It has always seemed strange to me... the things we admire in men, kindness and generosity, openness, honesty, understanding and feeling, are the concomitants of failure in our system. And those traits we detest, sharpness, greed, acquisitiveness, meanness, egotism and self-interest, are the traits of success. And while men admire the quality of the first they love the produce of the second.
~By John Steinbeck ~
Seeing what happens when you rip yourself open is what your job is all about.
~By Ed Harris ~
A small house must depend on its grouping with other houses for its beauty, and for the preservation of light air and the maximum of surrounding open space.
~By Clarence Stein ~
As an African American actress, there are people who have been staples in my life that opened a door that I can walk through. I hope that I can have that impact.
~By Monique Coleman ~
The flower has opened, has been in the sun and is unafraid. I'm taking more chances; I'm bold and proud.
~By Paula Cole ~
We must honor our country's tradition of openness and continue to welcome new immigrants.
~By Jose Serrano ~
If the gentleman has ability, he is magnanimous, generous, tolerant, and straightforward, through which he opens the way to instruct others.
~By Xun Zi ~
The government only makes restrictive rules, they don't show you what to do so you know, OK, here's where we need this many apartments, with open space, playgrounds, kindergartens.
~By Harry Seidler ~
This open eye for possible alternatives which need to be scrutinized before we can determine which is the best grounded is profoundly disconcerting to all conservatives and to almost all revolutionaries.
~By Morris Raphael Cohen ~
And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.
~By Joel Coen ~
The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
~By Adlai E. Stevenson ~
You have to be willing to accept the information, you have to be willing to work hard. You have to be motivated to go to practice with an open mind. You have to be willing to be criticized. Only you can do those things.
~By Brandi Chastain ~
A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.
~By Lyndon B. Johnson ~
Personality can open doors, but only character can keep them open.
~By Elmer G. Letterman ~
More socialism means more democracy, openness and collectivism in everyday life.
~By Mikhail Gorbachev ~
Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.
~By Laura Bush ~
I opened the large central window of my office room to its full on the fine early May morning. Then I stood for a few moments, breathing in the soft, warm air that was charged with the scent of white lilacs below.
~By Angus Wilson ~
If we look into ourselves we discover propensities which declare that our intellects have arisen from a lower form; could our minds be made visible we should find them tailed.
~By William Winwood Reade ~
I'm actually a very quiet person off the golf course. I talk 150 miles per hour when I'm at the course, but when in private I very seldom ever open my mouth.
~By Lee Trevino ~
The Republic is open and tolerant but also knows how and when to be firm and make its values respected.
~By Jean-Pierre Raffarin ~
Within a few hours I had them off, was about ready to play the shows. That night I opened, and during the week Harris was over to the house to talk my mother into letting me leave home.
~By Mary Lou Williams ~
What I would say to the young men and women who are beset by hopelessness and doubt is that they should go and see what is being done on the ground to fight poverty, not like going to the zoo but to take action, to open their hearts and their consciences.
~By Abbe Pierre ~
Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.
~By Malcolm Boyd ~
I'm no where as tough as my father. I really think that I am more open to change than he was.
~By A. J. Foyt ~
My door was open part of the time, and part of the time I tried to get a nap and their voices annoyed me, and I closed it. I kept it open in summer more or less, and closed in winter.
~By Lizzie Andrew Borden ~
I saw Ronnie Hawkins play near my hometown, Port Dover, Ontario, and I saw him play there on New Year's Eve and the following spring I booked myself to be his opening act on maybe five shows, and he hired me after the first night.
~By Rick Danko ~
A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.
~By Steve Jobs ~
I am one day going to be working openly in the motion picture industry. When that day comes, I swear to you that I will never sign a term contract with any major studio.
~By Dalton Trumbo ~
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
~By Carl Sandburg ~
I will announce some of the tombs I found next to the great pyramid of Khufu. One is an intact tomb that I have not opened yet.
~By Zahi Hawass ~
Once you're able to look like an idiot and be OK with it, it opens up your potential.
~By Nicole Sullivan ~
It is always open season on Christian and on white folks because they are the group you can kick and you can get away with it. It is politically correct.
