Keys Quotes

2623 Keys quotes by 1911 unique authors

It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can. — Jane Hamilton
The supernatural can be very annoying until one finds the key that transforms it into science," he observed mildly... "Come on, Ox, let's go out… — Barry Hughart
The key is never, never work. Nothing is more aging than work. It's not only the strain of getting up in the morning for work,… — Quentin Crisp
Those moralists, on the other hand, who, following in the footsteps of Socrates, offer the individual a morality of self-control and temperance as a means… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Long looking at paintings is equivalent to being dropped into a foreign city, where gradually, out of desire and despair, a few key words, then… — Jeanette Winterson
Gods prefer simple, vicious games, where you Do Not Achieve Transcendence but Go Straight To Oblivion; a key to the understanding of all religion is… — Terry Pratchett
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
Men are prisoners of their genitalia and women are the keepers of the keys to paradise. — Pat Conroy
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

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