John Locke Quotes

The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

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• Susan B. Anthony must be turning in her grave if she knew that millions of women who have the right to vote are not exercising it. Why? Because they haven't got the interest or the time, or they have just given up hope.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Up
  • Time
  • Women

• I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Book

• 'The Lion' all began with a picture of a faun carrying an umbrella and parcels in a snowy wood. This picture had been in my mind since I was about sixteen. Then one day, when I was about forty, I said to myself, 'Let's try to make a story about it.'

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Mind
  • Day
  • Myself

• If someone takes you out, and you're wearing sweatpants and a T-shirt, and they take you to a fancy place and you're unprepared, that's bad.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Bad
  • You
  • Place

• My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Up
  • Night
  • City

• Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Great
  • Friends
  • Slavery

• I was really, really star-struck when I met Prince.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Star
  • Really
  • Prince

• For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don't think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I'm with them.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Feeling
  • Person

• There is only one thing that a man really wants to do, all his life; and that is, to find his way to his God, his Morning Star, salute his fellow man, and enjoy the woman who has come the long way with him.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • God
  • Long

• Art comes from a visceral need and is usually generated by something I have seen; writing comes from something that happens in my head and my heart.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Writing
  • Heart
  • Art

• I am convinced that the modular structure of the Mir will be the main trend in manned orbital stations development in the next century.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Development
  • Stations
  • Mir

• There is only one thing people like that is good for them; a good night's sleep.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Good
  • Night

• In my view, the first requirement for success for an entrepreneur is to dream big. The second aspect that prevents entrepreneurs from succeeding is fear of failure.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Success
  • Dream
  • Fear

• In the spring of 1929, I returned to the United States. I was homesick for this country. I had learned in my student days a great deal about the new physics. I wanted to pursue this myself, to explain it, and to foster its cultivation.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Great
  • Country
  • Myself

• Humans are the big thing that cause damage in life - in war or whatever - and if I can get away from that and into a wilderness situation, I'm OK. You can more or less live on your own merit.

  

  Gary Paulsen
  • Life
  • Live
  • War

• If you are in trouble anywhere in the world, an airplane can fly over and drop flowers, but a helicopter can land and save your life.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Life
  • World
  • Funny

• I'll assure you this: I will have nothing to do with politics.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Politics
  • Assure

• The wisest among you is he whose sustenance is the fear of Allah.

  

  Umar
  • Fear
  • Inspiring
  • Sustenance

• It's quite hard to find a ballsy or complex character. So the roles I've taken are those. Lot's of people put me in the dark category.

  

  Eva Green
  • Character
  • Dark
  • Roles

• Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Psychology

• Men are so inclined to content themselves with what is commonest; the spirit and the senses so easily grow dead to the impressions of the beautiful and perfect, that every one should study, by all methods, to nourish in his mind the faculty of feeling these things. ...For this reason, one ought every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Beautiful
  • Song
  • Poem

• I've always seen myself for who I am, which is a lot of things. So, I guess that when I walk into a room, I bring all those things to a role, and I've always just simply seen myself as an actor.

  

  Viola Davis
  • Actors
  • Roles
  • Rooms

• The least and most imperceptible impressions received in our infancy have consequences very important and of long duration.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Consequences
  • Impressions
  • Infancy