Top 578 Closing Quotes & Sayings

Closing the gun show loophole would be a good thing to do.

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

The natives of England are closing their doors to relationships with Asians and Africans or, for that matter, Turks and Spaniards. While the Africans and Asians on their part are increasingly closing their doors too and resentment at both sides is increasing. This trend can be dangerous. It can lead, sooner or later, to violence - even in this country, which is traditionally an opponent of violence.

As an actor, you know that every act has a closing curtain.

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

Closing Guantanamo Bay is not a military solution. The closing of that prison, which I support, I supported it when I was in the Senate, requires more than just a military dimension.

Now it's closing time/the music's fading out.

When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are.

Certainty is a closing of the mind. To create something new you must have doubt.

Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.

We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.

Everyone I have lost in the closing of a door the click of the lock is not forgotten, they do not die but remain within the soft edges of the earth, the ash of house fires and cancer in sin and forgiveness huddled under old blankets dreaming their way into my hands, my heart closing tight like fists. - "Indian Boy Love Song #1

I think there's something unromantic about marriage. You're closing yourself off.

Closing your mind to religion is no different than the close-mindedness that religions can cause.

Closing one's eyes is not a recipe for peace. It is a simple way to embolden aggressive personalities.

Death is the opening-and the closing-of a Door.

The closing of ash basins is really part of decommissioning a coal plant.

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

Latecomers to industrial development have had to catch up by finding ways of closing the gap.

Closing your eyes isn't going to change anything. Nothing's going to disappear just because you can't see what's going on. In fact, things will even be worse the next time you open your eyes. That's the kind of world we live in. Keep your eyes wide open. Only a coward closes his eyes. Closing your eyes and plugging up your ears won't make time stand still.

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

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

What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation centers, closing libraries. We have not looked after our children in City Hall.

If I'm nominated [for Grammy] I would love to win, and get up on the stage and just say thank you. It would be a great closing, for me, a great closing to a great career.

I watched my beautiful sister running . . . and I knew she was not running away from me or toward me. Like someone who has survived a gut-shot, the wound had been closing, closing - braiding into a scar for eight long years.

Secrets of Closing the Sale, is essential reading. Ziglar tells us that selling and closing are not mysteries to be solved; instead they are as tangible as when his wife up-sold him on a new house.

Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.

Death is just infinity closing in.

What I have in mind is closing games and that's it.

You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.

Old-fogyism is comfortably closing in.

If you aren't opening doors for people, you are closing them!

I know of no manner of speaking so offensive as that of giving praise, and closing it with an exception.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

I just don't like closing doors. I can't do it psychologically.

It is well to open one's mind but only as a preliminary to closing it ... for the supreme act of judgment and selection.

Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

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

Faith, joy, optimism. But not the folly of closing your eyes to reality.

Closing the door to toxicity is the most effective way to make space for new opportunity.

But on the contrary Wikileaks is under heavy attack by the government and corporations are participating in that by closing down their websites.

Live albums are very important for Rush, and they became sort of a closing chapter for us.

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.

Even though I have so many things to figure out, I'm very much at peace. I don't feel like I'm closing the chapter on this phase of life - I feel like I'm closing the book and starting a new one.

In the papers this morning: 'Police closing in on Ian Holloway.' Sorry, it's 'Palace closing in on Ian Holloway.'

Closing tax loopholes has to be part of the revenue equation.

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

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

The window is closing.

I don't say I never use Facebook, but I often think about closing my account.

I have the wonderful pleasure of finishing the book and closing it. And I don't read them later.

You're the only one who's closing your eyes at night. There's no one else who can do it for you.

I can't start writing until I have a closing line.

Leaving this life is just like going from one room to another and closing the door.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

Life is a series of diminishments. Each cessation of an activity either from choice or some variety of infirmity is a death, a putting to final rest. Each loss, of friend or precious enemy, can be equated with the closing off of a room containing blocks of nerves, or a dynamo governing a particular sensibility or intelligence and soon after the closing off the nerves atrophy and that part of oneself, in essence, drops away. The self is lightened, is held on earth by a gram less of mass and will.

Marketers need to build digital relationships and reputation before closing a sale.

The distance between who you are and who you might be is closing.

I like going home, closing the door and being plain old Sarah.