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Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate. -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom. -- George MacDonald
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
I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder. -- Tom Hodgkinson
The key to heaven's gate cannot be duplicated. -- Douglas Horton
A distant enemy is always preferable to one at the gate. -- Emile M. Cioran
You wanna know what a gateway drug is? It opens a gate. -- Eugene Mirman
Trust in dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity. -- Khalil Gibran
Pale Death beats equally at the poor man's gate and at the palaces of kings. -- Horace
If you hear Bing Crosby trying to swing, it doesn't work. He swings like a rusty gate. -- Frank Stallone
For me, modern technology has ruined romance and movies - nobody can run to the airplane gate anymore. -- Lorene Scafaria
Suddenly in high school, I'm in a predominantly Jewish atmosphere. Jewish people were my gate to white America. -- Anna Deavere Smith
The best public poems aren't necessarily those that go at the subject like a bull at a gate. -- Andrew Motion
When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad. -- Maria Sharapova
There's always the hyena of morality at the garden gate, and the real wolf at the end of the street. -- D. H. Lawrence
People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door. -- Rufus Sewell
Both in thought and in feeling, even though time be real, to realise the unimportance of time is the gate of wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness, of hatred, of jealousy, and, most easily of all, the gate of fear. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
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
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
I was gladly cuffed, shackled, loaded into the caged bus and driven through the main gate of Bare Hill Correctional Facility for what I pray to God will be forever. -- Jack Carroll
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
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
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
Forty-five years ago, when I was 18, I came to San Francisco by boat and took two weeks to get here. I had a great impression. I think San Francisco is the welcoming gate for people from Asia. -- Tadashi Yanai
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
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
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
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
Death is the gate of life. -- Bernard of Clairvaux
Soft pity enters an iron gate. -- William Shakespeare
The gate of heaven is everywhere. -- Thomas Merton
Remember, the enemy's gate is down. -- Orson Scott Card
The wishing gate opens into nothing. -- Charles Spurgeon
Vienna is the gate to Eastern Europe. -- Niki Lauda
Age and want sit smiling at the gate. -- Alexander Pope
Mathematics is the gate and key to science. -- Roger Bacon
The forehead is the gate of the mind. -- Marcus Tullius Cicero
You can park your snark at the gate, Omaha. -- Rainbow Rowell
A gate to nature is a gate to heaven! -- Mehmet Murat ildan
To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom. -- Sorin Cerin
And to the faithful: death, the gate of life. -- John Milton
If the stable gate is closed, climb the fence. -- Julie Krone
Stillborn silence! thou that art Flood-gate of the deeper heart! -- Richard Flecknoe
I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow. -- Drew Brees
The future is only the past again, entered through another gate. -- Pinero Arthur Wing
The sun is a-wait at the ponderous gate of the West. -- Sidney Lanier
To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom. -- Bertrand Russell
It's common to go from 'crashing the gate' to guarding it. -- Glenn Greenwald
Honesty stands at the gate and knocks, and bribery enters in. -- Barnabe Rich
Only through Beauty's morning-gate, dost thou penetrate the land of knowledge. -- Friedrich Schiller
Artists are the gate keepers of truth. We are civilization's radical voice. -- Paul Robeson
All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness. -- George Bernard Shaw
Just write, if you open the gate it gets better and better. -- Dusty Redmon
wide is the gate and broad is the way that leads to temptation! -- Eric Jerome Dickey
I believe the future is only the past again, entered through another gate. -- Arthur Wing Pinero
There will be no fraternal strife while the foe is at the gate. -- Menachem Begin
When money comes in at the gate, sport flies out at the window. -- Theodore Roosevelt
Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through. -- Bob Dylan
As this life is not a gate, but the horse plunging through it. -- Jane Hirshfield
before the gate -- my walking stick's made a river of melting snow -- Kobayashi Issa
'Tis writ on Paradise's gate, Woe to the dupe that yields to fate! -- Hafez
A dog starved at his master's gate Predicts the ruin of the state. -- William Blake
The gate of heaven is very low; only the humble can enter it. -- Elizabeth Ann Seton
With equal pace, impartial Fate Knocks at the palace, as the cottage gate. -- Horace
Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate. -- Bob Seger
Er fühlte in seiner Brieftasche die Geldscheine zittern wie Vollblutpferde hinter dem starting-gate. -- Montherlant, Henry de
