Gates Quotes - Page 14

• 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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• Thought is the seed of action; but action is as much its second form as thought is its first. It rises in thought, to the end that it may be uttered and acted. Always in proportion to the depth of its sense does it knock importunately at the gates of the soul, to be spoken, to be done.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Soul, Depth, Doe

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.2409, Delphi Classics

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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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• 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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• My garden, with its silence and pulses of fragrance that come and go on the airy undulations, affects me like sweet music. Care stops at the gates, and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Sweet, Nature, Garden

  Alexander Smith (2012). “Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.223, tredition

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• San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate

  Gavin Newsom

  Beautiful, Cities In The World, Jewels

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• I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.

  Quentin Tarantino

  Design, Risk, Ceilings

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• It's a thin line between paper and hate,
  Friends and snakes, nine millis and thirty-eights,
  Hell or the pearly gates...I was destined to come,
  Predicted, blame God, He blew breath in my lungs.

  Nas

  Hate, Rap, Snakes

  Song: Hate Me Now, Album: I Am..., 1999

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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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• 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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• The sponsors of war closely resemble the weapons they create. And smart bombs, depleted uranium, land mines, rockets and tanks, rather than protect 'widows and orphans and strangers at the gate', are designed precisely to create 'widows and orphans', to transform strangers into enemies and enemies into corpses.

  Daniel Berrigan

  War, Smart, Widows And Orphans

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• Baptism is the gate through which all must enter to accomplish the Lord’s desire to bring to pass the immortality and eternal life of man.

  Bruce R. McConkie

  Men, Baptism, Desire

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• It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it.

  Glenn Greenwald

  Guarding, Common

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• In Western Australia, minerals are being dug up from Aboriginal land and shipped to China for a profit of a billion dollars a week. In this, the richest, 'booming' state, the prisons bulge with stricken Aboriginal people, including juveniles whose mothers stand at the prison gates, pleading for their release. The incarceration of black Australians here is eight times that of black South Africans during the last decade of apartheid.

  John Pilger

  Mother, Eight, Land

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