Closed If Quotes

If God does not open and explain Holy Writ, no one can understand it; it will remain a closed book, enveloped in darkness. — Martin Luther

Curled up, closed his eyes, and marched himself off, as if sleep were an actual place, like home, like the kitchen - a place a mouse could go to. — Cynthia Voigt

If you are not reading and thinking, it means that your windows looking to the ocean are closed! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

He knows that behind each false door is a drop. And if we enter it, we will fall. In His mercy, He keeps those false doors closed. — Yasmin Mogahed

If a summer were a girl, she'd always be lying stretched out in the grass in a long white dress, her arms over her head, her eyes half closed. — Elizabeth Berg

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed. — Ken Kesey

She closed the cupboard door, holding a red plate in front of her like she'd go all Tangled on me and hit me with it if I argued with her. — Emily Snow

Always act like a lady in front of closed doors. Never show emotion if it means risking your power. — Ellen Hopkins

Realize that if a door closed, it's because what was behind it wasn't meant for you. — Mandy Hale

If it's the first kiss, it's important for the eyes to be closed so you know it's real. It's almost like a Disney movie! — Joe Jonas

If you are 'too busy' most of the time, or locked behind closed doors, no mentoring relationship can work. — Martin Zwilling

She opened for me, every part of her available and soft for me. Except her heart, I thought. That she had closed to me, if it had ever been open. — R.K. Lilley

If the shutters are closed, the sunlight cannot come in. — Eckhart Tolle

A hand closed around her arm, warm and hard, and it could possibly have been comforting if she had possessed the faintest idea whose appendage it was. — Lilith Saintcrow

If we believe the Canon is closed and Scripture is sufficient, then we believe God is not speaking new words apart from Scripture. — Dan Phillips

I think if you keep the box closed long enough you do kill the cat, actually. — John Green

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight. — Catherynne M Valente

If we aren't seeing eye to eye with God, there is a good chance His eyes aren't the ones closed. — Jarrid Wilson

I was afraid that if I closed my eyes, I might never open them again, only ... well ... dawn came after all. — George R R Martin

New York is a nice place." "If you like concrete, crowds, and that claustrophobic, closed-in feeling. — Janette Rallison

Life can't give to you if your hands are closed. Open your mind, open your heart, and open your arms. — Louise Hay

He had learned something already in the course of his journey. If you carried a closed wooden box, people want to know what is in it. — Marcus Sedgwick

If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence. — Julie Krone

Be patient, even if every possibility seems closed. — Rumi

Every closed door isn't locked and even if it is ... YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities! — Sanjo Jendayi

Money and success can never make you happy if your heart is closed. — Lucinda Riley

You'll find that more doors open if you approach them with an open heart rather than a closed mind. — Rasheed Ogunlaru

I always tell kids, you have two eyes and one mouth. Keep two open and one closed. You never learn anything if you're the one talking. — Gordie Howe

What if the characters in a book had lives of their own after the cover was closed? — Jodi Picoult

If our hearts are closed, if our hearts are made of stone, the stones find their way into our hands and we are ready to throw them. — Pope Francis

I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever. — Jeanette Winterson

Keep your eyes and ears wide open - and your mouth closed, if you wish to acquire the habit of prompt decision. — Napoleon Hill

Turn around, and keep your eyes closed shut, For if the Gorgon, Medusa, does appear, and you see her, You would never be able to return upward. — Dante Alighieri

If the present is left unopened,
now, it is closed. — Khang Kijarro Nguyen

Do not enter, closed for repairs, zombies will eat your face if you try to touch this vagina. — Tara Sivec

Could I just use the loo?" I asked the nice officer.
"No." She closed the door in my face, As if I might rig an explosion in the toilet. Honestly. — Rick Riordan

You learn if you mind stay open. And once you can't learn no more, your mind must be closed. Life goes on and you keep growing, you know? — Bobby Womack

She narrowed her gaze. "I don't trust you to keep your eyes closed."
"Smart woman," he said. "I wouldn't trust me, either, if I were you. — Christina Brooke

A closed plant is like a cemetery; it really is. The walls will talk to you; the machines will talk to you if you really talk to them. — Hamdi Ulukaya

Don't go chattering to the stars if you're going to do it with your eyes closed. — Samuel R. Delany

If you can do something with your eyes closed, it is time to try something new. — Kathie Lee Gifford

The miser puts his gold pieces into a coffer; but as soon as the coffer is closed, it is as if it were empty. — Andre Gide

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away? — George Carlin

Sometimes you have to close your eyes to see more clearly. Magical things are easier to see if your eyes are closed. — Maxwell Grantly

If only closed minds came with closed mouths. — Anonymous

Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come! — Rumi

I don't want the world. I want you, Alec said, and Magnus closed his eyes, as if the words almost hurt. — Cassandra Clare

Hey, uh, you know. Um. If you're alive, uh, call me." I looked at the screen and said, "It's Jane." I closed the phone, thinking, Lame. I am so lame. — Faith Hunter

Cats hate a closed door, you know, regardless of which side they're on. If they're out, they want to get in, and if they're in, they want to get out. — Lilian Jackson Braun

What good are dreams if they lie only in closed boxes. — Nadia Janice Brown

A closed mind is like a parachute malfunction, a mind like a parachute only works if it is fully open. — Brian Michael Good

I will always be there. I will walk across the whole planet if I have to."
I closed my eyes and whispered, "I'll meet you halfway. — Ilona Andrews

When he caught his breath, he regarded her with glowing, half-closed eyes. If I'm very, very good, shei'tani, will you do that again when we're alone? — C.L. Wilson

You can't see something shining if you're eyes are closed. — Shey Stahl

If anything should take place behind closed doors, it was cruelty and betrayal. — Edward St. Aubyn

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

And if every way is closed before you. The secret one will show a secret path no other eyes have seen. — Rumi

And in the middle of the lake the woman I'd spoken with floated on her back, eyes closed, as if nothing in her many years had ever gone wrong. — Anthony Marra

I think if you're open-minded, the road will take you where it takes you. If you're closed, you might not get to go where the road is heading. — Russell Simmons

When one door closes another one opens but if you keep looking back at the closed one you'll never see the one that's open ahead of you. — Christopher Sharp

They were outside. It was oddly quiet, with just a muffled roar from behind the closed door, as if the ocean were contained on that side. — Eloisa James

You can't sing with a closed heart. You just can't do it. And if you try, as soon as you start singing, your heart just naturally opens more and more. — Deva Premal

My heart, as I closed the cabinet and rose to my feet, was a small dead creature. If I could bury it in the woods, I would. — Lauren Myracle

When he closed his eyes, everything around him just felt empty and cold, as if he was in the loneliest place in the world. The middle of nowhere. — John Boyne

The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain. — Edith Widder

I'm not sure if being known opened or closed doors for me. — Adam Goldberg

It is no advantage to be near the light if the eyes are closed. — Saint Augustine

What if her heart had hardened so much that she closed herself off in order to survive? — Penelope Douglas

If you look around and see nothing but closed doors, then look again. It might be that you have to climb through a window. — Kent Allan Rees

I'm not a completely closed book; I'm a social person and if I see something worth sharing, I'm happy to do that. — Josh Duhamel

Even now, if he closed his eyes, he could still see the God of Evolution beaming so happily as the cockroach stirred. — Terry Pratchett