In Asia, a lot of successful economies that had been living on their own saving, decided to open up their financial markets to international capital in the early 1990s. So here were countries doing quite well, but they decided they'd borrow a bit more and do even better.
Jeffrey Sachs

It is impossible to talk or to write without apparently throwing oneself helplessly open.
Herman Melville

A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Joseph Conrad

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.
Baltasar Gracian

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

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care.
Alain de Botton

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.
James M. Barrie

The only thing I can say about having this type of success is that you can get yourself in trouble because basically the world is set open for you. People will say yes to anything you ask, so it's basically down to you and what you want or need.
Bruce Springsteen

The successful pilots succeeded because they did not open fire until they were close to the target.
Douglas Bader

Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea.
John Updike

Some people approach every problem with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson

The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
Adlai E. Stevenson

A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth.
Adlai E. Stevenson

If I can get you to laugh with me, you like me better, which makes you more open to my ideas. And if I can persuade you to laugh at the particular point I make, by laughing at it you acknowledge its truth.
John Cleese

I'm very open to the up-and-comers.
Bob Newhart

As the fly bangs against the window attempting freedom while the door stands open, so we bang against death ignoring heaven.
Douglas Horton

The only medicine for suffering, crime, and all other woes of mankind, is wisdom. Teach a man to read and write, and you have put into his hands the great keys of the wisdom box. But it is quite another thing to open the box.
Thomas Huxley

The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana

For the happiest life, days should be rigorously planned, nights left open to chance.
Mignon McLaughlin

When the doors of opportunity swing open, we must make sure that we are not too drunk or too indifferent to walk through.
Jesse Jackson