Top 494 Open Quotes

I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.
Arthur Hays Sulzberger
No party or event is without a reason. This is how we foster new relationships, open doors, and launch new ideas that create business opportunities, investments, and jobs in the U.S. and Spain.
James Costos
Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.
Clive Bell
Russia! Russia… Everything in you is open, desolate and level; your squat towns barely protrude in the midst of the plains like dots, like counters; there is nothing to tempt or enchant the onlooker’s gaze. But what is this inscrutable, mysterious force that draws me to you?
Nikolai Gogol
Before doing my first open mic, I was sitting in the back watching all these comedians banter back and forth and fire jokes and up each other, and I thought, ‘This is where I wanna be.’
Patton Oswalt
I have very tidy cupboards. I do like a cupboard to look nice when you open it, with the labels facing forward.
Louise Wilson
If I’m feeling nostalgic, the first thing I do is open a packet of spaghetti, olive oil in a pan, garlic, a little bit of chili, a sprinkle of fresh parsley, and that’s it. It reminds me of my mum.
Gino D’Acampo
What could become a danger to world peace is Iran’s nuclear program and the country’s open threat to annihilate Israel.
Sigmar Gabriel
I am very open to learning. I am like a sponge: I’d like to soak up in new things, new skills.
Catriona Gray
I think we all suffer from acute blindness at times. Life is a constant journey of trying to open your eyes. I’m just beginning my journey, and my eyes aren’t fully open yet.
Olivia Thirlby
There is no conflict between favouring Islamic and traditional values and being more open and international.
Hassanal Bolkiah
Please keep an open mind and let me have my day in court.
Michael Jackson
Samsung’s future hinges on new businesses, new products and new technologies. We should make our corporate culture more open, flexible and innovative.
Lee Kun-hee
Some people love being onstage and really open up, and

Some people love being onstage and really open up, and I’m sort of the opposite of that. I don’t crave the spotlight. I’m still not comfortable even talking onstage.
Dan Auerbach
A celebrated and hugely popular actress in her native Iran, Ahangarani first landed on the radar of the Iranian authorities for her open support of opposition figure Mir-Hossein Mousavi, which led to her arrest in July 2009 in the aftermath of a disputed presidential election in Iran.
Nazanin Boniadi
When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
Magic Johnson
If you play well, you can open doors.
Xander Schauffele
Instead of squirreling away your earnings early in your career, spend on experiences that will enrich your life – like diving with great white sharks. It can expose you to influential people who could open doors for you.
Blake Mycoskie
I want to go to culinary school because I love cooking. One day I’d love to open up a restaurant or cafe.
Mary-Kate Olsen
To us also, through every star, through every blade of grass, is not God made visible if we will open our minds and our eyes.
Thomas Carlyle
If we think that this life is all there is to life, then there is no interpretation of our problems, our pain, not even of our privileges. But everything changes when we open up to the possibility that God’s story is really our story too.
Max Lucado
A little before noon I sent orders to all my batteries to open fire through the streets or at any points where the troops were seen about the city, as a diversion in favor of Jackson.
James Longstreet
But we’re born as children and we look at the world with open eyes… And we don’t judge and we don’t betray. We’re not jealous. We’re not envious. We’re not even weary, which is a danger also as kids. They have to learn a certain amount of awareness.
Colin Farrell
In these times you have to be an optimist to open your eyes when you awake in the morning.
Carl Sandburg
I think reading and travelling not only make us good artistes but also broaden our horizons and open our mind. It really helps us to become a good human being.
Pankaj Tripathi
If we vote to Leave and take back control, all sorts of opportunities open up. Including doing new free trade deals around the world, restoring Britain’s seat on all sorts of international bodies, restoring health to our democracy and belief to our democracy.
Boris Johnson
Something that is very special today might not be special tomorrow, but to hold it, to grasp it, to keep it, to make it special, to elevate it from the ordinary, that’s when you open up the champagne. To make it sparkle.
Christoph Waltz
Many of us who have experienced psychedelics feel very much that they are sacred tools. They open spiritual awareness.
