Closing Quotes

• Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Positive, Adversity, Opportunity

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• At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.

  Barbara Bush

  Inspirational, Life, Meaningful

  Barbara Bush (1994). “Barbara Bush: A Memoir”, Scribner

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• Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is seen during the moment.

  Carl Sandburg

  Doors, Closing Up, Poetry

  Atlantic Monthly Mar. 1923 "Poetry Considered"

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• The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between you and what you want to hold on to.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Anniversary, Doors, Want

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (1974). “Locked rooms and open doors”, Not Avail

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• In closing I wish to say that while I was sorely beset by a number of white riders in my racing days, I have also enjoyed the friendship of countless thousands of white men whom I class as among my closest friends.

  Major Taylor

  Friends, Men, White Man

  Major Taylor (1928). “The Fastest Bicycle Rider in the World: The Story of a Colored Boy's Indomitable Courage and Success Against Great Odds; an Autobiography”

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• The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

  Andy Rooney

  Confidence, Blessed, Doors

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• Elections are about choosing sides, but inaugurations are about closing ranks.

  Ted Kulongoski

  Sides, Election, Inauguration

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• Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.

  Craig Armstrong

  Finals, Knows

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• When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

  David Bowie

  Lasts, Drag, Resorts

  The FM Observer Interview, fmobserver.com. March 4, 2016.

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• The art world is molting - some would say melting. Galleries are closing; museums are scaling back.

  Jerry Saltz

  Art, Museums, Melting

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• Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love, Heart, Choices

  Marianne Williamson (2009). “A Return to Love: Reflections on the Principles of A Course in Miracles”, p.19, Harper Collins

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• We need to have music that contributes to the well-being of the spirit. Music that cradles people's lives and makes things a little easier. That's what I try to do, and what I want to do. You don't want to close the door on hope.

  Merle Haggard

  Life, Music, Hope

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• Straight from the heart, I represent hip hop
  I be three albums deep, but I don't wanna go pop
  Too many candy rappers seem to be at the top
  Too much candy is no good, so now I'm closing the shop.

  Phife Dawg

  Music, Rap, Heart

  "Song: 'We Can Get Down'". 1993.

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• Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.

  Anthony Doerr

  Inspirational, Eye, Forever

  Anthony Doerr (2014). “All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel”, p.86, Simon and Schuster

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• If a train is coming at you, closing your eyes won't save you ... but if you look right at it, you at least have a chance to jump.

  Andrew Vachss

  Fear, Eye, Looks

  Andrew Vachss (2010). “The Weight”, p.208, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• To use an electronics analogy, closing a book on a bookmark is like pressing the Stop button, whereas when you leave the book facedown, you've only pressed Pause.

  Anne Fadiman

  Book, Buttons, Use

  Anne Fadiman (2011). “Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader”, p.39, Macmillan

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• Modern man lives isolated in his artificial environment, not because the artificial is evil as such, but because of his lack of comprehension of the forces which make it work- of the principles which relate his gadgets to the forces of nature, to the universal order. It is not central heating which makes his existence 'unnatural,' but his refusal to take an interest in the principles behind it. By being entirely dependent on science, yet closing his mind to it, he leads the life of an urban barbarian.

  Arthur Koestler

  Men, Order, Evil

  Arthur Koestler (1969). “The Act of Creation”

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• I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes.

  Doreen Virtue

  Eye, Desire, Matter

  FaceBook post by Doreen Virtue from Dec 30, 2012

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• The closing years of life are like the end of a masquerade party, when the masks are dropped.

  Cesare Pavese

  Life, Time, Party

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• Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing.

  Gail Sheehy

  Light, Doors, Skills

  Gail Sheehy (2011). “New Passages: Mapping Your Life Across Time”, p.198, Ballantine Books

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• One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

  Winston Churchill

  Happiness, Party, Leave Me Alone

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• To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Eye, Males, Female

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• In closing, let me just thank God, on the floor of the House, for not turning away from us even though we seem to be turning away from Him.

  Zach Wamp

  House, Thank God, Let Me

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• Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world.

  Dianne Feinstein

  Believe, Flames, America

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• Hospitals are closing across the country due to the burden of illegal immigration, college students find that summer jobs have dried up due to illegal immigration, and wages across the board are depressed by the overwhelming influx of cheap and illegal labor.

  Elton Gallegly

  Summer, Country, Jobs

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