John Locke Quotes

If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

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• I really hate to write.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Hate
  • Write
  • Really

• If somebody says they really like my playing I say thanks a lot.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Like
  • Say
  • Thanks

• A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that.

  

  Nancy Johnson
  • Down
  • Afraid
  • Walk

• I have three kids who like Harry Potter so I was sort of aware of it. You can't really move from it: it's on buses, in stores, it's everywhere. One of my kids has read the books; the other two are too small but they like the movies.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Kids
  • Small
  • Movies

• When human judgment and big data intersect there are some funny things that happen.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Funny
  • Human
  • Data

• No, we are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... He has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• Don't give up - our country needs you now more than ever. This is a pivotal moment in the history of our country: Our ideals are at stake, and we all have to fight for who we are. We are all, and should be treated as, equals, but the disparity in terms of income and inequality, for women and women of color, is significant.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • Up
  • Women
  • Country

• I'm always doing something. I never shut my brain off.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Brain

• Never say anything about yourself you do not want to come true.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • True
  • inspirational
  • Encouraging

• I use all kinds of resources for researching my novels. I'm not shy about calling up experts and asking questions, or emailing, or buying textbooks and references. The Internet is always a brilliant way to find instant facts, but it's not a great way to really understand your subjects in depth without a lot of work.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• No crust so tough as the grudged bread of dependence.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Tough
  • Bread
  • Dependence

• I think I did in the sense that there's a whole generation coming up behind us that was engaged, inspired, worked for change during the course of my presidency, saw what was possible. And that generation, it's coming.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Inspired

• With all their damned talk of modern painting, I've been forty years discovering that the queen of all colours is black!

  

  Auguste Renoir
  • Black
  • Painting
  • Queen

• In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• There was a time in my life when I was drinking too much, and so I have stopped. It's an interesting concept. 'Just don't drink.' Hmm! I never thought of that!

  

  Billy Joel
  • Life
  • Time
  • Interesting

• A meeting moves at the speed of the slowest mind in the room. (In other words, all but one participant will be bored, all but one mind underused.)

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Mind
  • Words
  • Bored

• We can embrace change by knowing we serve an unchanging God.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Christian
  • Religious

• I have no clue. I have ovaries; therefore, I repel all things mechanical.

  

  M. Leighton
  • All Things
  • Clue
  • Ovaries

• Young people have many pleasures and many sorrows, because they only have themselves to think of, so every wish and every notion assume importance; every pleasure is tasted to the full, but also every sorrow, and many who find that their wishes cannot be fulfilled, immediately put an end to their lives.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Wish
  • Pleasures
  • Sorrows

• The truly incredible thing is were realizing that you can perform a two-and-a-half-hour gig without being high and still have a fantastic time.

  

  Stevie Nicks Fleetwood Mac
  • Perform
  • Gig
  • Fantastic Time

• If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Wings
  • All Things
  • Disbelieve