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

• Because I know war... because I know the horror, I don't want to add to it. .........After the war, we felt the need to celebrate life, and for me photography was the means to achieve this.

  

  Edouard Boubat
  • War
  • Photography
  • Achieve

• In our glorious fight for civil rights, we must guard against being fooled by false slogans, such as 'right-to-work.' It provides no 'rights' and no 'works.' Its purpose is to destroy labor unions and the freedom of collective bargaining…. We demand this fraud be stopped.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Freedom
  • Destroy
  • Guard

• May the partisans of all doctrines in all countries unite and live in a common fellowship. For all alike profess mastery to be attained over oneself and purity of the heart.

  

  Ashoka
  • Common
  • Doctrines
  • Attained

• One more time, she promised herself. That wasn't too trollopy. She wouldn't be too trollopy. But when they actually got to the guardhouse? Trollopy.

  

  Eloisa James
  • Guard
  • Promised

• Even Martin Luther and John Calvin believed that the Roman Catholic church, up to the Council of Trent, was basically orthodox - a true church with sound fundamental doctrines as well as significant error.

  

  Norman Geisler
  • Church
  • Orthodox
  • Doctrines

• 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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