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Famous Opened Quotes

Keep passing the open windows. - John Irving

Keep passing the open windows. — John Irving

An open mind is like an open window. It lets the fresh air in. — Mike Hernacki

Throw open your window and let the scenery of clouds and sky enter your room. — Yosa Buson

There is a window from one heart to another heart. — Rumi

Open the window of your heart and let the Spirit speak — Rumi

Give me a window and I'll stare out it. - Alan Rickman

Give me a window and I'll stare out it. — Alan Rickman

If a window of opportunity appears, don't pull down the shade. — Thomas J. Peters

Set wide the window. Let me drink the day. — Edith Wharton

In my head there are several windows, that I do know, but perhaps it is always the same one, open variously on the parading universe. — Samuel Beckett

All the windows of my heart I open to the day. - John Greenleaf Whittier

All the windows of my heart I open to the day. — John Greenleaf Whittier

The window of heaven is what all truth seekers are trying to open. — Harold Klemp

Where the Lord closes a door, somewhere He opens a window. — Julie Andrews

In making theories, always keep a window open so that you can throw one out if necessary. — Bela Lugosi

What you really want for yourself is always trying to break through, just as a cooling breeze flows through an open window on a hot day. Your part is to open the windows of your mind. — Vernon Howard

Open your heart - open it wide; someone is standing outside. — Mary Engelbreit

Short Opened Quotes

  • The senses, being the explorers of the world, open the way to knowledge. — Maria Montessori
  • When a man opens a car door for his wife, it's either a new car or a new wife. — Prince Philip
  • When I'm not longer rapping, I want to open up an ice cream parlor and call myself Scoop Dogg. — Snoop Dogg
  • In time, all things work to your advantage when you pursue them with an open heart. — Miyamoto Musashi
  • Even when opportunity knocks, a man still has to get up off his seat and open the door. — Douglas MacArthur
  • A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open. — Frank Zappa
  • I'll open up a can of whoop-ass on you! — Stone Cold Steve Austin
  • I wanted freedom, open air and adventure. I found it on the sea. — Alain Gerbault
  • The great book, always open and which we should make an effort to read, is that of Nature. — Antonio Gaudi
  • Education cannot be effective unless it helps a child to open up himself to life. — Maria Montessori

Opened Image Quotes

Have a mind that is open to everything, yet attached to nothing. - Wayne Dyer quote

Have a mind that is open to everything, yet attached to nothing. — Wayne Dyer

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! - Albert Hofmann quote

Go to the meadows, go to the garden, go to the woods. Open your eyes! — Albert Hofmann

Opened quote Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
Reading is dreaming with open eyes.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. - Albert Einstein quote

Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving. — Albert Einstein

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. - John Barrymore quote

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open. — John Barrymore

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. - Albert Einstein quote

The measure of intelligence is the ability to change. — Albert Einstein

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! - Bryan Procter quote

The sea! The sea! The open sea!, The blue, the fresh, the ever free! — Bryan Procter

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. - Mark Twain quote

An open mind leaves a chance for someone to drop a worthwhile thought in it. — Mark Twain

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise - Young Jeezy quote

Open your eyes, I'm a BLESSING in disguise — Young Jeezy

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready. - Nipsey Hussle quote

Luck is just bein' prepared at all times, so when the door opens you're ready. — Nipsey Hussle

Life is a gift, love opens it up. - Jay-Z quote

Life is a gift, love opens it up. — Jay-Z

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. - Isaac Asimov quote

In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate. — Isaac Asimov

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. - Malcolm Forbes quote

The purpose of education is to replace an empty mind with an open one. — Malcolm Forbes

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. - William Carey quote

To know the will of God, we need an open Bible and an open map. — William Carey

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. - Emily Dickinson quote

Not knowing when the dawn will come, I open every door. — Emily Dickinson

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. - James Dewar quote

Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they are open. — James Dewar

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. - Deepak Chopra quote

The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers. — Deepak Chopra

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? - Bob Marley quote

Open your eyes, look within. Are you satisfied with the life you're living? — Bob Marley

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. - Victor Hugo quote

He who opens a school door, closes a prison. — Victor Hugo

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. - Jessamyn West quote

A broken bone can heal, but the wound a word opens can fester forever. — Jessamyn West

I can't even open my eyes underwater. - Jessica Chastain quote

I can't even open my eyes underwater. — Jessica Chastain

Opened quote If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.
If you eyes are opened, you'll see the things worth seeing.

