When someone is being targeted by you and you put them in a box and do not let them talk out their minds and hearts, you are just being plain cruel to them. It is very easy to just put someone in a box and gave them an image of your own, without focusing on reality. And, when you put the box lid back down, and never look back, you are missing out on so much which is inside that person. You are missing out on what that person has to give you, it is selfish and insensitive. By being considerate, we can not only give each other second chances but also look on each other’s stories to clearly see each other. – Lid Quotes
Do you really want to be a source of unhappiness to someone? What is so interesting about Human beings is that we can learn so much from each other just by lifting up the lid that we so dearly maintain. Both the genders take it pretty seriously when you lift up the lid. Here, Top Lid Quotes will help you get that. Let’s look at the Top 100 Lid Quotes which we have collected just for you.
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Top Lid Quotes
1. If you don’t have humor, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. – Roger Moore
2. She opened the lid and was hit with a musty smell she could immediately put a name to: camp. It was an unforgettable combination of mildew, wood smoke and outdoors, an essence that resisted laundering and airing out. – Susan Wiggs
3. Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out. – Tom Robbins
4. I have to keep my stuff in a big plastic tub with a lid to prevent my cats from getting my yarn and having a party. –Susan Wilters
5. I’ll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me. Eddie Rickenbacker
6. I just feel like there’s a lid on the basket. Three games and no shots went in, but I just have to keep working. – Anthony Bennett.
7. They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It’s like nothing about me is allowed to change. – Becky Albertalli
8. Being the way I used to be didn’t really fit the family profile. – Spencer Matthews.
9. It’s a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love. – Lena Headey.
10. He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works. – Dashiell Hammett
Amazing Opening Up Lid Quotes
11. King Arthur was one of my heroes – I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle’s cane for the sword Excalibur. – Lloyd Alexander.
12. You can’t sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces. – Henry J. Kaiser
13. It’s no coincidence that ‘Night at the Museum’ completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone. – Shawn Levy.
14. I didn’t know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid. – Bill Cosby.
15. Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid.
16.Did you know Socrates said we love whatever we lack? Or think we lack? Socrates? If you feel stupid, you’ll fall for someone brainy. – J.R. Moehringer
17. As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. – Charles Dickens
18. The lid, however, wouldn’t shut. The mind held back the whole sky. –
19. Tight lid on it, whatever you do, and remember – L.M. Krier
20. Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event. – Felicity Jones.
Great Lid Quotes
21. When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me. – Leo Tolstoy
22. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn’t even be bothered to get out of bed. – Roland Orzabal
23. Budge and I were sworn enemies from day one. But ever since the day I lifted the lid on the craziness that killed his best friend last fall. – Jenny B. Jones
24. I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred. – Julian Barratt.
25. There is within every human being a deep well of thinking over which a heavy iron lid is kept clamped. – Sherwood Anderson.
26. Secrets are kept from children, a lid on top of the soup kettle, so they do not boil over with too much truth. – Amy Tan.
27. A good marriage can be broken down by poor communication, and by forgetting to putting the lid back down.
28. While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others’ rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-keep a lid on your potential. – Lauren Mackler
29. In the morning, we sliced all the vegetables and layered everything up in a pot with a glass of Riesling. Jean-Georges Vongerichten.
30. I have to challenge frequently is people assuming that lexicographers are fierce protectors of the language when in fact our job is not to put a lid on it. – Susie Dent.
Top Expressing Lid Quotes
31. A marked reluctance to use one word when twelve can be jammed in if you sit on the lid. – K.J. Parker
32. Will the roofs of new buildings be vegetated? If not, why not?” ―
33. A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid. – J.R. Tolkien
34. Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.”
35. Now the woman, she was another story. Her instinct was strong. All she had to do was lift the lid. It would dispose of her in a little while. – Beverley Lee
37. Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism’s coffin. – Lee Strobel
38. Never put a lid on God. You can give God a thimble and ask for a quart. It won’t work. Your plans, your projects, your dreams have to always be bigger than you, so God has room to operate. Mother Angelica
39. The two most important days in your life are the day you are born and the day you find out.
40. A nod, A bow, and a Tip of the lid to the person who could’ve and should’ve and did.
41. We developed our own type of Igudesman and Joo electric violin, let’s say, and funny enough, the shape of it was developed by the head technician of Steinway.
