Gates Quotes
725 quotes by 559 authors
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Now, I'm as appreciative as the next obsessive-compulsive recovering-academic of the vast riches of material becoming available online, thanks to all those Google scanners crouched…
— Laurie R. King
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But why, she thought wryly, did a man seem more attractive as he became less available? How humbling to think one had so much in…
— Mary Jo Putney
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to know how to read is to light a lamp in the mind, to release the soul from prison, to open a gate to the…
— Pearl S. Buck
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They hammered on the outer gate and called, but there was at first no answer; and then to their surprise someone blew a horn, and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
— Virginia Woolf
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I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Self-actualization is what educated existence is all about. For members of the educated class, life is one long graduate school. When they die, God meets…
— David Brooks
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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was…
— David Nicholls
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After a cup of tea (two spoonsful for each cup, and don't let it stand more than three minutes,) it says to the brain, "Now,…
— Jerome K. Jerome
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But you have to understand, mental illness is like cholesterol. There is is good kind and the bad. Without the good kind- less flavor to…
— Tim Dorsey
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If there are still honest-smart men and women within those old and noble traditions, they should think carefully, observe and diagnose the illness. They should…
— David Brin
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Surely we cannot take an open question like the supernatural and shut it with a bang, turning the key of the madhouse on all the…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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If you throw me out of this house, I shall sleep on the path outside. If you return to the Continent without me, I shall…
— Eloisa James
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There was the gate next, which she(Liesel)clung to. A gang of tears trudged from her eyes as she held on and refused to go inside.…
— Markus Zusak
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Ibn Ata' Allah said: "God may open up for you the gates of obedience, but without opening up for you the gates of acceptance. On…
— Yusuf al-Qaradawi
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Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside.
— Stephen Covey
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There was a wall. It did not look important. It was built of uncut rocks roughly mortared. An adult could look right over it, and…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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How my eyes see, perspective, is my key to enter into His gates. I can only do so with thanksgiving. If my inner eye has…
— Ann Voskamp
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Really, just looking around, you feel a twinge of pity for the poor souls who succeeded in getting past the Pearly Gates. One can't help…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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Things were about as normal as a Luddite working for Bill Gates.’ – Sundown
— Sherrilyn Kenyon
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