Gates Quotes

725 Gates quotes by 559 unique authors

..she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things… — Zora Neale Hurston
There is more beauty in truth, even if it is a dreadful beauty. The storytellers at the city gate twist life so that it looks… — John Steinbeck
He knew very well that love could be like the most beautiful singing, that it could make death inconsequential, that it existed in forms so… — Mark Helprin
After another ten minutes, the gates of thievery would open just a crack, and Liesel Meminger would widen them a little further and squeeze through.… — Markus Zusak
wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! — Eric Jerome Dickey
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge. — Friedrich Schiller
Duty has a trick of behaving unexpectedly -- something like a heavy friend whom we have amiably asked to visit us, and who breaks his… — George Eliot
I give you the end of a golden string, Only wind it into a ball, It will lead you in at Heaven's gate Built in… — William Blake
That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would… — Alice Hoffman
Everything we knew condemned us, and our questioning condemned us most of all. Knowledge was the way of our people, and knowledge was dangerous. It… — Alice Hoffman
Under the Mountain dark and tall The King has come unto his hall! His foe is dead, the Worm of Dread, And ever so his… — J.R.R. Tolkien
They, looking back, all the eastern side beheld Of Paradise, so late their happy seat, Waved over by that flaming brand, the gate With dreadful… — John Milton
If you were to rush into this room right now and announce that you had struck a deal - with God, Allah, Buddha, Christ, Krishna,… — Michael J. Fox
The lights of prayer that make us imagine we are beginning to be angels are sometimes only signs that we are finally beginning to be… — Thomas Merton
When we did eventually get to the party - me walking next to Dad's Volvo driving at five miles an hour - I had a… — Louise Rennison
Sure.â€ Olivia smirked. â€œGood olâ€™ New York Public Library. Iâ€™m sure itâ€™s up to date on the latest Demons that escape through well-guarded Demon Gates. — Cheyenne McCray
Books. They are lined up on shelves or stacked on a table. There they are wrapped up in there jackets, lines of neat print on… — David Almond
...I was tired of men. Hanging in doorways, standing too close, their smell of beer or fifteen-year-old whiskey. Men who didn't come to the emergency… — Janet Fitch
She died--this was the way she died; And when her breath was done, Took up her simple wardrobe And started for the sun. Her little… — Emily Dickinson
Yet at the last Beren was slain by the Wolf that came from the gates of Angband, and he died in the arms of TinÃºviel.… — J.R.R. Tolkien

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