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Locks Quotes

Wedlock is a padlock.

John Ray (1818). “A compleat collection of English proverbs. To which is added, A collection of English words not generally used. Repr. verbatim from the ed. of 1768”, p.31

My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.

Suzanne Collins (2011). “The Hunger Games Trilogy”, p.1209, Scholastic Inc.

It's linkage I'm talking about, and harmonies and structures, And all the various things that lock our wrists to the past.

Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.79, Macmillan

The key to success isn't much good until one discovers the right lock to insert it in.

Tehyi Hsieh (1948). “Chinese epigrams inside out, and proverbs”

To the optimist all doors have handles and hinges; to the pessimist, all doors have locks and latches.

William Arthur Ward (1968). “Thoughts of a Christian Optimist: The Words of William Arthur Ward”