Locke's Quotes

#1. You know, I like to think my life is kind of like the books I read, only I'm the author. I can write the story I want. The future can be anything I want it to be." He moved his head side to side, considering my words. "That works, as long as your story has a blond stud that fucks like an animal.

Adriana Locke

#2. The chief art of learning, as Locke has observed, is to attempt but little at a time. The widest excursions of the mind are made by short flights frequently repeated; the most lofty fabrics of science are formed by the continued accumulation of single propositions.

Samuel Johnson

#3. We need the private sector to succeed, because if the private sector succeeds, America succeeds. Because it's not the government that produces jobs, it's the private sector.

Gary Locke

#4. Until you finally lose the strength for sarcasm, Locke, I wouldn't hire any mourners.

Scott Lynch

#5. Children (nay, and men too) do most by example.

John Locke

#6. Such audacity could never be faked - Locke had to feel it, summon it from somewhere inside, cloak himself in arrogance as though it were an old familiar garment. Locke Lamora became a shadow in his own mind... Locke's complicated lies were this new man's simple truth.

Scott Lynch

#7. Life is droll. It has no common sense. It is the game of a mountebank.

William John Locke

#8. John Locke invented common sense, and only Englishmen have had it ever since!

Bertrand Russell

#9. He that judges without informing himself to the utmost that he is capable, cannot acquit himself of judging amiss

John Locke

#10. In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples; for imitation is a globe of precepts.

John Locke

#11. Since nothing appears to me to give Children so much becoming Confidence and Behavior, and so raise them to the conversation of those above their Age, as Dancing. I think they should be taught to dance as soon as they are capable of learning it.

John Locke

#12. The Bible is one of the greatest blessings bestowed by God on the children of men. It has God for its Author, salvation for its end, and truth without any mixture for its matter. It is all pure, all sincere; nothing too much; nothing wanting!

John Locke

#13. Among golfers the putter is usually known as the payoff club and how right that is! Putting is in fact a game in itself.

Bobby Locke

#14. Beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern: for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture.

John Locke

#15. Where there is no desire, there will be no industry.

John Locke

#16. I thought you specialised in dishonest finesse?"
"I also do a brisk trade in putting knives to peoples' throats and shouting at them," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#17. How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?

John Locke

#18. trust those that have proven their loyalty.

Adriana Locke

#19. Every man's first declaration of love is bathos
the zenith of his passion connoting perhaps the nadir of his intelligence.

William John Locke

#20. Men always forget that human happiness is a disposition of mind and not a condition of circumstances. - John Locke

Robert Jackson Bennett

#21. You're one third bad intentions, one third pure avarice, and one eighth sawdust. What's left, I'll credit, must be brains.

Scott Lynch

#22. If the Chinese can't buy U.S. products, they'll buy them from European countries and then develop stronger economic ties with France and Germany and perhaps side more with those countries when international issues flare up.

Gary Locke

#23. That's it? 'Damn, it smells like the fishsticks are burning and don't do that with your head, Bode?' What the fuck?

Joe Hill

#24. Time's a river, Locke, and we've always drifted farther down it than we think.

Scott Lynch

#25. Life does pack a punch. But it's the scars that make us who we are, that tell the story of the life we lived.

Adriana Locke

#26. Any human love a man gets he can make fill his life. It's like the grain of mustard-seed.

William John Locke

#27. There are some Men of one, some but of two Syllogisms, and no more; and others that can but advance one step farther.

John Locke

#28. Men's happiness or misery is [for the] most part of their own making.

John Locke

#29. How would you be able to detect a fart over your natural odor, Sanza?" "For shame," said Galdo. "There's no Sanzas here, remember? I'm an Asino." "Oh yes," said Locke with a yawn. "Yes, you certainly are.

Scott Lynch

#30. Chains reached over and grabbed Locke's fist, then mimed swinging it into Calo's jaw. "Repeat as necessary," said Chains, "until your problems are spitting up teeth.

Scott Lynch

#31. Western philosophy, then, is not an extended debate about knowledge, ethics, and reality, but a succession of conceptual metaphors. Descartes's philosophy is based on KNOWING IS SEEING, Locke's on the MIND IS A CONTAINER, Kant's on MORALITY IS A STRICT FATHER, and so on.

Steven Pinker

#32. It's not just the words we speak in a moment, but the weight of words over the course of time that matters. The words you choose every day add up. You are the words you speak, whether that's constructive or destructive.

Adriana Locke

#33. Nah, if she's the rose, he can be her thorn." Calo snapped his fingers. "The Thorn of Camorr! Now, that's got some shine to it!"
"That's the dumbest fucking thing I've ever heard," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#34. It's an old Camorri tradition for when a bunch of people are planning something stupid," said Locke. "Actually, we have a lot of traditions for that. You'll find out

Scott Lynch

#35. For generations, people have come to U.S. shores to seek opportunity. It's what my grandfather did a century ago, when he came to Seattle, and worked as a houseboy just one mile from the Washington State governor's mansion that I was privileged to inhabit for eight years.

