Gates Quotes - Page 7

• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Behind every liberal philanthropist fortune is a huge capitalist score. Bill Gates and Warren Buffett can afford now to be liberal - an expensive indulgence - because in their early incarnations they were no-holds-barred capitalists who made lots of enemies conducting business without mercy and in search of pure profit.

  Victor Davis Hanson

  Enemy, Bills, Warren Buffet

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• Is anyone really surprised that Warren, who is the ultimate embodiment of concentrated decision-making power, picked somebody [Bill and Melinda Gates] who he thinks is like him in many important ways? It was a noble and sensible decision.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, Decision, Important

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• (on Warner Brothers) This studio has more suspensions than the Golden Gate Bridge.

  Humphrey Bogart

  Brother, Bridges, Golden

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

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• The kings of terrors, the last enemy, will never be able to breach the pearly gates and disturb the bliss of heaven! No more deathbed vigils or funerals. The hearse will have made its last journey.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Kings, Journey, Funeral

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• Praise our choices, sister, for each doorway open to us was taken by squads of fighting women who paid years of trouble and struggle, who paid their wombs, their sleep, their lives that we might walk through these gates upright. Doorways are sacred to women for we are the doorways of life and we must choose what comes in and what goes out. Freedom is our real abundance.

  Marge Piercy

  Real, Struggle, Taken

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• The Gates Foundation has learned that two questions can predict how much kids learn: 'Does your teacher use class time well?' and, 'When you're confused, does your teacher help you get straightened out?'

  Bill Gates

  Teacher, Confused, Kids

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• I look at Bill Clinton, the way I look at Bill Gates. As long as my Microsoft stock is going up, I don't care what Bill Gates does in the privacy of his own home.

  Will Smith

  Home, Long, Doe

  "Will Smith: Big Willie Style". Interview with Nancy Collins, www.rollingstone.com. December 10, 1998.

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• All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Ends, Graves, Nothingness

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.8, George Bernard Shaw

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• You will pardon some obscurities, for there are more secrets in my trade than in most men's, and yet not voluntarily kept, but inseparable from its very nature. I would gladly tell all that I know about it, and never paint "No Admittance" on my gate.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Secret, Obscurity

  Henry David Thoreau (1995). “Walden, Or, Life in the Woods”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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• I can see it now: Osama bin Laden goes up to the pearly gates where George Washington comes out, starts beating him and is then joined by 70 other members of the Continental Congress. Osama will say, Hey, wait! Where are my 71 virgins? And George will reply It's 71 Virginians, you asshole!

  Robin Williams

  Waiting, Hey, Osama Bin Laden

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• Photography intervenes in a very strange way. It makes the streets, gates, squares of the city into illustrations of a trashy novel, draws off the banal obviousness of this ancient architecture to inject it with the most pristine intensity.

  Louis Aragon

  Photography, Squares, Illustration

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• As much as we disliked the Yankees, fans and players alike, they were good for baseball. They consistently unsuccessful teams like the Browns, Senators, and A's paid a lot of their bills with those big crowds that poured through the gates when the Yankees came to town.

  Bob Feller

  Baseball, Team, Player

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• I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.

  Wanda Sykes

  Machines, Lasts, Made

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• You wanna know what a gateway drug is? It opens a gate.

  Eugene Mirman

  Drug, Gateways, Knows

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• Do you know what Bill Gates has to pull out of an old coat, to feel like I did with a $20 bill? First of all, the idea that Bill Gates has an old coat is preposterous. If he has an old coat, it's the coat Abe Lincoln was shot in and he wears it as a bathrobe - no underwear by the way. He lets his billionaire balls swing willy-nilly beneath the death cloak of the great emancipator. That's your 1%.

  Gary Gulman

  Swings, Ideas, Underwear

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• The only victory that really counts in prison is survival. But survival means more than simply being alive. It's not just the body that must survive a jail term; the spirit and the will and the heart have to make it through as well. If any one of them is broken or destroyed, the man whose living body walks through the gate, at the end of his sentence, can't be said to have survived it. And it's for those small victories of the heart, and the spirit, and the will that we sometimes risk the body that cradles them.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Mean, Heart, Men

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• Gates's net wealth is greater than the combined net worth of the poorest 40% of Americans (112,000,000 people).

  Ralph Nader

  People, Wealth, Poorest

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• Men love to wonder, and that is the seed of our science, and such is the mechanical determination of our age, and so recent are our best contrivances, that use has not dulled our joy and pride in them. These arts open great gates of a future, promising to make the world plastic and to lift human life out of its beggary to a godlike ease and power.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Art, Determination, Pride

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1875). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.142

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