#closed

They believe that nothing will happen because they have closed their doors. ↗

— Maurice Maeterlinck

#believe #closed #doors #happen #nothing

I think a responsibility comes with notoriety, but I never think of it as power. It's more like something you hold, like grains of sand. If you keep your hand closed, you can have it and possess it, but if you open your fingers in any way, you can lose it just as quickly. ↗

— Diana Ross

#closed #comes #fingers #grains #hand

I abhor anything that constitutes torture. Water-boarding, it's perfectly clear to me it is torture. I never supported extraordinary rendition to torture, always said that Guantanamo should be closed. There is no clash of ideals and pragmatism there. ↗

— David Miliband

#always #anything #clash #clear #closed

The problem with growing up in a cafe was the cafe never closed, my parents worked every day of the year from morning to night. So it was a big menagerie of kids, business and cooking! ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#business #cafe #closed #cooking #day

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

— Chloe Moretz

#chloe #closed #curse #doors #even

Satellite broadcasting makes it possible for information-hungry residents of many closed societies to bypass state-controlled television channels. ↗

— Rupert Murdoch

#bypass #channels #closed #makes #many

An open-door policy doesn't do much for a closed mind. ↗

— Bob Nelson

#mind #much #policy

When you're writing, it's as if you're within a kind of closed world. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#kind #within #world #writing #you

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity. ↗

— Ivan Pavlov

#also #apparatus #clearly #disclosed #existence

A great gulf, however, has been opened between man's material advance and his social and moral progress, a gulf in which he may one day be lost if it is not closed or narrowed. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

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