Shutting Out Quotes
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Shutting Out Quotes & Sayings
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If he's shutting people out, what makes you think I'll be able to reach him?" "Because he loves you! It's obvious." Nic
— Emily March
I like every aspect of defense; I enjoy shutting down the offense.
— Richard Sherman
You draw closer to truth by shutting yourself off from mankind.
— Elias Canetti
Bigotry dwarfs the soul by shutting out the truth.
— Edwin Hubbel Chapin
We're a democratic society. Shutting down the government should not be on the agenda.
— Alan Greenspan
You must know what life is. One can do no good by shutting one's eyes to everything that doesn't square with a shoddy, false ideal.
— W. Somerset Maugham
Sometimes love means trusting people to make their own decisions. In other words, shutting up.
— Kristin Hannah
I love shutting my front door and being at home with just my dog and me. That's when I'm happiest.
— Lucy Davis
We have no intention of shutting down plants. We have always said there will be no redundancies or lay-offs as a result of this merger.
— Lakshmi Mittal
Stop thinking like Alice in Wonderland, Celia told herself sternly. You're a grown-up, it's no use shutting your eyes, wishing things would happen
— Maeve Binchy
Pop music, disco music, and heavy metal music is about shutting out the tensions of life, putting it away.
— Peter Tork
All I know is that protecting someone from the truth is just another way of shutting them out.
— K. Bromberg
Israel is shutting out the Arab world and shutting itself in.
— Richard Engel
Shutting off the thought process is not rejuvenating; the mind is like a car battery - it recharges by running.
— Bill Watterson
Heaven often protects valuable souls charged with great secrets, great ideas, by long shutting them up with their own thoughts.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
If there is such a thing as sin in this world, I think it must be shutting oneself up against hope.
— Gail Godwin
Shutting one's eyes is an art, my dear. I suppose there's no use trying to make you see that - but that's the only way one can stay married.
— Zoe Akins
Your mind is filled with ample secret abilities not known to you, keep it active by shutting down disbelieve.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
Keep your options open, his parents told him, but they didn't tell him that growing older is about your options shutting down, one by one.
— Lauren Beukes
For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going.
— David Foster Wallace
I am not resigned to the shutting away of loving hearts in the hard ground.
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again.
— Grover Cleveland
I feel myself shutting down, closing off, like I should tell people, No, we don't use this heart anymore. It's too fragile.
— Courtney C. Stevens
Silence is pushing the off button. Shutting it down. All of it.
— Khaled Hosseini
Whatever hour you woke there was a door shutting.
— Virginia Woolf
She went back to the table, half hoping she might find another key on it, or at any rate a book of rules for shutting people up like telescopes:
— Lewis Carroll
Like a beleaguered castle her mind was husbanding its resources, boarding every window, locking every door, shutting down unnecessary functions.
— Susan Kay
The village was shutting its eyes. Candles and lamps were being put out everywhere: she could inwardly behold the extinguisher and the extended hand.
— Thomas Hardy
The habit of shutting doors behind us is invaluable to happiness; we must learn to shut life's doors to cut out the futile wind of past mistakes.
— Marjorie Holmes
Of the crow-blue mussel shells, one keeps
adjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan. — Marianne Moore
adjusting the ash heaps;
opening and shutting itself like
an
injured fan. — Marianne Moore
The five senses offer us five different ways of shutting out reality. What is intuition and what does it perceive?
— Nanamoli Thera
I would like to register the fact that this fucking sucks," she said.
"Noted," he said, shutting the gate. — Alexandra Bracken
"Noted," he said, shutting the gate. — Alexandra Bracken
Shutting out your problems does not dismiss them. Ignorance is not bliss. On the contrary, it creates an opportunity for those problems to grow.
— Carlos Wallace
I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one's own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
— Virginia Woolf
Rincewind tried shutting his eyes, but there were no eyelids to his imagination and it was staring widely
— Terry Pratchett
Well, you should turn your lips inside out because you're going to spend the rest of this trip talking to yourself.
— Celia Mcmahon
Quiet is turning down the volume knob on life.
— Khaled Hosseini
But, once you get a taste for shutting people up, it's hard to stop. Why bother winning the debate when it's easier to close it down?
— Mark Steyn
I must be shutting up like a telescope.
— Lewis Carroll
Life is a long failure of understanding ... a long, mistaken shutting of the heart.
— Patricia Highsmith
The Senate used to be a place of great debate and accomplishment. Now it is run like a dictatorship shutting out the voices of millions of Americans.
— John Cornyn
Try and withhold your judgment, because as soon as you think you know something, you're shutting down.
— Cate Shortland
If it were a choice between putting ads on Wikipedia or shutting down Wikipedia, we would then very reluctantly consider putting ads on Wikipedia.
— Sue Gardner
I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.
— Lara Pulver
Shutting your eyes and pretending something's not happening doesn't make it not true, Jace.
— Cassandra Clare
Shutting your eyes to reality does not keep you in the dark, it makes you a monster.
— Darnell Lamont Walker
Shutting down governments on your computer is just as much as fun as going to a riot at Yale.
— John Waters
You didn't mind someone shutting out the world as long as they were happy to take you inside with them.
— Lauren Henderson
Shutting down discussion is self-defeating and impedes progress. We need to talk and listen and debate and refute and instruct and learn and evolve.
— Sheryl Sandberg
Shutting my eyes, I dreamed in formulas.
— Yevgeny Zamyatin
If you start painting yourself into a corner, life starts shutting down. There is always hopefully a next.
— Les Wexner
Being in command means making tough decisions. Not being in command means shutting up and doing what you're told.
Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl — Eoin Colfer
A moment of silence, please, for the lost art of shutting up.
— Neil Genzlinger
Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.
— George Clooney