Gate Quotes

Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the gate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy.
Khalil Gibran

Love, Work, Made

Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Khalil Gibran

Dreams, Trust, Hidden

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Success, Great, Long

No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.
Marilyn Ferguson

Change, Emotional, Cannot

Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
J. R. R. Tolkien

May, Wait, Secret

Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom.
Bertrand Russell

Time, Wisdom, Feeling

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

Death, Poor, Kings

No man is excluded from calling upon God, the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in, save only our own unbelief.
John Calvin

There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street.
David Herbert Lawrence

End, Real, Morality

If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Long, Enough, Sure

If we try to engineer outcomes, if we overturn tradition to make everyone the same, we ruin society. If we upset tradition to allow for an equal shot at the starting gate, everyone wins, except for the charlatans and would be dictators.
Ben Stein

Society, Try, Same

We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Else, Choose, Guardians

We must never forget why we have, and why we need our military. Our armed forces exist solely to ensure our nation is safe, so that each and every one of us can sleep soundly at night, knowing we have 'guardians at the gate.'
Allen West

Sleep, Forget, Night

It matters not how strait the gate, How charged with punishments the scroll; I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.
William Ernest Henley

Soul, Fate, Matters

A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate.
Emile M. Cioran

Enemy, Distant, Preferable

Within the U.S., the Obama presidency will be mainly measured by the success or failure of his economic policies. And here, I fear, the monstrous stimulus package with which this administration stumbled out of the gate will prove to be Obama's Waterloo.
Camille Paglia

Success, Fear, Failure

Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald

Thief, Miles, Kingdom

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.
Maria Sharapova

Good, Bad, Everything

Go on thinking that you don't need to be read and you'll find that it may become quite true: no one will feel the need tom read it because it is written for yourself alone; and the public won't feel any impulse to gate crash such a private party.
Dylan Thomas

Alone, Yourself, True

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.
Celine Dion

Life, Love, Success

The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated.
Douglas Horton

Cannot, Heaven, Key

I like celluloid, I like film, I like the way that when a movie is projected it sort of breathes a little in the gate. That's the magic of it to me.
Gary Oldman

Film, Movie, Magic

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy.
Roger Ebert

Teen, Whole, Violence

There was no last animal I treated. When young farm lads started to help me over the gate into a field or a pigpen, to make sure the old fellow wouldn't fall, I started to consider retiring.
James Herriot

Help, Young, Old

Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America.
Anna Deavere Smith

School, America, High

I think a lot of L.A. is something like USC - this incredible white culture living in the midst of color, and no obvious reaction to it at all. I mean, they have guards at the gate at USC - guards at the gate of a major university! And the guards chase young black boys away - I've seen it, chasing 8-year-old boys.
Anna Deavere Smith

Mean, Black, Living

The great seats of power tend to be wide and open, not vertical and soaring. Red Square, Tiananmen Square, the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin - all massive but with large open spaces that project an image of might.
Gary Ross

Great, Power, Might

I think of novels in architectural terms. You have to enter at the gate, and this gate must be constructed in such a way that the reader has immediate confidence in the strength of the building.
Ian Mcewan

Strength, Confidence, Building

We have no desire to permanently rule over millions of Palestinians, who double their numbers every generation. Israel, which wishes to be an exemplary democracy, will not be able to bear such a reality over time. The Disengagement Plan presents the possibility of opening a gate to a different reality.
Ariel Sharon

Time, Reality, Democracy

I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town.
William Howard Taft

Work, President, Bring

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