Gary Locke

#36. There's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated.

Scott Lynch

#37. I mean, it's not calling me 'Locke.' It knows my real name.

Scott Lynch

#38. Chains used to claim that there's no freedom quite like the freedom of being constantly underestimated," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#39. Defects and weakness in men's understandings, as well as other faculties, come from want of a right use of their own minds; I am apt to think, the fault is generally mislaid upon nature, and there is often a complaint of want of parts, when the fault lies in want of a due improvement of them.

John Locke

#40. People finally have permission to be human in the context of their work. That's the real Internet story.

Christopher Locke

#41. No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

John Locke

#42. Of all false assertions that ever went into the world under the banner of a great name and the mail armor of a well-turned phrase, Locke's comparison of the mind to a blank sheet of paper appears to me among the most untrue.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#43. Loving her is so damn easy. It's as natural as breathing or the beating of a heart.

Adriana Locke

#44. Ever since the end of Medieval feudalism, and the writings of John Locke, we have understood the importance of being able to buy and sell one's own property, including books and watches, both for reasons of economics and liberty.

Marvin Ammori

#45. The foundation of a marriage is love. The walls of a shared life are built with trust, loyalty, and respect. Once those are torn down, there's nothing left standing.

Adriana Locke

#46. Love isn't the words you use to say it, but the actions you take to prove it's true.

Adriana Locke

#47. My, you are in a sad state. You believe you've been poisoned?" "No," said Locke with a cough. "I fell down some fucking stairs. What's it look like?

Scott Lynch

#48. I can't wait to have words with the Gray King when this shit is all finished," Locke whispered. "There's a few things I want to ask him. Philosophical questions. Like, 'How does it feel to be dangled out a window by a rope tied around your balls, motherfucker?

Scott Lynch

#49. when John Locke published his celebrated Letters concerning toleration in the aftermath of England's Glorious Revolution, he still excluded Roman Catholics and atheists from his proposals, on the grounds that they were enemies to the English state.

Diarmaid MacCulloch

#50. That sounds dangerous,'said Jean.
'For anyone else, maybe.For Gentlemen Bastards,we,it;s just what we do.'
'We?'
'We.

Scott Lynch

#51. I'm sorry," muttered Locke. "I was so keen to come to Tal fucking Verrar." "It's not your fault. We were both eager to hop in bed with the wench; it's just shit luck she turned out to have the clap.

Scott Lynch

#52. Whoso sheddeth man's blood, by man shall his blood be shed.

John Locke

#53. In rural parts of China, it's like stepping back into the era of my grandfather or great-grandfather - not much has changed.

Gary Locke

#54. In a fair fight, the don's man would almost certainly paint the walls with Locke and Calo's blood, so it stood to reason that this fight would have to be as unfair as possible.

Scott Lynch

#55. Consciousness is the perception of what passes in man's own mind.

John Locke

#56. China's own recent history proves that when it opens itself, there is nothing its people cannot accomplish. A more open China will lead to a more prosperous and stable China. That's good for China, the United States and, indeed, the entire world.

Gary Locke

#57. All the social ills that
law presumes to correct exist because people are not free to
learn and grow.

Jeremy Locke

#58. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.

John Locke

#59. He that makes use of another's fancy or necessity to sell ribbons or cloth dearer to him than to another man at the same time, cheats him.

John Locke

#60. Well then," said Locke. "Now that we've all realized precisely how tough we'll never be, let's stand on what we have.

Scott Lynch

#61. To prejudge other men's notions before we have looked into them is not to show their darkness but to put out our own eyes.

John Locke

#62. Twenty's good and proper. While Locke gestured for Calo and Galdo to help him set

Scott Lynch

#63. I do not say this, that I think there should be no difference of opinions in conversation, nor opposition in men's discourses ... 'Tis not the owning one's dissent from another, that I speak against, but the manner of doing it.

John Locke

#64. I'm a demon. I do bad things. It's genetic.

I.D. Locke

#65. The myth that the founding of American Republic was based on the philosophy of John Locke could only have been maintained, because the history of Leibniz's influence was suppressed.

Robert Trout

#66. What do you think of the old boy?" said Jean.
"He's got a strangely sunny view of ten years of defeat", said Locke, "but if I get killed in the next six weeks, I want him to speak at my funeral.

Scott Lynch

#67. Sex is the ... tremulous and bewildering and nerve-racking and delicious and myriad-adjectived soul-condition ... generally known as love. Ninety-nine point nine repeater percent of the world's literature has been devoted to its analysis. It's therefore of some importance.

