Shut Quotes - 6
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Our headstrong passions shut the door of our souls against God.
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They shut me up in Prose As when a little girl They put me in the Closet Because they liked me'still'.
— c.1862 Complete Poems, no.613 (first published1935).
After all the doors were shut, our region is facing a deep abyss after the turning of the Gulf crisis into an imminent catastrophe.We have not left a door that we did not knockon, ora road that we did not taketofind a political settlement of this crisis.
— 1991 On his attempts to intercede for peace in the Gulf War, Jan.
Washington isa sieve?it was virtually impossibletofind out who was doing the leaking and shut them up.
— 1990 Depositionon the Iran-Contra arms sales. In the NewYork Times, 23 Feb.
But Titus said, with his uncommon sense,When the Exclusion Bill was in suspense:"I hear a lion in the lobby roar;Say, Mr. Speaker, shall we shut the doorAnd keep him there, or shall we let him inTo try if we can turn him out again?"
james bramston— Art of Politics (1729). Colonel Titus is reported to have said, "I hope we shall not be wise as the frogs to whom Jupiter gave a stork for their king. To trust expedients with such a king on the throne would be just as wise as if there were a lion in the lobby, and we should vote to let him in and chain him, instead of fastening the door to keep him out". On the Exclusion Bill, Jan. 7, 1681.
Let’s forget the reunification, let’s just shut up and don't talk about that topic for the next 20 years.
joschka fischer— Vergessen wir die Wiedervereinigung. Halten wir die nächsten 20 Jahre die Schnauze darüber (Autumm 1989)
When the great markets by the sea shut fastAll that calm Sunday that goes on and on:When even lovers find their peace at last,And Earth is but a star, that once had shone.
james elroy flecker— The Golden Journey to Samarkand (l. 7)
Bion used to say that the way to the shades below was easy; he could go there with his eyes shut.
diogenes laërtius— Bion, 3.
In television or a movie I bring my own ego and consequently can mess up. In the theatre I learnt very quickly to shut up and listen. Now I am able to get out of my own way.
matthew perry— Neil Norman (May 1, 2003) "Back from the brink: Fame almost destroyed Friends star Matthew Perry. Now, as he makes his West End stage debut, he tells Neil Norman how he beat his addictions", Evening Standard, Associated Newspapers Company, p. 20.
I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
pablo picasso— Herschel Browning Chip (1968, p. 271)
At the beginning God said: “Let there be light,” and light was, and light is, and light shall be. So Christianity is rolling on, and it is going to warm all nations, and all nations are to bask in its light. Men may shut the window-blinds so they cannot see it, or they may smoke the pipe of speculation until they are shadowed under their own vaporing; but the Lord God is a sun!
thomas de witt talmage— Thomas De Witt Talmage (1832-1902), The Pathway of Life, New York: The Christian Herald, 1894 p 254
A thousand years a poor man watched Before the gate of Paradise: But while one little nap he snatched, It oped and shut. Ah! was he wise?
william r. alger— "Swift Opportunity", p. 281.
Women always think that if they tell a man not to be pompous that will shut him up, but I am an old hand at that game. I know that if a man bides his time his moment will come.
Robertson Davies— The Great Queen is Amused
No word in our language not even "Socialism" has been employed more loosely than " Mysticism ." … The history of the word begins in close connexion with the Greek mysteries. A mystic is one who has been, or is being, initiated into some esoteric knowledge of Divine things, about which he must keep his mouth shut…
william ralph inge— Christian Mysticism (1899), Preface
I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give.
thomas jefferson— Letter to Alexander Donald (7 February 1788).
"Mulla, I want to borrow your donkey." "I am sorry," said the Mulla, "but I have already lent it out." As soon as he had spoken, the donkey brayed. The sound came from Nasrudin's stable. "But Mulla, I can hear the donkey, in there!" As he shut the door in the man's face, Nasrudin said, with dignity, "A man who believes the word of a donkey in preference to my word does not deserve to be lent anything."
nasreddin— Idries Shah, The Pleasantries of the Incredible Mulla Nasrudin (1968), ISBN 0525473068, p. 62
And the sad act like lepers They stick to the shadows They long to ring bells of warning To tell of their coming So that the pure can shut their doors.
conor oberst— Arienette
I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope the door of opportunity is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong.
theodore roosevelt— Letter to James Adger Smythe (26 November 1902).
