Locked Quotes - Page 6

• Not only do we as individuals get locked into single-minded views, but we also reinforce these views for each other until the culture itself suffers the same mindlessness.

  Ellen Langer

  Learning, Knowledge, Views

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• I spent most of my life locked in my bedroom, miserable about my raging acne.

  Moon Unit Zappa

  Life, Acne, Miserable

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• I think people should have the legal right to hurt themselves without fearing that they're going to get locked up for doing so. But on a personal level, if someone I loved was hurting himself or herself in front of me, I would, of course, try to restrain them.

  Chester Brown

  Hurt, Thinking, Should Have

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• In my defence I can only say that her past, too, like mine, like everyone's in fact, was a locked box. Occasionally we allow people a peep, but generally only at the top level. The darker streams of our memories we negotiate alone.

  Julian Fellowes

  Memories, Past, People

  Julian Fellowes (2008). “Past imperfect”, Orion Pub Co

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• Don't get so locked in to your overwhelming schedule that you haphazardly spend your soul.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  Soul, Schedules, Overwhelming

  FaceBook post by Lysa TerKeurst from Jan 21, 2015

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• One can spend too much of one's life locked in stuffy rooms seeking out obscure truths, searching, researching, until one is too old to enjoy life.

  Jimmy Sangster

  Enjoy Life, Too Much, Rooms

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• Science, in all its greatness, is still subject to human creativity. It starts the first moment a child tries to reach up and grab at the clouds. Soon, the child learns that his own hands cannot reach the sky, but his hands are not the limit of his potential. For the human brain observes, considers, understands, and adapts. Locked within the mind is infinite possibility.

  Yukito Kishiro

  Children, Creativity, Greatness

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• I beg you, to have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Book, Heart, Trying

  "Letters to a Young Poet". Book by Rainer Maria Rilke. Letter Four (July 16, 1903), 1929.

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• The worst men have the best jobs
  the best men have the worst jobs or are
  unemployed or locked in
  madhouses.

  Charles Bukowski

  Jobs, Men, Best Job

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.373, Canongate Books

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• The most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

  Erica Jong

  Important, Study, Important Things

  Charlotte Templin, Erica Jong (2002). “Conversations with Erica Jong”, p.130, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• You experience that you are cut off by being in your mind, and there is a quality that is starving in an individual that is locked in their mind. So when you move to another plane of consciousness which is no longer controlled by your intellect, which is really the sub-system and you move into the meta-system, what you feel at that moment is... you are the universe, you feel merged with it, you feel thick with the moment, and that richness is so fulfilling.

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  Ram Dass

  Moving, Cutting, Mind

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• When Allah granted Prophet Yoosuf (`alayhis-Salaam) physical beauty it caused him to be locked up in the prison; but when Allah granted him knowledge (when he interpreted the dream of the king) it not only took him out of prison, but elevated his rank in society, clearly showing us the virtue of knowledge and that physical beauty does not mean anything.

  Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

  Dream, Kings, Mean

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• Man and woman are two locked caskets, of which each contains the key to the other.

  Isak Dinesen

  Men, Keys, Two

  Isak Dinesen (2001). “Winter's Tales”, p.334, Penguin UK

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• The idea is there locked inside. All you have to do is remove the excess stone.

  Michelangelo

  Ideas, Excess, Stones

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• There are those, however, that are not frightened of grief: dropping deep into the sorrow, they find therein a necessary elixir to the numbness. When they encounter one another, when they press their foreheads against the bark of a centuries-old tree...their eyes well with tears that fall easily to the ground. The soil needs this water. Grief is but a gate, and our tears a kind of key opening a place of wonder thats been locked away. Suddenly we notice a sustaining resonance between the drumming heart within our chest and the pulse rising from the ground

  David Abram

  Fall, Grief, Eye

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• Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.

  Alexandra Fuller

  Animal, Eight, Two

  Alexandra Fuller (2002). “Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood”, p.191, Random House

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• “I winked and locked my arm in Carter's, and we stood there, watching Dean stroll away. "You know the guy's never gonna give up," Carter nudged me, letting out a sigh. "We'd have really pretty babies, huh?" "Yup. They'd be rad little Brangelinas, running around tearing the place up." "Yeah, you're right. My rejection is such a disservice to the world..."

  Rachel Wade

  Running, Baby, Giving Up

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• The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

  Mignon McLaughlin

  Mean, Doors, Bars

  "The Complete Neurotic's Notebook". Book by Mignon McLaughlin, 1981.

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• Though both erotica and pornography refer to verbal or pictorial representations of sexual behavior, they are as different as a room with doors open and one with doors locked. The first might be a home, but the second could only be a prison.

  Gloria Steinem

  Home, Doors, Different

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.342, Open Road Media

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• ...America didn't have to fight scarcity and we all felt guilty before people who still had to struggle for bread and freedom in the old way ... We weren't starving, we weren't bugged by the police, locked up in madhouses for our ideas, arrested, deported, slave laborers sent to die in concentration camps. We were spared the holocausts and nights of terror. With our advantages we should be formulating the new basic questions for mankind. But instead we sleep. Just sleep and sleep, and eat and play and fuss and sleep again.

  Saul Bellow

  Struggle, Sleep, Fighting

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• A lovely face is the solace of wounded hearts and the key of locked-up gates.

  Saadi

  Heart, Keys, Lovely

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• In most films music is brought in at the end, after the picture is more or less locked, to amplify the emotions the filmmaker wants you to feel.

  Ken Burns

  Film Music, Amplify, Want

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• We've long felt that the only value of stock forecasters is to make fortune tellers look good. Even now, Charlie and I continue to believe that short-term market forecasts are poison and should be kept locked up in a safe place, away from children and also from grown-ups who behave in the market like children.

  Warren Buffett

  Children, Believe, Long

  Warren Buffett (2009). “Warren Buffett on Business: Principles from the Sage of Omaha”, p.165, John Wiley & Sons

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• What I find sometimes that is tricky is if actors are using too much of their own life in a picture, in a scene, they get locked into a particular way to play the scene, and it lacks an immediacy.

  Tom Cruise

  Play, Actors, Too Much

  Interview with Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. December 4, 2003.

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• There was a time in L.A. when I drove to 7-Eleven to go grocery shopping, and I locked my keys in my car, which wasn't insured. My wallet was in there, and I couldn't call AAA, because I only had $7 in my bank account. It was one of those moments where I was like, 'O.K., I literally have nothing right now.

  Whitney Cummings

  Keys, Shopping, Car

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