Being Close Minded Quotes & Sayings

I finished polishing the clock and picked up one of the figurines next to it. It was in the shape of an angel and on the angel's gown were printed the words: ALMIGHTY GOD, GIVE US SERENITY TO ACCEPT WHAT CANNOT BE CHANGED, COURAGE TO CHANGE WHAT SHOULD BE CHANGED, AND WISDOM TO KNOW THE ONE FROM THE OTHER. What if you couldn't do that? Couldn't change things and couldn't accept them, either? I took hold of the angel's head and snapped it off. And then I snapped one wing off, and then the other. I broke his arms off, too, and then I asked him how serene he was feeling now — Jennifer Donnelly

You cannot walk on the water of hunger, misery, and death. You have to wade through to record them. — Don McCullin

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months. — Yvonne Collins

I don't recall that when I was in high school or college, any novel was ever presented to me to study as a novel. In fact, I was well on the way to getting a Master's degree in English before I really knew what fiction was, and I doubt if I would ever have learned then, had I not been trying to write it. I believe that it's perfectly possible to run a course of academic degrees in English and to emerge a seemingly respectable Ph.D. and still not know how to read fiction. — Flannery O'Connor

The real truth is, I just want to keep the voice of dissent alive in all of our elections. I don't really want to hang out with politicians. — Roseanne Barr

If you don't think you're close-minded for not believing in Zeus, then please don't accuse atheists of being close-minded for not believing in your god. — Greta Christina

I think we're in the beginning of a bull market. When a bull market begins, nine months later the economy turns around. — Sumner Redstone

Bill Thompson edited 'Whitechapel,' and his first question to me was, "Why in God's name do you want to bring down Superman?" And my answer was, and remains, by breaking down Holmes as this untouchable machine, it gives him the chance to become the hero we need him to be. — Bernard Schaffer

Being called close-minded by religious people is a bit like being called yellow by a bunch of bananas. — Pat Condell

They [ Factory Records] are always looking for the next group, the next big thing, to bring the record sales in and for them to promote and everything, but Factory just sign who they want to, put records by who they want to out, package it how they want to, how they like doing it. It's just run like that. — Ian Curtis

Don't just write a "To Do" list. Write a "To Be" list. — Karen Salmansohn

I'm not saying that hip-hop needs gay rappers or anything, but they need to stop being so close-minded because that will just cause the genre to fail. Look at pop. Pop doesn't discriminate against people. Look at Lady Gaga, y'know what I mean? — ASAP Rocky

I could play through anything. But just thinking about I have kids, longevity, I probably would have made more of a conscious effort not to hit the floor, but at the end of the day in the playoffs, you can't play that way. You just have to play and give it your all. — Rajon Rondo

Being dogmatic and close-minded are not virtues. — Walter E. Jacobson

And to think of this great country in danger of being dominated by people ignorant enough to take a few ancient Babylonian legends as the canons of modern culture. Our scientific men are paying for their failure to speak out earlier. There is no use now talking evolution to these people. Their ears are stuffed with Genesis. — Luther Burbank

Expressing one's reality in words, as truthful as they might be, goads one to insincerity. — Orhan Pamuk

If you knew at the outset what you understood at the end, would you make the same choices, take the same risks, accept the same sacrifices? No. No one would. You can't appreciate the weight of that burden until after you've assumed it. You can't comprehend what it really means. — Barry Eisler

Honestly, being a doctor could make you more close minded than regular people. — Alex Chiu

I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change. — Mike Tyson