#closing

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

— Cesare Pavese

#dropped #end #life #like #masks

To conclude that women are unfitted to the task of our historic society seems to me the equivalent of closing male eyes to female facts. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#conclude #equivalent #eyes #facts #female

I'm a terrible procrastinator. When we go to the airport, if they're not literally closing the door behind my sweaty, hyperventilating body, I feel I've been there too long. ↗

— Greg Kinnear

#been #behind #body #closing #door

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

— Gale Sayers

#closing #must #prisons #schools #stop

Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of skills... and then sees the light under the new door those skills can open, even as another door is closing. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

#another #closing #door #even #feeling

I am deeply committed to the cause of Indigenous Australians, and not just because of the Apology, but the big challenges which lie ahead in closing the gap. ↗

— Kevin Rudd

#am #apology #australians #because #big

I love driving cars, looking at them, cleaning and washing and shining them. I clean 'em inside and outside. I'm very touchy about cars. I don't want anybody leaning on them or closing the door too hard, know what I mean? ↗

— Scott Baio

#anybody #cars #clean #cleaning #closing

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

— Alexander Graham Bell

#door #late #long #open #see

The tax code is very inefficient. Both the personal tax code and the corporate tax code. By closing loopholes and lowering rates, you could increase the efficiency of the tax code and create more incentives for people to invest. ↗

— Ben Bernanke

#closing #code #corporate #could #create

Let me say this: I believe closing Guantanamo is in our Nation's national security interest. Guantanamo is used not only by al-Qaida, but also by other nations, governments, and individuals - people good and bad - as a symbol of America's abuse of Muslims, and it is fanning the flames of anti-Americanism around the world. ↗

— Dianne Feinstein

#also #america #around #bad #believe