Quotes about Locks

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. Votes: 4

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. Votes: 4

One guy wanted an outline of my foot. Another guy wanted locks of my hair. Votes: 4

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. Votes: 4

Most of the locks and dams on the upper Mississippi River system are over 60 years old and many are in serious need of repair and rehabilitation. Votes: 4

Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late. Votes: 4

I have six locks on my door all in a row. When I go out, I lock every other one. I figure no matter how long somebody stands there picking the locks, they are always locking three. Votes: 4

There are two kinds of directors: There's the kind where two plus two equals four, and you have to help them figure it out. And then there's the kind that throws you in a room, locks the door, sets the house on fire and films it. Votes: 4

I'd watched too many schoolmates graduate into mental institutions, into group homes and jails, and I knew that locking people up was paranormal - against normal, not beside it. Locks didn't cure; they strangled. Votes: 3

If Courtezans and Strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much Rigour as some silly People would have it, what Locks or Bars would be sufficient to preserve the Honour of our Wives and Daughters? Votes: 3

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night. Votes: 2

Many people lock a part of themselves away. It's a bit sacred. Votes: 2

We have an extensive system of highways, ports, locks and dams, and airports. Votes: 2

We need, in effect, to make the phantom 'lock-boxes' around the trust fund real. Votes: 2

I have shaved my head. My flowing locks are now quite a bit shorter. Votes: 2

Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night. Votes: 2

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Votes: 2

And some people, you've got to lock up. If you don't, they're going to hurt you. Votes: 2

Grave was the man in years, in looks, in word, his locks were grey, yet was his courage green. Votes: 2

I like to think I'm a listener, and I'm fascinated by observing people - I suppose you just lock that in. Votes: 2

Our own relentless search for novelty and social status locks us into an iron cage of consumerism. Affluence has itself betrayed us. Votes: 2

I've tried my best to love you all, all you hypocrites and whores with your eyes on each other and locks on your doors. Votes: 2

They're now turning those seeds into intellectual property, so they have a virtual lock on the seeds upon which we all depend for our food and survival. Votes: 2

I'm actually so low maintenance when it comes to my hair. It's naturally stick-straight, but I do like to use a curling iron to give my locks some life. Votes: 2

For the good of our environment, the good of the economy, and the good of the Nation, I strongly urge support of the upper Mississippi locks and dams project. Votes: 2

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. Votes: 2

Philosophy is like trying to open a safe with a combination lock: each little adjustment of the dials seems to achieve nothing, only when everything is in place does the door open. Votes: 2

An eye for beauty locks onto faces that show signs of health and fertility - just as one would predict if it had evolved to help the beholder find the fittest mate. Votes: 2

The only thing I have done religiously in my life is keep a journal. I have hundreds of them, filled with feathers, flowers, photographs, and words - without locks, open on my shelves. Votes: 2

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don't deserve that kind of grace. I don't deserve that break. Votes: 2

I just find it thrilling, especially when I totally lock in to the person that I am doing and I'm really flying... I suppose I am hiding myself when I sing as these other people. Votes: 2

Previously, on Lock, Stock, I went to bed at two in the morning and woke up at five in the morning, and on this one I was known to nod off on the set occasionally. Votes: 2

I'm the type of woman you might say is too good. I'll massage a man's feet, have dinner cooked when he gets home. But once they leave, the door is closed, and the locks are changed. Votes: 2

Saddam's fate should be in the hands of his country men. They were the major victims of his brutal reign and should decide his life, death, or permanent imprisonment. Personally, I would lock him away forever. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

When I lived in New York, not only did I have safety locks on the door but I had the music going, keeping the city at a distance, trying to find creative time and peace and so forth. Votes: 2

A free Net may depend on some wisely developed and implemented locks and a community ethos that secures the keys to those locks among groups with shared norms and a sense of public purpose rather than in the hands of one gatekeeper. Votes: 2

I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents' farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous. Votes: 2

We writers, as we work our way deeper into our craft, learn to drop more and more personal clues. Like burglars who secretly wish to be caught, we leave our fingerprints on broken locks, our voiceprints in bugged rooms, our footprints in the wet concrete. Votes: 2

There is a lot of kissing in 'Boeing-Boeing.' A lot! And not pecks on the cheek or lips - although there's some of that, too - but full-on, farcical lip locks. My poor husband. He definitely wasn't prepared for as much smooching as there is. Votes: 2

Picking locks or handcuffs for me is not really a big deal, I can do it pretty much in seconds, I've been doing since I was 14 years old. I used to sit on my bed as a kid with a pick set and you know just picking locks and stuff, so I'm used to it. Votes: 2

