Top 1200 Closed-Minded Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

You can tell by looking at most people that the world remains a stone to them and a closed door.

You can imagine the sign outside Tory central office. Shop closed - out to lunch.

I learned that very often the most intolerant and narrow-minded people are the ones who congratulate themselves on their tolerance and open-mindedness.

I developed the habit of writing novels behind a closed door, or at my uncle's, on the dining table.

Winter looked at Leven. Leven looked right back at her. Winter's cheeks burned red and her green eyes outshone Leven's. The two of them stared at one another and then, as if they were destined to, thay began to lean into one another, Leven closed his eyes. "What are you doing?" Geth asked concerned. Winter closed his eyes too and leaned close. Both of them looked panicked and out of control, but it didn't stop them from moving closer and kissing each other. Clover's jaw dropped and he pulled something out of his void just so he could let go of it in shock.

We think of Washington as the defensive-minded pragmatist who won the Revolution by avoiding unnecessary risks on the battlefield. But that was not how he started out.

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling.

At the end of the day, the only way that I was able to thrive was by people giving me a chance, not being close-minded.

A great artist is never a closed subject, but this catalogue is a milestone production, as useful as it is beautiful.

My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate.

You never know what's really happening behind closed doors. Everything isn't always what it seems.

I've never minded solitude. For a writer, it's a natural condition. But caring for a dementia sufferer leads to a peculiar kind of loneliness.

I'm not going to be singing songs that I made in the past. I closed the door on that incarnation of Sinead O'Connor.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

I keep my eyes closed a lot when I'm singing because sometimes it's distracting to see people.

I am ready to rot in jail for the rest of my life rather than admit that my small-minded enemies are right.

I'll never know what happens behind closed doors or why I don't get hired for things.

The prospect of being able to run a race behind closed doors is absolutely feasible.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

To prevent discussion of any other explanations of human origins is hardly what I would expect from open-minded educators.

The good news is, the stock market is closed and it can't hurt us again until tomorrow.

Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where science is generous.

Soft-brained people, weak-minded, chicken-hearted , cannot find the truth. One has to be free, and as broad as the sky.

One of our Constitution's greatest virtues is that it looks to judges as a source of reasoned, practical, rights-minded decision making.

Sunday, that day so tedious to the triflers of earth, so full of beautiful reposes of calmness and strength for the earnest and heavenly minded.

As disciples of Jesus Christ we have a responsibility to work together with like-minded believers, to raise our voices for what is right.

'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters.

I went and studied music in Leeds. It really woke me up socially, to stop being so naïve and narrow-minded.

My main ambition as a teenager was to somehow resurrect the dark-minded writer Franz Kafka and become his girlfriend.

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

I think people in theater are pretty open-minded and objective about the talent and what they can bring to the story they want to tell.

Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and halfway closed there after.

Behind every closed door might wait a thief of minds and a collector of souls.

Doors being closed or made harder to open is something I'm very familiar with - and I don't like it.

Religion belongs to the realm that is inviolable before the law of causation and therefore closed to science.

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

What I always liked best about myself was my resilience, especially in this business with all the 'no's,' the doors closed in my face.

What do we need spectators for? The game should be played behind closed doors. Football is an art!

I started FUBU in 1989 but ran out of money three times and closed it down.

The mystery of the soul is like that of a closed door. When you open it, you see something which was not there before.

Jazz, for me, is a closed circuit, like the term baroque in the world of classical music.

Those churches have closed down or have been merged with a church that has a more positive vision.

Personally, I'm very private, so when my door is closed, it means I'm unavailable, and when it's open, it doesn't mean you can come in.

The high-minded man does not bear grudges, for it is not the mark of a great soul to remember injuries, but to forget them.

Cities with a black middle class provide the narrow minded an opportunity to realize that cultural differences are largely economic.

These days I am a teetotal, mean-spirited, right-wing, narrow-minded, conservative Christian bigot, but not a racist.

Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one!

All nature mourns, the skies relent in showers; hushed are the birds, and closed the drooping flowers.

It was necessary to close the front against Germany and that it (victory) depended on us whether it was to be closed or not.

As any old Taoist walking out of the woods can tell you, simple-minded does not necessarily mean stupid.

The mind becomes withered, stagnant, narrow and closed unless it searches for new ideas.

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that.

A lot of the joke of 'The Windsors' is this ridiculous idea of what might happen behind closed doors.

When TV came in, it closed a lot of theatres. Even the 'ice' shows melted away.

Revelation has not ceased. The Heavens are not closed. God speaks to prophets today, and He will speak to you.

Some people say that beauty is a curse. It may be true, but I'm sure I should not have at all minded being cursed a little.

I'm the classic absent-minded professor: I'm very focused on something, and meanwhile, I've left the refrigerator door open for hours.

Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.

Mostly, I'm totally happy in my own space at home with the door closed with my family and friends.

I live in a very small town and now that I've closed down my studio, I'm working at home.