Top 100 Lock Key Quotes
#2. 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
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. 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
#6. 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
#7. 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
#9. Christianity is the key that fits the lock of the universe.
Nancy Pearcey
#10. 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
#11. Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
John Polkinghorne
#12. 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
#13. 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
#14. 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
#15. A random key does not open a random lock just because they are "both random.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#16. As soon as you think you've got the key to the stock market, they change the lock.
Joseph Granville
#17. Let him have the key of thy heart, who hath the lock of his own.
Thomas Browne
#18. 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
#19. 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
#20. 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
#21. Seeing her was a key turned in a rusty lock and now all his gears were churning.
Suanne Laqueur
#22. 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
#23. This was soul calling to soul. A tired, trapped lock at last meeting the key that unlocks it.
Helon Habila
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
George Herbert
#31. I have not stepped into another jail, not yet, but I can feel the key in the lock, threatening to turn.
Victoria Aveyard
#32. 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
#34. 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
#35. Why lock yourself in your own cage when someone is handing you a key?
Gregory Maguire
#36. 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
#37. The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.
Tehyi Hsieh
#38. 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
#39. Never try to lock the virtue's door with the key of vice
It may lock forever; never to be opened again
Munia Khan
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. 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
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. Words pass through walls and slip past lock and key,
and numbing cold seeps to our very bones.
Titus Lucretius Carus
#46. 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
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. 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
#50. 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
#51. As soon as you find the key to success, somebody always changes the lock.
Tracey Ullman
#52. 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
#53. Mind is the lock. Knowing is the key. Unlock the mind and open your heart.
Robin Craig Clark
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. And when her eyes met mine, I felt something click, like a key turning in a lock.
Nicholas Sparks
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. 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
#63. Love is a lock that linketh noble minds,
Faith is the key that shuts the spring of love.
Robert Greene
#64. 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
#65. I close the world away. Lock it up. Turn the key so tight. Blackness buries me in its folds.
Tahereh Mafi
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Jealousy is the lock that closes your heart, understanding is the key that opens it.
Ken Petti
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Friends don't leave each other in the woods. they are the one who come and take you out
Sarah Dessen
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. Your attitude is either the lock on or key to your door of success.
Denis Waitley
#77. Carpet," said Mary Poppins, putting her key in the lock.
P.L. Travers
#78. 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
#79. Weight loss is not the key to your dreams. The truth is there is no lock and the door is flimsy.
Golda Poretsky
#80. You suppose you are the trouble
But you are the cure
You suppose that you are the lock on the door
But you are the key that opens it
It's too bad that you want to be someone else
You don't see your own face, your own beauty
Yet, no face is more beautiful than yours.
Rumi
#81. Time? Time freezes
as they gaze
into each other's eyes.
No beginning, no end,
in sight, a deep vast ocean,
a universe is reflected.
Like a key to a lock,
they are.
All the days that have been,
all the days to come;
they stand in a place
beyond
and within it all.
Nancy Navene
#82. Names and knowledge change, the way the turning
world brings color or deep shadows, without a sound
even as soft as the twist of a key in a lock.
Jeannine Atkins
#83. Yes, I know.
Death sits with his key in my lock.
Not one day is taken for granted.
Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.
Anne Sexton
#84. I do not believe that a child can be reformed by lock and key and bars, or that fear can ever develop a child's character.
Edward J. Flanagan
#85. Righteous passion is an innocent prisoner
until the day you set it free.
Sinful passion is a guilty prisoner;
lock it up and throw away the key.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#86. Sanctum, a holy or sacred place. What could be more sacred than possessing the power of your own true thoughts? Sanctum. It is both lock and key.
Madeleine Roux
#87. This old, folkish layer survives in us all, and to speak as I really think, I do not consider religion the most adequate means of keeping it under lock and key. For that, literature alone avails, humanistic science, the ideal of the free and beautiful human being.
Thomas Mann
#89. A fragrance is like a cat burglar in your brain, it has the key with which to pick the lock and unleash your memories.
Roja Dove
#90. Eating the peach is a meditation. Your mind empties of all the must dos and should have dones. You are pure being. Your lover's tongue is the key that turns the lock that opens the pleasure box. Life has few perfect moments; moments of cunnilingus score the highest on the sex blissometer.
Chloe Thurlow
#91. The very mystery of him excited her curiosity like a door that had neither lock nor key.
Margaret Mitchell
#92. I tell young comics, 'Do you want this badly enough? It's there. But you have to go get it. And if you think I'm going to give you the key to the lock of that door, there is no key, there is no lock, and there is no door.'
Jerry Lewis
#93. When you love someone, really love someone, it's a lasting mark on your soul. There's a lock on your heart that you'll carry with you always. You may lose the key or give it away, but the lock stays with you all the same.
Cora Carmack
#94. Walk the paths of logic. Every outcome has its cause, and every predicament has its solution. Every lock its key.
Anthony Doerr
#95. Making food a commodity to be owned was one of the great innovations of our culture. No other culture in history has ever put food under lock and key - and putting it there is the cornerstone of our economy, for if the food wasn't under lock and key, who would work?
Daniel Quinn
#96. If and when family planning is the responsibility of females, males are best kept under lock and key.
Nell Zink
#97. Wordplay hides a key to reality that the dictionary tries in vain to lock inside every free word.
Julio Cortazar
#98. Attitude is the criterion for success. But you can't buy an attitude for a million dollars. Attitudes are not for sale ... Your attitude towards your potential is either the key to or the lock in the door of personal fulfillment.
Denis Waitley
#99. Down the endless halls of quilt
My silver thread of tears is split.
My fingerbone the key that broke
My blood the oil that smooth the lock.
Catherine Fisher
#100. Fear is the lock and laughter the key to your heart.
Sidney Crosby
