Top 65 Quotes About Portals
#1. And here, over the portals of my fort, I shall cut in the stone the word which is to be my beacon and my banner. The word which will not die should we all perish in battle. The word which can never die on this earth, for it is the heart of it and the meaning and the glory.
The sacred word:
EGO
Ayn Rand
#2. Individual storytelling is incredibly powerful. We as journalists know intuitively what scientists of the brain are discovering through brain scans, which is that emotional stories tend to open the portals, and that once there's a connection made, people are more open to rational arguments.
Nicholas Kristof
#3. A man of genius makes no mistakes. His errors are volitional and are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
#4. Portals and doorways are common symbolic constructs that represent transformative rites of passage. To look for a literal portal would be like trying to locate the actual Gates of Heaven.
Dan Brown
#5. Let him keep his mouth closed, and shut up the portals (of his nostrils), and all his life he will be exempt from laborious exertion.
Lao-Tzu
#6. Once the 'portals of the future close - in Amazonia, Siberia or the Arctic - we will find ourselves powerless to affect the outcome of this dreadful tale.
Mark Lynas
#7. The chakras are specialized energy centers which connect us to the multidimensional universe. The chakras are dimensional portals within the subtle bodies which take in and process energy of higher vibrational nature so that it may be properly assimilated and used to transform the physical body.
Richard Gerber
#8. Toyland, toyland ... once you pass its portals you may never return again.
Patti Smith
#9. Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor.
Baltasar Gracian
#10. Sing to your mountains because as you sing, they are being cast into the sea.As you sing, the portals of heaven are opening.
Sherry K. White
#11. How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.
Thomas Cole
#12. I don't think of myself as fitting into a category. But I had to be careful in all of my books not to repeat things, because I have these ideas, and though the subjects were disparate, the same idea would come up through different portals.
Melissa Holbrook Pierson
#13. I have always believed it my right to have a locked door between me and the world, and to hold the key myself. Now look at it, kicked open. The doors are off their hinges, the portals unguarded, every cover blown.
Mihail Sebastian
#14. To think well of all, to be cheerful with all, to patiently learn to find the good in all - such unselfish thoughts are the very portals of heaven; and to dwell day by day in thoughts of peace toward every creature will bring abounding peace to their possessor.
James Allen
#15. Heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility.
Rudolf Steiner
#16. I understood right from the start that every set of library doors were the sort of magic portals that lead to other lands. My God, right within reach there were dinosaurs and planets and presidents and girl detectives!
Deb Caletti
#17. Open your eyes
Open your ears
Open your mind
Open your heart
They are your portals to joy
Lisa Cypers Kamen
#18. We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.
Kevin Spacey
#19. Think, in this batter'd Caravanserai
Whose portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultan after Sultan with his Pomp
Abode his destin'd Hour and went his way.
Omar Khayyam
#20. In college there is no time to commune with one's thoughts. One goes to college to learn, it seems, not to think. When one enters the portals of learning, one leaves the dearest pleasures - solitude, books and imagination - outside with the whispering pines. I
Helen Keller
#21. Peace! and no longer from its brazen portals The blast of War's great organ shakes the skies! But beautiful as songs of the immortals, The holy melodies of love arise.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#23. God, and not woman, is the heart of all. But she, as priestess of the visible earth, Holding the key, herself most beautiful, Had come to him, and flung the portals wide. He entered in: each beauty was a glass That gleamed the woman back upon his view.
George MacDonald
#24. After character becomes imbued with conscious principles of love, integrity, and faith, it opens the door for purity and holiness to converge at the portals of the soul like sentinels guarding against any counter attacks from the ego.
Garey Gordon
#25. Time machines, magic portals, transporters, worm holes, flying carpets, relocation charms - such things do exist. They're called books.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#26. Come when the rains
Have glazed the snow and clothed the trees with ice,
While the slant sun of February pours
Into the bowers a flood of light. Approach!
The incrusted surface shall upbear thy steps
And the broad arching portals of the grove
Welcome thy entering.
William C. Bryant
#27. The disciples are drawn to the high altars with magnetic certainty, knowing that a great Presence hovers over the ranges ... You were within the portals of the temple ... to enter the wilderness and seek, in the primal patterns of nature, a magical union with beauty.
Ansel Adams
#28. Blogging, writing conventional articles, and being science consultant and pocket protector ninja to various web portals and TV programs, quite often trying to promote the penicillin of hard data to people who had no interest in being cured of their ignorance.
Stephen L. Burns
#29. The heights of the spirit can only be climbed by passing through the portals of humility. You can only acquire right knowledge when you have learnt to esteem it. Man has certainly the right to turn his eyes to the light, but he must first acquire this right.