Open Your Window Quotes

Prayer is the window that God has placed in the walls of our world. Leave it shut and the world is a cold, dark house. But throw back the curtains and see His light. Open the window and hear His voice. Open the window of prayer and invoke the presence of God in your world. — Max Lucado

Your days are numbered. Use them to throw open the windows of your soul to the sun. If you do not, the sun will soon set, and you with it. — Marcus Aurelius

Without opening your door, you can open your heart to the world. Without looking out your window, you can see the essence of the Tao. The more you know, the less you understand. The Master arrives without leaving, sees the light without looking, achieves without doing a thing. — Lao Tzu

Opened quote A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.
A positive attitude opens the door to positive opportunities, which leads to a positive life.

There is no better opportunity to receive more than to be thankful for what you already have. Thanksgiving opens the windows of opportunity for ideas to flow your way. — Jim Rohn

If the eyes are the window to your soul open eyes bring the cold. — Common

You're a painter. You're a baker. You like to sleep with the windows open. You never take sugar in your tea. And you always double-knot your shoelaces. — Suzanne Collins

Opened quote Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.
Failure is a great teacher, and, if you are open to it, every mistake has a lesson to offer.

May your walls know joy, may every room hold laughter, and every window open to great possibility. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will eventually open a window and look out to see who's there. — Rumi

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia. — Kurt Vonnegut

One Zen master said, The whole universe is my true personality. This is a very wonderful saying... If you want to see what you truly are, open the window, and everything you see is in fact the expression of your inner reality. Can you embrace all of it? — Adyashanti

Open Up Window Quotes

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened. — Charles Spurgeon

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more — Bob Dylan

During the Blitz, a lot of shops had their windows blown in and put up notices saying, 'More open than usual'. I now declare this place more open than usual. — Prince Philip

Opened quote Everything becomes a lesson when youre open to learn.
Everything becomes a lesson when youre open to learn.

It's a fact of earthly life that when God opens the windows of heaven to bless us, the devil opens the doors of hell to blast us. When God begins moving, the devil fires up all his artillery. — Adrian Rogers

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. — Desmond Tutu

Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better. — Sidney Sheldon

Opened quote Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.
Don't give up. Normally it is the last key on the ring that opens the door.

...buying a fly rod in the average city store, that is, joining it up and safely waggling it a bit, is much like seeing a woman's arm protruding from a car window: all one can readily be sure of is that the window is open. — John D. Voelker

Hallucinogens are a value changer...like it or not, it changes your values, it opens up windows (doors of perception.) — George Carlin

The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the other side, its windows sparkling in the starry sky, was a vast castle with many turrets and towers. — J. K. Rowling

Staring at the blank page before you, Open up the dirty window, Let the sun illuminate the words that you could not find. — Natasha Bedingfield

What Is Open Quotes

What we find is that if you have a goal that is very, very far out, and you approach it in little steps, you start to get there faster. Your mind opens up to the possibilities. — Mae Jemison

Life is full of surprises and and serendipity. Being open to unexpected turns in the road is an important part of success. If you try to plan every step, you may miss those wonderful twists and turns. Just find your next adventure-do it well, enjoy it-and then, not now, think about what comes next. — Condoleezza Rice

One way to open your eyes is to ask yourself, "What if I had never seen this before? What if I knew i would never see it again? — Rachel Carson

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. - Carl Rogers

What I am is good enough if I would only be it openly. — Carl Rogers

God is with the broken-hearted. When your heart breaks, it’s a good thing – the breaking of the heart is what opens it up to the light of Allah. The dunya is designed to break your heart, to crush it. — Hamza Yusuf

The softer your heart is the less that your past is forming your present and your future. When there is openness and softness of heart, what forms the present and the future is not your past but the reality of your own being. — John de Ruiter

Opened quote Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?
Why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open?

As you become comfortable with uncertainty, infinite possibilities open up in your life. It means fear is no longer a dominant factor in what you do and no longer prevents you from taking action to initiate change. — Eckhart Tolle

If any syllable that I utter might be interpreted in 13,000 different ways, then the best way for me to never be tarred and feathered is to never open my mouth. So the next time that someone calls on me for an opinion, you know what? I won't say a thing. — Gad Saad

Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh, hey, Jingle bells, jingle bells, Jingle all the way, Oh what fun it is to ride, In a one-horse open sleigh... — James Pierpont

By breaking down our sense of self-importance, all we lose is a parasite that has long infected our minds. What we gain in return is freedom, openness of mind, spontaneity, simplicity, altruism: all qualities inherent in happiness. — Matthieu Ricard

Window Quotes

The Eyes are the window to your soul - William Shakespeare

The Eyes are the window to your soul — William Shakespeare

People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,but when the darkness sets in,their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within. — Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you're not going to like the view. - The Undertaker

If the eyes are the windows to the soul, you're not going to like the view. — The Undertaker

Opened quote Everything becomes a lesson when you're open to learn.
Everything becomes a lesson when you're open to learn.

