Closing the barn door after the horse escapes
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It's like shutting the barn door after the horse escaped,
JOHN MORRISON Don't shut the barn door after the horse is stolen
PROVERB
Don't close the barn door after the horse runs away
AMERICAN PROVERB When you close the barn door after the horse has escaped, that horse is personally identifiable data...
ALMA GONZALEZ If something is wrong, it is like locking the barn door after the horse is stolen, ... But we are st...
CHARLES GRASSLEY
Don't lock the stable door after the horse has been stolen
AMERICAN PROVERB I should have known then it wasn´t nothing, as he called it. But I was eight months pregnant...
SUZANNE FINNAMORE It's no use locking the stable door after the horse has bolted
PROVERB
One beggar at the door is enough. French Proverb
FRENCH PROVERB It's a closing of a door to an event, but not closing of the door to working with the film festival.
JASON BRUECKS
Forget candle, she lives the afterlife like a barn door in the wind.
SOLON It wouldn't be unfair to say that not only is the horse out of the barn but Finance has no idea wher...
DON DRUMMOND
He was already beginning, as always happens at a respectable age, to take a firm stand for Raphael a...
NIKOLAI GOGOL Once the horse is out of the barn, it's hard to get him or her back in.
GARY LIBBY He went from the best horse in the barn to a retired horse. I never thought he'd return. I just had ...
BILL MOTT
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the ...
ANDY ROONEY
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the c...
ANDY ROONEY
The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort -- the opening, terror. Conversely, the...
ANDY ROONEY Welcome the closing of an old door, for it is then that a new door shall open.
SCOTTIE SOMERS One door is closing, but another is opening. Things aren't just going to go back to the way they wer...
ADAM AHLFELD The door wasn’t closing. Shiloh’s spirit opened up as she considered the possibilities.
STACY HAWKINS ADAMS It's a little bit like shutting the door after the horse has bolted. It [the new approach] sounds li...
PAUL KAVANAGH These doors are beautifully deceptive, replicating traditional, swinging barn door styles, but open ...
PATRICK O'SULLIVAN
Choosing not to read is like closing an open door to paradise
MARK TWAIN Derek pitched exceptionally well. And Nick did a tremendous job coming in and closing the door.
TROY SCHAEFER The horse ran around the fence and past the barn. When he didn't see me on the back of him he came r...
DAVE MARSHALL About f-f-ace!" she said to the horse, flailing with her boots. "Into the barn, please. It's time fo...
PETER LERANGIS This "Know Yourself" is a silly proverb in some ways; To know the man next door is a much more usef...
MENANDER ATHENS
While the cock with lively din
Scatters the rear of darkness thin,
And to the stack or the bar...
JOHN MILTON If you had a totally clean canvas, 44 cars and 22 owners would be the best thing. But the horse is a...
CAL III If you had a totally clean canvas, 44 cars and 22 owners would be the best thing. But the horse is a...
CAL WELLS III I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES The property is currently being used in a variety of ways, including commercial dog kennels, and aba...
CARY CLARKE
I won't be managing the Mets. I am closing the door on managing the Mets and probably everybody ...
JOE TORRE A door everyone agreed should never be closed was in fact closing inch by inch.
JENNIFER GREENBERG
My favourite thing is to do crossword puzzles. I do the 'New York Times' one every morning. ...
AMBER HEARD
The Lord's mercy often rides to the door of our heart upon the black horse of affliction.
CHARLES HADDON SPURGEON
The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.
SWEDISH PROVERB He was in a very good position, tracking. And when Robby called on him, he just exploded. To have a ...
JEFF TROSCLAIR
This mug of mine is as plain as a barn door. Why should people pay 35 cents to look at it?
SPENCER TRACY
Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL Sometimes we stare so long at a door that is closing that we see too late the one that is open.
ALEXANDER BELL Keep focused on the substantive issues. To make a decision means having to go through one door and c...
ABRAHAM ZALEZNIK Nobody can open the gates of death without closing them again after him.
SORIN CERIN
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is s...
CARL SANDBURG We're not closing the door to looking at the insurance-based model for one part or for several parts...
IRIS EVANS
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess what is seen du...
CARL SANDBURG Um, h-h-hi,” Sophie stammered, closing the door behind her. Meeting her gaze were crystal eyes lik...
JENNIFER LANE
Poetry is the opening and closing of a door, leaving those who look through to guess about what is s...
CARL SANDBURG The barn really smelled like a barn with all the hay.
DAKOTA FANNING Rather than say the virtual horse is out of the digital barn, we say there's an opportunity to talk ...
