William John Locke Quotes

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

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• Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Good
  • Important
  • Remember

• The true danger is when liberty is nibbled away, for expedience, and by parts.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • True
  • Liberty
  • Danger

• When I got pregnant with my first child, I gained nearly 5st. I did a bit of pretending: 'I'm just really small, so I just put on a lot of weight when I'm pregnant.' That is true, but I also ate a lot of cake.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • True
  • Small
  • Child

• It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • People
  • True
  • Wish

• Whenever you choose power over love, you will never find true happiness.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Happiness

• There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Great
  • Art
  • Happiness

• I am certainly not a good Muslim. But I am able now to say that I am Muslim; in fact it is a source of happiness to say that I am now inside, and a part of the community whose values have always been closest to my heart.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Community

• Stevie Wonder is just one of those guys that completely delivers everything that you want to be true about Stevie Wonder. He's an amazing human being, and the fairytale exists with that man.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • True
  • Man
  • Amazing

• In Denver, I was a homebody, and that's a life I'd chosen with great happiness. I wanted that break from the arc lights and focus on building a lovely home, have some fun, look after my kids and do things that I had missed out on while pursuing my dream.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Life
  • Great
  • Home

• Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Great
  • Men
  • True

• Something similar is still true of the courses followed by manifold intuitions which together make up the unity of one continuous consciousness of one and the same object.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • Up
  • Together
  • True

• Happiness is in our own hearts. I have no regrets of anything in the past. I'm totally cheerful and happy, and I think that a lot of your attitude is not in the circumstances you find yourself in, but in the circumstances you make for yourself.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Happy
  • Past
  • Happiness

• It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.

  

  Zack Snyder
  • True
  • Movie
  • Hand

• Everybody knows now that Marie Lightfoot, the true crime writer, is dating Franklin DeWeese, the state attorney of Howard County, Florida. They know I'm a white woman; they know he's a black man. That's not news anymore.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • True
  • Man
  • Black

• Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Life
  • True
  • Poverty

• In matters of the heart, nothing is true except the improbable.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Heart
  • True
  • Matters

• A lot of times when I'm writing lyrics, I just think about insecurities that I might have and turn them into a scene. Some things may be true, and some things may not.

  

  Nate Ruess Fun.
  • Writing
  • May
  • True

• Let my soul calm itself, O Christ, in Thee. This is true

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • True
  • Soul
  • Calm

• I've loved musical theater ever since I was a kid. My mother's a pianist, and my grandfather was an amateur theater director and stand-up comic. And I was an only child. And I loved attention. So from an early age, my family was teaching old musical songs.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Up
  • Family
  • Mother

• Personality and mind, like moustaches, belong to a certain age. They are a deformity in a child.... Leave his sensibilities, his emotions, his spirit, and his mind severely alone. There is the devil in mothers, that they must provoke personalresponse from their infants.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Alone

• My job is a very high trapeze act, frequently with no net.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Job
  • High

• A lot of men in politics suddenly woke up to the issue of women in politics when they realised: hey, there are votes in this!

  

  Theresa May
  • Politics
  • Issue
  • Votes

• What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

  

  William John Locke
  • True
  • Happiness
  • Logical