Closing Quotes

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

The living have their eyes opened by closing the eyes of the dead.

The window is closing.

The Democrats are obsessing about raising tax rates, while the GOP talks about closing loopholes.

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

If the FBI parks a van bristling with cameras outside your house, you are justified in closing your blinds.

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.

Keeping a diary is like closing your bedroom door and refusing to come out until dinnertime: it is a declaration of self.

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.

The window of opportunity to avert famine is rapidly closing and could already have closed. The real issue facing us is not whether there will be famine but how many people will actually die.

The act the act must not be a revenge. It must be a calm, weary renunciation, a closing of accounts, a private, rhythmic deed. The last remark.

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.

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

Coming to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, we begin to have this idea that's still with us today, which is that the main purpose of public education is closing achievement gaps.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

Vladimir Putin said the tanks that you see rolling through the streets are just part of the closing ceremonies of the Olympics.

The window of opportunity to avoid dangerous climate change is closing more quickly than previously thought.

It's a closing of the mind that happens when you want to be lazy and go with the easiest answers, like the media do all the time in their sound bytes.

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

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.

There you see Exxon CEO Rex Tillerson closing a deal with [Vladimir] Putin in 2011. Two years later, he received one of Russia's highest civilian honors, the Order of Friendship.

It is exciting to work with students thinking about issues of the day, from closing the achievement gap to finding a cure for cancer.

He thought about his people without sentimentality, with a strict closing of his accounts with life, beginning to understand how much he really loved the people he hated most.

If I'm nominated [for Grammy] I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long.

Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.

It lies around us like a cloud- A world we do not see; Yet the sweet closing of an eye May bring us there to be.

There is always a gap between conception and execution. We keep writing in the burning hope of closing that gap before we die.

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody else.

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.

Stop falling in love with everything that lets you down, even if your hands are shaking and your faith is broken, even as the eyes are closing, do it with a heart wide open. Say what you need to say.

Death is just infinity closing in.

For me, the difference between a musician reading an arrangement on a piece of paper, and them closing their eyes and listening to what's happening around them and responding to it, is huge.

There was no closing my eyes and sliding back into that blissful dream of normal. This was my normal now.

Pretend you're mine," he urged, his arms closing around her. "Just for a minute. Pretend there's never been anyone but me, that I'm the one you're promised to. Do it for me....I'll never ask again.

A TV show is an open universe, whereas a film is more of a closed universe. No disrespect to movies, there's just a lot of artifice in closing out emotional storylines after 90 minutes.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

People will continue to make movies. But I do think the economic model of the studio movie is closing in on a kind of systemic collapse.

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

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

Change was as much about loss as gain, about giving something up even as you reached for something new or different. The world was opening up, not closing in.

Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation.