It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
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Few of our modern novelists dare to invent a single thing. It is an open secret that they don't know how to do it.
Oscar Wilde
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
Alexander Graham Bell
The less you open your heart to others, the more your heart suffers.
Deepak Chopra
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Why, then the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open.
William Shakespeare
By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!
William Shakespeare
To open his lips is crime in a plain citizen.
Quintus Ennius
When one door closes another door opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door, that we do not see the ones which open for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
Walt Disney
Blinding ignorance does mislead us. O! Wretched mortals, open your eyes!
Leonardo da Vinci
Differences of habit and language are nothing at all if our aims are identical and our hearts are open.
J. K. Rowling
We must open the doors of opportunity. But we must also equip our people to walk through those doors.
Lyndon B. Johnson
Politics is just like show business. You have a hell of an opening, coast for a while, and then have a hell of a close.
Ronald Reagan
'How can you see something that isn't there?' yawned the Humbug, who wasn't fully awake yet. 'Sometimes it's much simpler than seeing things that are,' he said. 'For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open, but if it isn't there, you can just as easily see it with your eyes closed.'
Norton Juster
Affirmative action is an effort to develop a systematic approach to open the doors of education, employment and business development opportunities to qualified individuals who happen to be members of groups that have experienced long-standing and per.
Bill Clinton
Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself.
Chinese Proverb
People are very open-minded about new things - as long as they're exactly like the old ones.
Charles F. Kettering
Don't open a shop unless you like to smile.
Chinese Proverb
God gives, but man must open his hand.
German Proverb
We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Jawaharlal Nehru
Where there is an open mind there will always be a frontier.
Charles F. Kettering
Open your arms to change, but don't let go of your values.
The Dalai Lama
He loves football so much and I believe if that window is left open at all for him to play, he will try to come back.
Robert Browning
The French cook; we open tins.
John Galsworthy
Women need not always keep their mouths shut and their wombs open.
Emma Goldman
The shelter will be open as long as they need it.
Jody Van Cooney
We are opening up an enormous new era in archaeology. Time capsules in the deep oceans.
John Lehman
I saw the hole and it was open, I had to take advantage of it. It was time for us to turn things around, and we took matters into our own hands.
Michael Robertson
We're prepared mentally, physically and emotionally. I felt like we lost a little bit of our sharpness coming off that open week. That's not an excuse, I just didn't feel like we had the focus that we had the game before against Johnson. I'm glad to have that behind us.
Bob Christmas
Basically I was hoping there was going to be some slamming and banging and some guys getting knocked down and I was just waiting for holes to open up.
Beau Brown
Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced. It is an open secret that the dangerous increase of crime in this counrty is closely related with this.
Albert Einstein
She was never more comfortable than when she was dribbling down a basketball court, looking for an opening.
Linda Howard
Change, when it comes, cracks everything open.
Dorothy Allison
This was definitely one of the few elements that was left open for Telstra to increase the price.
Paul Budde
We've been totally open about all this. We've really followed the rules here, and it's senseless why they should target us.
Beth Moore
I'm not sure what I'm going to do yet, my plans are open, but I do not want to retire.
Gene Wiseman
To be able to recruit a West Chester-based corporation and have them open a location in Phoenixville shows that Phoenixville is the place to be.
Manny Demutis
I just tried to be active on the boards and hit open shots.
Jordan Hasquet
He just needs to shoot the ball when he's open. When he's done that, he's fine. When he hesitates a little bit on it, he has a little bit of a problem.
Jerry Sloan
We see European markets opening the week flat. A lot of interest has surrounded silver, which has opened the week at record highs.
Harley Salt
It brings energy to the game, and it keeps everybody into it. We have a lot of guys who can get out and run and finish and make plays in the open court, and I think that's one of the strengths of our team.
Russell Robinson
It depends on the person. I'm open to meeting new people, so it is not an issue.
Sagarika Wijeratne
May your walls know joy; May every room hold laughter and every window open to great possibility.
Maryanne Radmacher Hershey
I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, "Hey, the sign says you're open 24 hours." He said, "Yes, but not in a row."
Stephen Wright
They simply forced open the door which gave way fairly easily. It almost became a playground for them.
David Holmes
If Northwest does not back off from the remaining open issues, then they can expect us to do what's necessary to defend our careers.
Wade Blaufuss
This is important to us because our units are open 24 hours. Customers see this as an added convenience because they can get food, fuel and other c-store items anytime of the day, all at the same place.
Buster Walker
(Morgan) helped me with my math homework. I also asked her some things about golf. She said she was missing the first month of school competing in tournaments. I congratulated her on the U.S. Open and she said the experience was amazing. She really wanted to win.
Danielle Jackson
What we really want to do is what we are really meant to do. When we do what we are meant to do, money comes to us, doors open for us, we feel useful, and the work we do feels like play to us.
Julia Cameron
We are open to continuing talks with the hospital industry and listening to what other amendments may entail.
Anne Murphy
It would have been nice to have finished higher, but we also had to be realistic once we saw the conditions on the opening morning.
Colin Mcrae
We want to assure everyone - our customers, suppliers, our people and our communities - that Dana is open for business as usual.
Michael Burns
Every day they get more wrinkles. When we first got them they didn't have very many so I wondered if they were mixed. But now, they have so many that it's hard for some of them to open they're eyes, and when they sit down they all drop to the floor.
Julie Quinn
It looked like we might finish third or fourth. Now I feel there's nobody in the conference that we can't beat. I think it's wide open.
Kevin Cory
If somebody says: 'Can I borrow your phone for half an hour and put an application on it?' you'd be suspicious, ... So why would somebody open an application from somebody they do not know?
David Wood
Our doubles teams played extra smart, hitting to the open court and attacking the net, just the way good doubles should be played.
Vince Hughes
Their defense was causing us to shoot from the outside. But we were getting open and knocking them down, so we kept shooting.
Bobby Miller
I call on everyone of goodwill both in Ireland and abroad to join now in ensuring that the beginning of peace becomes a reality, before this year is out. Let us together open a new era in our history.
Albert Reynolds
If you are a mayor of Munich, you are supposed to be good at it. It's very important. So he promised that this year he will open the barrel with only two taps, and he did.
Astrid Ganssen
We were out there. We were running routes. We were open. We're just waiting on the ball to come to us.
Jabar Gaffney
I've assured them that the campuses would be treated fairly, that they have an open, direct line to me, and that the needs of Edwardsville will not go unmet. All of this is going to require openness and inclusiveness.
Glenn Poshard
We are obviously encouraged that a market like this could be opening up for us.
Vaughn Gilbert
It's wide open for us. We need to take advantage of the opportunity.
Reggie Evans
The conditions there were unbelievably hard. It was a real eye-opening experience for our athletes, especially coming from here with our snow.
Aldo Radamus
The conference is so balanced and so wide open this year that it doesn't matter who we play; whether they're last place or first place, we gotta win them all.
Tim Sinicki
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Joseph Conrad
We think of it as an opening-day event.
Geoff Brown
I discovered when things were changing that one must always remain open to taking risks and chances in society.
Matthias Platzeck
Some people are very open, some people want to think about it, some people just say no.
Harry Hull
They switched a lot of screens, they bumped our cutters real well, we weren't getting any open looks. We need to handle pressure better.
Cheryl Buffo
We have doors too. They're open, and he's never come across. We have continuously asked our officials to visit us any time, any place. That has been totally ignored.
Benny Johnson
I'm getting a lot of wide-open shots, wide-open looks.
Flip Murray
The Republican Party always benefits when it has a frank and open exchange of ideas.
Tom Bunnell
We have to be open-minded and look at all kinds of possibilities.
David Des Marais
An open brain search.
Fred Sears
We did not expect to see so much volatility at the open, given the run-up in 3Com, in anticipation of the float.
Jonathan Ross
Is doing great. Let's face it, he's a young man. There is a lot of pressure. Opening night it was [San Antonio's] Bruce Bowen and Tim Duncan [defending him]. The next night, Houston had the long arms and is very athletic. He's playing great.
Jeff Bzdelik
During construction, we will always have it open to local traffic. It will still be a two-way road at the end of the day.
Stan Johnston
The engineering is done. ... Everything is just about in place. The university has to have that road open at all times - either the new road or the current road. But we've got to get that thing moved.
John Gandy
They are being built for a capacity of 900. They'll open in '06, but they won't have sixth graders until '07.
Rick Nielsen
I'm thrilled that people had as much fun seeing the movie as we did making it. I couldn't be happier about this very strong opening.
David Zucker
The beach is supposed to be open. That's why we're looking into it. It seems as though they may be in contradiction of the Supreme Court order.
R. Hamisi Ingram
They go to where the restaurant is open, and unfortunately that is in people's backyards.
Terry Palmisano
It was exciting. It's definitely exciting to have your debut at home. We've got great fans out there and it's also good to come out with a win on opening day.
Nick Markakis
May 1 is the day we will make decisions as to which sites will remain open.
Donna Rippley
Warner has to come to grips on its spending. They don't need all that to open a film when Wal-Mart is more important.
Richard Bilotti
Books open your mind, broaden your mind, and strengthen you as nothing else can.
William Feather
I really enjoyed playing for a cause so close to the hearts of Londoners. The atmosphere was electric -- and the London Open poker tournament has only begun!
Willie Garson
The construction phase might have a bigger impact than the actual mine opening.
Chet Gaede
I had fun out there. Had a great Open. First US Open, I don't think I can ask for more. Very happy.
Sania Mirza
We're planning on opening up two modular schools next year to use until the replacement schools can be built.
James Hoyle
Only actions will dispel critics who believe I have a political agenda, which I do not have. I want to define my tenure in as open a way as I can.
Patricia Harrison
We were getting open, and finding the open shot. We were getting good shots. We just weren't making them.
Brian Urig
I am open to receive with every breath I breathe.
Michael Sun
She will keep the military option open because, given the track record of the LTTE, ... she cannot afford to lower her guard.
Jehan Perera
We're opening up the day after Mother's Day.
Tom Driscoll
We will develop the opening and closing ceremonies early in the New Year and complete the rest of the 14 day program as well.
Mick Beddoes
It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.
Robert Herrick
If you get an open look in this league, you've got to knock down the shot and we were knocking them down tonight.
Morris Peterson
(Hayes) found that middle open, so she just shot the ball. If you're going to guard Teresa (one-on-one), you're going to let someone else go. They just let Ashley shoot, and if you leave her open, she going to hit those.
Jim Rimando
This is going to be a historic opening for SHSU. We want a packed house.
Chris Park
They had virtually an unlimited budget, an open check book. We're not going to have that.
Michael Coats
This is the first time we've done anything of this kind. We're opening up a dialogue really about how we can work together.
Doug Leland
It seemed like there was a lid on the basket. We got open looks, but it didn't drop. It's awfully hard to win a game when you can't make shots.
Dr. Louis Orr
Where would everybody have gone? It was a regional issue. They couldn't have gone anywhere because nothing was open.
Ramesh Mehta
You guys knew the base was open. I knew it, too.
Felipe Alou
There has been a partial impact but the banks are open and attendance at government offices is almost normal.
Salahuddin Haider
The floodplain was done before any of us knew what was going on. There was no warning and no open forums.
Sherri Johnson
Richland worked the ball well and shot the ball well, especially early. They were patient, and you can't afford to give them an open look.
Phil Willard
I think Mike is a really good person and he operated in what appeared to be an open fashion. But he was probably a little too honest with his feelings and emotions.
Stephen Backer
Grocery stores are open in all these areas. And I think people are losing sight of that.
Frances Marine
We always offer bidding and we are always open to union labor.
Jonathan Stein
We've put Luke on hold. There's a couple of small things we haven't reached agreement on, so we've left the door open.
Mark Cowan
You know, you lose you're out. So it's time to no matter what, no excuses, to put the ball in the hole. I kind of got that mentality and if I was open, I was going to put it in.