42. It’s actually an electric violin, which is made from the stick that holds up the piano lid.
43. Did you know that those Microwave units with the cute little flip-button on the lid. -Chris Ward
44. It’s a feeling without a lid, of what you would do, physically, verbally, to protect the one thing that is your greatest love. – Lid Quotes
45. I feel now as though I’ve been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars. – Lois Duncan
Lid Quotes and Sayings
46. In every human heart is a place where you put all your broken dreams.
47. When something doesn’t work out, no matter what it may be, you just have to give it up and stuff it in with your broken dreams. And make sure you keep the lid on tight. – Sayo Masuda
48. Careful!” warned Friar Lorenzo, trying to close the lid. “You know not what infection those lips carry! – Anne Fortier
49. I just feel like there’s a lid on the basket. Three games and no shots went in, but I just have to keep working.
50. She had always lived her best life in dreams.
Open Up Quotes
51. She knew no greater pleasure than that moment of passage into the other place, when her limbs grew warm and heavy and the sparkling darkness behind her lids became ordered and doors opened. – John Crowley
52. I am the living mind you fail to describe in your dead language the lost noun, the verb surviving only in the infinitive the letters of my name are written under the lids of the newborn child. — Adrienne Rich
53. Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara.
54. The cat, having sat upon a hot stove lid, will not sit upon a hot stove lid again. But he won’t sit upon a cold lid, either.
55. I lie flat, the damp air above me like a lid. – Margaret Atwood
56. Half-caf, double-tall, non fat, whole-milk foam, bone-dry, half-pump mocha, half sugar in the raw, double cup, no lid, capp – to go. – Linda Evangelista
57. I had this instrument that I built in high school. It was a huge, six-foot-long stringed instrument, and I started playing with that amplified and singing through power electronic stuff.
58. The consumer’s side of the coffin lid is never ostentatious. – Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
60. Sighing, she headed back to work. She braced herself to lift the heavy lid of yet another trunk.
61. Sometimes a single item can wrap up, in a nutshell, who a person is. In my grandparents’ home, a clear plastic container was enthroned on top of the mahogany bar for at least a decade.
62. She is standing on my lids And her hair is in my hair She has the colour of my eye She has the body of my hand In my shade she is engulfed As a stone against the sky. Paul Eluard
63. A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications – and by forgetting to put the lid back down. – Gene Simmons
64. Bright star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like nature’s patient, sleepless Eremite. – John Keats
65. Milena found Cilia outside, holding her bamboo box. Milena hugged her. ‘I’m sorry about your shins,’ she said. Milena lifted the lid of the box, and saw it, the precious paper, ruled in staves. – Geoff Ryman
66. No one is safe from Mattera’s hard-hitting, meticulously reported, and genuinely funny investigative journalism. CRAPITALISM blows the lid off crony capitalism. – Monica Crowley
67. Kepler’s blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.
68. It’s been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that’ll be released in December that’s gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. – Merle Haggard
69. The box did not contain what was written on the lid. – Joe Abercrombie
Inspirational Lid Quotes
Letting Go Lid Quotes
71. It’s fun to play characters with a past, but it’s also fun to play any role that is what I would call a ‘pressure cooker’ kind of character, where the lid is on, and it’s left to simmer throughout the movie.
72. Do you just stuff it in there, push it down, and snap the lid on it? Do you just work, every day, to keep the box shut? – Taylor Jenkins Reid
73. Any dutch oven will work fine – just make sure you can cover the pan with a secure lid to seal. – Chad Robertson
74. Everybody is, I suppose, either Classic or Gothic by nature.
75. Either you feel in your bones that buildings should be rectangular boxes with lids to them. —Dorothy L. Sayers
76. We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. – Mark Twain
77. We all have different brow bones, and different amounts of space between the eyebrow and the lashes; the space on the upper lid is bigger or smaller.
78.When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women.
79. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, “Do what you like now.” – Leo Tolstoy
80. As an organization changes your mindset as a leader also has to change. This becomes the lid to you organization. – Craig Groeschel
81. Oh, without prayer what are the church’s agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man’s arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man’s eye. – Charles Spurgeon
Motivational Lid Quotes
81. Oh, without prayer what are the church’s agencies, but the stretching out of a dead man’s arm, or the lifting up of the lid of a blind man’s eye. – Charles Spurgeon
82. The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary.
83. Things run along pretty smoothly until your kid reaches thirteen. That’s the time you need to stick ’em in a barrel, hammer the lid down nice and snug, and feed ’em through the knothole. – David Jeremiah
84. Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it’s not carbon. That is ridiculous. It’s an empty jar. – William McDonough
85. O sleep! O sleep! Do not forget me. Sometimes come and sweep, Now I have nothing left, thy healing hand Over the lids that crave thy visits bland. – Jean Ingelow
86. Wish and learn to smooth away the surly wrinkles, to raise your lids frankly, and change the fiends to confident, innocent angels, suspecting and doubting nothing. — Emily Bronte
