Quotes about Closed

There is then no question of the possibility of interventions in the course of nature, in whatever degree or form. The physical universe is not a closed system. Miracles are possible simply because of that fact.

There are moments in an election battle, as in life, when all the possible pathways save one are suddenly closed; when what felt like a wide distribution of probable outcomes narrows to the inevitable.

Just as words lose their power when they are not born out of silence, so openness loses its meaning when there is no ability to be closed.

Happy as a clam, is what my mother says for happy. I am happy as a clam: hard-shelled, firmly closed.

For a few moments, imagine your life as a house. How many rooms have you invited Me to live in? How many rooms have closed doors? I want to dwell in all of you.

Her court was pure, her life serene; God gave her peace; her land reposed; A thousand claims to reverence closed.

Before God closed in on me, I was offered what now appears a moment of wholly free choice. But I feel my decision was not so important. I was the object rather than the subject in this affair.