Closing Quotes - Page 16

• I just try to just roll with the punches. I mean, once the team pretty much starts closing out, just try to get in attack mode, and at the same time, try to find my teammates. It's kind of hard, hitting the shots I was hitting, to try and pass the ball, but you've got to figure out a way.

  J. R. Smith

  Team, Mean, Trying

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• In the closing seconds of every game, I want the ball in my hands for the last shot - not in anybody else's, not in anybody else's in the world.

  Larry Bird

  Basketball, Hands, Games

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• A few drinks later you're not so choosy when the closing lights strip off the shadows on this strange new flesh you've found.

  Joni Mitchell

  Light, Alcohol, Drug

  Song: Down to You, Album: Court and Spark

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• ...Prevent postal investigators from aggressively interfering with, or closing, a commercial enterprise merely because it has been deemed not to adhere to the prevailing body of scientific opinion - whatever they have determined that to be.

  Vin Weber

  Dark, Age, Body

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• ...only we don't call it 'ignorance', we call it 'faith'. What a horrible little word that is - faith - exuding as it does its fake aura of purity and virtue while fronting some of the ugliest ideas this planet has ever seen. Closing people's hearts when it should be opening them. Making them proud of things they should be ashamed of. And ashamed of things they should be proud of.

  Pat Condell

  Fear, Heart, Ignorance

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• When he feels the world is closing in, he turns his stereo way up high. He just spends his life, living in a rock and roll fantasy.

  Ray Davies

  Rocks, Rock And Roll, World

  Ray Davies (2000). “Waterloo Sunset: Stories”, Hyperion

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• Only love can heal the wounds of the past. However, the intensity of our woundedness often leads to a closing of the heart, making it impossible for us to give or receive the love that is
  given to us.

  Bell Hooks

  Heart, Past, Giving

  bell hooks (2018). “All About Love: New Visions”, p.26, HarperCollins

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• I firmly believe that we who are alive and can think today-in the closing years of the 20th century-have a commitment to our species to make sure that the flicker of movement we have thus managed in space stays sufficiently kindled so that the people of the 21st century can build upon and extend the human abode from Earth to the cosmos beyond.

  Paul Levinson

  Believe, Commitment, Thinking

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• I support health care for people. I want people well taken care of. But I also want health care that we can afford as a country. I have people and friends closing down their businesses because of Obamacare.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Taken, Obamacare

  Interview with George Stephanopoulos, blogs.abcnews.com. April 19, 2011.

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• Don't all the girls get prettier at closing time?

  Mickey Gilley

  Girl, Unanswered Questions, Closing Time

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• It's no use closing the barn door after the horse is gone.

  John Heywood

  Horse, Doors, Barns

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• US special forces are closing in on Saddam Hussain but they're afraid to go in. He's hiding out in Tony Martin's farmhouse.

  Patrick Kielty

  America, Special, Hussain

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• One always has to know when a stage comes to an end. If we insist on staying longer than the necessary time, we lose the happiness and the meaning of the other stages we have to go through. Closing cycles, shutting doors, ending chapters – whatever name we give it, what matters is to leave in the past the moments of life that have finished.

  Paulo Coelho

  Past, What Matters, Doors

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• I think we need to understand what we mean when we talk about closure, we don't mean transfer or prosecute which is what many of the critics of Guantanamo would like to see happen. When the US government talks about closing Guantanamo, they talk about moving some set of detainees to some other place where they continue to be detained without charge.

  Jennifer Daskal

  Moving, Mean, Thinking

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• When I was dating and the wine list was presented to my male companion, I tried to ignore this unfortunate faux pas. But this practice still goes on...Closing note to all servers and sommeliers: please include women in wine selection. Okay?

  Alpana Singh

  Wine, Practice, Dating

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• I know of no more beautiful prayer than that which the Hindus of old used in closing: May all that have life be delivered from suffering.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Beautiful, Prayer, Suffering

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• I once wanted to be a stuntman. I was constantly on the front pages when I was a base jumper. But if I were a stuntman, my name would only appear right at the end of the closing credits, even though I'd risked my life for others.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Names, Credit, Pages

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• Human nature is, by definition, a talkative one, imprudent, indiscreet, gossipy, incapable of closing its mouth and keeping it closed.

  Jose Saramago

  Definitions, Mouths, Human Nature

  "The Cave". Book by Jose Saramago, 2002.

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• There are Muslims of all kinds. The idea of closing them into a single identity is wrong.

  Amartya Sen

  Ideas, Identity, Kind

  "Think a West Tolerant Intolerance Against Muslims Is Wrong and Dangerous". Interview with Mario Baudino, La Stampa, January 30, 2003.

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• I think films would get a lot better if people paid leaving the cinema. There's a whole business plan of opening terrible films in hundreds of cinemas and then closing them when the word of mouth gets out.

  Graham Linehan

  Thinking, People, Leaving

  Source: www.theguardian.com

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• Just think, Vishnu sleeps in the cosmic ocean, and the lotus of the universe grows from his navel. On the lotus sits Brahma, the creator. Brahma opens his eyes, and a world comes into being, governed by an Indra. Brahma closes his eyes, and a world goes out of being. The life of a Brahma is 432,000 years. When he dies, the lotus goes back, and another lotus is formed, and another Brahma. Then think of the galaxies beyond galaxies in infinite space, each a lotus, with a Brahma sitting on it, opening his eyes, closing his eyes.

  Joseph Campbell

  Ocean, Sleep, Eye

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.77, Anchor

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• But dinner is dinner, a meal at which not so much to eat - it becomes difficult to eat much at it as you grow older - as to drink, to talk, to flirt, to discuss, to rejoice "at the closing of the day". I do not think anything serious should be done after it, as nothing should before breakfast.

  George Saintsbury

  Flirting, Thinking, Meals

  George Saintsbury (1922). “A Scrap Book”

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• The days of wine and roses laugh and run away like a child at playThrough the meadow land toward a closing doorA door marked "nevermore" that wasn't there before

  Johnny Mercer

  Running, Children, Wine

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• A lone maple leaf resting on sand Have you ever been out for a late autumn walk in the closing part of the afternoon, and suddenly looked up to realize that the leaves have practically all gone? And the sun has set and the day gone before you knew it, and with that a cold wind blows across the landscape? That's retirement.

  Stephen Leacock

  Retirement, Autumn, Blow

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• Night had come on like the closing of a great but gentle eye.

  Ray Bradbury

  Eye, Night, Gentle

  "R Is for Rocket". Book by Ray Bradbury, 1962.

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