#lock

All the things that most kids hated, I loved. I loved that things were asked of me and that, much to my surprise, I was able to do them. I loved the 10 o'clock bedtime. I loved the responsibility. ↗

— Laura Linney

#asked #bedtime #clock #hated #i

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

#beyond #churches #dark #did #doors

Much of our national debate proceeds as if China and America were locked in a zero-sum game in which one's loss is precisely the other's gain. ↗

— Eric Liu

#china #debate #gain #game #locked

If troubled companies want to explain away 2008 as a 'black swan,' then someone should take responsibility for creating the oil slick that seems to have tarred the entire flock! ↗

— Andrew Lo

#black #companies #creating #entire #explain

The gunner's mate came up and started breaking the locks on the ammunition. Everything was locked up for fear that someone might go in there with a cigarette or something. ↗

— Barney Ross

#breaking #came #cigarette #everything #fear

The soldiers' last meal is generally served out about five o'clock in the afternoon, sometimes earlier; and a stretch of fourteen hours intervenes between then and breakfast. ↗

— Patrick MacGill

#afternoon #between #breakfast #clock #earlier

An unlocked door means that, occasionally, you might get a devil come in, but a locked door means you have thousands of angels just walk by. ↗

— Ian MacKaye

#come #devil #door #get #just

I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties. ↗

— Hugh Mackay

#flaws #frailties #i #imperfections #locked

I'm supposed to say, Bill O'Reilly, that's immoral - click - and then walk back in and book his A block the next day and have a fine day and everything be kosher? I don't think so. ↗

— Andrea Mackris

#bill #block #book #click #day

In housing in the fifties in Britain and the sixties, we pulled down the terraces - destroyed whole communities and replaced them with tower blocks and we built walkways that became rat-runs for muggers. That was the fashionable opinion. But it was wrong. ↗

— John Major

#blocks #britain #built #communities #destroyed