Repentance lifts a man up. Mourning knocks at heaven's gate. Holy humility opens it. -- John Climacus
Tu deber es descubrir tu mundo y después entrégate con todo tu corazón -- Buda
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams. -- H. P. Lovecraft
Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens. -- Starhawk
Repulsion is the sentry that guards the gate to all that we most desire. -- Salvador Dali
The enemy is at the gate. It is a question of life and death. -- Andrei Zhdanov
Death is no punishment to the believer: it is the gate of endless joy. -- Charles Spurgeon
Can you open and close the gate of Heaven and act like a woman? -- Laozi
For every second of time was the strait gate through which the Messiah might enter. -- Walter Benjamin
You've just got to get in the starting gate and throw down whatever you've got. -- Ted Ligety
Love clamors far more incessantly and passionately at a closed gate than an open one! -- Marie Corelli
No sheep wants to be first through the gate, but every sheep will be second. -- Tucker Max
The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate. -- Marcus Terentius Varro
Death is but changing of our robes to wait in wedding garments at the Eternal's gate. -- Sri Aurobindo
Let me arise and open the gate, / to breathe the wild warm air of the heath... -- Violet Fane
In my garden, care stops at the gate and gazes at me wistfully through the bars. -- Alexander Smith
You're about to enter the future gate.Come in now, or later will be too late. -- Toba Beta
Each of us guard a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. -- Stephen Covey
Escape? There is one unwatched way: your eyes. O Beauty! Keep me good that secret gate. -- Wilfred Owen
Jack leaped over the gate, his sword aflame. To vanquish his foe and rescue his love. -- Melissa de la Cruz
He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open. -- Rabindranath Tagore
The higher you climb, the more Satan will take notice. Keep climbing! Heaven's gate has a lock. -- Shannon L. Alder
Any object, intensely regarded, may be a gate of access to the incorruptible eons of the gods. -- James Joyce
Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down. -- Joan Bauer
At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers. -- Warren Ellis
We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else. -- Lyndon B. Johnson
What boots it at one gate to make defence, And at another to let in the foe? -- John Milton
A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning. -- Tom Brokaw
I'm not someone who went to acting school - I was just out of the gate, doing it. -- Natasha Lyonne
Like mercy from heaven's gate, there's a freedom in your arms that carries me through. I need you. -- LeAnn Rimes
Suffering for truth's sake Is fortitude to highest victory, And to the faithful death the gate of life. -- John Milton
Love is a breach in the walls, a broken gate, Love sells the proud heart's citadel to fate. -- Rupert Brooke
If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody. -- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
At the door of life by the gate of breath, There are worse things waiting for men than death. -- Algernon Charles Swinburne
A joyous little creature, so beautiful, It was as if a gate of Heaven opened as she came in... -- Victor Hugo
Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low. -- Robert Herrick
A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life. -- Louise Erdrich
Reimbursement may be sometimes small, but then great ability can never be measured by the tickets at the gate. -- Eddie Harris
The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling. -- Heinrich Heine
When I stretch, I stretch in such a way that my awareness moves, and a gate of awareness finally opens -- B.K.S. Iyengar
One step outside the gate, and we are among the sand-hills that stretch for miles and miles round Vera Cruz. -- Edward Burnett Tylor
Ye servants of the Lord, Each in his office wait, Observant of the heavenly word, And watchful at his gate. -- Philip Doddridge
Happiness is a choice you make when you allow faith through the entry gate and fear through the exit gate. -- Roopleen
You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal. -- Dante Alighieri
Unbelievable! I said, "What would I be doing walking the streets at night as a stuffed olive- gate-crashing cocktail parties? -- Louise Rennison
I am a gate for God to accomplish great things. Through me and with me, new Life enters the world. -- Julia Cameron
Is it so unjust that a man should leave the world by the same gate through which he entered it? -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
As a newcomer, you know, you don't come out the gate as a singer and try to compare with Judy Garland. -- Allison Tolman
She's been a barrel of bitchy monkeys since Jordan and I walked out of the Arrivals gate together earlier this afternoon. -- Victoria Denault
The gate is small because truth guards the entrance. The way is narrow because the Lord protects us with wise boundaries. -- Charles Stanley
With the right alignment, everything you want makes its way into your experience. You are the keeper of your own gate. -- Esther Hicks
Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell. -- Dag Hammarskjold
Compassion makes no distinction between friends and enemies, neighbors and outsiders, compatriots and foreigners. Compassion is the gate to human community. -- Joan D. Chittister

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