Locked Quotes - Page 22

• I'm going to fight for human rights, whether I do it silently behind the scenes or vocally so that I get locked up. I can't just sit back; it's not in my nature. I can't sit back and blindly ignore it, and I won't.

  Elton John

  Fighting, Rights, Behind The Scenes

  "When Elton met Jake". Interview with Jake Shears, www.theguardian.com. November 12, 2006.

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• In a language known to us, we have substituted the opacity of the sounds with the transparence of the ideas. But a language we donot know is a closed place in which the one we love can deceive us, making us, locked outside and convulsed in our impotence, incapable of seeing or preventing anything.

  Marcel Proust

  Love, Ideas, Sound

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• Madness is locked beneath. It goes into tissues, is swallowed by the cells. The cells go mad. Cancer is their flag. Cancer is thegrowth of madness denied.

  Norman Mailer

  Cancer, Cells, Mad

  Norman Mailer (2013). “An American Dream: A Novel”, p.254, Random House

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• Many receive a criticism and think it is fine; think they got their money's worth; think well of the teacher for it, and then go on with their work just the same as before. That is the reason much of the wisdom of Plato is still locked up in the pages of Plato.

  Robert Henri

  Teacher, Plato, Thinking

  Robert Henri (2007). “The Art Spirit”, p.165, Basic Books

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• Love is dead; let lovers' eyes,
  Locked in endless dreams,
  The extremes of all extremes,
  Ope no more, for now Love dies.

  John Ford

  Dream, Grief, Eye

  John Ford (1995). “The lover's melancholy: The broken heart ; 'Tis pity she's a whore ; Perkin Warbeck”, Oxford University Press, USA

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• If you're going to spend a long time locked in somebody's basement, take a professor with you.

  Terry H. Anderson

  Teacher, Teaching, Long

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• We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.

  Mitchell Baker

  Mean, Decision, Cases

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Smart, Moving, Struggle

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• When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Depressing, Jobs, Hate

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• I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

  Steven Wright

  Keys, Car, Break Out

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• For a moment his eyes locked onto me with an intensity that left me breathless.

  Richelle Mead

  Eye, Moments, Intensity

  Richelle Mead (2012). “The Golden Lily: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.165, Penguin

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• I mean . . . who was it that said if the door is locked, find a window. If the windows locked, well . . . break it. If it won't break then find a freaking sledgehammer and make a new one.

  C.C. Hunter

  Mean, Doors, Window

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• Books fall open, you fall in, delighted where you've never been; hear voices not once heard before, reach world on world through door on door; find unexpected keys to things locked up beyond imaginings. What might you be, perhaps become, because one book is somewhere? Some wise delver into wisdom, wit, and wherewithal has written it. True books will venture, dare you out, whisper secrets, maybe shout across the gloom to you in need, who hanker for a book to read.

  David McCord

  Education, Wise, Book

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• The old system where every child was locked away and set into nonstop, daily cut throat competition with every other child for silly prizes called grades is broken beyond repair. If it could be fixed it could have been fixed by now. Good riddance.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Children, Silly, Learning

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• I suppose the most radical part of my teaching at present is that love is not a feeling. Everybody suffers from love, or the fear of it, or the lack of it. Why? Why is love so universally and inevitably heart-breaking, whether it be through the end of a love affair, the death of a loved one or being locked in with the habitual casualness or grim indifference of a partner? The answer is because we've been taught and conditioned by the world to believe that love is a feeling.

  Barry Long

  Life, Believe, Teaching

  "Love is not a feeling". "What is Enlightenment", Volume 4, Number 2, 1995.

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• Life is too short for us to keep important words, for example, 'I love you', locked in our hearts.

  Paulo Coelho

  Love You, Life Is Too Short, Heart

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Jun 17, 2014

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• My mom was [a hippie]. We weren't allowed sugar cereal. We weren't allowed processed foods - except Van de Kamp's fish sticks. We never locked the front door.

  Jessica Biel

  Mom, Mother, Hippie

  "Motherhood Quotes from the Pages of ELLE". www.elle.com. May 11, 2012.

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• We know, deep down inside, it's wrong! There's nothing you can say to ever make it right! Killing is killing, no matter how you slice it! And the ones doing all the killing should be locked up, and be forced to watch the world transform from, This evil place they've created, To the wonderful place we should be creating!

  Ronald Richter

  War, Creating, Evil

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• There is a brilliant child locked inside every student.

  Marva Collins

  Education, Children, Teaching

  Marva Collins, Civia Tamarkin (1984). “Marva Collins Way”, Tarcher

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• We're not locked in to these conditions that degrade the environment, and jeopardize the future of our children.

  Dennis Kucinich

  Children, Future, Environment

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• The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Lying, Ocean, Moving

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• Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed.

  Hal Borland

  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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• Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.

  Stephen King

  Skulls, Anxiety, Panic

  Stephen King (2007). “Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

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• I told my wife a man is like wine, he gets better with age. She locked me in the cellar.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny Relationship, Wine, Men

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• There is a falsehood that some are born with an attraction to their own kind, with nothing they can do about it. They are just 'that way' and can only yield to those desires. That is a malicious and destructive lie. While it is a convincing idea to some, it is of the devil. No one is locked into that kind of life. From our premoral life we were directed into a physical body. There is no mismatching of bodies and spirits. Boys are to become men-masculine, manly men-ultimately to become husbands and fathers. No one is predestined to a perverted use of these powers.

  Boyd K. Packer

  Husband, Lying, Father

  "To Young Men Only". Boyd K. Packer's Address at the Priesthood Session of General Conference, October 2, 1976.

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