Gates Quotes - Page 12

• There has fallen a splendid tear
  From the passion-flower at the gate.
  She is coming, my dove, my dear;
  She is coming, my life, my fate;
  The red rose cries, "She is near, she is near;"
  And the white rose weeps, "She is late;"
  The larkspur listens, "I hear; I hear;"
  And the lily whispers, "I wait."

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Flower, Passion

  'Maud' (1855) pt. 1, sect. 22, st. 10

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• I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the president is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.

  William Howard Taft

  Presidential, Towns, Tourists

  Letter of Archibald Butt to Clara F. Butt on June 01, 1909. "Taft and Roosevelt: The intimate letters of Archie Butt" by Archibald Willingham Butt, 1930.

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• There's not a yes or no answer to that. We want to prepare as a team to be as good as we can be out of the gate. If two months into the season or when Roger makes a decision to come to Arlington, I'd love to sit down with Buck and decide whose spot he takes. In reality so much happens during the course of the season, I don't see it as a problem.

  Jon Daniels

  Team, Reality, Two

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• But I, in the chilling twilight stand and wait At the portcullis, at thy castle gate, Longing to see the charmed door of dreams Turn on its noiseless hinges, delicate sleep!

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Dream, Twilight, Sleep

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”

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• The philosophy of Atheism has its root in the earth, in this life; its aim is the emancipation of the human race from all God-heads, be they Judaic, Christian, Mohammedan, Buddhistic, Brahmanistic, or what not. Mankind has been punished long and heavily for having created its gods, nothing but pain and persecution, have been man's lot since gods began. There is but one way out of this blunder. Man must break his fetters which have chained him to the gates of heaven and hell, so that he can begin to fashion out of his reawakened and illumined consciousness a new world upon the earth.

  Emma Goldman

  Christian, Fashion, Pain

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• We are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and God is shining through it all the time. God manifests Himself everywhere, in everything - in people and in things and in nature and in events ... The only thing is we don't see it ... I have no program for this seeing. It is only given. But the gate of heaven is everywhere.

  Thomas Merton

  People, Shining, Heaven

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• The Vision of Christ that thou dost see,
  Is my vision's greatest enemy.
  Thine is the Friend of all Mankind,
  Mine speaks in Parables to the blind.
  Thine loves the same world that mine hates,
  Thy heaven-doors are my hell gates.

  William Blake

  Hate, Doors, Heaven

  William Blake (1977). “The Portable William Blake”, p.14, Penguin

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• Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.

  Tertullian

  Art, Fall, Race

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• The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.

  George Carlin

  Suicide, Stupid, Practice

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Wide open and unguarded stand our gates, and through them presses a wild motley throng, men from the Volga and the Tartar steppes, featureless figures of the Hoang-Ho, Malayan, Scythian, Teuton, Kelt, and Slav. Flying the Old World's poverty and scorn, these bringing with them unknown gods and rites, Ttose, tiger passions, here to stretch their claws in street and alley. What strange tongues are loud accents of menace alien to our air, voices that once the Tower of Babel knew! O Liberty, white Goddess! Is it well to leave the gates unguarded?

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Passion, Men, Voice

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Unguarded Gates”

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• When I'm standing at the Pearly Gates, I want to say to God, 'Don't look at the records. Look at my family. I'm much prouder about that part.'

  John Fogerty

  Inspirational, Looks, Records

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• The old foundations of success are gone ... The world's wealthiest man, Bill Gates, owns nothing tangible: no land, no gold or oil, no factories ... For the first time in history the world's wealthiest man owns only knowledge.

  Lester Thurow

  Men, Land, Oil

  Lester C. Thurow (2009). “Building Wealth: The New Rules for Individuals, Companies, and Nations in a Knowledge-Based Economy”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Observe immigrants not as they come travel-wan up the gang-plank, nor as they issue toil-begrimed from the pit's mouth or mill-gate, but in their gatherings, washed, combed, and in their Sunday best.... They are hirsute, low-browed, big-faced persons of obviously low mentality... They simply look out of place in black clothes and stiff collar, since clearly they belong in skins, in wattled huts at the close of the Great Ice Age. These ox-like men are descendants of those who always stayed behind.

