Top 1200 Closing Down Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

When I think about the auto-industry and how it was one of the industries that brought all of these black men from the South to Michigan and other places to make more money than they could ever make in the cotton fields or the agricultural world of the South... what's happening now is all of that is closing down, and we know that it's going to reopen in Southern places, focusing on Mexican and other migrant workers to come and work cheaply and get none of the benefits.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

The only pressure that you use in a professional selling presentation is the presence of silence after the closing question.

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

She looked up from closing it to find Jace watching her through hooded eyes. “And one last thing,” he said. He reached over and pulled the sparking pins out of her hair, so that it fell in warm heavy curls down her neck. The sensation of hair tickling her bare skin was unfamiliar and oddly pleasant. “Much better,” he said, and she thought this time that maybe his voice was uneven too.

For me, closing libraries is the equivalent of eating your seed corn to save a little money.

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

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

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

There is no future for me as a closing pitcher.

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

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

The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.

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

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

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

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

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

To an entrepreneur, closing a financing often feels like the end of a marathon. It's actually the starting gun.

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

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

If we run a hundred miles an hour to the other end of the continent in order to get away from the obstacle, we find the very same problem waiting for us when we arrive. It just keeps returning with new names, forms, manifestations until we learn whatever it has to teach us about where we are separating ourselves from reality, how we are pulling back instead of opening up, closing down instead of allowing ourselves to experience fully whatever we encounter, without hesitating or retreating into ourselves.

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

I think closing-off is the most detrimental thing we can do as people. Also, the idea of not judging oneself.

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

In closing, the greatest threat to peace on this earth is the arrogance of a super-power [America] that is out of control.

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

I used to catch and take a big dip down and then finally I'd try to shoot. That first year playing the NBA, I was realizing how little time you have to shoot the ball. The time you have from when you catch it to the guy closing out is just a split second. So I had to figure out a way to get my shot off quicker. Then it was just repetition.

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

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

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

God descends to re-ascend. He comes down; down from the heights of absolute being into time and space, down into humanity ... down to the very roots and sea-bed of the nature He has created. But He goes down to come up again and bring the ruined world up with Him.

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

It doesn't hurt." "But my eyes do," said a coolly amused voice from the doorway. Jace. He had come in so quietly that even Simon hadn't heard him; closing the door behind him, he grinned as Isabelle pulled Simon's shirt down. "Molesting the vampire while he's too weak to fight back, Iz?" he asked. "I'm pretty sure that violates at least one of the Accords." "I'm just showing him where he got stabbed," Isabelle protested, but she scooted back to her chair with a certain amount of haste.

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

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

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

Until the administration can articulate a coherent and convincing policy for closing Guantanamo, it should remain open.

Death is just infinity closing in.

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

Maybe one of the strangest opportunities was I got to ring the closing bell on the New York Stock Exchange.

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

Our lives are a battlefield on which is fought a continuous war between the forces that are pledged to confirm our humanity and those determined to dismantle it; those who strive to build a protective wall around it, and those who wish to pull it down; those who seek to mould it and those committed to breaking it up; those who aim to open our eyes, to make us see the light and look to tomorrow [...] and those who wish to lull us into closing our eyes