Why does crime happen? Well, you might say that it's because youths don't have jobs. Or you might say that's because the doors of our buildings are not fortified enough. Given some limited funds to spend, you can either create yet another national employment program or you can equip houses with even better cameras, sensors, and locks. Votes: 2

I wish I were shyly, quietly intriguing, like Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy, like someone French and fashionable who knows how to twirl her ladylike locks just so and walk adroitly on kitten heels, who is all gesture and whisper - but I am unfortunately forward and forthright: When I am interested in a man, he absolutely knows it. Votes: 2

Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before. Votes: 2

Too many locks, not enough keys. Votes: 0

A louse in the locks of literature. Votes: 0

Only love could pick a nested pair of steel Bramah locks. Votes: 0

The waters of the Ganga are roaring among his matted locks. Votes: 0

Prejudice locks the mind. Nothing can enter. Nothing true can escape. Votes: 0

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse. Votes: 0

George Moore leads his readers to the latrine and locks them in. Votes: 0

The redundant locks, robustious to no purpose, clustering down--vast monument of strength. Votes: 0

Human locks? Please," Tamani said. "May as well leave the door open. Votes: 0

The Waters are Nature's storehouse in which she locks up her wonders.. Votes: 0

Unscrew the locks from the doors ! Unscrew the doors themselves from their jambs ! Votes: 0

Broken locks and bruised knees and borrowed lipgloss and rain on the streets Votes: 0

Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold. Votes: 0

Rowdy Roddy cut his locks; but don't worry woman, he's still a fox. Votes: 0

[On Las Vegas:] I love that town. No clocks. No locks. No restrictions. Votes: 0

The doors of Hell, insofar as they have locks, have locks on the inside. Votes: 0

No one should have a key that turns a billion locks. It shouldn't exist. Votes: 0

Alzheimer's disease locks all the doors and exits. There is no reprieve, no escape. Votes: 0

There are no walls, no bolts, no locks that anyone can put on your mind. Votes: 0

When discord dreadful bursts her brazen bars, And shatters locks to thunder forth her wars. Votes: 0

Passion and desire bind your Heart. Remove the locks. Become a key, become a key . . . Votes: 0

Hate is a door with hundred locks and love is a hand with thousand keys! Votes: 0

don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors. Votes: 0

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks. Votes: 0

Anyone who can steal the king's seal ring can manage the locks on his record room. Votes: 0

When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind. Votes: 0

A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our locks. Votes: 0

If your wife locks you out of the house, you don't have a problem with your door. Votes: 0

We spend our life building higher fences and stronger locks, when the gravest dangers are already inside Votes: 0

WhenTime shall turn those amber locks to grey, My verse again shall gild and make them gay. Votes: 0

[C]locks indeed must have thier sacrifice: what is death but an offering to time and eternity? Votes: 0

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches. Votes: 0

The sun doth shake Light from his locks, and, all the way Breathing perfumes, doth spice the day. Votes: 0

The painter locks himself out of his own studio. And then has to break in like a thief. Votes: 0

I've got just as much luck with locks as I do hearts. In other words, no luck at all. Votes: 0

All of us are like locks. No matter how strong the bolt, there's always a key out there that opens it. Votes: 0

Patch wasn't the kind of guy mothers smiled on. He was the kind of guy they changed the house locks for. Votes: 0

Do not limit the shape and size in which your miracle can come. Sometimes the smallest keys turn the biggest locks. Votes: 0

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it. Votes: 0

Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near. Votes: 0

Sins are like chains and locks preventing their perpetrator from roaming the vast garden of Tawheed and reaping the fruits of righteous actions. Votes: 0

It's a lot easier to be lost than found. It's the reason we're always searching and rarely discovered--so many locks not enough keys. Votes: 0

For those roses bright, oh, those roses bright! I have twined them in my sister's locks That are hid in the dust from sight. Votes: 0

Again rejoicing Nature sees Her robe assume its vernal hues Her leafy locks wave in the breeze, All freshly steep'd in the morning dews. Votes: 0

If there are any cages in this marriage, it is I who have built them. And I who hold the key to their locks. Votes: 0

Time is a measure of space, just as a range-finder is a measure of space, but measuring locks us into the place we measure. Votes: 0

The man with the most guns survives the zombie apocalypse, but the man with the most books, locks the door and forgets it ever happened. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

South of Golden Gate Park, and he took a job working for a finance company as a "repo man," picking the locks of cars whose Votes: 0

