Gates Quotes - Page 31

• Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life.

  John Milton

  Faithful, Suffering, Victory

  John Milton, Matthew S. Stallard (2011). “Paradise Lost: The Biblically Annotated Edition”, p.489, Mercer University Press

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• They are not long, the weeping and the laughter. Love and desire and hate; I think they have no portion in us after We pass the gate.

  Ernest Dowson

  Laughter, Hate, Thinking

  'Vitae Summa Brevis'

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• Since ... 'the kingdom of heaven suffers violence and the violent take it by force' (Mt. 11:12), and it is impossible for the faithful to enter it by any other way, unless they come through the narrow gate of trials and tribulations, the divine oracle rightly commands us, saying: 'Strive to enter by the narrow door' (Lk. 13:24). Again He says, 'By your endurance you will gain your souls' (Lk. 21:19), and, 'Through many tribulations we must enter the kingdom of heaven' (Acts 14:22).

  Symeon the New Theologian

  Christian, Doors, Heaven

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• [Consider] a fence or gate erected across a road] The more modern type of reformer goes gaily up to it and says, "I don't see the use of this; let us clear it away." To which the more intelligent type of reformer will do well to answer: "If you don't see the use of it, I certainly won't let you clear it away. Go away and think. Then, when you can come back and tell me that you do see the use of it, I may allow you to destroy it."

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Intelligent, Thinking, Going Away

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• Renovating temples does not mean building great gate towers or receptacles for offerings. What we should focus on is the regular conduct of worship according to tradition, regular satsang, devotional singing, and so forth. Our devotion and faith give life to temples, not rituals and ceremonies. Children, we should remember this when we are involved in temple matters.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Children, Mean

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• As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.

  Bob Dylan

  Sadness, Eden, Bird

  Song: Gates of Eden, Album: Bringing It All Back Home, 1965

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• Death is a black camel, which kneels at the gates of all.

  Abdelkader El Djezairi

  Death, Black, Camels

  "The Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations". Edited by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 79, 1882.

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• I believe the Rolling Stones wanted to play in Golden Gate Park.

  Paul Kantner

  Believe, Play, Rolling

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• 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

  Movie, Magic, Actors

  "Actor Gary Oldman". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. December 14, 2011.

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

  Anna Deavere Smith

  School, White, America

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• Social activism has gone mainstream. A new generation of philanthropic leaders such as Bill and Melinda Gates, and Bono are providing inspiration, guidance, and billions of dollars through their global foundations.

  Willow Bay

  Inspiration, Leader, Dollars

  "Living Now Gets a Makeover: Check Out Our New How-To Guide for a Fuller Life" by Willow Bay, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 17, 2007.

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• When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

  Jackie DeShannon

  People, House, Trying

  Interview with David Adams, www.elvis.com.au. August 2, 2015.

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• Even if the Bush Administration had flung open the gates to stem-cell research years ago, we would not be at the point of offering treatment today. Christopher Reeve would still have been taken from us. But we would be closer.

  Patti Davis

  Taken, Offering, Cells

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• I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids.

  Jennifer Ellison

  Kids, House, Lovely

  "Exclusive: My lover by Jennifer Ellison". www.mirror.co.uk. July 5, 2005.

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• Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

  Bob Dylan

  Heart, Reality, Broken

  Song: Everything is Broken, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• Last night I dreamed I went to hillbilly heaven and you know who greeted me at the gate? The ole cowboy-philosopher himself, Will Rogers.

  Tex Ritter

  Death, Cowboy, Night

  Song: I Dreamed Of A Hill-Billy Heaven

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• Saw the ghost of Elvis on Union Avenue, followed him up to the gates of Graceland.

  Marc Cohn

  Unions, Saws, Ghost

  Song: Walking In Memphis, Album: Marc Cohn, 1991

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• Meanwhile the Adversary of God and man, Satan with thoughts inflamed of highest design, Puts on swift wings, and towards the gates of hell Explores his solitary flight.

  John Milton

  Men, Wings, Design

  1665 Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.2, l.629-32.

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• O Liberty, white Goddess! is it well to leave the gates unguarded? On thy breast fold Sorrow's children, soothe the hurts of Fate, lift the down-trodden, but with hand of steel stay those who to thy sacred portals come to waste the gifts of Freedom.

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich

  Hurt, Children, Fate

  Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The Writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich: Poems”

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• The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West.

  Sidney Lanier

  Waiting, West, Sun

  Sidney Lanier, Charles Roberts Anderson (1969). “Sidney Lanier: poems and letters”, Johns Hopkins University Press

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• The day when efficacy would prevail over truth will never come for the Church, for then the gates of hell would have prevailed against her.

  Jacques Maritain

  Church, Hell, Efficacy

  Jacques Maritain (1997). “Untrammeled approaches”

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• Let us roll all our strength, and all Our sweetness, up into one ball: And tear our pleasures with rough strife, Through the iron gates of life. Thus, though we cannot make our sun Stand still, yet we will make him run.

  Andrew Marvell

  Running, Iron, Tears

  "To His Coy Mistress" l. 41 (1681)

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• Ordinary men, to whom all things are possible, don't often, if ever, think of Heaven. It is a name, and nothing more, and they are content to wait and let things be, but to those who are doomed to be shut out for ever you cannot think what it means, you cannot guess or measure the terrible endless longing to see the gates opened, and to be able to join the white figures within.

  Bram Stoker

  Mean, Men, Thinking

  Bram Stoker (2006). “Dracula's Guest: & Other Stories”, p.122, Wordsworth Editions

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• When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates, you have to think, 'You are a complete idiot.'

  Ken Livingstone

  School, Thinking, Trying

  "Livingstone: 4X4s drivers are idiots", www.standard.co.uk. May 21, 2004.

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• Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate.

  Philip Doddridge

  Office, Waiting, Lord

  'Hymns' (1755) 'The active Christian'

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