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Quotes About Locked

low doorway and locked the accursed secret behind him. There would be
~ H.P. Lovecraft
If I did, they'd be irrelevant. You know that. I don't do well locked in a cage, Beck. I need the stage." "Nice mix of metaphors," I said. "At least it rhymed." I
~ Harlan Coben
How many churches today find themselves paralyzed in the upper room? How many congregations have just enough religion to come together, but not enough passion to go out. If the doors aren't locked, they might as well be. Upper room futility - a little bit of faith but very little fire.
~ Max Lucado
From disappointment, I gradually ascended the emotional ladder to haughty indignation, and finally to that state of stubbornness where the mind is locked like the jaws of an enraged bulldog.
~ Maya Angelou
Maybe because the Dark can only reach people at extremes; blinded by their own shining ideas, or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
~ Susan Cooper
maybe because the dark can only reach people at the extremes-- those bound by their own shiny ideas or locked up in the darkness of their own heads.
~ Susan Cooper
My name is Ruben Blum and I'm an, yes, an historian. But my front-door was locked and I didn't have the key, so I knocked, and as I waited for Edith to let me in, I kept waiving the shovel back at the Sheriff and mumbling, "Turks…what did you expect?…just a bunch of crazy Turks…
~ Joshua Cohen
All craft orbiting Tartarus had an orbit permanently locking them to the nightside.
~ Joshua Palmatier
Clent, however, suppressed any sense of pity without the slightest difficulty. His brain was busy with the icy clockwork of calculation. If only this young woman's fears were justified! Beamabeth Marlebourne would be unlikely to threaten anybody, locked away inside the Luck's cell for the rest of her life. Such a fate had a tempting poetry to it too, given that she really was the Luck of Toll, and had been all her life.
~ Frances Hardinge
But paradise is locked and bolted.... We must make a journey around the world to see if a back door has perhaps been left open.
~ Heinrich von Kleist
Misconceptions are unavoidable now that we've eaten of the Tree of Knowledge. But Paradise is locked and bolted, and the cherubim stands behind us. We have to go on and make the journey round the world to see if it is perhaps open somewhere at the back.
~ Heinrich von Kleist
I didn't get trained by the school system like other kids, and when I did concentrate on learning, my mind was cluttered and locked by the programming of the system.
~ Huey Newton
And you keep them all locked in? These visiting carriers? - They're always watched - But not locked in? The honor is specific to me? - You did try to brain me.
~ Sophie Jordan
lobby door was locked, and when I buzzed apartment 12C, it was
~ Michael Connelly
If a door isn't there then you can't hope to go through it, but if it's there but always locked, then you're trapped. Someone is keeping the door shut.
~ Michael Marshall Smith
I think I'm sort of locked into the sitcom genre.
~ Jason Marsden
The relocated Powerhouse Museum in Parramatta will be the anchor for arts and culture for the region, and now the site for the museum is locked in.
~ Gladys Berejiklian
One song bled into another and they remained locked together, neither willing to break the intimacy that surrounded them, concealing them in the small space the two occupied.
~ Maya Banks, Rush
In office buildings and retail premises in which entry is through double doors and one of those doors is locked for no reason, the door must bear a large sign saying: "This Door Is Locked for No Reason.
~ Bill Bryson
The FedEx truck backed into the driveway with an irritating beeping. The team was ready, combat gear on, locked, and loaded.
~ Bob Mayer
tantalus was locked, but just as Phin braced himself
~ Suzanne Enoch
The Sealed Shrine
~ Brandon Mull
Brightlord Adolin insisted. So long as you were in here, he wouldn't leave. We tried to stop him, but the man's a prince. We can't storming make him do anything, not even leave. He locked himself away in the cell and we just had to live with it.
~ Brandon Sanderson
The house wasn't locked. Wallander looked
~ Henning Mankell