Lockley Door Quotes & Sayings

I read for pleasure
In search of fictional worlds
To enrich my truths — A.A. Patawaran

The glow of one warm thought is to me worth more than money — Thomas Jefferson

There are people who think that plunder loses all its immorality as soon as it becomes legal. Personally, I cannot imagine a more alarming situation. — Frederic Bastiat

You guys look like you liked Mumford & Sons before everyone else did and now don't like them because everyone else does. — T.J. Klune

In every dispute between parent and child, both cannot be right, but they may be, and usually are, both wrong. It is this situation which gives family life its peculiar hysterical charm. — Isaac Rosenfeld

We have no one to blame for the Kennedys but ourselves. We took the Kennedys to heart of our own accord. And it is my opinion that we did it not because we respected them or thought what they proposed was good, but because they were pretty. We, the electorate, were smitten by this handsome, vivacious family ... We wanted to hug their golden tousled heads to our dumpy breasts. — P. J. O'Rourke

You own the skies and still, you want my heart ... — Unknown

What if I jumped out of an airplane with a couple of tanks of helium and one huge, un-inflated balloon? Then, while falling, I release the helium and fill the balloon. How long of a fall would I need in order for the balloon to slow me enough that I could land safely? — Colin Rowe

[..]the way you get her interested in you will also be the way you'll lose her [..] — Alice Walsh

Child, you do not forgive because the person who wronged deserves it.You misunderstand the point of forgiveness entirely. The only cage that a grudge creates is around the holder of that grudge. Forgiveness is not saying that the person who hurt you was right, or has earned it, or is allowed to hurt you again. All forgiveness means is that you will carry on without the burdens of rage and hatred. — Merrie Haskell

A criminal is a person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation.Most government is by the rich for the rich. Government comprises a large part of the organized injustice in any society, ancient or modern.Civil government, insofar as it is instituted for the security of property, is in reality instituted for the defence of the rich against the poor, and for the defence of those who have property against those who have none. — Adam Smith

Oh what idiots we have all been, this is just as it must be — Niels Bohr

You can trust my word," Everet said. "No one will raise a hand to punish you while you belong to me. Not me, not anyone else. — Kim Dare

This is more a part of war than trumpets or starships. Quiet, unremembered moments of cruelty. — Pierce Brown