Open Quotes - page 4

Those who marry God can become domesticated too it's just as hum-drum a marriage as all the others. The word ''Love'' means a formal touch of the lips as in the ceremony of the Mass, and ''Ave Maria '' like ''dearest'' is a phrase to open a letter. This marriage like the world's marriages was held together by habits and tastes shared in common between God and themselves it was God's taste to be worshipped and their taste to worship, but only at stated hours like a suburban embrace on a Saturday night. (Graham Greene)
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in. View quote
Truman Capote
We are rapidly entering the age of no privacy, where everyone is open to surveillance at all times; where there are no secrets from government. View quote
William O. Douglas
One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds. View quote
Zack de la Rocha
My brief stay at the hospital had already convinced me that the medical profession was an open door to anyone nursing a grudge against the human race. View quote
J. G. Ballard
Every day starts, my eyes open and I reload the program of misery. I open my eyes, remember who I am, what I'm like, and I just go, "Ugh" ..." View quote
Louis C.K.
Close thy Byron open thy Goethe. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
Time has laid his hand Upon my heart gently, not smiting it, But as a harper lays his open palm Upon his harp, to deaden its vibrations. View quote
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Often pagans, with their eyes wide open, do not see very clearly. View quote
Georges Rouault
Why make so much of fragmentary blue In here and there a bird, or butterfly, Or flower, or wearing-stone, or open eye, When heaven presents in sheets the solid hue. View quote
Robert Frost
The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D. C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history. (Nancy Pelosi)
A book is a gift you can open again and again. View quote
Garrison Keillor
I rarely speak about God. To God, yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But to open a discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree. View quote
Elie Wiesel
Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. View quote
Malcolm Forbes
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
My life is an open book. With illustrations. View quote
Hugh Hefner
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours.' He said, 'Yes, but not in a row.' View quote
Steven Wright
Islam was like a mental cage. At first, when you open the door, the caged bird stays inside: it is frightened. It has internalized its imprisonment. It takes time for the bird to escape, even after someone has opened the doors to its cage. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
I find that when you open the door toward openness and transparency, a lot of people will follow you through. View quote
Kirsten Gillibrand
I was walking by a drycleaner at 3a. m. and there was a sign that said Sorry, we're closed. You don't have to be sorry. It's 3a. m. and your a drycleaner. It would be ridiculous for me to expect you to be open. I'm not gonna come by at 10 and say, hey I was here at 3a. m and you guys were closed. Someone owes me an apology. View quote
Mitch Hedberg
I was attracted to science fiction because it was so wide open. I was able to do anything and there were no walls to hem you in and there was no human condition that you were stopped from examining. (Octavia Butler)
Fantasy is totally wide open; all you really have to do is follow the rules you've set. But if you're writing about science, you have to first learn what you're writing about. View quote
Octavia Butler
Love is always open arms. If you close your arms about love you will find that you are left holding only yourself. View quote
Leo Buscaglia
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! View quote
Frances Burney
Books were this wonderful escape for me because I could open a book and disappear into it, and that was the only way out of that house when I was a kid. View quote
Dean Koontz
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