87. He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works. — Dashiell Hammett
88. We did drive them [Iran] to the negotiating table.
89. And my successor, John Kerry, and President [Barack] Obama got a deal that put a lid on Iran’s nuclear program without firing a single shot. That’s diplomacy. — Hillary Clinton
90. The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out. — Linda Hamilton
Interesting Lid Quotes
91. If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.
92. When I flush the toilet in my bathroom, it becomes stopped up with Kleenex, and blood clouds the water and I put down the lid, because there’s nothing else for me to do. – Bret Easton Ellis
93. I am the blue-lidded daughter of Sunset; I am the naked brilliance of the voluptuous night-sky. – Aleister Crowley
94. If I ever become a mummy, I am going to have it so when somebody opens my lid, a boxing glove on a spring shoots out.
95. My love for my family has grown for years in decay-fed soil, unwashed root pulled suddenly from the ground. Anne Michaels
96. For those, like me, who can’t rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
97. He unscrewed the lid, set it on the dash, snorted from the bottle twice, banged the steering wheel, and said, ‘You got to be ready to die every day – then you got a chance.’ – Daniel Woodrel
98. At the other end of the room, Grandma had the lid up on Larry Lipinski. – Janet Evanovich
99. Opened-up a yogurt, underneath the lid it said, “Please try again, as a matter of fact.
100. How do you fight against a mountain? How do you move it when you don’t even have a shovel?” “Maybe you don’t have to move it,” Etta said, folding the gown over the lid of the trunk. – Alexandra Bracken
101. I didn’t know how serious it is to a female that you lift the lid. – Author: Bill Cosby
102. Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others, such as Kudra, seek to pry the lid off and hop out.- Tom Robbins
103. I have to keep my stuff in a big plastic tub with a lid to prevent my cats from getting my yarn and having a party. – Author: Susan Wilters
104. A box without hinges, key, or lid, yet golden treasure inside is hid.- J. R. R. Tolkien
105. The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out.- Linda Hamilton
106. They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It’s like nothing about me is allowed to change.- Becky Albertalli
107. Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.-Tom Turner
108. Careful!” warned Friar Lorenzo, trying to close the lid. “You know not what infection those lips carry!- Anne Fortier
109. The lid, however, wouldn’t shut. The mind held back the whole sky.- Denis Johnson
110. Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it’s not carbon. That is ridiculous. It’s an empty jar. – Author: William McDonough
111. My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe.- Chip Kidd
112. Do you ever get over loss? Or do you just find a box within yourself, big enough to hold it? Do you just stuff it in there, push it down, and snap the lid on it? Do you just work, every day, to keep the box shut?- Taylor Jenkins Reid
113. I kept a lid on my feelings at school but, when I was 18, dropped out of everything and couldn’t even be bothered to get out of bed.- Roland Orzabal
114. Fame is but an inscription on a grave, and glory the melancholy blazon on a coffin lid. – Author: Alexander Smith
115. A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications – and by forgetting to put the lid back down.- Gene Simmons
116. Day to day, I always wear eyeliner on my top lid and mascara. I like to do my own makeup, it depends on the event.- Felicity Jones
117. I looked at the empty suitcase. On the bottom was Karl Marx. On the lid was Brodsky. And between them, my lost, precious, only life. – Author: Sergei Dovlatov
118. Now the woman, she was another story. Her instinct was strong. She had sensed the darkness. But she was curious. Afraid. Soon she would return, because she had to. All she had to do was lift the lid. It would dispose of her in a little while. Once night had fallen. All it wanted was the child. – Author: Beverley Lee
119. The lows were absolutely horrible. It was like falling into a manhole and not being able to lift the lid and climb out. – Author: Linda Hamilton
120. It’s been said that Bill Gates has come up with something that’ll be released in December that’s gonna put a lid on counterfeiting. If that’s a fact then it’s really interesting to own your own product – with all the potential methods of downloading.- Merle Haggard
121. Any dutch oven will work fine – just make sure you can cover the pan with a secure lid to seal.- Chad Robertson
122. I just feel like there’s a lid on the basket. Three games and no shots went in, but I just have to keep working.- Anthony Bennett
123. He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works. – Author: Dashiell Hammett
124. I have to keep my stuff in a big plastic tub with a lid to prevent my cats from getting my yarn and having a party.- Susan Wilters
125. There was a lid for each pot, she’d told me often and soberly, and she thanked God she’d found her lid in my grandfather. – Author: Kate Morton
126. I’ve found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind.- Elle Lothlorien
127. They put me in a box, and every time I try to nudge the lid open, they slam it back down. It’s like nothing about me is allowed to change. – Author: Becky Albertalli
128. Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism’s coffin.- Lee Strobel
