Shut Quotes - 3
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Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
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As many were astonished at thee; his visage was so marred more than any man, and his form more than the sons of men: Soshall hesprinkle many nations; the kings shall shut their mouths at him: for that which had not been told them shall they see; and that which they had not heard shall they consider.
Bible (Old Testament)— Isaiah 52:14-15.
Thus with the year Seasons return, but not to me returns Day, or the sweet approach of ev'n or morn, Or sight of vernal bloom, or summer's rose, Or flocks, or herds, of human face divine; But cloud instead, and ever-during dark Surrounds me, from the cheerful ways of men Cut off, and for the book of knowledge fair Presented with a universal blank Of nature's works to me expunged and razed, And wisdom at one entrance quite shut out.
john milton— 1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.40-50.
I feel just like a mapWithout a single place to go of interestAnd I'm further north than southIf I could shut my mouthShe'd probably like this.
ryan adams— My Winding Wheel
Lloyd George? There is no Lloyd George. There is a marvellous brain; but if you were to shut him in a room and look through the keyhole there would be nobody there.
Margot Asquith— In conversation with James Agate, September 30, 1941; reported by Agate in his Ego 5 (London: Harrap, 1942) p. 136.
— Sometimes also attributed to John Maynard Keynes.
If you really want to be a rebel get a job, cut your grass, read your bible, and shut up. Because no one is doing that.
mark driscoll— Rebel's Guide to Joy
If God is a reality, and the soul is a reality, and you are an immortal being, what are you doing with your Bible shut?
herrick johnson— P. 38. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895))
He drew a circle that shut me out —Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout.But Love and I had the wit to win:We drew a circle that took him in.
edwin markham— "Outwitted".
Being an artist means seeing things and never having the ability to shut your eyes.
keariene muizz— Associated Press (2008); from an interview conducted by John Rogers.
This civilization is rapidly passing away, however. Let us rejoice or else lament the fact as much as everyone of us likes; but do not let us shut our eyes to it.
joseph schumpeter— The March into Socialism, pg.419
(Hezekiah) himself, like a caged bird, I shut up in Jerusalem, his royal city.
— From the Taylor prism[1]
“I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A chapel was built in the midst, Where I used to play on the green. And the gates of this chapel were shut, And ‘Thou shalt not’ writ over the door, So I turned to the Garden of Love, That so many sweet flowers bore, And I saw it was filled with graves, And tomb-stones where flowers should be: And priests in black gowns were walking their rounds, And binding with briars my joys and desires.”
orson scott card— Chapter 10 (Seventh Son (1987))
It is better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than to open it and remove all doubt.
mark twain— Cited as an example of "What Mark Twain Didn't Say" in Mark Twain by Geoffrey C. Ward, et al.
Forbade to wade through slaughter to a throne, And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
thomas gray— St. 17. (Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (1750))
The major sweep of this book's living is too often marred by qualifying. It is hedged about with ifs and buts and if onlys and howevers, excuses for a life that is about to shut its covers for the last time and then crumple into dust in an unseen and never-to-be-remembered library.
Peter Greenaway— From the fourth book, "The Book of Impotence"
"A newspaper man has got to know when to keep his mouth and his mind shut. You might end up dead." "Isn't that the usual fate of men, Harry?"
r. a. lafferty— Ch. 8 (Fourth Mansions (1969))
We don't know what the event that has allowed for this massive oil to be released. And until we know that, I hope we don't see a knee-jerk reaction across this country that says we're going to shut down drilling in the Gulf of Mexico, because the cost to this country will be staggering. From time to time there are going to be things that occur that are acts of God that cannot be prevented.
rick perry— Sherman, Jake (3 May 2010), "Rick Perry: Oil spill may be 'act of God'", Politico on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill
I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead; I lift my lids and all is born again.
Sylvia Plath— "Mad Girl's Love Song" (1953) from Collected Poems (1981)
His eyes were closed, shut tight on whatever battle his common sense was conducting with his faith.
robert charles wilson— p. 377 (Spin (2005))
That instant shut My woeful self up in a mourning house, Raining the tears of lamentation.
william shakespeare— Love's Labour's Lost (c. 1595-6), Act V, scene 2, line 817.
When I was a kid, I thought I was the strongest man in the world. Then, the fastest runner and then the smartest person in the world. One by one my delusions got shut down. Now I just see myself as the lamest guy in the world.
Jack Black— American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer
Not till I was shut up to prayer and to the study of God's word by the loss of earthly joys sickness destroying the flavor of them all did I begin to penetrate the mystery that is learned under the cross. And wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ, and to know that I love Him this is all.
elizabeth payson prentiss— p. 568. (Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers)
True (quoth Ales) thinges doone can not be vndoone, Be they done in due tyme, to late, or to soone, But better late than neuer to repent this, To late (quoth my aunt) this repentance showd is, Whan the stéede is stolne shut the stable durre.
— True, said Ales, things done can not be undone,
Be they done in due time, too late, or too soon,
But better late than never to repent this,
To late, said my aunt, this repentance shown is,
When the steed is stolen shut the stable door.
— Part I, chapter 10
— "Better late than never" is recorded earlier by Livy as Potius sero quam numquam. (book IV, sec. 23).
It is self-love and its offspring self-deception, which shut the gates of heaven, and lead men, as if in a delicious dream, to hell.
— Christian Scriver, reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers, p. 537 (1895)
There is only one possible route of action, Greenhouse gases have to be radically reduced and it has to happen worldwide. Until now, the U.S. has kept its eyes shut to this emergency. [Americans] make up a mere 4 percent of the population, but are responsible for close to a quarter of emissions.
— Jürgen Trittin, Der Spiegel Online (30 August 2005).
The wind moans, like a long wail from some despairing soul shut out in the awful storm!
— W. H. Gibson, Pastoral Days, Winter.
Block the passages, shut the doors , And till the end your strength shall not fail. Open up the passages, increase your doings, And till your last day no help shall come to you.
— Ch. 52 as translated by Arther Walley (1934)
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! Let each new temple, nobler than the last, shut thee from heaven with a dome more vast, Till thou at length art free, Leaving thine outgrown shell by life’s unresting sea!
— The chambered Nautilus; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
shut up, kid. It was only a bird.
— Who: Sheridan
— Source: "Popsy" from Nightmares & Dreamscapes
— Note: Character says this shortly before being killed by a vampire and his grandchild, whom Sheridan had kidnapped.
shut up, Cynthia! shut up, Cynthia! No, no, wait wait wait wait wait
— Who: Theodore Carne
— Source: "The Man Who Was Death" [Episode 1x1]
— Note: Character, a man acquited of murder, says this before being eletrocuted in a hot tub by the protagonist, Niles Talbot.
