John Locke Quotes

Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

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• We talk about feelings. And about sex. And about bodies, and their gratification, violation, repair, decoration, deferred, maybe permanently deferred, mortality. Feelings are a bodily thing, and respecting them is called, is, kindness.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Feelings
  • Sex
  • Kindness

• Every time I'm in Canada I feel more Swedish, and every time I'm in Sweden I feel more Canadian. I belong in both places and I love them both equally. It's funny because the Swedes claim me as their Swedish pride and the Canadians call me their Canadian girl. I'll take it all.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Time
  • Love
  • Girl

• I don't expect anything from anybody. When you grow old... Your days are gone; it is part of life.

  

  Om Puri
  • Life
  • Old
  • Grow

• I think the people should have a right to boycott whoever they want to boycott without the government making them into criminals and try to protect corporations from people. They should protect people from corporations.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • People
  • Want
  • Government

• Whatever happens, I cannot be a silent witness to murder or torture. Anyone who is a partner in this is a despicable individual. I am sorry I cannot be moderate about it...

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Sorry
  • Partner

• I encourage everyone I know to sign an organ donor card, but if someone doesn't want to sign, that's his or her choice. If someone isn't willing to give an organ, however, why should that person be allowed to receive an organ?

  

  Alex Tabarrok
  • Why

• I'd been very certain about not wanting to do the acting thing because of my father. I thought I'd always have the father-son thing of 'He got you the part.'

  

  Domhnall Gleeson
  • Father
  • Son

• If people don't connect to Eric Carter's struggles, I'm sure they'll find a character in this series to connect to. That's ultimately what it's about for me.

  

  Corey Hawkins
  • People
  • Character

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  Jacques Ellul

• The composer (organizer of sound) will be faced not only with the entire field of sound but also with the entire field of time. The 'frame' or fraction of a second, following established film technique, will probably be the basic unit in the measurement of time. No rhythm will be beyond the composer's reach.

  

  John Cage
  • Time

• I know six years is a big break. But I never walked away from music. I never released an album because I wanted to do a different album, something I have never done before.

  

  Hadiqa Kiani
  • Music
  • Different
  • Done

• A man who is an agnostic by inheritance, so that he doesn't remember any time that he wasn't, has almost no hatred for the religious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Religious

• To persevere In obstinate condolement is a course Of impious stubbornness: 'tis unmanly grief.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Grief
  • Persevere
  • Stubbornness

• Conscience is a blushing, shamefaced spirit than mutinies in a man's bosom; it fills one full of obstacles.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Spirit
  • Obstacles
  • Conscience

• It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Confusion
  • Immortal
  • Select

• There are, of course, an infinite number of places where one is not, yet only one place where one actually is.

  

  Laura Lippman
  • Places
  • Course
  • Number

• I think the Birmingham accent has a lot to do with that, it certainly doesn't help you when you're trying to put a point across. We also set ourselves up for it sometimes by getting drunk and doing stupid things, but I thought that was what rock 'n' roll was all about.

  

  Clint Mansell
  • Stupid
  • Drunk
  • Rock N Roll

• The function of protecting and developing health must rank even above that of restoring it when it is impaired.

  

  Hippocrates
  • Health
  • Protection
  • Rank

• I always think I'm the Tom Cruise of music - a lot of success and fans, but no critics, darling.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Success

• Lord Rees-Mogg argues that the time for reconciliation in Tibet is passing with the looming departure of its spiritual leader.

  

  William Rees-Mogg
  • Reconciliation
  • Argues
  • Spiritual Leader

• I was interested in all kinds of things, whether it be Avatar, Mad Men, Troy, 300, Battlestar Gallactica, or the poems of Horace and Sappho. I always joke about this to my students, who can't quite wrap their mind around the fact that you can have a Ph.D in classics, but not do that full time. I never wanted to write anything with footnotes for the rest of my life. I always think of what I do as the kind of conversation you'd have with somebody, like a good friend, when you've gone and seen a movie together, and you come home and you start talking about it.

  

  Daniel Mendelsohn
  • Good
  • Men
  • Thinking

• Mathematical proofs, like diamonds, are hard and clear, and will be touched with nothing but strict reasoning.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Touched
  • Reasoning
  • Proofs