  Edward Alsworth Ross

  Sunday, Men, Clothes

  "The Old World in the New". Book by Edward Alsworth Ross, edition.cnn.com. 1914.

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• When the hornet hangs in the hollyhock,
  And the brown bee drones in the rose,
  And the west is a red-streaked four-o'clock,
  And summer is near its close,
  It's, Oh!, For the gate, and the locust lane;
  And dusk, and dew, and home again!

  Madison Cawein

  Summer, Home, Rose

  Madison Julius Cawein, “In The Lane”

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• She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had a dozen times before, that heady sensation of having just scooted through the clanging gate, of eluding the thrown net. It didn't come. She was running again, but she wasn't escaping. She'd been chased to ground a long, long time ago.

  Connie Brockway

  Running, Escaping, Long

  Connie Brockway (2007). “The Bridal Season: A Loveswept Classic Romance”, Loveswept

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• Let me arise and open the gate,
  to breathe the wild warm air of the heath,
  And to let in Love, and to let out Hate,
  And anger at living and scorn of Fate,
  To let in Life, and to let out Death.

  Violet Fane

  Life, Death, Gratitude

  Violet Fane (1880). “Collected Verses”

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• To say prayers in a decent, delicate way is not heavy work. But to pray really, to pray till hell feels the ponderous stroke, to pray till the iron gates of difficulty are opened, till the mountains of obstacles are removed, till the mists are exhaled and the clouds are lifted, and the sunshine of a cloudless day brightens-this is hard work, but it is God's work, and man's best labor.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Hard Work, Sunshine

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1920). “Purpose in Prayer”, p.63, CCEL

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• The potency of prayer hath subdued the strength of fire; it hath bridled the rage of lions, hushed anarchy to rest, extinguished wars, appeased the elements, expelled demons, burst the chains of death, expanded the gates of heaven, assuaged diseases, repelled frauds, rescued cities from destruction, stayed the sun in its course, and arrested the progress of the thunderbolt.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Prayer, War, Fire

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• Your good thoughts, good words and good deeds alone will be your intercessors. Nothing more will be wanted. They alone will serve you as a safe pilot to the harbour of Heaven, as a safe guide to the gates of paradise.

  Zoroaster

  Spiritual, Heaven, Deeds

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• Bill Gates' Success Factors for Microsoft 1. Long-term Approach 2. Passion for Products and Technology 3. Teamwork 4. Results 5. Customer Feedback 6. Individual Excellence

  Bill Gates

  Teamwork, Educational, Passion

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• Those who enter the gates of heaven are not beings who have no passions or who have curbed the passions, but those who have cultivated an understanding of them.

  William Blake

  Inspirational, Passion, Emotional

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• Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart!

  Richard Flecknoe

  Art, Silence, Flood

  'Miscellania' (1653)

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• Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it.

  John Climacus

  Humility, Men, Mourning

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• For over five years this man [Winston Churchill] has been chasing around Europe like a madman in search of something he could set on fire. Unfortunately he again and again finds hirelings who open the gates of their country to this international incendiary.

  Adolf Hitler

  Country, Men, Fire

  Speech at the Reichstag, May 04, 1941. "Infamous Speeches: From Robespierre to Osama bin Laden". Book by Bob Blaisdell, 2012.

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• O Thou, Far off and here, whole and broken, Who in necessity and in bounty wait, Whose truth is light and dark, mute though spoken, By Thy wide grace show me Thy narrow gate.

  Wendell Berry

  Dark, Garden, Light

  Wendell Berry (2012). “New Collected Poems”, p.242, Counterpoint Press

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