Heather Ezell
It happened so quickly I can't even express how fast it happened. Had my window been open, I would have burned the hair on my arms.
Norm Wigington
It doesn't tell you what sort of answers you need to find. It's open-ended.
Jonathan Wells
Fox is not going to tell you this, but it is an open secret on Madison Avenue that they are charging a premium of $50,000 to $100,000 a spot to be in the first six minutes.
Porter Bibb
What all of us heard (at Monday night's public hearing) is that the animal shelter is not open enough. I think we need to do a better job of organizing it so that it's more available to the public.
Tony Williams
These kids need a breakthrough. They are ready. We just need to help them get one. I think it will open the floodgates.
David Reeves
By nine o'clock every station was open.
Brigalia Bam
I decided blacks should not have to experience the difficulties I had faced, so I decided to open a flying school and teach other black women to fly.
Bessie Coleman
There is new money coming into [oil trading] in the number of open-interest contracts, but this is not necessarily a sign of speculation.
Jan Stuart
You have to use the secrets. Link Hall is open 24 hours, so if you need to go warm up or use the bathroom at like 4 in the morning, (you go there).
Harry Shafer
We fought a couple of times to keep it open. But now enrolment goes down and down.
Lorna Kelly
Jack is taking fewer shots because of the double-teams. He's doing a good job of finding the open man.
Curtis Eccles
Usually not often. It's too early to tell [how many will come open]. Certainly, the decision at Florida will gain some headlines, but in most instances, there's still a few games left.
Chuck Neinas
If you want to see what a game looks like before you buy it, we'll open it up.
Tom Kaeter
I will say, incidentally, he was wide open and might have scored. There wasn't anybody around him. They all ran off with (receiver) Brandon (Johnson).
Monty Lewis
Open your books, show us how much you make, and allow us to then see if we can give you logo rights for $1 a year, or something like that.
John Elkington
This is the first time that Hong Kong films have been selected to close and open one of the major film festivals in Europe.
Henry Tang
The wrong way is to open a Linux company that acts as a wall between the developer and the user.
Larry Augustin
The husband who wants a happy marriage should learn to keep his mouth shut and his checkbook open.
Groucho Marx
Believe in yourself, not only in swimming, but in life itself. You always have to have fun. You have to have an open mind. If you're not enjoying it, don't do it. Life's too short.
Debbie Meyer
That's just a crazy idea, for a ski area to wait that long to have a grand opening, and we kind of get a kick out of it.
Doug Donovan
Often clients are under the misconception that museums are going to welcome it with open arms.
Douglas Moore
It's not very easy paying 55 grand a year for liability and try to keep our office open.
Dr. Juris Macs
We think in one sense (China trade policy) has consisted of the indiscriminate opening of U.S. markets but has done little to open foreign markets to U.S. goods.
Alan Tonelson
People can expect poisonous mushrooms, ... And then only if they open the book.
Daniel Handler
My fundamental belief there is that we need to be careful as we do our business to ensure that we respect the principles of democracy, which include being open and honest with the press.
Genpeter Pace
When you follow your bliss... doors will open where you would not have thought there would be doors; and where there wouldn't be a door for anyone else.
Joseph Campbell
Marc, you know, he's a wild man. But he's a very, very intelligent wild man. He really got how the open source game worked and how to make money out of it.
David Skok
I hope that's what we see Opening Day. What I saw I liked. He had good life on his fastball. His breaking ball was sharp. I think the time off might have helped him because his stuff was electric.
Sal Fasano
I don't shoot unless it's open. My teammates found me for some open looks and I was fortunate enough to knock them down.
Jack Scalcucci
He is opening the debate on entitlements. I think he wants to break the taboo on Medicare.
Phillip Swagel
They asked me why we were open, I said it was pressure from the public.
Keith Allen
We are not committed to building one. But we want to keep the nuclear option open.
Richard Zuercher
We don't have open and honest discussions about the sexuality in our communities, and what we get out of that is people being unable to claim the truth of their lives.
Phil Wilson
Responses to direct marketing are dropping in general. More and more people just throw mail away - especially unmarked mail - without opening it.