Never pass by a chance to shut up.
robert silverberg— p. 477 (The Emperor and the Maula (2007))
Being holiday, the beggars shop is shut.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act V, Scene 1, line 56.
And while they went to buy, the Bridgroom came; and they were ready went in with him to the marriage; and door was shut.
— In "The parable of the ten virgins: in six discourses, and a sermon on the ...", p.81
It seems to me, first of all, from what I understand from doctors, that's really rare. If it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let's assume that maybe that didn't work or something: I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be of the rapist, and not attacking the child.
— Rep. Todd Akin, KTVI interview, 2012-08-19, quoted in Moore, Lori (21 August 2012), "Rep. Todd Akin: The Statement and the Reaction", The New York Times, retrieved on 2012-09-24
— asked whether abortions should be allowed for rape victims
[Y]ou never come right out and admit you have stretched the rules for your own benefit. You do it and shut up about it, and hope you don't get caught, because if you are caught no one or no one who has any sense will come forward and say he has done the same thing himself.
— Janet Malcolm, The Journalist and the Murderer (1990). New York: Knopf, p. 55.
Now Glenn Beck's trying to shut down their web site, ensuring that people will write about it.
— Cook, John (September 9, 2009). "Glenn Beck, PR Genius, Spreads the False Rumor He Raped and Murdered a Young Girl in 1990". Gawker (Gawker Media). Retrieved on 2009-10-04.
Under established First Amendment law, prior restraints, if constitutional at all, are permissible only in the most extraordinary circumstances. In this case, you have court orders that effectively shut down a Web site that has been at the forefront of exposing corruption in governments and corporations around the world and enjoin anyone who reads the order from publishing or even linking to the documents.
— David Ardia, director of Harvard Law School's Berkman Center for Internet & Society's Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP), commenting on Bank Julius Baer vs. Wikileaks — reported in "Preserving Free Speech on the Internet: In a cyberlaw clinic, students help litigate matters of first impression". Harvard Law Bulletin (Harvard Law School). Fall 2008. Retrieved on 2009-03-04.
Without comprehension, the immigrant would forever remain shut a stranger in America. Until America can release the heart as well as train the hand of the immigrant, he would forever remain driven back upon himself, corroded by the very richness of the unused gifts within his soul.
— How I Found America, pt. 3, from Hungry Hearts and Other Stories (1920)
Scientology promotes not watching the news. It keeps you inside a Truman Show where you're totally unaware of things. It's like your own thinking gets shut down and you get used to not considering anything that might be critical of Scientology.
— Tory Christman — Ortega, Tony (September 27, 2001). "Sympathy For The Devil: Tory Bezazian was a veteran Scientologist who loved going after church critics. Until she met the darkest detractor of all.". New Times Los Angeles.
Are you lost daddy I arsked tenderly. shut up he explained.
Ring(old Wilmer) Lardner— 1920 TheYoung Immigrunts, ch.10.
shut close the door; press down the latch; Sleep in thy intellectual crust; Nor lose ten tickings of thy watch Near this unprofitable dust.
william wordsworth— 1799 'A Poet's Epitaph', stanza 9 (published1800).
Why does the sea moan evermore? shut out from heaven it makes its moan, It frets against the boundary shore; All earth's full rivers cannot fill The sea, that drinking thirsteth still.
— Christina G. Rossetti, By the Sea, Stanza 1.
"If I were forced to sum up in one sentence what the Copenhagen interpretation says to me, it would be 'shut up and calculate!'"
— N. David Mermin, What's Wrong with this Pillow?, Physics Today, April 1989, page 9, doi:10.1063/1.2810963
— Misattributed to Richard Feynman, by Matthew effect.
— Attribution discussed in: Could Feynman Have Said This? by N. David Mermin, Physics Today, May 2004, page 10 (DOC)
