Top 100 Key Lock Quotes
#1. Key rings rattle throughout history. Each key, each lock has its tale.
Henning Mankell
#3. You couldn't see the key around my neck: it hung too low under both collars. But if I leaned in close, I could make it out, buried deep beneath. Out of sight, hard to recognize, but still able to be found, even if I was the only one to ever look for it.
Sarah Dessen
#4. Every key belongs to a lock, and every lock contains a secret. My mind churns for the truth that you hold. Why are you here? I never desired this for you, yet I am curious to know. Is this idle gaud the answer I seek, or is it merely the old memory of a dream I thought I once lived?
H.S. Crow
#5. And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.
Nicholas Sparks
#6. 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.
Sarah Dessen
#7. My heart to you is given:
Oh, do give yours to me; We'll lock them up together, And throw away the key.
Arthur Frederick Saunders
#8. So I placed my heart under lock and key
To take some time, and take care of me
But I turn around and you're standing here
Deborah Cox
#9. Learn to pray. Pray often. Pray in your mind, in your heart. Pray on your knees. Prayer is your personal key to heaven. The lock is on your side of the veil. And I have learned to conclude all my prayers with 'Thy will be done' (Matthew 6:10; see also Luke 11:2; 3 Nephi 13:10).
Boyd K. Packer
#10. In beginning the world, if you don't wish to get chafed at every turn, fold up your pride carefully, put it under lock and key, and only let it out to air upon grand occasions. Pride is a garment all stiff brocade outside, all grating sackcloth on the side next to the skin.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
#11. No matter how much I want to scream at him and make him leave, I find myself wishing he could squeeze me just a little bit tighter. I want him to lock his arms around me and throw away the key, because this is where he belongs and I'm scared he'll just let me go again.
Colleen Hoover
#12. Mind is the lock. Knowing is the key. Unlock the mind and open your heart.
Robin Craig Clark
#13. I see." Her troubled gaze focused on the lock. "And the key would be ... ?"
"Gone," he said. "Lost years ago. Not that it matters none. I once seen His Grace kick in a brick wall 'cause he was in a mood for what lay on the other side.
Patricia Coughlin
#14. She mulled how very Jonathan of him to effortlessly find his way to her when she needed him, labyrinth or no. Just as he'd effortlessly uncovered her secrets. But that was simply because he'd been born knowing the secret to her. He was hers and she was his. Just as there was one key for every lock
Julie Anne Long
#15. As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.
Tracey Ullman
#16. But unfriendly is usually one of those things you pick up on right away. You know, like B.O. There's no hiding it if it's there.
Sarah Dessen
#17. Perhaps, after all, it is Christianity that is sane and all its critics that are mad - in various ways. I tested this idea by asking myself whether there was about any of the accusers anything morbid that might explain the accusation. I was startled to find that this key fitted a lock.
G.K. Chesterton
#18. We all have a secret buried under lock and key in the attic of our soul
Carlos Ruiz Zafon
#19. Admittedly, key archival documentation remains under lock and key and will be inaccessible for a long time to come. But enough material is available, in the form of declassified documents, memoirs, oral histories and journalistic treatments, to begin to piece together the story.
Fredrik Logevall
#20. A woman should be mindful that the key to one man's heart does not necessarily fits into the lock of another.
Dennis E. Adonis
#21. If I try to summon back his face, the sound of his voice, and the sensation in my stomach like a key turning in a lock when he touched me, I lose everything.
Joyce Carol Oates
#22. Every closed door isn't locked and even if it is ... YOU just might have the key! Search within to unlock a world of possibilities!
Sanjo Jendayi
#23. It was late spring when Marya Morevna slid her brass key into the lock of the house on Dzerzhinskaya Street, feeling it slide, too, between her own ribs, and open her like a reliquary full of old, nameless bones.
Catherynne M Valente
#24. Everything remembered, everything thought, all awareness becomes base, frame, pedestal, lock and key of his ownership. Period, region, craft, previous owners - all, for the true collector, merge in each one of his possessions into a magical encyclopaedia whose quintessence is the fate of his object.
Walter Benjamin
#25. Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#26. Always put the unknown future into the hands of the known God. He has the key it will take to unlock your locked doors.
Israelmore Ayivor
#27. The lies will lock you up, the truth the only key
Missy Higgins
#28. Weight loss is not the key to your dreams. The truth is there is no lock and the door is flimsy.
Golda Poretsky
#29. Do not be misled by the fact that you are at liberty and relatively free; that for the moment you are not under lock and key: you have simply been granted a reprieve.
Ryszard Kapuscinski
#30. Clarity! Accuracy! Think of your words as a key to fit into the lock of your meaning. Cast them with precision. That key should then be swift and perfect in achieving its aim. Well shaped talk is a release from the indefinite. It is explanation. Preparation. Nothing more.
