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“Talks have reached a critical stage and negotiators need to reach a deal on agriculture in the next two weeks if efforts to restart the Doha round by the end of the year are to succeed. Some speak of a deadlock in the talks, .. I prefer to talk of a padlock, and the key is in the hands of the EU.”

Ifs Needs Years Two Ends Hands Next Speak Deals Effort Week Stage Keys Succeed Rounds Critical Agriculture Two Weeks Padlocks

Author:Celso Amorim

“Whate'er the talents, or howe'er designed, We hang one jingling padlock on the mind.”

Mind Talent Padlocks

Author:Alexander Pope

“This naming of things is so crucial to possession - a spiritual padlock with the key thrown irretrievably away - that it is a murder, an erasing, and it is not surprising that when people have felt themselves prey to it (conquest), among their first acts of liberation is to change their names.”

People Firsts Spiritual Names Felt Keys Murder Possession Liberation Thrown Crucial Surprising Conquest Prey Padlocks

Author:Jamaica Kincaid

“One has said that Christ excelled all other moralists in this, that He puts the padlock not upon the hand, but upon the heart. But He does not use the padlock at all, He renders such a thing unnecessary. He takes the tiger from the heart, and replaces it with the lamb.”

Heart Doe Said Use Hands Christ Unnecessary Tigers Lambs Regeneration Moralist Padlocks

Book:Evidences of Revealed Religion

Source: Evidences of Revealed Religion

“Faith is a padlock of the mind, and few keys can open it.”

Mind Keys Padlocks

Author:Jerry A. Coyne

“Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.”

People Men Closest Yale Padlocks

Book:Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

Source: Gracie/Caeser Spec Ed

“The padlock clicked open. A voice soundingoddly like South Parks's Cartman echoed through my quivering brain. Goddammit!”

Voice Brain South Parks Padlocks

Author:Jennifer Rardin

“Yet what happened in fact? In the middle of the night John woke up and saw me sleeping beside him with no doubt a look of peace on my face, even of bliss, bliss is not unattainable in this world. He saw me—saw me as I was at that moment—took fright, hurriedly strapped the armour back over his heart, this time with chains and a double padlock, and stole out into the darkness.”

World Looks Heart Moments Facts Faces Night Sleep Darkness Doubt Saws Happened Middle This World Chains Bliss No Doubt That Moment Fright Middle Of The Night Unattainable Armour Padlocks

Book:Summertime: Fiction

Source: Summertime: Fiction

“Her father guarded her, and she guarded herself; for there are no padlocks, bolts, or bars, that secure a maiden better than her own reserve.”

Discipline Bars Secure Reserves Bolts Maidens Maiden Names Padlocks

Author:Miguel de Cervantes

“Mickey is a secret journal chained closed with a padlock, slammed inside a vault and dropped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean.”

Secret Middle Ocean Journal Pacific Mickey Chained Vaults Pacific Ocean Padlocks

Author:Noel Fisher

“Wedlock is a padlock.”

Marriage Wedlock Padlocks

Book: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

Source: 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

“Place a padlock on your throat and hide the key.”

Keys Speech Throat Padlocks

Author:Rumi

“You can padlock a building, but you can't padlock an idea.”

Ideas Building Padlocks

Book:Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander

Source: Unearthing Seeds of Fire: The Idea of Highlander

“I was brought up as an only child, and we were very close. But when I was 14, we got evicted. We came home to a padlock, and I looked up at my mom and she was crying, and there was nothing to do.”

Children Home Cry Mom My Mom Only Child Padlocks

Author:Dwayne Johnson