Quotes About Closed

Once a structurally complete and closed system of opinions consisting of many details and relations has been formed, it offers enduring resistance to anything that contradicts it.

A public road had been closed to us so that a rich man could watch the Super Bowl in his playhouse and show his rich friends the nuclear football.

Definition merely adds the locks to a world that is assumed to be closed.

His mind was closed to the possibility of a new story; there was no room in his heart for a new character of God's holy choosing, or for a new

His old right hand lay nerveless, listless, dead, Unsceptred; and his realmless eyes were closed;

The theatres are closed, because of the plague, by order of the court, and so the lodger and his company of players have taken themselves off to tour nearby towns, places where it is permitted to gather in a crowd.

Hell has been conceived as a police institution, to inspire fear in this world. But the worst of it all is that it no longer frightens anyone, and therefore it will have to be closed down.

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

For me, 'Dog Days' symbolizes apocalyptic euphoria, chaotic freedom and running really, really fast with your eyes closed.

Symbols are the things we look at because they can be a doorway into another world. We very much go by sense, feeling the way as we go, but my maxim on that occasion was: if in doubt, throw it out. Some of the books mentioned ley lines. There was another called Satanic Rites of the High Priests. These doorways had to be closed off.

Jordan used to say that the perfect environment for a game is a closed space, be it in the seven cars in The Last Express, or a spaceship, for that matter.

He fell back against the door, his eyes closed, and he slid to the floor, still sitting upright. All I had to do was open the door and he'd tumble out backward, but with my luck, he'd break his neck going down the steps, and I'd be left with Malich to deal with. I

I can see her mind beating around the closed car like a bird. Locked in with privileges and pleasures, but also with pain.

The heart is a small closed space, a symbol or souvenir of the inner life, the secret life, the silent life. It is liable to come apart if you touch it.

I'm watching you, big boy, my eyes say, but his are closed so it's an optical monologue.

A mind unconvinced is a mind closed.

But the problem is that you don't dare to think about anything. You're afraid; you don't know where your thoughts might lead you. Everything inside you is confused. You keep your eyes closed and stay on the old path. They brought you here, I don't know why and it doesn't concern me, but you won't accept my explanations of human guilt. You think it's a joke. Maybe it is, but maybe one could develop quite a nice philosophical idea out of it

Everyone remembers that feeling,- Dara thought. The tortuous waiting of childhood. Waiting for parents, forever, waiting while adults do their adult things. Wanting to understand, the doors always closed. Until the adults finally decide to open them and then there's no shutting the door again.

Donia asked incredulously. "What were you doing?" "The day had just begun, and we were dancing," Aislinn said. "Dancing?" Donia looked at the Summer Queen with the same disdain Keenan had once seen on her face when she looked at the Summer Girls. "Of course you were. Bananach is attacking faeries, stealing from our courts. Irial is injured. Faerie is closed. Yes, dancing is precisely what will help.

It helped that municipal employees tore down opposition posters, and that the only independent pollster, Levada, was closed down two weeks before the election.

He wants the minute and secret reflection between them, the depth of field minimal, their foreignness intimate like two pages of a closed book.

The real swamp is the swamp of insular, inbred, incestuous interests.

Una pareja es un mundo, un mundo autónomo y cerrado que se desplaza dentro de un mundo más vasto, sin verse realmente afectado; solitario, en cambio, estaba surcado por fallas y requerí cierto coraje para, guardándome la hoja con las informaciones en un bolsillo de la chaqueta, salir a visitar el pueblo.

Surviving victims and family members of victims should realise that by discussing the details of a murder with journalists they are seriously jeopardising the chances that the suspect might be found guilty in court. They can sell their stories as soon as the case is closed and the killer is behind bars.