Gates Quotes - Page 29

• I had one typewriter for 50 years, but I have bought seven computers in six years. I suppose that's why Bill Gates is rich, and Underwood is out of business.

  Andy Rooney

  Typewriters, Years, Bills

  "Journalist Andy Rooney Dies at 92" by Joel Siegel, abcnews.go.com. November 05, 2011.

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• One day about 10 years ago the door to my office opened and who walked in but Bill Gates.... Seemed like a nice guy and has done more with his money than most billionaires. But that's as far as I want to go being kind to Bill Gates.

  Andy Rooney

  Nice, Doors, Years

  "Journalist Andy Rooney Dies at 92" by Joel Siegel, abcnews.go.com. November 5, 2011.

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• There is a complete disconnect really or should be a disconnect between the retail price of the milk and what's actually going on in the marketplace, and what influences the farm gate price is the export market.

  Ian McLeod

  Retail, Milk, Influence

  "The Observer Effect" with Ellen Fanning, www.sbs.com.au. September 29, 2013.

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• Know that for the human mind there are certain objects of perception which are within the scope of its nature and capacity; on the other hand, there are, amongst things which actually exist, certain objects which the mind can in no way and by no means grasp: the gates of perception are closed against it.

  Maimonides

  Mean, Hands, Perception

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever you are in the world of the nagual, you should also be impeccable; no time for rational crap. For the warrior intent is the gate in between. It closes completely behind him when he goes either way

  Carlos Castaneda

  Warrior, World, Way

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• Shore up the mean with reverence and terror. But never banish terror from the gates of the state. The stronger the fear, the stronger the reverence for the just, the stronger your country's wall and the city's safety.

  Simon Critchley

  Country, Wall, Mean

  Simon Critchley (2008). “Infinitely Demanding: Ethics of Commitment, Politics of Resistance”, Verso Books

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• I am proud of being a Southerner. I wasn't about to let Southerners on my show be stupid or aw-shuckses who just sit on the front porch and spit in the yard. I wasn't about to do that, and I made that very clear from the start. I was kind of the gate-keeper on that stuff.

  Andy Griffith

  Stupid, Yards, Proud

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• The gates of heaven surely are closed to those who decline to oppose totalitarianism with all their might.

  G. Edward Griffin

  Heaven, Might, Decline

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• Maybe you weren't born with a silver spoon in your mouth, but like every American, you carry a deed to 635 million acres of public lands. That's right. Even if you don't own a house or the latest computer on the market, you own Yosemite, Yellowstone, the Grand Canyon, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, and many other natural treasures.

  John Garamendi

  Yellowstone, Land, House

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• 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, Inspirational, Motivational

  Prophet (1923) "On Work"

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

  Khalil Gibran

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Khalil Gibran (2014). “The Prophet - Der Prophet”, p.126, Lulu.com

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• There will be statues of Bill Gates across the Third World. There's a reasonable shot that - because of his money - we will cure malaria.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Malaria, World, Bills

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• 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

  Life, Fate, Punishment

  "Invictus" l. 13 (1888)

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

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Lbj, Guardian

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.794, Best Books on

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• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Jobs, Children, College

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• Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Flower, Inspiration, Humility

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• In a dream I walked with God through the deep places of creation; past walls that receded and gates that opened through hall after hall of silence, darkness and refreshment--the dwelling place of souls acquainted with light and warmth--until, around me, was an infinity into which we all flowed together and lived anew, like the rings made by raindrops falling upon wide expanses of calm dark waters.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Dream, Wall, Fall

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• Everything in our background has prepared us to know and resist a prison when the gates begin to close around us . . . But what if there are no cries of anguish to be heard? Who is prepared to take arms against a sea of amusements? To whom do we complain, and when, and in what tone of voice, when serious discourse dissolves into giggles? What is the antidote to a culture's being drained by laughter?

  Neil Postman

  Laughter, Sea, Voice

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• Up there we see everything, Oakland to the left, El Cerrito and Richmond to the right, Marin forward, over the Bay, Berkeley below, all red rooftops and trees of cauliflower and columbine, shaped like rockets and explosions, all those people below us, with humbler views; we see the Bay Bridge, clunkety, the Richmond Bridge, straight, low, the Golden Gate, red toothpicks and string, the blue between, the blue above, the gleaming white Land of the Lost/Superman's North Pole Getaway magic crystals that are San Francisco.

  Dave Eggers

  Blue, Views, Oakland

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• Still round the corner there may wait A new road or a secret gate And though I oft have passed them by A day will come at last when I Shall take the hidden paths that run West of the Moon, East of the Sun.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Inspiring, Running

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.690, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Now therefore, while the youthful hue Sits on thy skin like morning dew, And while thy willing soul transpires At every pore with instant fires Now let us sport us while we may, And now, like amorous birds of prey, Rather at once our time devour Than languish in his slow-chapped power. Let us roll our strength and all Our sweetness up into one ball And tear our pleasures with rough strife Through the iron gates of life: Thus, while we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  Andrew Marvell

  Sports, Running, Morning

  c.1650-1652 'To His Coy Mistress' (published 1681).

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• The gate is perfectly simple," Temeraire said. "There is only a bar across the fence, which one can lift very easily, and then it swings open; Nitidus could do it best, for his forehands are the smallest. Though it is difficult to keep the animals inside the pen, and the first time I learned how to open it, they all ran away," he added. "Maximus and I had to chase after them for hours and hours--it was not funny at all," he said, ruffled, sitting back on his haunches and contemplating Laurence with great indignation.

  Naomi Novik

  Animal, Simple, Swings

  Naomi Novik (2009). “In His Majesty's Service: Three Novels of Temeraire (His Majesty's Service, Throne of Jade, and Black Powder War)”, p.390, Del Rey

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• The man who lives in a small community lives in a much larger world. He knows much more of the fierce variety and uncompromising divergences of men…In a large community, we can choose our companions. In a small community, our companions are chosen for us. Thus in all extensive and highly civilized society groups come into existence founded upon sympathy, and shut out the real world more sharply than the gates of a monastery. There is nothing really narrow about the clan; the thing which is really narrow is the clique.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Real, Men, Community

  "Heretics". Chapter XIV: "On Certain Modern Writers and the Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, Institution of the Family", 1905.

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• Remember, the enemy's gate is down.

  Orson Scott Card

  Enemy, Remember, Enders Game

  Orson Scott Card (2013). “The Ender Quintet”, p.216, Macmillan

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• The man that I named the Giver passed along to the boy knowledge, history, memories, color, pain, laughter, love, and truth. Every time you place a book in the hands of a child, you do the same thing. It is very risky. But each time a child opens a book, he pushes open the gate that separates him from Elsewhere. It gives him choices. It gives him freedom. Those are magnificent, wonderfully unsafe things. [from her Newberry Award acceptance speech]

  Lois Lowry

  Pain, Memories, Laughter

  Lois Lowry, Bagram Ibatoulline (2011). “The Giver”, p.196, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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