Top 1200 Closing Off Quotes & Sayings - Page 2

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

That’s just silly. Closing a global business in reaction to single-issue national politics is foolish.

Across from me at the next row of supports Jim raised his hand and touched his fingers to his thumb a few times, imitating an opening and closing beak. Negotiate. He wanted me to engage a lunatic who had already turned four people into smoking meat. Okay. I could do that. “Alright, Jeremy!” I yelled into the night. “Give me the salamander and I won’t cut your head off!” Jim put his hand over his face and did some shaking. I thought he was laughing, but I couldn’t be sure.

I started in theatre when I was 13 or 14 years old and did a lot of theatre until my early thirties. Off-Broadway stuff - off-off-off-off-Broadway stuff - and I do love it.

We must strictly enforce the Environmental Law, closing down the polluters that fail to meet the standards.

Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

Technology is closing the gap between what one can imagine and what one can do and as a result the equality of opportunity is unmatched in human history.

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

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.

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

It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.

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

Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.

Yes, I was born in London because my dad was closing out the West End version of Miss Saigon' there.

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

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

One does not leave a convivial party before closing time.

Closing Bell is unlike any play I've written.

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

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

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

I'm not sitting in my office stroking a white cat... I find it very frustrating: what benefit have I got of closing stores?

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

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

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

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

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

I grew up in the Middle East, and I worry that AI increases the socioeconomic divide as opposed to closing the gap.

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

It began as most thing begin. Not on a dark and stormy night. Not foreshadowed by ominous here comes the villain music, dire warning at the bottom of a teacup, or dread portents in the sky. It began small and innocuously, as most catastrophes do. A butterfly flaps its wings somewhere and the wind changes, and a warm front hits a cold front off the coast of western Africa and before you know it you’ve got an hurricane closing in. By the time anyone figured out the storm was coming, it was too late to do anything but batten down the hatches and exercise damage control.

It's less a matter of looking the other way than of closing our eyes to what we can't stop from happening.

I stopped wanting to float away from my life, because in the end my life was all I had. I'd walk the Fairmont campus and look up to the sky and I wouldn't see myself drifting off like some lost balloon. Instead I saw the size of the world and found comfort in its hugeness. I'd think back to those times when I felt like everything was closing in on me, those times when I thought I was stuck, and I realized that I was wrong. There is always hope. The world is vast and meant for wandering. There is always somewhere else to go.

First off, we've had sworn testimony from soldiers and testimony before our staff that wasn't sworn, that said these alarms rarely went off, that they went off after the war in most cases and went off a lot.

I think anybody who was ever saddened by a movie theater closing would be able to understand this film [Aquarius].

Climate change is for real. We have just a small window of opportunity and it is closing rather rapidly. There is not a moment to lose.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Closing the prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, is a promise President [Barack] Obama made it but has yet to fulfill.

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

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

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

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

It is a dead heart. It is inside of me. It is a stranger yet once it was agreeable, opening and closing like a clam.