Jason Catlett
If they get open and they just throw up a hand, she can stick it to them.
Marsha Sharp
Now, you can put incense in a bottle and open a door and call it a spa. But back then La Costa had no competition. It had a mystique.
Mike Crosthwaite
I don't think he would have opened it to just anybody who happened to be there. I think he would have at least thought he recognized somebody to open the door to them.
Stephen Carroll
But we should go about opening our capital markets in a sound and cautious way, to protect our own industries and the stability of China's economic growth.
Shang Fulin
Their defense was very open; I was surprised.
Bob Clague
They frustrated us from the opening. They came here to defend. On this smaller field, it was crowded out there.
John Gillies
The holes weren't as open as they were last year. Last year, there were gaping holes in there.
Bob Sanders
Once you touch the trappings of monarchy, like opening an Egyptian tomb, the inside is liable to crumble.
Anthony Sampson
You've got to see where the jobs land and where jobs open.
Damon Archibald
We didn't have a lot of open looks. Marshall was the more active and aggressive team.
Kirk Speraw
It's very open, with windows on both sides so it is more comfortable and less claustrophobic for the patient.
Laura Stark
It'll be open to all students and she'll really share her expertise as a journalist.
Prof. Susan Lanser
I would take Blake shooting a wide-open 3, I would put me back on the line again. I'd do everything the same way.
Deke Thompson
A lot of guys were open today and I just made a lot of extra passes when I could have shot, but I found a teammate who had a better shot.
Patrick Sparks
You have to ask yourself if it's really smart to leave a 160,000-square-foot facility open at all times to anyone.
Scott Hudson
Thank goodness they acted so quickly to take care of the students, and they have the open communications. So thank goodness for that, it's just scary.
Melinda Chavez
The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.
Sir Philip Sidney
Shooting in a place like this can be really disturbing, and all of us deal with it differently, ... I prefer to make it a point of leaving the doors open I pass through at Joliet. Don't ask me why, but it seems to help.
Muse Watson
Everybody seems to have their arms wide open to me, so that's been great.
Carrie Underwood
We've had more terrain open than we've had all season long.
Bonnie Macpherson
He understands that the process is delicate one with equal chances of falling flat and moving forward. So he is keeping his options open to wash his hands off, if the need arises.
Aziz Ahmad
The public comment period is open until May 11. It doesn't just stop with these (hearings). We hope to have a final decision in about a year.
Cathy Cook
Anyone who's interested can go there. It's open to everyone, for as long as they meet the requirements. All they need to bring are their rubber shoes!
Ryan Cayabyab
We desperately need the space. It will be open to everyone. Facilities like the Kroc Center aren't publicly owned and they're fee-based.
Ruth Pratt
If you have a 7 a.m. tailgate opening and a 7 p.m. kickoff, you can invite some issues.
Terry Denbow
James Blake's playing tennis for the right reasons. He's playing to have fun and to find out about himself, not to win the U.S. Open.
Mats Wilander
Declare free and open public elections within 60 days.
Nabil Sha'ath
It's conducive to open conversations.
Joe Hurwitz
Most musicians I know cannot open up.
John Fahey
This guy, he doesn't get mentioned with the names of the great ones. He gets lost in the shuffle. But you talk to the corners, the corners always mention him because he's so hard to cover. He's not flashy; he gets open and catches the ball. He does his job very, very well.
David Shaw
I learn how to read defenses better. As a receiver I learn how to get open and run better routes because I have a better idea of what I'm looking at.
Chris Walker
I saw the opening, took advantage of it and had no problem making that choice.
Brian Beckwith
It just keeps it's doors open. It used to be open 24 hours a day. I love some of the stories about when people came 50 years ago, or they came when they were a kid and now they are in their 60s. There is a lot of history here.
Colleen Stogsdill
[One top AOL rival praised the open-access pledge.] Let's make it real -- and have it apply to everybody, ... Digital Jam .
Charles Brewer
In the open court he was phenomenal. Not only could he shoot this year, he could take it to the basket.
Chris Tibbits
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