John Locke Quotes

There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

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• I've had many ideas come from clients.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Ideas
  • Many
  • Clients

• My mother is Italian and my dad's Irish. In my family, we're expressive. Nobody holds back.

  

  Kate Walsh
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Dad

• Politics is a people business. I like people.

  

  Laura Bush
  • People
  • Business
  • Politics

• China is attempting the death-defying feat, which no one has attempted in the history of the world, which is to move a billion people out of poverty. When I speak to Chinese policy-makers, the thing that annoys them the most about Western policy-makers is that they're not given any credit for anything.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • People
  • World
  • History

• He who wants to do good knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gate open.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Good

• Neuere Poeten tun viel Wasser in die Tinte.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Die

• Real life is crazier than fiction.

  

  Lauren Bowles
  • Life
  • Real

• Artists aren't role models. If you want to do that, go into politics.

  

  Ken Jeong

• If you are a parent, you have probably already realized that your children are always watching what you do. And just as children watch their parents and emulate their behavior, so do employees who are watching their bosses.

  

  John C. Maxwell
  • Children
  • Parents

• You can't go on telling, 'I am in love.'

  

  Anushka Sharma

• Until politicos take a true stand in defense of marriage by proposing an anti-adultery amendment to the Constitution, stop demonizing gays and lesbians when the one debasing your marriage is the individual in the mirror.

  

  John Ridley
  • True
  • Stop
  • Marriage

• An anxious man constructs his terrors, then installs himself within them: a stay-at-home in a yawning chasm.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Home

• Human vocabulary is still not capable, and probably never will be, of knowing, recognizing, and communicating everything that can be humanly experienced and felt.

  

  Jose Saramago

• I always loved Sid Caesar and all the people on his program.

  

  Alan Alda
  • People
  • Loved
  • Program

• You can put a murderer in a suit, and hes still a murderer.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Murderer
  • Suit

• You have to be a strong teammate when you're playing with me. And I have to be strong myself because of the controversy, just putting me against my team one second, and then putting my team against me the next second.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Strong
  • Team
  • Playing

• There are personality traits, or baggage from their backgrounds, goals that they have and the first thing I need to do is understand and then acknowledge and then accept those properties. That's kind of the baseline requirement to have a productive relationship.

  

  Ian Bogost
  • Relationship
  • Personality
  • Goals

• I like putting common expressions next to uncommon expressions. I'm sure in Poetry 101 there is a name for it, but it seems like you usually go one way or the other in rock music.

  

  Dan Bejar
  • Music
  • Like
  • Putting

• One of my favorite things about what I do for a living is that there is no certainty that, at any hour of any day, I could get a phone call that could change everything. Good or bad. I never know.

  

  Samm Levine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Change

• Ingenuity was apparently given man in order that he may supply himself in crisis with shapes and sounds with which to guard himself from truth.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Truth
  • Crisis
  • Guard

• It takes a minute for me to let my guard down, but once I do and I get to know someone, I'm very open, very trusting. Some might say too trusting, because considering the amount of money that can be made from selling gossip, I could be very easily taken advantage of.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Money
  • Gossip
  • Guard

• There is no such way to gain admittance, or give defence to strange and absurd Doctrines, as to guard them round about with Legions of obscure, doubtful, and undefin'd Words.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
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