GRAHAM HENDERSON
The years rolled their brutal course down the hill of time. Still poor, my clothes still smelling of...
PAUL ENGLE And then what are your plans?”
Annwyl frowned. “My plans?”
“Yes. Your plans. You...
G.A. AIKEN Well, honey, I had the million dollar houses, I had the car, I had the horse, I had the barn; I had ...
TAYLOR DAYNE
We treat the $500,000 racehorse the same as the $500 horse that comes through the door. It's all the...
JENNIFER BROWN
That’s the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don’t want to let it go. It becomes ...
STEPHANIE PERKINS
If Cameron kidnaps you, kills you, then buries your lifeless body in a shallow grave in the desert w...
DARYNDA JONES
Then again, he supposed the healing process, in contrast to trauma, was gentle and slow... The soft ...
J.R. WARD Just look at Kevin -- he's a horse. He's a horse and he gets after it.
TOM ARLIS
Ah, mastery... what a profoundly satisfying feeling when one finally gets on top of a new set of ski...
GAIL SHEEHY What has been happening the last four years in City Hall is that they have been closing recreation c...
CARL STOKES
The horse that drawes after him his halter, is not altogether
escaped.
GEORGE HERBERT
The IOC will continue to worry until after the closing ceremony, just as we do at every Olympic Game...
JEAN CLAUDE KILLY
Some closing of the gates is inevitable after thirty, if the mind itself is to become a creative pow...
E. M. FORSTER
Do not let a flattering woman coax and wheedle you and deceive you; she is after your barn.
HESIOD
While the cock with lively din, Scatters the rear of darkness thin; And to the stack, or the barn do...
JOHN MILTON [1. Replace your garage door with one labeled] impact-resistant. ... after Charley, home after home ...
LESLIE CHAPMAN
Knock the door or ring the bell but don't ever push it! Be gentle!
MEHMET MURAT ILDAN aprés moi le déluge
LOUIS XV OF FRANCE
And," Amber said, practically drooling as she ogled him, "it's tradition for new arrivals to help wi...
DARYNDA JONES I am so excited for that barn to go away. It was time to raze the barn.
CINDY KNOPP
The proverb is something musty.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE The barn was our playground.
ANNE HALME Sunday at noon through hyaline thin air, Sees down the street, And in the camera of my eye depicts, ...
KARL SHAPIRO I never thought I could get another horse who would get me as excited to the level as Madcap. And th...
BRUCE LUNSFORD Love is the thing that enables a woman to sing while she mops up the floor after her husband has wal...
HOOSIER FARMER I think the guys were really excited after they found out. They've played well in the Barn. They wan...
DAN MONSON
Pain in the present is experienced as hurt,pain in the past is remembered as anger.
GAELIC PROVERB
Watching the abuse and worry he dealt with firsthand made me see how time and fear could shape a per...
KIERA CASS
Saint George, that swinged the dragon, and e'er since Sits on his horse back at mine hostess' door. ...
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS
A proverb is no proverb to you until life has illustrated it
JOHN KEATS When you talk about a barn door, it's already open when you start drawing borders this way. It's har...
MICHAEL WEINER
A proverb is not a proverb to you until life has illustrated it.
JOHN KEATS Universities think people come up with great ideas by closing the door. The academic tenure process,...
CLAYTON CHRISTENSEN
CORALINE DISCOVERED THE DOOR a little while after they moved into the house.
NEIL GAIMAN
Gratitude is the heart's memory. -French Proverb.
FRENCH PROVERB
A proverb is the child of experience.
ENGLISH PROVERB You are the only ambassador in the world to race a horse named after your country's foreign policy.
DAVID LANGE
The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between y...
ANNE MORROW LINDBERGH The punctuation of anniversaries is terrible, like the closing of doors, one after another between y...
ANNE LINDBERGH Why the heart does anything more than beat escapes me.
ARMAND SALMON
Hell has no fire escapes.
UNKNOWN The moon is brighter since the barn burned.
MATSUO BASHO This means we are still dealing with an active herpes outbreak, but all the animals in Barn 8 [the d...
GUY HOHENHAUS
He was composed, polite, and intelligent. All the things a prince should be.
KIERA CASS
And when he broke, it was a miracle he managed to find all the pieces of himself again.
KIERA CASS
The religious worry about life after death at the expense of life before death.
MOKOKOMA MOKHONOANA He's an amazing horse. No horse I've ever seen in any race stumbled like that. And I don't know any ...
JEREMY ROSE For two months after I couldn't even go in [the barn] and look at the tractor, ... But as I went thr...
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