Females in our generation morals are just out the window. Materialistic things aren't life. I'd rather walk in the rain with a man who treats me like a queen than to ride in a Benz with a man who treats me like crap. — Jhene Aiko

A window covered with raindrops interests me more than a photograph of a famous person. — Saul Leiter

Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better. — Magda Gerber

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that were not even there before. - Mignon McLaughlin

Love unlocks doors and opens windows that were not even there before. — Mignon McLaughlin

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. - Sydney J. Harris

The whole purpose of education is to turn mirrors into windows. — Sydney J. Harris

It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared. — Whitney M. Young

A smile is the light in your window that tells others that there is a caring, sharing person inside. — Denis Waitley

Open Door Quotes

When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. — Alexander Graham Bell

If you see a man opening a car door for a woman, it means one of two things: it's either a new woman or a new car! — Prince

If a door is shut, attempts should be made to open it; if it is ajar, it should be pushed until it is wide open. In neither case should the door be blown up at the expense of those inside. — Julius Nyerere

Opened quote It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remo
It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool, than to open it and remove all doubt.

In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, the door is there and the key is in your hand. Nobody on earth can give you either the key or the door to open, except yourself. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

There was a knock on our dressing-room door. Our manager shouted, 'Keith! Ron! The Police are here!' Oh, man, we panicked, flushed everything down the john. Then the door opened and it was Stewart Copeland and Sting. — Keith Richards

There is no difficulty that enough LOVE will not conquer, no disease that enough LOVE will not heal, no door that enough LOVE will not open, no gulf that enough LOVE will not bridge, no wall that enough LOVE will not throw down, no sin that enough LOVE will not redeem. — Emmet Fox

Opened quote Remember: despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as dee
Remember: despite how open, peaceful, and loving you attempt to be, people can only meet you, as deeply as they've met themselves.

As long as you are performing prayer, you are knocking at the door of Allah, and whoever is knocking at the door of Allah, Allah will open it for him. — Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. — Helen Keller

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it? - Rabia Basri

How long will you keep pounding on an open door Begging for someone to open it? — Rabia Basri

An observer of men who finds himself steadily repelled by some apparently trifling thing in a stranger is right to give it great weight. It may be the clue to the whole mystery. A hair or two will show where a lion is hidden. A very little key will open a very heavy door. — Charles Dickens

Rear Window Quotes

We've become a race of Peeping Toms. What people ought to do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. Yes sir. How's that for a bit of homespun philosophy? — Thelma Ritter

Americans are the only people in the world known to me whose status anxiety prompts them to advertise their college and university affiliations in the rear window of their automobiles. — Paul Fussell

Weve become a race of Peeping Toms. What people oughta do is get outside their own house and look in for a change. — John Michael Hayes

Opened quote The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open.
The moment you accept what troubles you've been given, the door will open.

Everybody cryin' mercy / When they don't know the meaning of the word. — Mose Allison

Where does a man get inspiration to write a song like that? Well, he gets it from the landlady once a month. — John Michael Hayes

I wonder if it's ethical to watch a man with binoculars and a long-focus lens? D'ya suppose it's ethical even if you prove that he didn't commit a crime? I'm not much on rear window ethics. — John Michael Hayes

... I looked through the car's rear window for a final wave, and it felt like someone had invaded my chest and squeezed all the juice out of my heart until it was a tiny dry sponge. — Karen Tayleur

Her round, mascara-streaked face looked back at him out of the rear window. He forced a grin and a wave before lighting another cigarette, and reflecting that Lucy's idea of sympathty compared unfavourably with some of the interrogation techniques they had used at Guantanamo. — J. K. Rowling

Hell, when I was in high school, a "drive-by shooting" meant somebody had their rear end hanging out a car window! — Jeff Foxworthy

I'm not much into rear window ethics. — Alfred Hitchcock

Open Book Quotes

If you are open-minded and ready to learn, there are many things which you can learn not only from books and instructors but from the very life experience itself. — Haile Selassie

When you pay attention to the Quran, you discover that it can only be from Allah. It becomes clearer and clearer to you that it cannot be from a human being. But many people don't perceive the Quran this way because Allah doesn't open its doors to people who do not pay attention. — Nouman Ali Khan

The prohibition of science would be contrary to the Bible, which in hundreds of places teaches us how the greatness and the glory of God shine forth marvelously in all His works, and is to be read above all in the open book of the heavens. — Galileo Galilei

