John Locke Quotes

You must do nothing before him, which you would not have him imitate. If any thing escape you, which you would have pass as a fault in him, he will be sure to shelter himself under your example, and shelter himself so as that it will not be easy to come at him, to correct it in him the right way.

John Locke Nazareth

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• I'm not too good at lying still in the sun.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Good
  • Sun
  • Lying

• Many places in the Bronx seem hidden in shadows, just as the Bronx itself is in Manhattan's shadow. And dark stories develop best in dark shadows.

  

  S. J. Rozan
  • Best
  • Dark
  • Shadow

• If poetry should address itself to the same needs and aspirations, the same hopes and fears, to which the Bible addresses itself, it might rival it in distribution.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Poetry
  • Bible
  • Same

• It's hard to be in the shadow of a Beyonce.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Hard
  • Shadow
  • Beyonce

• The greater part of critics are parasites, who, if nothing had been written, would find nothing to write.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Find
  • Nothing
  • Critics

• You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Children
  • Family
  • Parent

• Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.

  

  Sally Field
  • Never
  • Hollywood
  • Ever

• I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.

  

  Adam Jones
  • Think
  • Band
  • Worst

• I have teenagers, so I listen to a lot of music. They turn me on to great music.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Great
  • Music
  • Listen

• My '50s were different than other people's '50s. The myth didn't permeate our world, 'Donna Reed' and all that. I longed for that, I wanted to be like other normal families on TV.

  

  Gary Ross
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I've always felt that I'm affected by the world, by the way we treat each other, by the way different countries treat each other.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • World
  • Different
  • Way

• Other kids would sneak out of the house to go to parties and do untoward things. I was sneaking out to do standup downtown. It paid off.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Kids
  • House
  • Go

• It's ludicrous to think people work for you: 'a film by...' doesn't exist. Directed by, maybe, but it's a film from a collective, a group of people whom you consult and seek your counsel and advice and vice versa, too.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Work
  • Advice

• You may think it's very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.

  

  Patrice Leconte
  • People
  • May
  • Hope

• You know, I'm really not that bright.

  

  Larry David
  • You
  • Know
  • Bright

• Let me close by reminding you of what Newton actually did on the day that he conceived

  

  Jacob Bronowski

• There is a saying 'justice delayed is justice denied'. Everyone knows of it, you do too. I have done three major things in Gujarat. I have increased court hours by 30 minutes every day; reduced court vacations by seven days; started evening courts with the same infrastructure.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Done
  • Justice

• There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there’s no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Real
  • Justice
  • Regret

• The human face is the organic seat of beauty.... It is the register of value in development, a record of Experience, whose legitimate office is to perfect the life, a legible language to those who will study it, of the majestic mistress, the soul.

  

  Eliza Farnham
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Soul

• You are adrift while you still think that a means is an end.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Think
  • End
  • Means

• Havenotness is caused by society's failure to design and produce the right tools and goods. Money alone is not the panacea.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Money
  • Society
  • Alone

• The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Life
  • Family
  • Growing

• The reason we should do a carbon tax is because it's the right thing to do. It's economics 101, elementary stuff.

  

  Elon Musk

• You must do nothing before him, which you would not have him imitate. If any thing escape you, which you would have pass as a fault in him, he will be sure to shelter himself under your example, and shelter himself so as that it will not be easy to come at him, to correct it in him the right way.

  

  John Locke Nazareth