Closed Quotes

Truth is a torch, but a terrific one; therefore we all try to reach it with closed eyes, lest we should be scorched.

Study your subject through half-closed eyes before starting to draw - you'll find that the lights and darks are exaggerated and easier to identify.

There's nothing more dangerous than a panicked politician.

[Asserting] important First Amendment rights ... why should [executions] be the one area that is conducted behind closed doors?... Why shouldn't executions be public?

There is nothing more dangerous than security.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

To go into temptation to find how strong you are, is as wise as to go before a mirror, with closed eyes, to find how you look when asleep.

What is slander? A verdict of "guilty" pronounced in the absence of the accused, with closed doors, without defence or appeal, by an interested and prejudiced judge.

There is a cliche that men want their women to be ladies in public and hookers behind closed doors. I want my woman to be the sharper image robot so that she can be turned off.

Families, I hate you! Shut-in homes, closed doors, jealous possessors of happiness

The eye and brain are conspirators, and, like most conspiracies, theirs is negotiated behind closed doors, in the back room, outside of our awareness.

Those artists who say that somehow therapy or analysis will thwart their creativity are completely misinformed. It's absolutely the opposite: it opens closed doors.

What happens style wise behind closed doors, in your home, shouldn't be incidental. Home isn't just where you stow your things or sack out for the night. It should be your private escape.

I think people hide behind anonymity and they feel like they can say whatever they want behind closed doors.

Small thoughts fit easily into a closed mind, but big thoughts require an open one.

Gideon was an untamed animal behind closed doors, a lover who bared me to the soul every time he made love to me.

When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.

Build patterns on time with God into your life when your worship leading...Never let your time leading on a public stage eclipse what’s going on with you and God behind closed doors.

The past is a closed door.

Raising children has given me a compassionate and gracious heart for all children and people, realizing we don't always know the circumstances behind closed doors.

Travellers with closed minds can tell us little except about themselves

The man who invented the telescope found out more about heaven than the closed eyes of prayer ever discovered.

I thank God for Closed Doors

Ignorance is death. A closed mind is a catafalque.

The e-mails [from WikiLeaks] show that behind closed doors speaking to these international bankers, Hillary Clinton's pledged to destroy the sovereignty of the United States.

We shall soon be obliged to meet in cellars, or in darkened rooms with closed doors, and speak in whispers lest our next door neighbors should hear that freeborn citizens dare not speak in the open.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

You don't have Republicans and Democrats behind closed doors. We have people passionate about national security behind closed doors. And I think that's the way that it should be.

What is private and what is discussed behind closed doors, you do not have to be instructed at the age of fifty or sixty or forty or whatever to not talk about it outside.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

There are a lot of women out there who are doing crazy things behind closed doors sexual-wise and are afraid to admit it.

If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work.

Anybody that's old and closed-minded does not like Rick James... They don't like the fact that I'm free and I'm wide open.

Why marry a woman if you're going to betray her, and if you're going to betray her, why beat her? The fault is not hers ... I sometimes think the worst we do, we do behind closed doors.

The fact that I still want the best for the world is kind of amazing. People slandered me for years and years and years. I would say to them, "Thanks for having a closed mind".

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect. I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.

If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.

Two girls called me closed minded. I tell them that they are so open-minded their brains leaked out.

Waiting insistently in front of a tightly closed door is unfair to all of the open doors! Give a chance to the open doors!

What broke your heart so badThat you had to close every door, That you say you have a dark soulAnd can't utter the word 'love' anymore?

To open a closed door, use kindness as your key.

Realize that if a door closed, it’s because what was behind it wasn’t meant for you.

Keep waving someone who has closed his eyes only when you understand the fact that you are only exhausting your energy with the hope that one day he will open his eyes and see you waving him!

There is no window to look outside.There is no window to look within.Open the doors.

When the doors begin to close, the mind begins to open.

She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel

Closed mouths, only lead to closed gates. Share your salvation!

The only thing a closed book is good for is a table that wobbles. Be an open book.

You must love when your eyes are closed and love when your eyes are open. Love endlessly.