Stanislav Grof
It would be nice to design a real briefcase – you open it up and it’s your computer but it also stores your books.
Steve Wozniak
The French cook; we open tins.
John Galsworthy
Painting and photography keep the creative channel open, and for an actor, it’s to keep alive, it’s to keep awake, it’s to keep watching, it’s to keep feeling, it’s to keep enjoying, to keep that sensuality of feeling alive.
Charlotte Rampling
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Gunter Grass
I want to open businesses, invest in different things, and put more time into modeling and acting.
Lil Mosey
The idea that Donald Trump committed an abuse of power by bringing politics into a foreign relationship is a joke. They all do it. Trump is just more open about it.
Steve Hilton
Jesus Christ belonged to the true race of prophets. He saw with open eye the mystery of the soul. Drawn by its severe harmony, ravished with its beauty, he lived in it and had his being there. Alone in all history, he estimated the greatness of man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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.
George W. Bush
All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
T. E. Lawrence
I feel like I’m on top of the world. Honestly, I feel like I’ve climbed a very giant mountain, and I’m just standing right on top with my arms wide open and breathing rarified air.
Shania Twain
Wishing to open my mouth, O brethren, and speak on the exalted theme of humility, I am filled with fear, even as a man who understands that he is about to discourse concerning God with the art of his own words. For humility is the raiment of the Godhead.
Isaac of Nineveh
One difference between film noir and more straightforward crime pictures is that noir is more open to human flaws and likes to embed them in twisty plot lines.
Roger Ebert
Put two ships in the open sea, without wind or tide, and, at last, they will come together. Throw two planets into space, and they will fall one on the other. Place two enemies in the midst of a crowd, and they will inevitably meet; it is a fatality, a question of time; that is all.
Jules Verne
Aging gracefully means being flexible, being open, allowing change, enjoying change and loving yourself.
Wendy Whelan
I take time to open up with people. But once I know you, I’m fine. I’m a shy person.
Sushant Singh Rajput
Democracy must be built through open societies that share information. When there is information, there is enlightenment. When there is debate, there are solutions. When there is no sharing of power, no rule of law, no accountability, there is abuse, corruption, subjugation and indignation.
Atifete Jahjaga
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I’m not the strongest, I’m not the fastest, I can’t jump the highest, so for me, it’s doing it in other ways: changing paces, using your body to get open, knowing your defender. A lot goes into it. You have to study the game.
Devin Booker
When one person says, ‘Yeah, me, too,’ it gives permission for others to open up.
Tarana Burke
The circle of the return to birth can only remain open, but this is a chance, a sign of life, and a wound.
Jacques Derrida
Every day I go to my study and sit at my desk and put the computer on. At that moment, I have to open the door. It’s a big, heavy door. You have to go into the Other Room. Metaphorically, of course. And you have to come back to this side of the room. And you have to shut the door.
Haruki Murakami
When friendship disappears then there is a space left open to that awful loneliness of the outside world which is like the cold space between the planets. It is an air in which men perish utterly.
Hilaire Belloc
We call the fates of the Titanic and the Concordia – as well as those of the space shuttles Challenger and Columbia – ‘accidents.’ Foreseeing such undesirable events is what engineers are expected to do. However, design trade-offs leave technological systems open to failings once predicted, but later forgotten.
Henry Petroski
When I love somebody, I cannot drop it out of my life. Love is not something like you open and you close, you know?
Agnes Varda
He can’t decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.
Murray Walker
If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
Nathaniel Parker Willis
South Africa is blessed to have women and men like yourselves who have little to give but give what you have with open hands and open hearts.
Mangosuthu Buthelezi
As Trade Secretary I see the world is waiting. The Australians, the Americans, the Kiwis, the Japanese – they all want us to get Brexit done so that we can begin negotiations and forge new relationships that will open up new markets for British businesses, create jobs and attract new investment.
Liz Truss
I am conscious of that when I make these games: I try to make a game that has beautiful open spaces, gaps, room for players to enjoy it in ways that were not authored. I never want it to be where you have to follow the rules completely, where you have to do things exactly as the designers intended.
Hidetaka Miyazaki