Jane Borodale
#31. Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.
P.L. Travers
#32. Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.
Ken Kesey
#33. The passed Pawn is a criminal, who should be kept under lock and key. Mild measures, such as police surveillance, are not sufficient
Aron Nimzowitsch
#34. Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.
Denis Waitley
#35. Like I, of all people, didn't know better than to lead a total stranger to the point where they could hurt me most, knowing how easily they'd be able to find their way back to it.
Sarah Dessen
#36. Fishing around in my clutch for my keys. I find them remarkably quickly, considering my disorientated hands, but getting one in the lock is another matter entirely. I close one eye to try and focus as I slowly guide the key to the lock,
Jodi Ellen Malpas
#37. As a constellation, theoretical thought circles the concept it would like to unseal, hoping that it may fly open like the lock of a well-guarded safe-deposit box: in response, not to a single key or a single number, but to a combination of numbers
Theodor Adorno
#38. Friends don't leave each other in the woods. they are the one who come and take you out
Sarah Dessen
#39. What is the point, what is the reason, to lock people away for years, when it seems to mean so very little, even to the jailers who hold the key?
Piper Kerman
#40. So it was that Dantes, during the Hundred Days and after Waterloo, remained under lock and key, forgotten, if not by men, at least by God.
Alexandre Dumas
#41. Jealousy is the lock that closes your heart, understanding is the key that opens it.
Ken Petti
#42. But I have learned a thing or two; I know as sure as fate, when we lock up our lives for wealth, the gold key comes too late.
Will Carleton
#43. Death isn't the end of your life, you know. Your body is a lock. Death is the key. The key turns ... and you're free. To be anywhere. Everywhere. Two places at once. Nowhere. Part of the background hum of the universe.
Joe Hill
#44. Don't try to be the missing key in my life, and I won't be the unmatched lock, that doesn't let you in.
Anthony Liccione
#45. I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds.
Tahereh Mafi
#46. So I place my heart under lock and key, to take some time to look after me. But when I turn around you're standing there ...
Deborah Cox
#47. I know because your mice have been sending Facebook messages to my mice. They really like the caps lock key. Someone should teach them about proper email etiquette.
Seanan McGuire
#48. A key that can open many locks is called a master key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock
Unknown
#49. If the key to life is figuring yourself out; family must be the lock.
LDarnell
#50. Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,
Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
Robert Greene
#51. where
do all the
memories go,
the ones we
hide away
with
lock
key yet
continue
to shape
us all the
s a m e?
"- did it really happen if i can't remember it?
Amanda Lovelace
#52. Seeing her was a key turned in a rusty lock and now all his gears were churning.
Suanne Laqueur
#53. It may arrive in the instant when we are doing something mundane, like putting our front-door key in the lock; it may lie hidden in the quiet that follows the lunch hour or in the thousand and one things that all seem the same to us.
Paulo Coelho
#54. Needing was so easy: it came naturally, like breathing. Being needed by someone else, though, that was the hard part. But as with giving help and accepting it, we had to do both to be made complete-like links overlapping to form a chain, or a lock finding the right key.
Sarah Dessen
#55. They can keep men in here, under lock and key, deep in the dungeon until the final moments of their lives, so that men like York and me will never taste the rain. But they cannot keep us from passing our condensation on to the sky. They cannot keep us from raining down in China.
Rene Denfeld
#56. As she removed the key, he stood close enough that she felt his breath on her ear. "Do you have something of value in there, or are you making certain I know you have a lock?
Cate Rowan
#57. Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
Thomas Browne
#59. As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.
Joseph Granville
#60. A random key does not open a random lock just because they are "both random.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#61. For the heart was both key and lock, and he who could master the hearts of men and learn their secrets was well on the way to mastering the Fates and controlling the thread of his own destiny.
Margaret Atwood
#62. And when whatever happened in that barn happened, it was a moment I'll never forget. Like a missing key slid into a dusty old lock. Click. My world opened.
Jennifer Walkup
#63. Soviet authorities had long feared copiers. At its most basic, the machine helped spread information, and strict control of information was central to the Communist Party's grip on power. In most offices, photocopy machines were kept under lock and key.
David E. Hoffman
#64. He looked terrified as he snaked his hand beneath her arm, entwining their fingers together. Their hands fit like a lock and key. It had been years since they had simply held hands, and she wished they had never stopped.
Marissa Meyer
#66. Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
John Polkinghorne
#67. If you have been sick for a long, long time, Prozac may make you high. It probably won't make you, never quite managed to be a part of, but a world, nevertheless, that you at first fit into with the precision of a key to a lock or a neurotransmitter to its receptor.
Lauren Slater
#68. Christianity is the key that fits the lock of the universe.