William John Locke

#68. Good. Well. Shit." Locke rubbed his gloved hands together. "I guess that's that. I'm all out of rhetorical flourishes.

Scott Lynch

#69. Fabulous. Toleration is the key word. It's a pity few people understand this.

Cristiane Serruya

#70. Few men think, yet all will have opinions. Hence men's opinions are superficial and confused.

John Locke

#71. I keep asking myself," whispered Sabetha, giving Locke's arm a squeeze, "ARE we smarter than that woman's chicken?"
"At the moment, it's an open question," said Locke.

Scott Lynch

#72. China's history is marked by thousands of years of world-changing innovations: from the compass and gunpowder to acupuncture and the printing press. No one should be surprised that China has re-emerged as an economic superpower.

Gary Locke

#73. There's always a random element to taking lives.

John Locke

#74. I think that there is a concern, a question mark, by people all around the world and governments all around the world, as to what China's intentions are.

Gary Locke

#75. I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet
and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.

William John Locke

#76. Why do you assume it's something you've done, and something you can undo at will? I'm not some arithmetic problem just waiting for you to show your work properly, Locke. Did

Scott Lynch

#77. The U.S. tries to provide immigrants who grow up here with a world-class education and imbue them with the can-do attitude that has long defined American innovation.

Gary Locke

#78. The human rights record within China seems to rise and fall over time, but it's very clear that in the run up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics and since then, there's been a greater intolerance of dissent and the human rights record of China has been going in the wrong direction.

Gary Locke

#79. The difference, so observable in men's understandings and parts, does not arise so much from their natural faculties, as acquired habits.

John Locke

#80. That's so rare. Wanting to feel safe doesn't mean I'm weak or can't take care of myself.

Katherine Locke

#81. Whoever has used what means he is capable of, for the informing of himself, with a readiness to believe and obey what shall be taught and prescribed by Jesus, his Lord and King, is a true and faithful subject of Christ s kingdom:;; and cannot be thought to fail in any thing necessary to salvation.

John Locke

#82. What kind of knife is this?" Locke held a rounded buttering utensil up for Chains' inspection. "It's all wrong. You couldn't kill anyone with this.

Scott Lynch

#83. I want to hug you. And I want to tear your gods-damned head off. Both at once."
"Ah," said Locke. "Near as I can tell, that's the definition of 'family' right there.

Scott Lynch

#84. I'm not working, I want you to be with me. If there's a show you want to see or somewhere you want to eat, we can do that. But I do want you available to me completely at those times.

Adriana Locke

#85. TV has the longest recall. You remember what you've seen for longer; it has engagement and emotion. It's the most talked about.

Christopher Locke

#86. To love truth for truth's sake is the principal part of human perfection in this world, and the seed-plot of all other virtues.

John Locke

#87. Let's start wobbling, shall we? said Locke's knees, but this offer was met by a counterproposal from his better judgement to simply freeze up and do nothing, like a man treading water who sees a tall black fin coming straight at him.

Scott Lynch

#88. A politician's record is like a tin kettle to a dog's tale - it's a noisy appendage, wich makes the dog conspicuous and invites everybody to shy a brick at him.

David Ross Locke

#89. The merit of Locke's 'Essay Concerning Human Understanding' is its adequacy, and not its consistency ... He should have widened the title of his book into 'An Essay Concerning Experience.

Alfred North Whitehead

#90. Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Thomas Jefferson

#91. Everything we've been through in our lives we've done together. I held her hand at your parent's funeral, remember your mom's lemon pie every time I go through the produce section. I know she hates storms and love being there for her when she reaches out.

Adriana Locke

#92. I confess to loving a good murder mystery - anything by Scott Turow or John Grisham. Maybe it's a holdover from my days as a criminal prosecutor in Seattle.

Gary Locke

#93. [H]e that thinks absolute power purifies men's blood, and corrects the baseness of human nature, need read the history of this, or any other age, to be convinced to the contrary.

John Locke

#94. To read of human depravity in the police reports is one thing, to see it fall like a black shadow across one's life is another.

William John Locke

#95. Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it

John Locke

#96. The myth that John Locke was the philosopher behind the American Republic, is easily refuted by examining how Locke's philosophy steered Thomas Jefferson, for example.

Robert Trout

#97. We've come a long way since Nixon's first visit to China, or Carter's reestablishment of diplomatic relations.

Gary Locke

#98. Bacon , Locke , Descartes , Hume , and all the others knew they were giving rights to vulgarity. But in so doing in addition to caring for man's well-being they were providing rights for themselves.

Allan Bloom

#99. Following Locke's doctrine that the mind is a tabula rasa, Helvetius considered the differences between individuals entirely due to differences of education: in every individual, his talents and his virtues are the effect of his instruction.

Bertrand Russell

#100. I understand that in these difficult economic times, the potential for any additional expense is not welcomed by American businesses. But in the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them.

Gary Locke