Closedness Quotes & Sayings

Get in, get out. Don't linger. Go on. — Raymond Carver

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. — Rosemary Clooney

In our nation masses of people are concerned about violence but resolutely refuse to link that violence to patriarchal thinking or male domination. Feminist thinking offers a solution. And it is up to us to make that solution available to everyone. — Bell Hooks

Some friends of theirs had rented their house for several months to an interior decorator. When they returned, they discovered that their entire library had been reorganized by color and size. Shortly thereafter, the decorator met with a fatal automobile accident. I confess that when this story was told, everyone around the dinner table concurred that justice had been served. — Anne Fadiman

The language of the Spirit, the language of the Gospel, is the language of communion that invites us to get the better of closedness and indifference, division and antagonism. — Pope Francis

The historical method includes the presupposition that history is a unity in the sense of a closed continuum of effects in which individual events are connected by the succession of cause and effect ... This closedness means that the continuum of historical happenings cannot be rent by the interference of supernatural transcendent powers and that therefore there is no "miracle" in this sense of the word. — Rudolf Karl Bultmann

Your goal in life should be to produce concrete product — Sunday Adelaja

Only a faithful and intense relationship with God makes it possible to get out of our own closedness and proclaim the Gospel with parrhesia. Without prayer our acts are empty and our proclamation has no soul; it is not inspired by the Spirit. — Pope Francis

There's something so terrible about wanting something you've already had. You know exactly what you're missing. Your body knows precisely how to shape itself around the ache, the hollowness that wants to be filled — Leah Raeder

There is another chance of 365 opportunities to learn, to grow in a reasonable pace and to master what is given to you by God.
Happy New Year 2017 — Euginia Herlihy

Each human being, however small or weak, has something to bring to humanity. As we start to really get to know others, as we begin to listen to each other's stories, things begin to change. We begin the movement from exclusion to inclusion, from fear to trust, from closedness to openness, from judgment and prejudice to forgiveness and understanding. It is a movement of the heart. — Jean Vanier

As long as he had life, who deserved it so little, he would use it, wield it, and do whatever he could in its name, even if it was not, was never, enough — Laini Taylor

I was raised by television. It was my first cultural window. It was a constant companion. — Nic Pizzolatto

Dane Cook is one of the most exciting comedy stars to emerge on the scene in many years, and his ability to connect with audiences is truly remarkable. HBO will be able to give this gifted performer the broadest, most unrestricted showcase for his talent, and we're delighted to welcome him to the network. — Chris Albrecht

Spiritually, a man's thoughts must be the building in which he lives, otherwise it's wrong. — Soren Kierkegaard

If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one. — Dalai Lama