John Locke Quotes

Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

John Locke Nazareth

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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Process
  • Negative

• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Women
  • Grow

• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Computer

• Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Work
  • Father
  • Brother

• E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Conversation
  • Now
  • Phone

• Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Success
  • Night

• If you know how much you've got, you probably haven't got much.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • You
  • Know
  • Got

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• I'm one of the idiots that negotiates after I write.

  

  Larry David
  • Write
  • Idiots
  • I Write

• Look, I might have lived in England for the last several years but I'm still an American citizen and I have not given up my right to privacy.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Up
  • American
  • Looks

• I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Never
  • Felt
  • Worse

• We're going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.

  

  Bryan Adams
  • Money
  • Help
  • Schools

• This is the first step in determining whether and how Congress can provide a solution.

  

  Ed Whitfield
  • Congress
  • Solution
  • First Step

• If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.

  

  Finley Peter Dunne
  • Money
  • Man
  • Wife

• I think if your goal is for everything to be okay, that's a mistake. To achieve that goal, the only obstacle you'd have to face tomorrow is to eliminate all risk ... I've made the decision that I'm never trying to make everything okay. I'm trying for there to be more loose ends, not fewer loose ends.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Decision

• My thing is about following the accidental, more than trying to paint an accurate bowl of apples. I enjoy most following the paint. It leads me somewhere else. I think I enjoy just letting the magic unfold and letting the spirit of the paint tell me where we're going.

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Spirit

• The spirit of non-violence necessarily leads to humility. Non-violence means reliance on God, the rock of ages. If we would seek his aid, we must approach Him with a humble and contrite heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Spirit

• We are justified, not by giving anything to God,--what we do,--but by receiving from God, what Christ hath done for us.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Done
  • Giving
  • Christ

• Whosoever will list himself under the banner of Christ, must, in the first place and above all things, make war upon his own lusts and vices. It is in vain for any man to usurp the name of Christian, without holiness of life, purity of manners, benignity and meekness of spirit.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Spirit
  • Christ
  • Vain