~By Jack Kingston ~
With the opening of the second decade of the twentieth century it seemed that the stage was set for the last act in an unquestioned evolutionary drama.
~By Ralph A. Cram ~
General Grant had no fixed plan of campaign beyond the general idea to avoid the strong defensive line occupied by General Lee behind Mine Run, and find a way to draw him out to open battle.
~By James Longstreet ~
If I feel in need of sleep, I just open a book or turn on the television. Both are better than any sleeping pill.
~By Ethel Merman ~
Developed countries and advanced developing countries must open their markets for products from the developing world, and support in developing their export and import capacity.
~By Anna Lindh ~
I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.
~By Steve Forbert ~
My foundations support people in the country who care about an open society. It's their work that I'm supporting. So it's not me doing it. But I can empower them. I can support them, and I can help them.
~By George Soros ~
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.
~By Jim Ramstad ~
The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.
~By Kenneth G. Wilson ~
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
~By Nana Mouskouri ~
My first jam was at Hotel Diplomat opening for Hollywood.
~By Kurtis Blow ~
Prayer opens the heart to God, and it is the means by which the soul, though empty, is filled by God.
~By John Buchan ~
The lips of the wise are as the doors of a cabinet; no sooner are they opened, but treasures are poured out before thee.
~By Akhenaton ~
If I felt we had alienated the Unionists, it would worry me because we've spent a great deal of time trying to open up discussion and dialogue with the Unionist Parties.
~By Dick Spring ~
We want to support our troops because they didn't make the decision to go there... but I don't think it should be open-ended. We ought to have a benchmark where the administration has to come back and give us a report.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
I think that open tunings are a trap really because it's really hard not to sound like an open tuning when your using one and that gets old as well as what you learn in one open tuning is going to stay there.
~By Leo Kottke ~
Facing inward, join hands so as to form a small circle. Then, without moving from their places they sing the opening song, according to previous agreement, in a soft undertone.
~By James Mooney ~
In Canada, women's rights are a vital part of our effort to build a society of real equality - not just for some, but for all Canadians. A society in which women no longer encounter discrimination nor are shut out from opportunities open to others.
~By Paul Martin ~
In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semi-human. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog.
~By Edward Hoagland ~
I've just opened a show in Florida, although I also have many pieces on display around the world.
~By Tony Curtis ~
There are a lot of people who like to think they don't have prejudices and that they're open people, and yet, we all have that in ourselves, oftentimes against people of our own race or our own gender or whatever.
~By Jim McKay ~
Education makes children less dependent upon others and opens doors to better jobs and career possibilities.
~By Solomon Ortiz ~
An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.
~By Nick Cave ~
Citizen Kane is perhaps the one American talking picture that seems as fresh now as the day it opened. It may seem even fresher.
~By Pauline Kael ~
But when I was a teenager, the idea of spending the rest of my life in a factory was real depressing. So the idea that I could become a musician opened up some possibilities I didn't see otherwise.
~By Wayne Kramer ~
I am a very open, social, friendly person, and when it comes to people approaching me and asking for an autograph, I am totally cool with doing any of that. It's a lot of fun.
~By Corbin Bleu ~
On March 4th, 1830, I arrived in London, where a new world seemed opened to me.
~By Henry Bessemer ~
They're getting more and more experience on what to expect, and the Hellboy audience is such a faithful and fanatic audience as I am, and you have to really be very open about what you do.
~By Guillermo del Toro ~
The minute a person whose word means a great deal to others dare to take the open-hearted and courageous way, many others follow.
~By Marian Anderson ~
If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
~By John Cleese ~
My father was a promoter of Fresh Fest, and they needed an opening act. He got me a slot as a dancer. We tried it out the first time in Atlanta and the crowd went crazy. I was the opening clown.
~By Jermaine Dupri ~
As an actor, I've grown considerably. It's taken me years to get comfortable doing a romantic scene and dancing on stage in front of a live audience. I've really opened up a lot.
~By Sanjay Dutt ~
Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
~By Baltasar Gracian ~
The curtains would open and it would be just her standing in some ludicrous pose, like Aphrodite.
~By Lesley-Anne Down ~
I think Operation Smile is in more than 22 countries, mostly Third World. It just happened that my schedule opened up at the time they were heading to Vietnam.
