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Whether it is reinforced glass in schools, placing locks on the inside of classroom doors, selling guns with gun locks, or improving mental health programs, these are recommendations that make sense. – Dannel Malloy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Without having the get ... I have no prospects of getting remarried. I cannot date men. I have no future of having more children, it just literally locks you in. You're just entirely chained, and, in a sense, you're controlled. – Rivky Stein	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Studies have consistently shown that children living in homes with safely-stored firearms are less likely to be shot, and safe firearm storage is widely recommended by gun rights organizations and public health officials, trigger locks and gun lockboxes can be purchased for less than $10 online, and in common stores. – Joseph Simonetti	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
From my point of view the worst thing would be for it to end up in the hands of a private collector who locks it up in a bank vault for 50 years, it was hard to keep my hands off it -- I just want to pore through it, to be able to read every word in his crabbed, backwards-sloping hand -- it is such a covetable object. – Dylan Thomas	Found on CNN 9 years ago
They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there. – Ronald Cunningham	added by anonymous 9 years ago
If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters? – Bernard Mandeville	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still. – Leo Buscaglia	added by anonymous 10 years ago
How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards. – John Gay	added by anonymous 10 years ago
You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks. – Amit Ray	added by anonymous 12 years ago
I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed, Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed, The rich return of fame and friends procure, And ?gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure. – Pindar	added by anonymous 12 years ago
By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks! – William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1	added by anonymous 13 years ago
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river. – Louisa May Alcott, Little Women	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone. – Author Unknown	added by anonymous 13 years ago
By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks. – Joe Paterno	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks. – Doug Larson	added by anonymous 14 years ago
Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. – Merry Browne	added by anonymous 14 years ago

Whether it is reinforced glass in schools, placing locks on the inside of classroom doors, selling guns with gun locks, or improving mental health programs, these are recommendations that make sense.

– Dannel Malloy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Without having the get ... I have no prospects of getting remarried. I cannot date men. I have no future of having more children, it just literally locks you in. You're just entirely chained, and, in a sense, you're controlled.

– Rivky Stein

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Studies have consistently shown that children living in homes with safely-stored firearms are less likely to be shot, and safe firearm storage is widely recommended by gun rights organizations and public health officials, trigger locks and gun lockboxes can be purchased for less than $10 online, and in common stores.

– Joseph Simonetti

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

From my point of view the worst thing would be for it to end up in the hands of a private collector who locks it up in a bank vault for 50 years, it was hard to keep my hands off it -- I just want to pore through it, to be able to read every word in his crabbed, backwards-sloping hand -- it is such a covetable object.

– Dylan Thomas

Found on CNN
9 years ago

They put Omani in his box, They're using nails instead of locks. But at his funeral don't despair, The chances are he won't be there.

– Ronald Cunningham

added by anonymous
9 years ago

If courtesans and strumpets were to be prosecuted with as much rigor as some silly people would have it, what locks or bars would be sufficient to preserve the honor of our wives and daughters?

– Bernard Mandeville

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Love can never grow old. Locks may lose their brown and gold. Cheeks may fade and hollow grow. But the hearts that love will know, never winter's frost and chill, summer's warmth is in them still.

– Leo Buscaglia

added by anonymous
10 years ago

How the mother is to be pitied who hath handsome daughters! Locks, bolts, bars, and lectures of morality are nothing to them: they break through them all. They have as much pleasure in cheating a father and mother, as in cheating at cards.

– John Gay

added by anonymous
10 years ago

You are your master. Only you have the master keys to open the inner locks.

– Amit Ray

added by anonymous
12 years ago

I hate the miser, whose unsocial breast Locks from the world his useless stores. Wealth by the bounteous only is enjoyed, Whose treasures, in diffusive good employed, The rich return of fame and friends procure, And ?gainst a sad reverse a safe retreat secure.

– Pindar

added by anonymous
12 years ago

By the pricking of my thumbs,Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks!

– William Shakespeare, "Macbeth", Act 4 scene 1

added by anonymous
13 years ago

If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don't believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.

– Louisa May Alcott, Little Women

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Many of us have heard opportunity knocking at our door, but by the time we unhooked the chain, pushed back the bolt, turned two locks, and shuts off the burglar alarm - it was gone.

– Author Unknown

added by anonymous
13 years ago

By the pricking of my thumbs, Something wicked this way comes. Open, locks, Whoever knocks

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Besides pride, loyalty, discipline, heart, and mind, confidence is the key to all the locks.

– Joe Paterno

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Instead of giving a politician the keys to the city, it might be better to change the locks.

– Doug Larson

added by anonymous
14 years ago

Preconceived notions are the locks on the door to wisdom.

– Merry Browne

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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