Nancy Pearcey
#70. As soon as you are in a social setting, you better take away the key to the lock of your heart and pocket it; those who leave thekey in the lock are fools.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#71. Look," he said, "the point is there's no way to be a hundred percent sure about anyone or anything. So you're left with a choice. Either hope for the best, or just expect the worst."
If you expect the worst, you're never disappointed," I pointed out.
Yeah, but who lives like that?
Sarah Dessen
#72. If you can give up the thing behind the door, the lock will be opened by itself! Sometimes giving up is the best key!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#73. A man forced to spend his life without ever having the right, without ever finding the time, to shut himself up all alone, no matter where, to think, to reflect, to work, to dream? Ah! my dear boy, a key, the key of a door which one can lock this is happiness, mark you, the only happiness!
Guy De Maupassant
#74. I don't need friends. All they do is eat your food, drink your beer, then spew your secrets the first time you do something that displeases them. No offense, but when you have as many enemies as I do, you keep your secrets under lock and key. (Solin)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#75. So I wait for the day when I'll hear the key as it turns in the lock And the guard will say to me, Oh my patient prisoner you waited for this day and finally, you are free! You are free! You are free!
Conor Oberst
#76. No word has one specific definition.Maybe in the dictionary, but not in real life
-Ms.Conyers of Sarah Dessen's Lock and Key
Sarah Dessen
#77. Open your hearts to the love God instills ... God loves you tenderly. What He gives you is not to be kept under lock and key, but to be shared.
Mother Teresa
#78. Putting food under lock and key was one of the great innovations of your culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of your economy.[ ... ] Because if the food wasn't under lock and key, Julie, who would work?
Daniel Quinn
#80. I am thankful the most important key in history was invented. It's not the key to your house, your car, your boat, your safety deposit box, your bike lock or your private community. It's the key to order, sanity, and peace of mind. The key is 'Delete.'
Elayne Boosler
#81. Now be silent. Let the One who creates the words speak. He made the door. He made the lock. He also made the key.
Rumi
#82. Never try to lock the virtue's door with the key of vice
It may lock forever; never to be opened again
Munia Khan
#83. Try pausing right before and right after undertaking a new action, even something simple like putting a key in a lock to open a door. Such pauses take a brief moment, yet they have the effect of decompressing time and centering you.
David Steindl-Rast
#84. The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.
Tehyi Hsieh
#85. Any time someone puts a lock on something you own against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.
Cory Doctorow
#86. Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?
Gregory Maguire
#87. In life, the categories we belong to can change very easily and can change so very easily that we in fact belong to every single category! We are hunter, we are victim; we are master, we are slave; we are rich, we are poor; we are lock, we are key! We belong to every category!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#89. Makes me nervous on about five different levels. "Oh, no. He frosted under heavy guard. He's still under lock and key. But I've talked to him," Haymitch says. "Face-to-face?
Suzanne Collins
#90. So weird," Decker mumbled. "I thought she walked through walls.""I guess she doesn't have to. This is how she kept getting my porno stash last summer,"Beck
grumbled. "I had it behind lock and key.""Our porno stash. I told you to give it to Grandpa Louis. She leaves him alone.
Lizzy Ford
#91. I have not stepped into another jail, not yet, but I can feel the key in the lock, threatening to turn.
Victoria Aveyard
#92. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
George Herbert
#93. Every lock has a key, and all keys have jagged edges and crooked sides. No one is perfect, but we're exactly perfect for the one person who matters.
Dannika Dark
#94. La-La Land's a land of losers. . . . We're all just a bunch of dreamers with a nickel in our shoe. Why do we come out here chasing dreams that are so hard to catch? It takes your heart, your guts and your liver just to find the lock, and then 999 times out of a grand you can't find the key.
Robert Wright Campbell
#95. Nate: "And," he said, "boys at twelve aren't exactly slick with the ladies."
Ruby: "'Slick with the ladies'?" I said. "Are you twelve?
Sarah Dessen
#96. Of course I am the only one with the answer. For every lock, there is a key. I created the lock, so I therefore know of the key. - Sobek
S.W. Lothian
#97. As I rolled over, stretching out, my only thought was to go back to the dream I'd been having, which I couldn't remember, other than that it had been good, in that distant, hopeful way unreal things can be.
Sarah Dessen
#98. As I go musing through this mournful land Soothed by the pine-tree's solemn harmony, Thy well-loved image comes and walks by me. I seem to hold thee by the gentle hand And talk of things I dimly understand, That thy dear spirit set to mine may be As to an intricate lock the simple key.
John Barlas
#99. Salvation is not something that happens only at the end of a person's life. Salvation happens every time someone with a key uses it to open a door he could lock instead.
Barbara Brown Taylor
#100. This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it.
Helon Habila
