Gates Quotes - Page 3

• Bill Gates is a very rich man today... and do you want to know why? The answer is one word: versions.

  Dave Barry

  Technology, Men, Answers

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry in Cyberspace”, p.23, Ballantine Books

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• Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.

  Stewart Alsop II

  Believe, Science, Technology

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

  E. M. Forster

  Howards End, Glorious, Railway

  Howards End ch. 2 (1910)

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• The best and sweetest flowers of paradise God gives to His people when they are upon their knees. Prayer is the gate of heaven.

  Thomas Brooks

  Prayer, Flower, People

  Thomas Brooks “Heaven On Earth”, Lulu.com

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• Bill Gates'd be a broader guy if he had dropped acid once or gone off to an ashram when he was younger.

  Steve Jobs

  Life, Dropping Acid, Best Job

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• The fact is that as soon as they reach Baghdad gates, we will besiege them and slaughter them.

  Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf

  Funny, Military, Baghdad

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• Our people, our shareholders, me, Bill Gates, we expect to change the world in every way, to succeed wildly at everything we touch, to have the broadest impact of any company in the world.

  Steve Ballmer

  Impact, People, World

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• The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it.

  Elizabeth Ann Seton

  Humble, Heaven, Catholic

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• Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.

  Laozi

  Spring, Names, Darkness Within

  Laozi, Philip J. Ivanhoe (2003). “The Daodejing of Laozi”, p.106, Hackett Publishing

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• Battering the gates of heaven with the storms of prayer.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Prayer, Heaven, Storm

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• Before one goes through the gate one may not be aware there is a gate One may think there is a gate to go through and look a long time for it without finding it One may find it and it may not open If it opens one may be through it As one goes through it one sees that the gate one went through was the self that went through it no one went through a gate there was no gate to go through no one ever found a gate no one ever realized there was never a gate

  R. D. Laing

  Thinking, Self, Long

  R. D. Laing (2008). “Knots”, p.194, Marbot Ediciones

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• Grove giveth and Gates taketh away.

  Robert Metcalfe

  Funny, Witty, Humorous

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• I would say probably Pirates of Silicon Valley just because I'm proud of the work, playing Gates.

  Anthony Michael Hall

  Pirate, Valleys, Proud

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• Oh my only friend, my best beloved, the gates are open in my house—do not pass by like a dream.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Dream, House, Beloved

  Rabindranath Tagore (2013). “Gitanjali”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• There are no restrictions of taste, approach, or subject matter. The gatekeepers are gone, so the prospect for new and different voices is exciting. Or at least it will be if anyone reads them. And it will be even more exciting if anyone pays for them. It's hard to charge admission without a gate.

  Bill Watterson

  Voice, Different, Gone

  Source: library.osu.edu

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• Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Waiting, Garments, Robes

  Sri Aurobindo (1994). “Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series”, p.39, Lotus Press

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• Think not I dread to see my spirit fly,
  Through the dark gates of fell mortality;
  Death has no terrors when the life is true;
  'Tis living ill that makes us fear to die.

  Omar Khayyam

  Dark, Thinking, Spirit

  Omar Khayyam (1882). “The Quatrains of Omar Khayyám”

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• Every time I read a Jane Austen novel, I feel like a bartender at the gates of heaven.

  Mark Twain

  Heaven, Bartender, Novel

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• It is very seldom that any one is in prison for an ordinary crime unless early in life he entered a path that almost invariably led to the prison gate. Most of the inmates are the children of the poor. In many instances they are either orphans or half-orphans; their homes were the streets and byways of big cities, and their paths naturally and inevitably took them to their final fate.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Children, Home, Fate

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• Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Ocean, Gun, Two

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• The city is the image of the soul, the surrounding walls being the frontier between the outward and inward life. The gates are the faculties or senses connecting the life of the soul with the outward world. Living springs of water rise within it. And in the centre, where beats the heart, stands the holy sanctuary.

  St. Catherine of Siena

  Wall, Spring, Heart

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• I will follow Osama bin Laden to the gates of hell.

  John McCain

  Osama Bin Laden, Hell, Gates Of Hell

  "Quotes of the week". www.theguardian.com. October 27, 2007.

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• In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars.

  Alexander Smith

  Garden, Bars, Care

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• If the fire of hell is not literal, it is worse than actual fire, and if the gates of the Celestial City are not actual gold, they are far finer.

  Vance Havner

  Fire, Cities, Gold

  Vance Havner (1976). “All the Days”, Fleming H. Revell Company

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• I have before me God's Word which cannot fail, nor can the gates of hell prevail against it; thereby will I remain, though the whole world be against me.

  Martin Luther

  World, Failing, Hell

  Martin Luther (1848). “The table talk or familiar discourse of Martin Luther, tr. by W. Hazlitt”, p.18

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