to all of life - the joys, the sorrows, the mundane as well and the magic, the splendid victories, the most abject defeats. You might even stop closing your eyes during the scary parts of the movie.

  Nicholas Lore

  Eye, Joy, Scary

  "The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success". Book by Nicholas Lore, The Pathfinder: How to Choose or Change Your Career for a Lifetime of Satisfaction and Success.

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• I think of the church often. Not because religion was closing in on me, but because for a long time my ass was sore from that hard, unupholstered pew.

  W. C. Fields

  Thinking, Long, Church

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• The sense of urgency is real for me, because the window of opportunity is closing. Gotta get back to the Super Bowl, gotta get back there and win it.

  Steve McNair

  Real, Winning, Opportunity

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• Listening is the key to total concentration. You listen as the character would listen, closing the door on everything else. Then you are ready to respond.

  Jean Stapleton

  Character, Keys, Doors

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• I would say that there exists a thousand unbreakable links between each of us and everything else, and that our dignity and our chances are one. The farthest star and the mud at our feet are a family; and there is no decency or sense in honoring one thing, or a few things, and then closing the list. The pine tree, the leopard, the Platte River, and ourselves-we are at risk together, or we are on our way to a sustainable world together, we are each other's destiny.

  Mary Oliver

  Stars, Destiny, Feet

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• But men love abstract reasoning and neat systematization so much that they think nothing of distorting the truth, closing their eyes and ears to contrary evidence to preserve their logical constructions.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Eye, Men, Thinking

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