Open Quotes

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

It's kind of surprising that you could just open up a site and let people work.

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

I think the legacy of the civil rights movement is that now whites are more open to being represented by people of color or people who are women or, again, non-traditional candidates.

Our country is the most generous, open, tolerant, and democratic in the world.

I wish there was a bar I could send opposing teams to and get them hammered or something - I could tell my buddies in New York to leave their places open or something. Playing for the Yankees, guys come at you extremely hard. I have to be ready or I'll be embarrassed.

Intellectual property is an important legal and cultural issue. Society as a whole has complex issues to face here: private ownership vs. open source, and so on.

Kissing in films, it's just another thing you have to do. It kind of becomes as technical as how to open a door, really.

Don't tell a woman she's pretty; tell her there's no other woman like her, and all roads will open to you.

Open markets offer the only realistic hope of pulling billions of people in developing countries out of abject poverty, while sustaining prosperity in the industrialized world.

I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.

You know, I'm pretty much an open book.

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.

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

I'm still living the life where you get home and open the fridge and there's half a pot of yogurt and a half a can of flat Coca-Cola.

I'm open to getting more equipment, but I really won't have time to look into that until after the tour.

What is al Qaeda? It's an open source religious political movement that works off the global supply chain.

But it's very difficult, I can tell you I played the Czech Open a few times and it's very difficult just to go on to a scene where the course is prepared differently when the greens are fast and he's not used to it and they're hard as a rock and he's not used to it.

Freedom is the open window through which pours the sunlight of the human spirit and human dignity.

Trusting your individual uniqueness challenges you to lay yourself open.

Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

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.

Europe should stick to an open economy, to competition and we should refuse protectionism. It will not save one single job in the long run to protect non-competitive industries.

America is the land of the second chance - and when the gates of the prison open, the path ahead should lead to a better life.

This project would not only open up venues of cooperation in the oil and gas sector between the member countries but also help bring the people of regional countries together.

I'm particularly happy that the Ronald Reagan Building is both public and private, and embraces his lifelong belief... in free and open trade.

I beg you do not vote for stills and open bar-rooms in the county.

But by us doing a lot on the road, we were able to afford things like videos on the tours, cartoons that we'd open up the shows with. We were doing that way back when and now it's the hippest thing to do. We're just coming back around, I guess trying to play catch-up.

The magic of America is that we're a free and open society with a mixed population. Part of our security is our freedom.