Locking Quotes
60 quotes by 57 authors
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I had lived in New York since 1996, sometimes in the worst neighborhoods, without even locking my door half the time.
— Christopher Bollen
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Corruption is a major cause of poverty as well as a barrier to overcoming it, .. The two scourges feed off each other, locking their…
— Peter Eigen
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You can't just draw a veil of secrecy when you are locking people up. You have to do at least the minimum, which is to…
— Jamie Fellner
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. . . the solution is not to toss youthful offenders into jail or prisons. We long ago recognized alcoholism to be a disease, and…
— Tom McCall
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I'm not in favor of the death penalty. But I'm in favor of locking these people away in maximum security units where they can never…
— John Grisham
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics - it was called…
— Queen Latifah
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Why did men worship in churches, locking themselves away in the dark, when the world lay beyond its doors in all its real glory?
— Charles de Lint
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I was depressed as a child. I found it hard to make friends. My favourite thing was locking myself in the bathroom and practising comedy…
— David Walliams
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I went down the street to the 24-hour grocery. When I got there, the guy was locking the front door. I said, 'Hey, the sign…
— Steven Wright
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But in high school the business of irrevocable choices began. Doors slipped shut with a faint locking click that was only heared clearly in the…
— Stephen King
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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…
— Scott Westerfeld
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She dealt her pretty words like Blades -- How glittering they shone -- And every One unbared a Nerve Or wantoned with a Bone --…
— Emily Dickinson
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Depression - that limp word for the storm of black panic and half-demented malfunction - had over the years worked itself out in Charlotte's life…
— Sebastian Faulks
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Wondering where Ranger was now, when I needed him. Why wasn’t he here, insisting on locking me up in a safe house? Now that my…
— Janet Evanovich
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Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was…
— Scott Lynch
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It's no use locking the door after the steed is stolen.
— H.G. Wells
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That would be locking the horse after the stable door is gone, a very foolish thing to do.
— Patrick O'Brian
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Fact: upon locking yourself our of your apartment you will immediately need to use the bathroom. Fact: and then you will stand in place and…
— Augusten Burroughs
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Let them go, I tell myself. Say good-bye and forget them. I do my best, thinking of them one by one, releasing them like birds…
— Suzanne Collins
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The Summer had died peacefully in its sleep, and Autumn, as soft-spoken executrix, was locking life up safely until Spring came to claim it.
— Kurt Vonnegut
Who Wrote These Locking Quotes
57 authors contributed a total of 60 Locking Quotes, led by these top contributors: