John Locke Quotes

If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?

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• I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Learned
  • Dangerous
  • Drive

• Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Sexuality
  • Seduction

• Most Americans, like most Japanese, view their dogs, cats, and other animal companions as family members, and rightly so.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Family
  • Animal
  • Japanese

• A rap dude has his rap persona, his hyper version of himself. Do you know Method Man's real name? Or Elton John, Marylin Monroe? You make up this character. That's kind of what we have done with Die Antwoord, playing with characters.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • Up
  • Real
  • Done

• When you start losing market share, it's really tough to gain it back; you need the product portfolio and presence in many markets.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • Start
  • Losing
  • Tough

• It would be nice to be on the charts again, nice to be recognised.

  

  Nancy Sinatra
  • Nice
  • Again
  • Be Nice

• Cable has come along; many all-news 24 hour cable outlets in the United States. They have cut deeply into the traditional networks' viewing audience.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Audience
  • United States

• I learned very early on in life that not everyone wants to hear every fact in the world, even if you want to tell them everything you've ever read.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • Life
  • World
  • Want

• In the future, I want to do an action movie! I'm going to get in shape, get ripped, and have my Chris Pratt transformation. And then become a movie star like that.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Movie
  • Future
  • Want

• There's some people that obviously abuse social networking or whatever, but I think it's a fantastic idea. I've never had any bad encounters with any of it.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Bad
  • Think

• With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Different
  • Writing
  • Book

• All of us grow.

  

  Foster Friess
  • Grow
  • U.S.

• I love dressing up for events; to me it's almost like wearing a costume for the evening.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Like
  • Evening
  • Dressing

• In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • World
  • Home
  • Weekend

• My bag always weighs a ton. I carry my whole bathroom with me. You never know what's going to happen in a day!

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Know
  • Day
  • Always

• I used to have 20/20 vision, believe it or not; that's gone because of all the reading I did when I wasn't supposed to, reading in the back of a car, waiting for each street light to go past so I could grab another sentence.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Believe
  • Past
  • Light

• Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Different
  • You
  • Things

• I have a dining room done in different shades of white, with white cushions embroidered in yellow silk: the effect is absolutely delightful and the room beautiful.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Different
  • Effect
  • Delightful

• I think it's easy for me to connect to some people, and I don't know if that's the same thing as falling in love whereas before, I might have said it was.

  

  Ashley Judd
  • People

• If you don't change, reality in the end forces that change upon you.

  

  Stuart Wilde
  • Success
  • Reality
  • Change

• However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • May
  • Society
  • Pride

• “I wouldn’t give one iota to make a trip from the cradle to the grave unless I could live in a competitive world.”

  

  Adolph Rupp
  • World
  • Trip
  • Iota

• If man in the state of nature be so free, as has been said; if he be absolute lord of his own person and possessions, equal to the greatest, and subject to no body, why will he part with his freedom, this empire, and subject himself to the dominion and control of any other power?

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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