~By Roma Downey ~
I had heard Ornette a couple of times, but I didn't really know where he was coming from until we started the record and it was beautiful, Fred. It opened up my mind.
~By Freddie Hubbard ~
We now open our mail with gloves and mask, though I can't imagine why anyone would target a literary agency!
~By Richard Curtis ~
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
~By Anthony Sampson ~
You can do anything you think you can. This knowledge is literally the gift of the gods, for through it you can solve every human problem. It should make of you an incurable optimist. It is the open door.
~By Robert Collier ~
My mother had gotten a job as a receptionist at a dancing school and had the idea that we should open our own dancing school; we did, and it prospered.
~By Gene Kelly ~
A lawyer I once knew told me of a strange case, a suffragette who had never married. After her death, he opened her trunk and discovered 50 wedding gowns.
~By Marguerite Young ~
In two years, there were 22 military coups d'etat, essentially in Africa and the third world. The coup d'etat of Algiers, in 1965, is what opened the path.
~By Ahmed Ben Bella ~
Pray God in the bowels of his mercy to send you his Holy Spirit; for he hath given you his great gift of utterance, if it pleased him also to open the eyes of your heart.
~By Jane Grey ~
We're playing the Superbowl this year, we're opening up before the coins drop.
~By Peter Criss ~
I do not believe that sheer suffering teaches. If suffering alone taught, all the world would be wise, since everyone suffers. To suffering must be added mourning, understanding, patience, love, openness and the willingness to remain vulnerable.
~By Anne Morrow Lindbergh ~
All nuclear weapon states should now recognize that this is so, and declare - in Treaty form - that they will never be the first to use nuclear weapons. This would open the way to the gradual, mutual reduction of nuclear arsenals, down to zero.
~By Joseph Rotblat ~
Temptation is the devil looking through the keyhole. Yielding is opening the door and inviting him in.
~By Billy Sunday ~
The day Tarzan opened in London, I sat in a hotel room and discussed the project in detail.
~By Phil Collins ~
Biology has progressed tremendously due to the model that Darwin put forth. But the black boxes Darwin accepted are now being opened, and our view of the world is again being shaken.
~By Michael Behe ~
I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.
~By Joe Mantegna ~
My career is an open book, but my life is not.
~By Barry Bonds ~
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
~By Clarence Thomas ~
When I'm asked who my audience is, I say someone with an open mind, which is not a vacant one and sometimes a liberal mind is not the same thing as an open one.
~By Todd Solondz ~
It is the rank and file - the average woman - for whom the world has opened up so astonishingly.
~By Mary A. Ward ~
I believe that if creative people are open and generous enough when working with each other, a lot more can be learned and achieved by both parties. That's what it's all about, trying to produce the best work possible on any given project.
~By William Kempe ~
One bug in an SMTP server can open up the whole machine for intrusion.
~By Wietse Venema ~
We have an open society. No one will come and take me away for saying what I am saying. But they don't have to, if they can control how many people hear it. And that's how they do it.
~By Jackson Browne ~
Girls Incorporated of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey continues to advance their cause and to strengthen their community by aspiring to open a Girl's Center for Philadelphia.
~By Robert Brady ~
Before a group can enter the open society, it must first close ranks.
~By Stokely Carmichael ~
I felt that the best I could do for my father, and the best I could do for myself, and my mother and my family was to stay open to the experience, and learn whatever I could at every step of the way as it was going on.
~By Patti Davis ~
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
~By Graham Greene ~
Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
~By Billie Jean King ~
It is still an open question, however, as to what extent exposure really injures a performer.
~By Harry Houdini ~
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.
~By Jiddu Krishnamurti ~
While a strong presence on our southern border is imperative, the border cannot be secured unless we enforce our internal laws and stop ignoring the open complicity of U.S. companies and foreign nations to promote illegal activities.
~By Elton Gallegly ~
The study of the human character opens at once a beautiful and a deformed picture of the soul.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
If ever I feel I might be able to tackle it, I'd love to try holding a spear or something in the theater, or opening a door, or anything, just to try it, you know, because it must be some marvelous magic thing.
~By Hayley Mills ~
Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open.
~By Gerry Adams ~
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