I am the L thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 81:10.

Behold,I have set before thee an open door, and no man can shut it: for thou hast a little strength, and hast kept my word, and hast not denied my name.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 3:8.

Never lay yourselfopentowhat iscalled conviction: you might as well open your waist-coat to receive a knock- down blow.

-Hunt, (James Henry) Leigh
  'Rules for the Conduct of Newspaper Editors', in The Examiner, 6 Mar.

Close the playand keep the store open nights.

-Kaufman, George S(imon)
Reply when asked by one of his backers, the owner of Bloomingdale's department store, how the premi e' re of Kaufman's latest play had gone.  Attributed.

Theoretical webs, dirty webs, fusty webs, old and shrivelling away into nothingness, a fine dust.Who needs that kind of stuff. Far far better getting out into the open air and doing it, actually doing it, something solid and concrete and unconceptualisable.

-Kelman,James
English churchman, the father of theTractarian movement. He was also influential in the Oxford Movement afterJ H Newman's secession to Rome. 1989  A Disaffection.

   We are a democracy, and there is only one way to get a democracy on its feet in the matter of its individual, its social, its municipal, its State, its National conduct, and that is by keeping the public informed about what is going on.There isnot a crime, there isnot a dodge, there is not a trick, there is not a swindle, there is not a vice which does not live by secrecy.Get these things out in the open, describe them, attack them, ridicule them in the press, and sooner or later public opinion will sweep them away.

-Pulitzer,Joseph
c.1910  Quoted in Alleyne Ireland An Adventure with a Genius, ch.4.

What is the difference between burning and gassing people in ovens and doing it to a whole nation out in the open?

-Sihanouk, Prince Norodom
  Of the US bombing of Cambodia. MyWar with the CIA (with W Burchett).