Locked Quotes - Page 22

• If a slave is unwilling to go with his new master, he is whipped, or locked up in jail, until he consents to go, and promises not to run away during the year.

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Running, Years, Jail

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (2006). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.25, Prestwick House Inc

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• I wish to God that she [principal Dawn L. Hochsprung] had had an M-4 in her office, locked up so when she heard gunfire, she pulls it out... and takes him out and takes his head off before he can kill those precious kids.

  Louie Gohmert

  Kids, Office, Wish

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• As polarized as we have been, we Americans are locked in a cultural war for the soul of our country.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, War, Soul

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• I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

  Richard Russo

  Thinking, Doors, Stories

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• If I see someone I see the ghost of them, the air around them, and where they’ve been. If I see a city I see it’s living ghostliness—the stray looks, the dying hands. I see it’s needs and its discomforts locked in apartments.

  Dionne Brand

  Air, Hands, Cities

  Dionne Brand (2012). “A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging”, p.122, Vintage Canada

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• Those of us who are locked into ineffective expressions of anger suffer as deeply as those of us who dare not get angry at all.

  Harriet Lerner

  Expression, Suffering, Dare

  FaceBook post by Harriet Lerner from Sep 26, 2016

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• One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash.

  Joey Dunlop

  Gun, Night, Two

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• You could also "request" to be locked into the seclusion room. Not many people made that request. You had to "request" to get out too. A nurse would look through the chicken wire and decide if you were ready to come out. Somewhat like looking at a cake through the glass of the oven door.

  Susanna Kaysen

  Glasses, Doors, Cake

  Susanna Kaysen (2013). “Girl, Interrupted”, p.46, Vintage

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• It's about realizing, painfully, you've kept that voice inside yourself, locked away from even yourself. And you step back and see that your jailer has changed faces. You realize you've become your own jailer.

  Tori Amos

  Voice, Survivor, Faces

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• 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

  Two Sides, Different, Mental Health

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• The great thing is the thing of being able to see things through many points of view. That's enlarging. I mean, it saves you from ultimately from the boredom of having one point of view, like being locked in a room with nothing but your own point of view, your own references.

  Jerry Garcia

  Mean, Views, Boredom

  Source: medium.com

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• I'm completely perplexed how someone who has most of the mainstream media for Hillary Clinton, well all the mainstream media, well most of the media for her, she's got a sitting president - a sitting First Lady far more popular than she'll ever supposed to be, a former president also her husband, the sitting vice president, a thousand people working in Brooklyn, she has all these states locked up and she can't crack 50% and stay there.

  Kellyanne Conway

  Husband, Media, People

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• I think that the joy of writing a novel is the self-exploratio n that emerges and also that wonderful feeling of playing God with the characters. When I sit down at my writing desk, time seems to vanish. ... I think the most important thing for a writer is to be locked in a study.

  Erica Jong

  Character, Writing, Thinking

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• We are turning into a nation of whimpering slaves to Fear—fear of war, fear of poverty, fear of random terrorism, fear of getting down-sized or fired because of the plunging economy, fear of getting evicted for bad debts or suddenly getting locked up in a military detention camp on vague charges of being a Terrorist sympathizer.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Military, War, Debt

  Hunter S. Thompson (2012). “Hey Rube: Blood Sport, the Bush Doctrine, and the Downward Spiral of Dumbness”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

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• Our premise is that inclusion leads to growth. So for those who are locked out, they lose development, and those who are in power lose market and growth.

  Jesse Jackson

  Growth, Development, Inclusion

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• For every human illness, somewhere in the world there exists a plant which is the cure. I believe that there is a healing potential locked inside plants which is integral with their evolution, just as it is part of human evolution to learn to tap this wonderful gift of Nature.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Believe, Healing, World

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• The doors of hell are locked from the inside!

  C. S. Lewis

  Doors, Hell

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• What was wrong with train toilet doors that just locked, instead of this multiple choice system? If anything goes wrong, you'll be sitting there while the whole toilet wall slowly slides away, unveiling you like a prize on a quiz show. For 500 points, a shitting woman!

  Frankie Boyle

  Funny, Wall, Humor

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• One good thing about being locked in a cage: No responsibility!

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Responsibility

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• Being sent away to boarding school at seven is as great an inspiration as any songwriter could have - to be taken away from one's family and locked away for 10 years. It does create an incredible intensity of emotion.

  James Blunt

  Taken, Inspiration, School

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• I'm in a different chapter of my life. As time goes by and I grow older, I find that I need to just be quiet and think. There have been periods when I've locked myself away for days, but now it's different - I'm married and we have a daughter who is in my office the whole time.

  Martin Scorsese

  Daughter, Mother, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• It's just that I have this funny objection to torturing small animals no matter how scrumptious their body parts might be. ... Our food industries are equal opportunity abusers: cows, chickens, pigs, and a special mention to those little calves who for their short, miserable lives are locked into crates too small to allow movement just so we can eat veal.

  Ron Reagan

  Animal, Opportunity, Pigs

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• We put ourselves there. The door to hell is locked from the inside.

  James Pike

  Doors, Hell

  James Albert Pike (1953). “Beyond anxiety: the Christian answer to fear, frustration, guilt, indecision, inhibition, loneliness, despair”

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• When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume so many things: that they’re locked into jobs they hate; that they’re broke; that they spend every night watching videos; that they’re fifteen pounds overweight; that they no longer listen to new ideas. It’s profoundly depressing.

  Douglas Coupland

  Depressing, Jobs, Hate

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• I once locked my keys out of my car. I had to break out of my car with a coat hanger.

  Steven Wright

  Keys, Car, Break Out

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