Quotes with closing

  • The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
  • 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.
  • This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.

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  • Barbara Bush At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Alan Bennett Closing a public library is child abuse, really, because it hinders child development.
    Alan Bennett
    British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author (1934 - )
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  • Bruce Springsteen 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
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Sir Richard Steele I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.
    Sir Richard Steele
    British Dramatist, Essayist, Editor (1672 - 1729)
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  • Winston Churchill One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Carlo Ratti One of the ideas that was developed at MIT in a workshop was, imagine this pipe, and you've got valves, solenoid valves, taps, opening and closing. You create like a water curtain with pixels made of water. If those pixels fall, you can write on it: you can show patterns, images, text.
    Carlo Ratti
    Italian architect, engineer and activist
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  • Carl Sandburg Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during a moment.
    Tentative (First Model) Definitions of Poetry in Complete Poems (1950)
    Carl Sandburg
    American Poet (1878 - 1967)
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  • Alexander Graham Bell Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
    Alexander Graham Bell
    Scottish-born scientist, inventor, engineer, and innovator (1847 - 1922)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Bob Beauprez The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.
    Bob Beauprez
    American politician and member (1948 - )
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  • Anne Morrow Lindbergh The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.
    Anne Morrow Lindbergh
    American Author (1906 - 2001)
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  • Ben Bernanke The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • Bill Murray There's only a couple times when fame is ever helpful. Sometimes you can get into a restaurant where the kitchen is just closing. Sometimes you can avoid a traffic violation. But the only time it really matters is in the emergency room with your kids. That's when you want to be noticed, because it's very easy to get forgotten in an ER.
    Bill Murray
    American actor, comedian, and writer (1950 - )
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  • Salman Rushdie This paranoid Islam, which blames outsider, 'infidels', for all the ills of Muslim societies, and whose proposed remedy is the closing of those societies to the rival project of modernity, is presently the fastest growing version of Islam in the world.
    NY Times 2-11-2001 Yes, This Is About Islam
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Carl Stokes What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.
    Carl Stokes
    American politician and diplomat (1927 - 1996)
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