Key Quotes

3000 Key quotes by 2138 unique authors

But what man does out of despair, is not necessarily a key to his character. I have always thought that the real key is in… — Ayn Rand
Someone told me the delightful story of the crusader who put a chastity belt on his wife and gave the key to his best friend… — Anais Nin
What then are doing if not creating a better place together? I think, for me the key has to be, what do I want to… — Alan Alda
Words are your business, boy. Not just the word. Words are everything. The key to the rock, the answer to the question. — Ralph Ellison
Reading can be a road to freedom or a key to a secret garden, which, if tended, will transform all of life. — Katherine Paterson
The Bible tells us to be like God, and then on page after page it describes God as a mass murderer. This may be the… — Robert Anton Wilson
The mold in which a key is made would be a strange thing, if you had never seen a key: and the key itself a… — C.S. Lewis
The key holds the truth — Libba Bray
Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens. — Maria von Trapp
No relationship is perfect, ever. There are always some ways you have to bend, to compromise, to give something up in order to gain something… — Sarah Dessen
A curtain of stars, miles of them, are scattered, glowing, across the sky and their multitude humbles me, which I have a hard time tolerating.… — Bret Easton Ellis
The key to a good life is this: If you're not going to talk about something during the last hour of your life, then don't… — Richard Carlson
When a phrase is born, it is both good and bad at the same time. The secret of its success rests in a crux that… — Isaac Babel
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking in the latter. — Malcolm Gladwell
How do we remember to remember? That's a question I've asked myself often since my time on Duma Key, often in the small hours of… — Stephen King
You gave me the key to your heart, my love, then why did you make me knock? — Lord Byron
Dad claims that library science is the foundation of all sciences just as math is the key -- and we will survive or founder, depending… — Robert A. Heinlein
The secret of education lies in respecting the pupil. It is not for you to choose what he shall know, what he shall do. It… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself. — Oprah Winfrey
The key question isn't "What fosters creativity?" But why in God's name isn't everyone creative? Where was the human potential lost? How was it crippled?… — Abraham Maslow
I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn't recognize it. It's not that I didn't trust him, becuase I… — Jonathan Safran Foer
The key to good eavesdropping is not getting caught. — Daniel Handler
I've got the key to my castle in the air, but whether I can unlock the door remains to be seen. — Louisa May Alcott
Often, moreover, it is...that aspect of our being that society finds eccentric, ridiculous, or disagreeable, that holds our sweet waters, our secret well of happiness,… — Tom Robbins
The key to happiness, she said, is tolerance of those who do not do as you do.' `What if those who do not do as… — Jeanette Winterson

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