Lock Up Quotes

• But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.

  Will Carleton

  Fate, Keys, Two

  WILL CARLETON (1895). “RHYMES OF OUR PLANET”

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• Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

  Virginia Woolf

  Freedom, Women, Reading

  Virginia Woolf (2005). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.610, Wordsworth Editions

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• She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears.

  Al Stewart

  Art, Media, Giving

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• 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

  Inspirational, Crazy, Epic

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.372, Pan Macmillan

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• The instinct of nearly all societies is to lock up anybody who is truly free. First, society begins by trying to beat you up. If this fails, they try to poison you. If this fails too, the finish by loading honors on your head.

  Jean Cocteau

  Truth, Honor, Intuition

  "Moments of Clarity". Book by Thomas L. Jackson, March 31, 2002.

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• The only difference between the sane and the insane is that the sane have the power to lock up the insane.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Differences, Insane, Locks

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Ancient Gonzo Wisdom”, p.267, Pan Macmillan

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• Ben was more improvisational, and relied less on methodology, and basically is a guitarist who switched to bass, whereas Jeff has a more traditional approach to playing bass in a band, and has a great sense of what his band sounds like, and we lock up nicely.

  Matt Cameron

  Guitar, Sound, Locks

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• When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Military, Men, Locks

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

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• But you must still know to respect other people's faith.'
  'Why? We don't respect any other delusion. We lock up people who believe they're Christ, yet we're supposed to humour those who believe in him.'
  'By definition, faith is irrational: a belief you hold against the normal rules of evidence.'
  'In which case I believe in Jedi

  Michael Arditti

  Believe, People, Locks

  Michael Arditti (2009). “The Enemy of the Good”, Arcadia Books

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• The big lock-up is about drugs. Here's the real scam. The drug war is one of the games to get more convictions and prisoners.

  Jerry Brown

  Real, War, Games

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• So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

  Jerry Brown

  People, Locks, Rising

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• Up above
  Aliens hover
  Making home movies
  For the folks back home
  Of all these weird creatures
  Who lock up their spirits
  Drill holes in themselves
  And live for their secrets.

  Thom Yorke

  Home, Secret, Locks

  "Song: 'Subterranean Homesick Alie'". 1997.

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• If Americans actually have the conversation about our disastrous prison policies, we'll understand the trends all move in very dangerous directions: we lock up more people, for less violent crime, at ever greater expense, breeding more dangerous criminals who often come out unemployable, violent and isiolated.

  Dahlia Lithwick

  Moving, People, Locks

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• And then after a while he got me a job at the video store next door. I used to lock up the store and go next door and hang out all the time and watch movies and stuff.

  Jason Mewes

  Jobs, Doors, Games

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you want a language that tries to lock up all the sharp objects and fire-making implements, use Pascal or Ada: the Nerf languages, harmless fun for children of all ages, and they won't mar the furniture.

  Scott Fahlman

  Children, Fun, Fire

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• The media love to cover black people on the front page. After all, when you live in a society that will lock up about 30 percent of all black men at some time in their lives and send more of them to prison than to college, chances are a fair number of those black faces will end up in the newspaper.

  Michael Moore

  College, Men, Media

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• Done time in the lock-up, done time on the streets. Done time on the upswing, and time in defeat. I know what I'm askin'. I know it's a lot. Just to say that I love you. Believe it or not.

  Jerry Garcia

  Believe, Love You, Locks

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• One does not need to lock up that which is not dangerous.

  Alexandra Adornetto

  Doe, Needs, Locks

  Alexandra Adornetto (2011). “Hades”, p.268, Macmillan

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• One night she hid the pink cotton scarf from her raincoat in the pillowcase when the nurse came around to lock up her drawers and closets for the night. In the dark she had made a loop and tried to pull it tight around her throat. But always just as the air stopped coming and she felt the rushing grow louder in her ears, her hands would slacken and let go, and she would lie there panting for breath, cursing the dumb instinct in her body that fought to go on living

  Sylvia Plath

  Letting Go, Suicide, Lying

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• We need more extreme movies in Sweden.Personal projects that are necessarily made for a bigger audience. I think it creates a creative lock-up to have the audience as a goal.

  Noomi Rapace

  Thinking, Goal, Creative

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• Root out the counterrevolutionaries without mercy, lock up suspicious characters in concentration camps... Shirkers will be shot, regardless of past service.

  Leon Trotsky

  Character, Past, Roots

  "Trotsky : The Eternal Revolutionary" Dmitri Volkogonov, (p. 213), 1996.

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• We have to lock up people, without trial, whether they are communists, whether they are language chauvinists, whether they are religious extremists. If you don’t do that, the country would be in ruins.

  Lee Kuan Yew

  Country, Religious, People

  "Lee Kuan Yew, founding father of modern Singapore, dies aged 91". Interview With Peter Lloyd, www.abc.net.au. March 23, 2015.

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• And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you.

  Mills Lane

  Hurt, People, Locks

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• If a hungry lion suddenly appeared, you'd be terrified. So terrified you'd probably run away. Great, fear's doing its job. But you might get so afraid that you lock up and can't move. This would be very bad. Guilt's the same. It can prevent you from fixing the situation, make you feel so bad you can't function at 100% and even lead to more guilt-provoking bad behavior.

  David D. Burns

  Running, Jobs, Moving

  Source: time.com

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• I love basketball and I'm committed to it, but if I have to lock up my spirit because of basketball, it ain't worth it.

  Steve Nash

  Basketball, Locks, Spirit

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