Locked Quotes - Page 23

• Afghanistan is a land-locked country.

  Lakhdar Brahimi

  Country, Land, Afghanistan

  "After nearly a century, a modern Afghan railroad is under construction" by Ivan Watson, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2010.

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• Jad said, "The leakage was forcing choices, the making of which in no way improved matters." Okay. So we were, in effect, locked in a room with a madman sorcerer. That clarified things a little.

  Neal Stephenson

  Choices, Littles, Matter

  "Anathem". Book by Neal Stephenson, September 9, 2008.

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• I feel like I've been locked up tight for a century, waiting for someone to release me.

  Christina Aguilera

  Waiting, Release, Century

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• It remained for the twentieth century to discover that locked within the atom is the energy of the sun itself. For this energy to be released, however, the atom must be bombarded from without. So too, locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine-the imago dei-image of God, it is sometimes called. And it too can be activated only through bombardment, in its case love's bombardment

  Huston Smith

  Energy, Atoms, Sun

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• I love Europe, but we are still struggling with that kind of development. First of all, we don't have a smart conversation about the difference between an immigrant and a refugee. A refugee can't go back. An immigrant is someone - I chose to move to America. And I also have the option of saying hey, didn't work out, I can move back. That's a completely different story than someone who is locked in.

  Marcus Samuelsson

  Smart, Moving, Struggle

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• Slowly light strengthens, and the room takes shape. It stands plain as a wardrobe, what we know, Have always known, know that we can't escape, Yet can't accept. One side will have to go. Meanwhile telephones crouch, getting ready to ring In locked-up offices, and all the uncaring Intricate rented world begins to rouse. The sky is white as clay, with no sun. Work has to be done. Postmen like doctors go from house to house.

  Philip Larkin

  Doctors, Light, Sky

  Philip Larkin, “Aubade”

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• If I were a carpenter, I would build you a window to my soul. But I would leave that window shut and locked, so that every time you tried to look through it all you would see is your own reflection. You would see that my soul is a reflection of you.

  Colleen Hoover

  Love, Reflection, Soul

  Colleen Hoover (2012). “Point of Retreat”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

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• Some prisons don't require bars to keep people locked inside. All it takes is their perception that they belong there.

  Lysa TerKeurst

  People, Perception, Bars

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• But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

  Paula McLain

  Heart, Eye, Nurse

  Paula McLain (2012). “The Paris Wife (Random House Reader's Circle Deluxe Reading Group Edition): A Novel”, p.204, Ballantine Books

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• Light and the rational forms are locked in combat; light sets them into motion, bends what is straight, makes parallels oval, inscribes circles in the intervals, makes the intervals active.

  Paul Klee

  Light, Circles, Oval

  Paul Klee (2012). “Paul Klee”, p.98, Parkstone International

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• Now my wife may think she's locked me out of the kitchen but MacGyver's not my patron saint for nothing.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Wife, Kitchen

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• Once we had become locked in on a schedule, he (Coach Denny Green) often created a disruption (artificial adversity) to that schedule just to see how guys would respond.

  Tony Dungy

  Leadership, Adversity, Guy

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• Stephanie,' Valerie said. 'She's going to have a baby, and she's getting married.' My father was confused. He looked around the room. No Joe. No Ranger. His eyes locked on Diesel. 'Not the psycho,' he said. Diesel blew out a sigh. My father turned to my mother. 'Get me the carving knife. Make sure it's sharp.

  Janet Evanovich

  Mother, Baby, Father

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• Though I can't change what happened, I can choose how to react. And I don't want to spend the rest of my life being bitter and locked up.

  Tori Amos

  Survivor, Want, Bitter

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• None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

  Alan Moore

  Rorschach, Locked Up

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• Vayl, this is not a pleasant moment for me," I confessed. "No?" "Locked in a windowless, doorless room with a dancing, headless corpse and a secret sucker that can move fast enought to tear us both a new one if I miss?

  Jennifer Rardin

  Moving, Dancing, Missing

  Jennifer Rardin (2011). “Bitten To Death: Book four in the Jaz Parks sequence”, p.105, Hachette UK

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• You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.

  Barack Obama

  Eye, Responsibility, World

  "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance". Book by Barack Obama, 1995.

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• Wherever love is, I want to be, I will follow it as surely as the land-locked salmon finds the sea.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Love Is, Sea, Land

  Jeanette Winterson (2007). “The Passion”, p.44, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• We should probably figure out a new word for this. For us, "open" means transparent, as in "open source" - you're not locked in to what the original creator did. And in our case "open" also means distributed decision making.

  Mitchell Baker

  Mean, Decision, Cases

  "Inside the Firefox’s Den". Interview with Laura Mcclure, www.motherjones.com. September 16, 2008.

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• I keep myself locked as a box when it matters, and broken open when it doesn't matter at all.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Broken, Matter, Boxes

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• For our past can be a prison we are locked in permanently, or it can be the key to our freedom if we glean the lessons from it and deal with it directly.

  Kevin Powell

  Past, Keys, Lessons

  "An Open Letter to Chris Brown" by Kevin Powell, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2011.

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• A locked big door always kneels down in front of its little key! Every giant has a weak side!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Keys, Doors, Giants

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• I usually arrive at the first rehearsal with a vague memory of most of it. But the real work happens in rehearsal, oddly enough, because what happens is that you match the words to the movement, and once you know where you're moving, then the words that accompany that movement become not locked into your mind and your brain and your whole body.

  Angela Lansbury

  Memories, Real, Moving

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Let the people discover you! You might have the key of the locked doors in their lives! Open yourself to the world; you might be the magic the world needs!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Keys, Doors, People

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• To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.

  Edwin Way Teale

  Bird, Tree, Dollars

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