Top 1200 Closed Eyes Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

If you are going to be catty, you have to be careful with whom you do it, and in what manner! It's the kind of behavior that is best kept behind closed doors.

Question: What is the opposite of faith? Not disbelief. Too final, certain, closed. Itself is a kind of belief. Doubt.

When it comes to art and science, people don't like a lot of either. Instead of being open to it, they're closed off about it.

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.

It can be really lonely running for office, especially if you've never done it before and especially when all the normal channels of power are basically closed to you.

We closed the restaurant in New Orleans and brought the entire staff to San Francisco. But we had to go home.

Political parties - which too often operate like closed circles - must open up.

To an outsider, Abilene was like a small landfall in the Sargasso Sea - remote, laconic, and forever closed to strangers.

The green eyes in the carefully sweet face were turbulent, willful, lusty with life, distinctly at variance with her decorous demeanor. Her manners had been imposed upon her ... her eyes were her own.

Money is like any other language through which people communicate. People who speak the same language tend to find each other. If you are one whose money speaks of protection and hoarding, you will find yourself involved with others whose money speaks the same language. You will be staring at each other with hooded eyes and closed fists and suspicion will be your common value. If your money speaks of sharing, you will find yourself among people who want their money to speak the language of sharing, and your world will be filled with possibility.

Al Campanis made people finally understand what goes on behind closed doors - that there is racism in baseball.

The big dramas that fascinate me are the quiet ones that happen behind closed doors in so-called ordinary families.

I think there's a lot of people in their dingy boats in the middle of the ocean pining for the days of closed-ended narrative.

I don't believe being gay is something you can change, no more than you can change the color of your hair or your eyes. Well, I dye my hair, so maybe that's not the best example. But your eyes!

Eye contact is a method utilised by a single woman to communicate to a man that she is interested in him. Many women find it difficult to look a man directly in the eyes, not because of shyness, but because a woman's eyes are not located in her chest.

What makes me angry is closed mindedness, prejudice against those who are different from you, reveling in one's own ignorance.

Method acting has had a major influence both in writing through the eyes of other people, and seeing through the eyes of other people, trying to address different ideas in a way that would go beyond preaching to the choir.

For instance, this new idea that You-Know-Who can kill with a single glance from his eyes. That’s a basilisk, listeners. One simple test: Check whether the thing that’s glaring at you has got legs. If it has, it’s safe to look into its eyes, although if it really is You-Know-Who, that’s still likely to be the last thing you ever do.

It is hard to forgive, and to look at those eyes, and feel those wasted hands,' he answered. 'Kiss me again; and don’t let me see your eyes! I forgive what you have done to me. I love my murderer—but yours! How can I?

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

Sports and entertainment have always been windows of opportunity for African Americans, when other doors were closed.

I separated from the Southern Baptists when they adopted the discriminatory attitude towards women, because I believe what Paul taught in Galatians that there is no distinction in God's eyes between men and women, slaves and masters, Jews and non-Jews - everybody is created equally in the eyes of God.

The danger of a closed mind is that it can also leave good things like love, compassion and reason on its outside.

As Chloe, I can honestly say I've never uttered a syllable of a curse word, not even behind closed doors.

Finished persons are very common - people who are closed up, quite satisfied that there is little more to learn

We have to not just open our eyes to what's going on in other places; we need to open our eyes to what's going on right in front of us.

Whilst child abuse may be committed behind closed doors, it should never be swept under the carpet.

Man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.

Public displays of puritanical religiosity mask the private perversions of the real Washington behind closed doors.

THOUGH you are in your shining days, Voices among the crowd And new friends busy with your praise, Be not unkind or proud, But think about old friends the most: Time's bitter flood will rise, Your beauty perish and be lost For all eyes but these eyes.

A verbal promise behind closed doors, even a statement written on paper-these could easily evaporate . . . .

The things that happen to people we never really know. What happens in houses behind closed doors, what secrets -

The thing I get out of it is the connection. I remember going to shows as a kid and meeting eyes with the people in the band, and knowing they are meeting eyes with you, and that moment, that smile, and that's your moment. I want to create millions of little moments for other people.

Try to keep ourselves open, no matter how closed the world tries to make us sometimes.

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open.

You may have heard the saying, 'When you're in love, smoke gets in your eyes.' Well when you're talking, smoke gets in your eyes and ears. Once you're on a roll, it's very easy to not notice that you've worn out your welcome.

I am in a closed state where I'm just reacting and moving based on my instincts, knowledge, technique and years of experience.

It's better to negotiate behind closed doors than it is to be out throwing rocks at one another in the public square.

I’ve discovered a new affliction; it’s called Orphan Black Eyes. When people ask me what I’m working on and I tell them Orphan Black…they usually clutch a part of my body and their eyes go wide and a little crazy. People are MAD for this show. As am I.

The ecosystem of our world is a closed system: it would run out of gas, collapse of its own weight.

What I preserved in the figures [at Invisible Man] are those white eyes and white teeth, because that's still connected to the way in which blackness, in the extreme, has been stigmatized and the way it was often joked that you couldn't see black people in the dark until they had their eyes open or were smiling.

Things base and vile, holding no quantity, Love can transpose to form and dignity. Love looks not with the eyes, but with the mind, And therefore is winged Cupid painted blind. Nor hath Love's mind of any judgment taste; Wings and no eyes figure unheedy haste.

There is a paradise of form and colors in the world. And because you have eyes still in good condition, you can get in touch with the paradise. So when I become aware of my eyes, I touch one of the conditions of happiness. And when I touch it, happiness comes.

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.

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

empty and closed, hovering in some frozen netherworld neither sun nor rain could thaw.

It is no secret that Louis van Gaal and I did not get along. But for me personally, the matter is closed and forgotten.

My opinion is that prostitution always existed and will always exist. So I think it's worth trying to give these women the best working conditions, in terms of social help and health. It's too difficult to close your eyes and say: "" Closing your eyes is not a good solution!

As a painter, cursed or blessed with a terrible and vital sensuousness, I must look for wisdom with my eyes. I repeat, with my eyes, for nothing could be more ridiculous or irrelevant than a 'philosophical conception painted purely intellectually without the terrible fury of the senses grasping each visible form of beauty and ugliness.

Students learn best not by reading the Great Books in a closed room but by opening the doors and windows of experience.

If you want to test cosmetics, why do it on some poor animal who hasn't done anything? They should use prisoners who have been convicted of murder or rape instead. So, rather than seeing if perfume irritates a bunny rabbit's eyes, they should throw it in Charles Manson's eyes and ask him if it hurts.

Wrestling hurts. Your body's not meant to take that abuse. I've closed that door, but I don't know that I've locked it for good.

I don't look on poetry as closed works. I feel they're going on all the time in my head and I occasionally snip off a length.

It is true that I grew up in an affluent neighborhood and went to a prestigious school. But there were horrors that went on behind closed doors.

Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what it takes to get you through Go on and close your eyes it shouldn't bother you

I'll love you when my eyes are open, I'll love you when my eyes are gone.

Party organization matters. When the door of a smoke-filled room is closed, there's hardly ever a woman inside.

Those blue, blue eyes, icy blue, looking back at me as if I could warm them up. They’re pretty powerful, you know, those eyes, pretty beautiful, too.

I think the perception of audiences that love folk and country is they're perceived to be more closed-minded than they really are.

I have always been drawn to young characters and seeing big tapestries through the eyes of a child. It probably comes from being a father myself and having a young son and seeing the world through his eyes. I write stories that are sort of the exaggerated version of that.