Quotes About Closed Gates

#1. Then the gates of his heart were flung open, and his joy flew far over the sea. And he closed his eyes and prayed in the silences of his soul.

Kahlil Gibran

#2. We marched. Gates opened and closed. We continued to march between the barbed wire. At every step, white signs with black skulls looked down on us. The inscription: WARNING! DANGER OF DEATH. What irony. Was there here a single place where one was NOT in danger of death?

Elie Wiesel

#3. You do not write the best you can for the sake of art, but for the sake of returning your talent increased to the invisible God to use or not use as he sees fit.

Flannery O'Connor

#4. It was not my desire to go off and serve in Vietnam.

Mitt Romney

#5. Men screamed as she opened them and let their futures spill out.

Jonathan Maberry

#6. Gates appeal to me because of the negative space they allow. They can be closed but at the same time they allow the seasons and breezes to enter and flow. They can shut you out or shut you in. And in some ways there is no difference.

Bob Dylan

#7. The rise of the global middle class will pave the way for a new golden age in Australian society.

Asher Judah

#8. They had entered the thorny wilderness, and the golden gates of their childhood had for ever closed behind them.

George Eliot

#9. If all I'm remembered for is being a good basketball player, then I've done a bad job with the rest of my life.

Isaiah Thomas

#10. A lot of people assume that creating software is purely a solitary activity where you sit in an office with the door closed all day and write lots of code.

Bill Gates

#11. I fell in love once, if love be that cruelty which takes us straight to the gates of Paradise only to remind us they are closed for ever.

Jeanette Winterson

#12. Act as if you know what you are talking about and people will assume that you do. Pretend you have no fear and you will appear confident to others.

Michael Wallace

#13. Once Mo had closed the gates, he returned to his little stone hut, and his half-eaten sandwich of butter and canned sardines, and his mug of thick hot chocolate, which every night he poured carefully into a thermos labeled COFFEE.

Lauren Oliver

#14. Amani." My eyes flew open. Jin was standing in the gates to Fahali. His face cleared as he saw me, and he ran toward me, relief written all over him. "Thank God."
"You don't believe in God," I said. It came out half a croak just as he closed the last of the space between us with a kiss.

Alwyn Hamilton

#15. Our second remark is, that the office is of divine appointment, not merely in the sense in which the civil powers are ordained of God, but in the sense that ministers derive their authority from Christ, and not from the people.

Charles Hodge

#16. And I rose
In a rainy autumn
And walked abroad in shower of all my days
High tide and the heron dived when I took the road
Over the border
And the gates
Of the town closed as the town awoke.

Dylan Thomas

#17. Looking puzzled, Rian crossed her legs. "Now that the gates of hell are closed,

Patrick Rothfuss