Fear can come across in absence of sharp corners, locked windows in hotel rooms, locks, passwords, security...fairytales (the type of storylines)...in fact everywhere. Votes: 0

Fair Venus shines Even in the eve of day, with sweetest beam Propitious shines, and shakes a trembling flood Of softened radiance from her dewy locks. Votes: 0

No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom. Votes: 0

We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement. Votes: 0

Style is often something which locks the painter into the same vision, the same technique, the same formula during years and years, sometimes during one's whole lifetime. Votes: 0

Beliefs are either the keys to your freedom, Or they can also become the giant locks to the prison That keeps you from achieving what you want. Votes: 0

But there was no room at the inn"; the inn is the gathering place of public opinion; so often public opinion locks its doors to the King. Votes: 0

To endeavor to move by the same discourse hearers who differ in age, sex, position and education is to attempt to open all locks with the same key. Votes: 0

"Are We There Yet?" was the perfect title, because it's such a common saying. And having made the movie with the same name kinda locks it all in. Votes: 0

Spring's last-born darling, clear-eyed, sweet, Pauses a moment, with white twinkling feet, And golden locks in breezy play, Half teasing and half tender, to repeat Her song of May. Votes: 0

The typical computer network isn't like a house with windows, doors, and locks. It's more like a gauze tent encircled by a band of drunk teenagers with lit matches. Votes: 0

You never knew what to expect with Ingrid. One minute she could be sawing the locks off Pierpont's freezers; the next, providing shelter for the homeless birds of Switzerland. Votes: 0

Isn't it interesting that we place deadbolt locks on our doors to keep evil influences out and then allow and even invite evil influences into our home through television. Votes: 0

On balance, the use of encryption, just like the use of good locks on doors, has the net effect of preventing a lot more crime than it might assist. Votes: 0

This instant which I cannot leave, which locks me in and limits me on every side, this instant I am made of will be no more than a confused dream. Votes: 0

A 'social justice' society is a conflict which locks beneficiaries and victims alike in a struggle without end. It becomes a society torn apart by resentment over the wealth of capitalists. Votes: 0

Her lips were red, her looks were free, Her locks were yellow as gold: Her skin was white as leprosy, The Nightmare Life-in-Death was she, Who thicks man's blood with cold. Votes: 0

O rose! the sweetest blossom, Of spring the fairest flower, O rose! the joy of heaven. The god of love, with roses His yellow locks adorning, Dances with the hours and graces. Votes: 0

Mystics are all a bit funny in the head anyway," the priest added cynically, "which is why the church locks them all up in mental hospitals and euphemistically calls these institutions monasteries. Votes: 0

When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald. Votes: 0

Crime in the cities is very discouraging. Apartment house dwellers have locks, bolts, chains and bars on their doors. It takes a tenant longer to get out than a burglar to get in. Votes: 0

Beware of her fair hair, for she excelsAll women in the magic of her locks; And when she winds them round a young man's neck, She will not ever set him free again. Votes: 0

I want to learn how to pick locks, swordfight, throw pottery - it's all research. It's like the curious person's version of James Bond's license to kill. I've got a license to learn. Votes: 0

His golden locks Time hath to silver turned, O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! His youth 'gainst Time and Age hath ever spurned, But spurned in vain! Youth waneth by increasing. Votes: 0

It's the squares who know how to fly the fighter planes and operate the missiles and the bombs and work the M-16s. Liberals would still be fumbling with the federally mandated trigger locks. Votes: 0

True love knows no constraints, no locks or bars. Past every obstacle it makes its way. It spreads it wings to soar toward the stars, No earthly power will make it stop or stay. Votes: 0

If a man rejoice not in his drinking, he is mad; for in drinking it's possible ... to fondle breasts, and to caress well tended locks, and there is dancing withal, and oblivion of woe. Votes: 0

On the moon we have everything. Lettuce, and pumpkin pie and Amanita phalloides. We have cat-furred plants and horses dancing with their wings. All the locks are solid and tight, and there are no ghosts. Votes: 0

The Weimar system appeared to me like a father who locks his little boys in a room and stirs them up against one another and says: 'Beat each other up as much as you want. Votes: 0

Time wears all his locks before,Take thy hold upon his forehead;When he flies he turns no more,And behind his scalp is naked.Works adjourn'd have many stays,Long demurs breed new delays. Votes: 0

"You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,- Now tell me the reason I pray." Votes: 0

It's difficult to get your creative juices flowing if you're always being practical, following rules, afraid to make mistakes, not looking into outside areas, or under the influence of any of the other mental locks. Votes: 0