Quotes About Closed

English was such a dense, tight language. So many hard letters, like miniature walls. Not open with vowels the way Spanish was. Our throats open, our mouths open, our hearts open. In English, the sounds were closed. They thudded to the floor. And yet, there was something magnificent about it.

Balance sheet accounts are never closed and their balances are carried forward from year to year, but you need to be sure the proper adjustments are made to place transactions in the correct year.

Patiently, more gentle than rain, she made me clean, while I drifted, my eyes closed.

He kept his back turned and his eyes closed, feeling no shame or anger but only an increasing sickness of soul.

He had to hate them, to move the smothering shroud of hatred from himself to them. He closed the door of his room behind him, and almost snatched the drink from under the bed.

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart they are trying to change.

When people fight something with hate and anger, they close the doors to actual change because they close the doors of the person's heart

Last week, I went to Philadelphia, but it was closed.

Dissent is what rescues democracy from a quiet death behind closed doors.

Wally closed his eyes. He couldn't imaging dragging Eddie anywhere. A tiger, maybe, but not Eddie Malloy.

Avarice is a closed door, you don't know what's happening behind it, & before knocking you feel anxious.

Have you anything to say to me now, Madam?" he demanded. "Your wig is crooked," I said, and closed my eyes again.

No," I said. The grief of the night before had softened, but the weight of it was still there. My voice was low and husky, because my throat was halfway closed, where the hand of sorrow clutched me unawares.

I would have sworn on Brianna's head that Jamie didn't; hadn't, couldn't, under any circumstances whatever. At least I would have sworn that before tonight. I closed my eyes, chest heaving, and tried not to think of what I had seen. I couldn't, of course. And yet, the more I thought of it, the more impossible it seemed.

Steven was prickly too--he bore more than a faint resemblance to the anemones at Starfish Pier that closed up tight if anyone got too close.

There are people who never experience that, who remain closed until death, from fear of change.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor; it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

To every object there correspond an ideally closed system of truths that are true of it and, on the other hand, an ideal system of possible cognitive processes by virtue of which the object and the truths about it would be given to any cognitive subject.

And I understand that, I testified in closed hearings over eight years because there are intelligence matters, there are sensitive matters that should not be held in a public hearing.

Once again the fate of reckless youth was being decided by old men behind closed doors.

But these are flowers that fly and all but sing: And now from having ridden out desire They lie closed over in the wind and cling Where wheels have freshly sliced the April mire.

Home was a place to be only when all other places were closed.

As if sensing his attention, Paola turned her head towards him and allowed her eyes to close and then open slowly, as though she'd been told that the Crucifixion had only just begun and there still remained a number of nails. The