If my life depended on it - if my daughter's life depended on it - I'd want Mariano Rivera closing. Wouldn't you?
When hearing a door creak, the optimist thinks it's opening and the pessimist thinks it's closing.
We find ourselves ethically destitute just when, for the first time, we are faced with ultimacy, the irreversible closing down of the earth's functioning in its major life systems. Our ethical traditions know how to deal with suicide, homicide and even genocide, but these traditions collapse entirely when confronted with biocide, the killing of the life systems of the earth, and geocide, the devastation of the earth itself.
Protectiveness has often muffled the sound of doors closing against women.
The window is closing.
Closing my eyes doesn't help. Fire burns brighter in the darkness.
I remember to breathe throughout the day. I remind myself that I can choose peace, no matter what is going on around me. Whenever I desire, I can retreat to that quiet place within simply by closing my eyes.
Final thoughts are so, you know, final. Let's call them closing words.
When true friends meet in adverse hour; 'Tis like a sunbeam through a shower. A watery way an instant seen, The darkly closing clouds between.
When we close ourselves off, we're not just closing ourselves off to other people, we're closing ourselves off from ourselves and impeding ourselves. When you open up, you allow yourself to be who you are.
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
When I play that music live nowadays, there's a lot of things I feel I'd like to do - even things I don't think the audience is aware of, like layering subs underneath the kicks, and layering crisp hats underneath the muddy, trashy hats of the '90s. If I tried to play the music as it was next to my contemporary music, it just sounds like you're closing up half of the sonic spectrum.
I know that when a door closes, it can feel like all doors are closing. A rejection letter can feel like everyone will reject us. But a closed door leads to clarity. It's really an arrow. Because we cannot go through that door, we will go somewhere else. That somewhere else is your true life.
Witty closing remarks have been replaced by massive head trauma and severe hemorrhaging.
I am reaching a point in my life where the basketball chapter in my life is slowly closing from a competition standpoint.
Now it's closing timethe music's fading out.
I can't start writing until I have a closing line.
Running toward danger is foolhardy. . . . But so is closing your eyes to it. Many perils become less dangerous once you understand their potential hazards.
You're still going to see accidents, you always will. Especially towards the closing laps of a race.
No is always a door-closing word; Yes is a door-opening word.