Quotation Explorer - 'Locked'

Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue. - Sallust
People are crazy and times are strangeI'm locked in tight, I'm out of rangeI used to care, but things have changed - Bob Dylan
Oh! Polly thought. Why aren't all girls locked up by law the year they turn fifteen? They do such stupid things! - Diana Wynne Jones
Today you can go to a gas station and find the cash register open and the toilets locked. They must think toilet paper is worth more than money. - Joey Bishop
Only the foolish would think that wisdom is something to keep locked in a drawer. Only the fearful would feel empowerment is something best kept to oneself, or the few, and not shared with all. - Rasheed Ogunlaru
When we stay locked up in the spectrum of unsolved life stories and keep hiding in an arcane prism, life remains a mystery behind perpetual tensions and a journey in a world beyond appearances. (Une femme peut en cacher une autre") - Erik Pevernagie
When I lay these questions before God I get no answer. But a rather special sort of 'No answer.' It is not the locked door. It is more like a silent, certainly not uncompassionate, gaze. As though He shook His head not in refusal but waiving the question. Like, 'Peace, child; you don't understand. - C.S. Lewis
The idea is there, locked inside, and all you have to do is remove the excess stone.
Training was all I could think about. One Sunday when I found the stadium locked, I broke in and worked out in the freezing cold. Every painful set, every extra rep, was a step toward my goal of winning. - Arnold Schwarzenegger
No offense, Jaron, but I don't want your life. Even locked away behind closed doors I got a taste for how awful it can be.""Did anyone try to kill you while I was gone?""No.""Then you didn't even get a taste. - Jennifer A. Nielsen
Being locked up is one thing, but to have no concept of confinement, to be ignorant of its terms and never understand that struggle is useless - that's what hell must be like. - David Sedaris
If you keep your emotions locked in a box, then when you want to open it one day you'll find that they're gone. - M.D. Arnold
Ranger locked eyes with me. "Please," he said.Tank and Hal were goggle-eyed. They weren't used to "please." I wasn't used to it either. But I liked it. Okay," I said. "Be careful. He's insane. - Janet Evanovich
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up. - Angelina Jolie
Writers Are Insane. For months we are lone wolves locked in our caves. Then overnight we become publicity hounds. It's a schizophrenic business. - Robert Mykle
Like hatred, guilt can’t be locked in the silence of forgetting, without taking part of your soul with it. - Shannon L. Alder
Perhaps a physicist would know at once why this whole idea was absurd. But then, perhaps a physicist would be so locked into the consensus of his scientific community that it would be harder for him to accept an idea that transformed the meaning of everything he knew. Even if it were true. - Orson Scott Card
I want to dive in the deepest trench, get locked in the darkest room,get lost in the biggest maze,travel longest to the furthest placebut keep my heart on the safest place... - khushboo suneja
Words work like keys. When you use them appropriately, you can unlock any locked heart. - Ahmed Alibage
[Harrier] locked eyes with Zanattar. He couldn't remember another time in his life when he'd been this angry and hadn't hit something. - Mercedes Lackey
You've got be careful about getting locked into open systems.
What people instinctively regard as cool is real power - consistency. Pathetic is not cool. Being locked in a tragedy, but not knowing it. That's lameness. - Cory Duchesne
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release it. - Morgan Freeman
Starting your day with anger is like locking yourself in jail. The outside world is enjoying life, while you’re locked in your own frustration. - Ron Baratono
What goes in the mind is forgotten, what goes in the stomach just passes through, but that which goes in the heart is locked, like a keepsake diary, that never leaves you. - Anthony Liccione
To most, being locked away in solitary with nothing but pen and paper would prove a hard punishment. What a strange creature who views this as heaven. - Richelle E. Goodrich
Unsustainable energy consumption has humanity locked into a death spiral with nature. - Steven Magee
I hope your heart feels better. I hope your mind is set right.I hope your love is connected to others, and you don't feel so lost and locked up.I hope everything is okay for you. And by okay, I mean greater than ever. - Shailee J-N
To fall for her felt like being locked out of your own room... You know its your heart that lies within her, but you still cant reach it - Devjeet Chawdhary
Mother says there are locked rooms inside all women, kitchen of love, bedroom of grief, bathroom of apathy. Sometimes, the men, they come with keys, and sometimes the men, they come with hammers. - Warsan Shire
Kindness is the best key to open the locked door of every heart. - Debasish Mridha
If you want to open, come close to me, I have a key which can open the locked door of your destiny. - Tanmaya Guru
No, she laughed." How on earth could that be done? If you try to laugh and say ‘No’ at the same time, it sounds like neighing yet people are perpetually doing it in novels. If they did it in real life they would be locked up. - Hilaire Belloc
Women are like locked diaries that men expect to read like open books. - Munia Khan
Welcome to where time stands stillNo one leaves and no one willMoon is full, never seems to changeJust labeled mentally derangedDream the same thing every nightI see our freedom in my sightNo locked doors, No windows barredNo things to make my brain seem scarred - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium
Ethics is the key which opens big doors to business success. However once it gets lost, the same access is locked for ever. The newly acquired access gets eclipsed with lost reliability. - Priyavrat Thareja
Opening to love will always involve risk,but a heart safe from pain is one also locked to joy. - John Mark Green
Our fates are locked together. It would be foolish of me to anger God by leaving you. - Mark Tompkins
Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch - Rasheed Ogunlaru
The door to her heart was locked up tight, but he could still see a faint glow escaping through the keyhole. - John Mark Green
There is something about loss and pain that opens the doors of wisdom in your heart, doors that would have remained locked for a whole lifetime. - Lyrical Treasure
I am living in hell from one day to the next. But there is nothing I can do to escape. I don't know where I would go if I did. I feel utterly powerless, and that feeling is my prision. I entered of my own free will, I locked the door, and I threw away the key. - Haruki Murakami
She turned back to the door fishing her key out of her purse. Once the key was in the lock, the door flew open revealing darkness. All she had time for was a squeak before she was abruptly pulled in the house by her shirt. The door slammed shut and locked behind her with a clank of sliding metal. - Nicole Rae
Which crime has the female sex committed to be sentenced to the harsh necessity which consists of being locked up all life either as a prisoner or a slave? I call the nuns prisoners and the married women slaves. - Christina Queen of Sweden
If you're going to be crazy, you have to get paid for it or else you're going to be locked up. - Hunter S. Thompson
I am not a prisoner to be locked up in people's ideologies, I am not a criminal to be locked up in your mind, I am a free spirit and I make no apologies for it - Evy Michaels
Shifting perspective(s) and being proactive are essential to your our life paths, progress and possibilities: "Just because a door appears closed it does not mean that it is locked - nor that it will not open with the right heart, call or touch - Rasheed Ogunlaru
When a child is locked in the bathroom with water running and he says he's doing nothing but the dog is barking, call 911. - Erma Bombeck
Sleep my friend and you will seeThat dream is my realityThey keep me locked up in this cageCan't they see it's why my brain says Rage - Metallica Welcome Home Sanitarium
[On doors of opportunity] If that door doesnt open, Dont worry. It was probably best you got locked out than be locked in. Move on the next door. - Janna Cachola
Their gazes locked and held for a long beat, like maybe he was taking her pulse from across the room, absorbing the fact that she was drenched and breathless. The corners of his mouth twitched. She’d amused him again. - Jill Shalvis
Don't keep your Muse locked up in the closet. Set them free to dance across the page and what they create will be a masterpiece. - Michelle C. Hillstrom
Most people die with their music still locked up inside them. - Benjamin Disraeli
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