I want to open myself. ... I want the light of God, I want the sweet love of Jesus. I danced for the Devil; I saw him, I wrote in his book; I go back to Jesus; I kiss His hand. I saw Sarah Good with the Devil. I saw Goody Osburn with the Devil. I saw Bridget Bishop with the Devil! — Abigail Williams

I decided to write the book to open the eyes of the people of how corrupt John D. Rockefeller company was and the unfair ways he used to be successful. I wanted the people to know the truth about the Standard Oil Company. — Ida Tarbell

Live your life with arms wide open. Today is where your book begins. The rest is still unwritten. — Natasha Bedingfield

With things like 'Dragon Ball,' in the case of fight scenes, I'd take the panel layout across two pages when the book is opened and alter it by angling them, and making them bigger or smaller, to give movement to the panels themselves. — Akira Toriyama

we would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright. — Ernest Hemingway

My life is an open book. With illustrations. - Hugh Hefner

My life is an open book. With illustrations. — Hugh Hefner

Why do you read many books? The great book is within your heart. Open the pages of this inexhaustible book, the source of all knowledge. You will know everything. — Sivananda

Window Dressing Quotes

My decorating and renovation skills are nil - indeed, I once used a shower curtain from Pottery Barn as 'window dressing. — Candace Bushnell

But tomorrow, dawn will come the way I picture her, barefoot and disheveled, standing outside my window in one of the fragile cotton dresses of the poor. She will look in at me with her thin arms extended, offering a handful of birdsong and a small cup of light. — Billy Collins

I'm tired of being around men all the time. I'm going to start a band called Skirt with three girls and I'll play the guitar and sing backing vocals in drag. I went window shopping when I was in New York, saw a lot of amazing dresses. — Brian Molko

It's an addiction. I love clothes. I like to go down Melrose and look in all the windows and I go to different flea markets. I have lots of costumes. You never know when you're going to have to dress up like a milkmaid from the 1600s. — Zooey Deschanel

Nature made us individuals, as she did the flowers and the pebbles; but we are afraid to be peculiar, and so our society resembles a bag of marbles, or a string of mold candles. Why should we all dress after the same fashion? The frost never paints my windows twice alike. — Lydia Maria Child

There are only three sins - causing pain, causing fear, and causing anguish. The rest is window dressing. — Roger Caras

No choice maxims - we Stoics don't practice that kind of window dressing. — Seneca

These books ain't window dressing. I think Machiavelli's the most sophisticated writer outside of Shakespeare. Way ahead of his time. Such a manipulative person. Everything he accomplished he did by kissin' ass. — Mike Tyson

The people I see from my window. In the huts, in the distance. They're all dressed the same.' 'Ah, those people,' said Father, nodding his head and smiling slightly. 'Those people...well, they're not people at all, Bruno.' Bruno frowned. 'They're not?' he asked, unsure what Father meant by that. — John Boyne

I like photographing dresses in windows. I actually wore a lot of dresses in the '70s. I like them on other people now. — Patti Smith

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More Opened Quotes

Names are not always what they seem. - Mark Twain quote

Names are not always what they seem. — Mark Twain

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. - Kathleen Quinlan quote

I filmed underwater for two days in the open ocean with dolphins. — Kathleen Quinlan

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. - Clarence Thomas quote

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot. — Clarence Thomas

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation. - Craig Reucassel quote

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation. — Craig Reucassel

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. - Charles Dickens quote

Never close your lips to those whom you have already opened your heart. — Charles Dickens

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. - Gerry Spence quote

I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief. — Gerry Spence

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. - Niccolo Machiavelli quote

One change always leaves the way open for the establishment of others. — Niccolo Machiavelli

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. - Joseph Campbell quote

Follow your bliss and the universe will open doors where there were only walls. — Joseph Campbell

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. - Cato The Elder quote

An angry man opens his mouth and shuts his eyes. — Cato The Elder

Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see - Puff Daddy quote

Don't be afraid to close your eyes and dream, but then open your eyes and see — Puff Daddy

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth - Mumia Abu-Jamal quote

The United States is Fast Becoming One of the Biggest Open-Air Prisons on Earth — Mumia Abu-Jamal

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. - Stephen Covey quote

Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. — Stephen Covey

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye. - William Wordsworth quote

Open-mindedness is the harvest of a quiet eye. — William Wordsworth

I stare out the window and wait for spring. - Rogers Hornsby quote

I stare out the window and wait for spring. — Rogers Hornsby

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. - Anthony Doerr quote

Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever. — Anthony Doerr

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out. - Groucho Marx quote

Be open minded, but not so open minded that your brains fall out. — Groucho Marx

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. - Gunter Grass quote

The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open. — Gunter Grass

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