Gates Quotes - Page 35

• Running gives me a clearer perspective on the world, and it makes me feel special. I've never been a traditional tourist. I've always seen the world by running, and that has allowed me to view things in a different way. Places look different in the early-morning hours, when the streets are deserted.

  Grete Waitz

  Inspirational, Running, Morning

  "On The Run: Exercise and Fitness for Busy People".

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• In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent knowledge of the beyond, and like seeds dreaming beneath the snow, your heart dreams of spring. Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.

  Khalil Gibran

  Death, Dream, Spiritual

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• As for drugs - well, Gates was certainly not unusual there. Marijuana was the pharmaceutical of choice.

  Bill Gates

  Weed, Marijuana, Choices

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• God is constantly knocking at the gate of my heart to invite me to go beyond the state I have reached, because my whole life should be a journey on the way to Love.

  Charles Journet

  Faith, Inspiration, Heart

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• When I arrive at the gates of Heaven the Good Lord will ask ‘what did you do in your life?’ I will respond ‘I tried to win football matches.’ He will say: ‘Are you certain that’s all?’ But, well, that’s the story of my life.

  Arsene Wenger

  Football, Winning, Heaven

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• It is always the first and last steps that are the hardest to take. We walk away and try not to turn back, or we stand just outside the gates, terrified to find what's waiting for us now that we've returned. In between, we stumble blindly from one place and life to the next. We try to do the best we can. There are moments like this, however, when we are neither coming nor going, and all we have to do is sit and look back on the life we have made.

  Dinaw Mengestu

  Reflection, Waiting, Trying

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• Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings.

  Horace

  Death, Kings, Men

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• It has been said that the gate of history turns on small hinges, and so do people's lives. The choices we make determine our destiny.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Destiny, People, Choices

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• Brothers and sisters, as good as our previous experience may be, if we stop asking questions, stop thinking, stop pondering, we can thwart the revelations of the Spirit. Remember, it was the questions young Joseph asked that opened the door for the restoration of all things. We can block the growth and knowledge our Heavenly Father intends for us. How often has the Holy Spirit tried to tell us something we needed to know but couldn't get past the massive iron gate of what we thought we already knew?

  Dieter F. Uchtdorf

  Brother, Father, Block

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• Then I saw that there was a way to hell, even from the gates of heaven.

  John Bunyan

  Heaven, Way, Saws

  'The Pilgrim's Progress' (1678) pt. 1

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• Entering in the narrow gate is allowing Him to define your life, and not in general terms. See, there's your problem. 'Oh, Jesus is everything to me, and Jesus is Lord.' Okay, specifically though, explain to me what that means: what has it cost you, how have you changed your life from the course the rest of the world is walking in?

  Paul Washer

  Jesus, Mean, Cost

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• If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

  Tony Benn

  Powerful, Exercise, People

  Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• Hinduism... gave itself no name, because it set itself no sectarian limits; it claimed no universal adhesion, asserted no sole infallible dogma, set up no single narrow path or gate of salvation; it was less a creed or cult than a continuously enlarging tradition of the Godward endeavour of the human spirit. An immense many-sided many-staged provision for a spiritual self-building and self-finding, it had some right to speak of itself by the only name it knew, the eternal religion, Sanatana Dharma.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Spiritual, Self, Names

  "Indian Spirituality and Life - 1" by Sri Aurobindo in "Arya", intyoga.online.fr. August 1919.

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• Witness this new-made world, another Heav'n
  From Heaven Gate not farr, founded in view
  On the clear Hyaline, the Glassie Sea;
  Of amplitude almost immense, with Starr's
  Numerous, and every Starr perhaps a world
  Of destined habitation.

  John Milton

  Views, Sea, Heaven

  John Milton, “Paradise Lost: Book 07”

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• Triumphant hours are the Lark's
  Who circles skywards from his home each day:
  World's early riser, with bubbling golden song,
  Towards the firmament, guardian of April's gate.

  Dafydd ap Gwilym

  Inspirational, Life, Song

  Dafydd ap Gwilym (1982). “Dafydd Ap Gwilym: A Selection of Poems”

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• Those without the gate frequently question the wisdom and right of the occultist to guard his knowledge by the imposition of oaths of secrecy. We are so accustomed to see the scientist give his beneficent discoveries freely to all mankind that we feel that humanity is wronged and defrauded if any knowledge be kept secret by its discoverers and not at once made available for all who desire to share in it.
  The knowledge is reserved in order that humanity may be protected from its abuse at the hands of the unscrupulous.

  Dion Fortune

  Discovery, Hands, Order

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• In mathematical quarters, the regular division of the plane has been considered theoretically. ... [Mathematicians] have opened the gate leading to an extensive domain, but they have not entered this domain themselves. By their very nature they are more interested in the way in which the gate is opened than in the garden lying behind it.

  M. C. Escher

  Lying, Garden, Division

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• An opportunity to work is good luck for me. I put my soul into it. Each such opportunity opens the gates for the next one.

  Narendra Modi

  Motivation, Good Luck, Opportunity

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• Consider the cost when Christians ignore Jesus commands to sell their possessions and give to the poor and instead choose to spend their resources on better comforts, larger homes, nicer cars, and more stuff.  Consider the cost when these Christians gather in churches and choose to spend millions of dollars on nice buildings to drive up to, cushioned chairs to sit in, and endless programs to enjoy for themselves.  Consider the cost for the starving multitudes who sit outside the gate of contemporary Christian affluence.

  David Platt

  Christian, Jesus, Nice

  David Platt (2010). “Radical: Taking Back Your Faith from the American Dream”, p.20, Multnomah

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• Humor, for me, is really a gate of departure. Its a way of enticing a reader into a poem so that less funny things can take place later. It really is not an end in itself, but a means to an end.

  Billy Collins

  Mean, Funny Things, Departure

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• I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate.

  Arthur Wing Pinero

  Believe, Future, Past

  Arthur Wing Pinero (2007). “The Second Mrs. Tanqueray”, p.36, Broadview Press

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• Most aspiring screenwriters simply don't spend enough time choosing their concept. It's by far the most common mistake I see in spec scripts. The writer has lost the race right from the gate. Months - sometimes years - are lost trying to elevate a film idea that by its nature probably had no hope of ever becoming a movie.

  Terry Rossio

  Mistake, Race, Years

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• Sometimes I feel like I’m actually on the wrong planet. It’s great when I’m in my garden, but the minute I go out the gate I think, ‘What the hell am I doing here?

  George Harrison

  Garden, Thinking, Sometimes

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• If the golden gate of preferment is not usually opened to men of real merit, persons of no worth have entered it in a most extraordinary manner.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Real, Men, Golden

  "Curiosities of Literature". Book by Isaac D'Israeli, 1791.

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• In a world without fences, who needs Gates?

  Scott McNealy

  Needs, World, Computer

  "Javaman: The Adventures of Scott McNealy. Today's Episode: His Fight to Save the World Wide Web from the Evil Empire" by Brent Schlender, money.cnn.com. October 13, 1997.

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