John Locke Quotes

Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.

John Locke Nazareth

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• I am confined to the Lego palate. I don't paint the bricks. I stick with what Lego has made. And the idea behind that is I do want to hopefully inspire kids to go home and create on their own. And if I do, I want them to be able to buy those very same bricks I use. So I don't alter the bricks; I just use what's provided.

  

  Nathan Sawaya
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Inspire

• On some level, I think we want our reading self to represent our best self.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Reading
  • Best
  • Self

• The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Want
  • Question
  • Show

• I respect the Indian government for the fact that there are no settlements in Kashmir.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Respect
  • Government
  • Fact

• You're never going to hear me say, 'Well, I've been critical of Obama five times, so now I need to be critical of McCain five times.' That is a false equivalence, and that's what I think is wrong with journalism.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Think
  • Me
  • Journalism

• I'm interested in fashion; I buy fairly good pieces, and I think as I've gotten older, I've pared down a lot.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Think
  • Fashion

• If an ignorant person is attracted by the things of the world, that is bad. But if a learned person is thus attracted, it is worse.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • World
  • Bad
  • Education

• I went to dance classes from 9 in the morning until 1, then to school from 3 to 10 at night, always under the threat that if I failed a single course I could forget about dancing.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • School
  • Night
  • Single

• At first the English were very surprised by our disregarding the Hague Convention. But from 1916 onward they used at least as much poison as we did.

  

  Otto Hahn
  • English
  • First
  • Poison

• I have to write 100 songs before you write the first good one.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Good
  • Write
  • First

• The thing is: in order to reach an agreement, to reach that balance, sometimes it is sort of like that old Rhinestone Cowboy lyric, 'There'll be a load of compromisin' on the road to my horizon.' For those of you who were too young, or don't recall the song, made famous by country singer Glen Campbell, it is your loss.

  

  Bart Chilton
  • Country
  • Song
  • Road

• I have a horror of people who speak about the beautiful. What is the beautiful? One must speak of problems in painting!

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Painting

• Let others praise ancient times; I am glad I was born in these.

  

  Ovid
  • Born
  • Praise
  • Ancient

• I would have been miserable in college. I always hated school.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • School
  • College
  • Miserable

• I am a guy who likes to do what I am doing with passion, whether it's a soccer match with friends or golf.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Friends
  • Guy
  • Passion

• One of the best ways to deal with the peer pressure of the 'Fear of Missing Out' is to opt-out whenever possible.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Fear
  • Best
  • Missing

• Death by hanging...I deserved it and I expected it, as I've always told you. I am glad that I have had the chance to defend myself and to think things over in the last few months.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Death

• Though Jesus Christ in Bethlehem A thousand times his Mother bore, Is he not born again in thee Then art thou lost for evermore.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Art
  • Mother
  • Lost

• Truthfully, and I don't mean to sound naive, but I don't know that much about the film business.

  

  Kenneth Lonergan
  • Business

• I am not yet born; forgive meFor the sins that in me the world shall commit, my wordsWhen they speak me, my thoughts when they think me,My treason engendered by traitors beyond me,My life when they murder by means of myHands, my death when they live me.

  

  Louis MacNeice
  • Life
  • World
  • Live

• I have a fondness for making paintings that go beyond just having a conversation about art for art's sake or having a conversation about art history. I actually really enjoy looking at broader popular culture.

  

  Kehinde Wiley
  • Art
  • History
  • Culture

• Children are the seed for peace or violence in the future, depending on how they are cared for and stimulated. Thus, their family and community environment must be sown to grow a fairer and more fraternal world, a world to serve life and hope.

  

  Zilda Arns
  • Life
  • Children
  • Hope

• I wouldn't call the Prime Minister gutless. That's all that's left of him.

  

  David Lange

• Preference of vice to virtue, a manifest wrong judgment.

  

  John Locke Nazareth