Gates Quotes - Page 28

• If you look back in history, as the barbarians were invading the gates of Rome, people were consulting fortunetellers and worrying about the end of the world and all sorts of other apocalyptic notions. When the tsars were finally overthrown, they were all reading tarot cards even as the revolutionaries were banging at the gates.

  Matt Taibbi

  Reading, Rome, People

  Interview with Gregg LaGambina, www.avclub.com. July 11, 2008.

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• Mutual forgiveness of each vice. Such are the Gates of Paradise.

  William Blake

  Forgiveness, Vices, Paradise

  'For the Sexes: The Gates of Paradise' 'Mutual Forgiveness of each Vice' [prologue]

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• I really just like breaking down the barriers, whether it means doing an album with Linkin Park, an album with R. Kelly, or playing at the Brandenburg Gate with Bono.

  Jay-Z

  Mean, Albums, Parks

  Interview with Elvis Mitchell, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 11, 2010.

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• Bill [Gates] and I believe philanthropy can only be effective if it starts things and proves whether they actually work or not. That's the place that governments often don't want to, or can't, work.

  Melinda Gates

  Believe, Government, Want

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Bill Gates really seems to be much more of a business man than a technologist, while I prefer to think of Linux in technical terms rather than as a means to money. As such, I'm not very likely to make the same kind of money that Bill made.

  Linus Torvalds

  Mean, Thinking, Men

  Source: www.linuxfocus.org

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• Let the enemy rage at the gate; let him knock, pound, scream, howl; let him do his worst. We know for certain that he cannot enter our soul except by the door of our consent.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Doors, Soul, Enemy

  Saint Francis (de Sales), Saint Jeanne-Françoise de Chantal, Wendy M. Wright, Joseph F. Power (1988). “Francis de Sales, Jane de Chantal: letters of spiritual direction”

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• When I get "too busy" to pray, I envision Jesus at the Pearly Gates showing me the time I wasted looking for something to watch on Netflix.

  Mark Hart

  Jesus, Netflix, Watches

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• And those who say, "I'll try anything once," often try nothing twice, three times, arriving late at the gate of dreams worth dying for.

  Carl Sandburg

  Dream, Dying, Trying

  Carl Sandburg (1978). “Breathing Tokens”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH)

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• When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Study Group, Groups, Defense

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• History knocks at a thousand gates at every moment, and the gatekeeper is chance. We shout into the mist for this one or that one to be opened for us, but through every gate are a thousand more. We need wit and courage to make our way while our way is making us.

  Alexander Herzen

  Needs, Way, Chance

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• The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

  Gottfried Leibniz

  Perfect, Cemetery, Written

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• My very best memory of Montreal was the moment inside the Olympic arena when I was waiting under the stadium and those majestic gates opened up. It was a whole other world.

  Sugar Ray Leonard

  Memories, Other Worlds, Waiting

  Interview with Kam Williams, www.kamwilliams.com. July 16, 2012.

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• A lot of indigenous cultures are deeply involved in working with ancestor spirits, elemental spirits, and demons. Many of these cultures feel that, if you don't deal properly with ancestor spirits, then they come back and infest the living in the form of things like depression, addictive patterns, and neuroses. We in the modern West completely deny the existence of these spirits or other types of entities. And because we've denied them, we may have opened the gates for them to manipulate us in a lot of ways.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Culture, May, Neurosis

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I try to make things that are not elitist. There's enough places in the world where we're excluded. I do not ever want to be contributing to that. I want to be contributing to opening the doors and gates for women.

  Amanda de Cadenet

  Doors, Trying, World

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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• Wine give strenght to weary men. and
  And wine can of their wits the wise beguile.
  Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. and
  Let those who drink not, but austerely dine,
  Dry up in law; the muses smell of wine. and
  No poem was ever written by a drinker of water. and
  Bacchus opens the gate of the heart. and
  Might to inspire new hopes and powerful
  To drown the bitterness of cares.

  Homer

  Wise, Powerful, Heart

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• It may here be observed, that all who are offended by us are exposed to our view. But the rich man sees Lazarus not with any other righteous man, but in Abraham's bosom. For Abraham was full of love, but the man is convicted of cruelty. Abraham sitting before his door followed after those that passed by, and brought them into his house, the other turned away even them that abode within his gate.

  Saint John Chrysostom

  Men, Doors, Views

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• I tell my children that a man like Bill Gates has a personal fortune of $100 billion. They can't even comprehend that. Then I explain that he has more money than some countries.

  Kenneth Rogoff

  Country, Children, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.

  Jimmy Cliff

  Shepherds, Roles, Flocks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• More gates you open, more worlds you discover! More worlds you discover, more gates are opened!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  World

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• Our good nature and endearing qualities will not arouse the answers to our prayers. Rather it is our mischievous, dishonest attributes that provide the master keys to heaven. When we identify and work to transform our self-centered qualities and crooked characteristics, the key turns and the gates unlock. Blessings and good fortune are now free to rain down upon us.

  Yehuda Berg

  Prayer, Rain, Blessing

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• What Steve Jobs and I did-and at the same time Bill Gates and Paul Allen did-we had no savings accounts, no friends that could loan us money. But we had ideas, and I wanted all my life to be a part of a revolution.

  Steve Wozniak

  Jobs, Ideas, No Friends

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• Prison is a severe and terrible punishment; but for me, thanks to Arthur Balfour, this was not so. I was much cheered on my arrival by the warder at the gate, who had to take particulars about me. He asked my religion, and I replied 'agnostic.' He asked how to spell it, and remarked with a sigh: 'Well, there are many religions, but I suppose they all worship the same God.' This remark kept me cheerful for about a week.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Punishment, Religion

  Bertrand Russell (1998). “Autobiography”, p.257, Psychology Press

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• How much is enough? How much does anyone require? Can I be both kind and tough? Can I put faith before desire? Right now, for all time, I vow to try . . . I volunteer to be simple, I volunteer to love, Every living thing like a mountain stream that flows out o'er the land. I volunteer for the journey from here to heaven's gate. I will do my part I place my heart in Your gracious hands . . . How then shall we live? Let us live lightly as a feather. How much shall we give? Let us give everything, together One heart, one mind, all humankind... I volunteer.

  Alan AtKisson

  Heart, Simple, Journey

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• It was the vehicle that propelled me to international stardom. ("Harder They Come") I was known as a singer/songwriter before that, but people did not know me as an actor. It showed the world where the music I contributed to create was coming from. It opened the gates for Jamaican music, internationally.

  Jimmy Cliff

  People, World, Singers

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• In trying to understand the Linux phenomenon, then, we have to look not at a single innovator but to a sort of bizarre Trinity : Linus Torvalds, Richard Stallman, and Bill Gates. Take away any of these three and Linux would not exist.

  Neal Stephenson

  Trying, Three, Looks

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