129. As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on.- Charles Dickens
130. Imagine walking into a grocery there is a jar sitting there with a lid on it saying it’s not carbon. That is ridiculous. It’s an empty jar.- William McDonough
131. Science itself is steadily nailing the lid on atheism’s coffin. – Author: Lee Strobel
132. I lie flat, the damp air above me like a lid. Like earth. I wish it would rain. Better still, a thunderstorm, black clouds, lightning, ear-splitting sound.- Margaret Atwood
133. I’ve found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind. – Author: Elle Lothlorien
134. Any dutch oven will work fine – just make sure you can cover the pan with a secure lid to seal. – Author: Chad Robertson
135. Careful!” warned Friar Lorenzo, trying to close the lid. “You know not what infection those lips carry! – Author: Anne Fortier
136. I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play. – Author: Artur Schnabel
137. Tight lid on it, whatever you do, and remember.- L.M. Krier
138. I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water – and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury. – Author: Richelle Mead
139. I feel now as though I’ve been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars. – Author: Lois Duncan
140. Will the roofs of new buildings be vegetated? If not, why not?-Tom Turner
141. Sitting in the study hall he opened the lid of his desk and changed the number pasted up inside from seventy-seven to seventy-six. But the Christmas vacation was very far away: but one time it would come because the earth moved round always.- Stephen Dedalus
142. Water will, increasingly, be detained, stored and then recycled or infiltrated in gardens.- Tom Turner
143. I feel now as though I’ve been sitting all my life inside a box, and suddenly someone is lifting the lid and I can look up and see the stars.- Lois Duncan
144. King Arthur was one of my heroes – I played with a trash can lid for a knightly shield and my uncle’s cane for the sword Excalibur.- Lloyd Alexander
145. You can’t sit on the lid of progress. If you do, you will be blown to pieces.- Henry J. Kaiser
146. My longing for someone to talk to made Himillsy the lightning bug in my honey jar. I punched holes in the lid so she could breathe. – Author: Chip Kidd
147. To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works.- Dashiell Hammett
148. I have trouble keeping a lid on the self-hatred.- Julian Barratt
149. It’s no coincidence that ‘Night at the Museum’ completely blew the lid off my career. I finally got a handle on tone.- Shawn Levy
150. While some rules are necessary and good for us, living a life based on others’ rules, needs, and expectations can stifle your self-expression and creativity, and keep a lid on your potential.- Lauren Mackler
151. If you don’t have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now. – Author: Roger Moore
152. Reached down through the closed wooden lid and struck a key. A minor key, I think.- J.R. Rain
153. In Egypt, there is a saying: When good fortune looks down upon us, it does so in threes, one for each part of the Eye of Horus. His upper lid, his lower lid and the eye itself. – Author: Michelle Moran
154. He felt like somebody had taken the lid off life and let him see the works.- Dashiell Hammett
155. A good marriage can be ruined by poor communications – and by forgetting to put the lid back down. – Author: Gene Simmons
156. If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills.- Rick Scott
157. I didn’t like England, I couldn’t take the look of the place or the style of friendship, I need more intimacy from people than is considered okay there, and I felt that my personality and my enthusiasms weren’t understood, I had to put a big lid on myself.- Jane Campion
158. The lid, however, wouldn’t shut. The mind held back the whole sky.- Denis Johnson
159. If you don’t have humour, then you may as well nail the coffin lid down now.- Roger Moore
160. I looked at the empty suitcase. On the bottom was Karl Marx. On the lid was Brodsky. And between them, my lost, precious, only life.- Sergei Dovlatov
161. As lonesome as a kitten in a wash-house copper with the lid on. – Author: Charles Dickens
162. I always make sure that the lid over the keyboard is open before I start to play.- Artur Schnabel
163. Kepler’s blown the lid off everything we know about extra-solar planets.- Debra Fischer
164. To swipe the immortal lines uttered by Sam Spade in The Maltese Falcon, a great mystery should take the lid off life and let [you] look at the works. – Author: Dashiell Hammett
165. I’ll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.- Eddie Rickenbacker
166. If poor people are spending their own money, it is amazing how fast they will figure out how to keep a lid on medical bills. – Author: Rick Scott
167. For those, like me, who can’t rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.- Yotam Ottolenghi
168. Will the roofs of new buildings be vegetated? If not, why not?- Tom Turner
169. It’s fun to play characters with a past, but it’s also fun to play any role that is what I would call a ‘pressure cooker’ kind of character, where the lid is on, and it’s left to simmer throughout the movie.- Stellan Skarsgard
170. When I have one foot in the grave, I will tell the whole truth about women. I shall tell it, jump into my coffin, pull the lid over me and say, “Do what you like now.- Leo Tolstoy
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