John Locke Quotes

You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

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• For a deeper interest in the Moon than I ever felt before.

  

  Warren De la Rue
  • Moon
  • Interest
  • Deeper

• But I'm the sort of person who, if certain structures topple, it could all go horribly wrong.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Person
  • Wrong
  • Go

• I just do what's comfortable for me, whether it's getting fresh haircuts, or the clothes that I wear. It's simple; I'm just me. I don't really go out of my way. I do make sure my face is washed and moisturized, though.

  

  Lance Gross
  • Me
  • Simple
  • Clothes

• I don't feel I fit in with morning television because I'm like a vampire and I like to stay up late.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Up
  • Morning
  • Television

• You can't make a rule about it. The minute you make a rule, it's like putting your wedding pictures in 'In Style' magazine - you're divorced.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Style
  • Wedding
  • Pictures

• I've wanted to be a writer since I was a boy, though it seemed an unlikely outcome since I showed no real talent. But I persevered and eventually found my own row to hoe. Ignorance of other writers' work keeps me from discouragement and I am less well-read than the average bus driver.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Work
  • Real
  • Boy

• One mind can think only of its own questions; it rarely surprises itself.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Questions

• Fortunately, I have been very healthy all my life and very active all my life and have enjoyed an active lifestyle.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Healthy

• BoomTown has long been a big fan of Martha Stewart.

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Long
  • Fan
  • Big

• An administration without a police executive is powerless and there were many proofs of this.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Police
  • Without
  • Executive

• I almost chopped my thumb off once. Just before I left home, I was about ten or eleven years old, and I was trying to open a bone. Can you imagine that? A bone! I was trying to get the marrow out of a bone, and I took the ax, and I went to chop it, and something slipped, and the ax went right down there and damn near cut it off.

  

  B. B. King
  • Trying
  • Home
  • Down

• I've always had this passion to be creative, and wanted to sing or be in bands and make music, but I didn't have ideas as to what format it'd be, or how I'd do it. I'm not very good with plans. I didn't think it would be me at the front, either. In fact, I'd go as far as saying that was something I'd prevent.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • Good
  • Music
  • Passion

• I learned a lot when I was 14 and 15 years old doing chores inside and outside the household, and as a result, I grew up with a good work ethic.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• My life is short. I can't listen to banality.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Life
  • Short
  • Life Is Short

• At the age of eight I became, in my own eyes at least, a writer.

  

  Zilpha Keatley Snyder
  • Age
  • Eyes
  • Own

• Someone once told me that if you respect a person, listen to their opinion. And if you do not respect someone, then do not listen to their opinion. And that works both ways.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Respect
  • Opinion
  • Person

• I don't feel any need to play the role of the clown. In my private life I take a break from humor.

  

  Gad Elmaleh
  • Life
  • Feel
  • Humor

• As for me, I consider myself as a speck of the dust of the devotee's feet.

  

  Ramakrishna

• If I could dwellWhere IsrafelHath dwelt, and he where I,He might not sing so wildly wellA mortal melody,While a bolder note than this might swellFrom my lyre within the sky.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Sky

• That's always a fun thing to play, a relationship where there's equals. I often play roles that are repressive, or women who are slightly repressed or having some kind of internal conflict.

  

  Laila Robins
  • Women
  • Fun
  • Relationship

• Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Truth
  • Human Spirit
  • Ghost Stories

• And every winter change to spring.She sleeps: her breathings are not heard In palace chambers far apart. The fragrant tresses are not stirr'd That lie upon her charmed heart She sleeps: on either hand upswells The gold-fringed pillow lightly prest: She sleeps, nor dreams, but ever dwells A perfect form in perfect rest.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Heart
  • Change
  • Rest

• You shall find, that there cannot be a greater spur to the attaining what you would have the eldest learn, and know himself, than to set him upon teaching it his younger brothers and sisters.

  

  John Locke Nazareth