Rudolf Steiner
#30. Knowing how contented, free, and joyful is life in the world of science, one fervently wishes that many would enter its portals.
Dmitri Mendeleev
#31. The portals are certainly closed, so the demons aren't giving any trouble. Lots of talk about hands of friendship, doves of peace, all that sort of crap ...
Herbie Brennan
#32. Pale death approaches with equal step, and knocks indiscriminately at the door of teh cottage, and the portals of the palace.
Horace
#33. All that we have felt, thought and willed from our earliest infancy is there, leaning over the present which is about to join it, pressing against the portals of consciousness that would fain leave it outside.
Henri Bergson
#34. Poetry is not communication with angels or with the "subconscious." It is communication with the guts, genitals, and five portals of sense. Nothing more.
Thomas Pynchon
#35. With the opening of the New Year, all the closed portals of limitations will be thrown open and I shall move through them to vaster fields, where my worthwhile dreams of life will be fulfilled.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#36. Books are door-shaped portals carrying me across oceans and centuries, helping me feel less along.
Margarita Engle
#37. We, as designers, have a job with so many possibilities and connections. We are connected to so many different portals, from art to movies to music to design. Fashion is always evolving. Actually, the field is huge. I don't think there is another profession that is so open to so many possibilities.
Miuccia Prada
#38. ...books were portals into worlds she yearned to know, whether they be ponderous volumes crammed with accumulated knowledge or whimsical fantasies featuring magical creatures.
Kerry Alan Denney
#39. A man's errors are his portals of discovery.
James Joyce
#40. He figured somewhere in these territories there was an enormous madhouse whose keeper had thrown up his hands in disgusted defeat and flung wide the portals so these twisted folk could descend like locusts on the countryside.
William Gay
#41. Words, I've come to learn, are pulleys through time. Portals into other minds. Without words, what remains? Indecipherable customs. Strange rites. Blighted hearts. Without words, we're history's orphans. Our lives and thoughts erased
Alena Graedon
#42. Spider Jockeys are one of only two mobs (along with Chicken Jockeys) that cannot move through portals.
Steve Adamson
#43. No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.
Johan Huizinga
#44. Our self (Soul), as a form of God's joy, is deathless. For his joy is amritham, eternal bliss. We know that the life of a Soul, which is finite in its expression and infinite in its principle, must go through the portals of death in its journey to realize the infinite.
Rabindranath Tagore
#45. People don't believe me when I tell them I'm a magician who makes portals to other worlds. So I tell them I'm a writer instead.
Genesis Quihuis
#46. Look at it, every day more lusers than users, keyboards and screens turning into nothin but portals to Web sites for what Management wants everybody addicted to, shopping games, jerking off, streaming endless garbage-
Thomas Pynchon
#47. things from the interred past that poked up inconveniently into the present, halfway houses with their portals that went nowhere, that led only into a suggestive nothing.
Alan Moore
#48. 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
#49. Death is not as terrible as you think. It comes to you as a healer. Sleep is nothing but a counterfeit death. What happens in death we can picture in sleep. All our sufferings vanish in sleep. When death comes, all our mortal tortures cease; they cannot go beyond the portals of death.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#50. Books are like Tarot decks. They provide answers and guidance but more importantly, they are doorways and portals to the otherworld and the imagination. They leave their imprint and keep whispering to us long after we close the pages or shuffle the deck.
Sasha Graham
#51. Henry got me with child,
Knowing that I could not bring forth life
Without losing my own.
In my youth therefore I entered the portals of dust.
Edgar Lee Masters
#52. Disneyland is like Alice stepping through the Looking Glass; to step through the portals of Disneyland will be like entering another world.
Walt Disney Company
#53. A heavenly portal is a spherical opening of light that offers divine protection by which angels and heavenly beings can come and go, without demonic interference. God has designed portals to begin in the third Heaven, travel through the second Heaven, and open upon Earth.
John Paul Jackson
#54. The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world ... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture.
Thomas P. Campbell
#55. Any of the nearby volumes might hold information about hippopotamus portals or contain hints about how he might get home.
Brandon Mull
#57. We have eyelids but not earlids, for the ears are the portals of learning, and Nature wanted to keep them wide open.
Baltasar Gracian
#58. Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
Paramahansa Yogananda
#59. Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.
David McCullough
#60. Find the portals to harmony and moments of balance on what you love to do and what you choose not to do.
Angelica Hopes
#61. Remember that drumming opens portals to the spirit world, draws spirit in, and opens you up to receive it.
Michael Drake
#62. Mistakes are the portals of discovery.
James Joyce
#63. The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed.
John Sununu
#64. The serialization through the Internet or through digital portals, means of ways of communicating, and I think that's great.
Keanu Reeves
#65. Black holes may be apertures to elsewhen. Were we to plunge down a black hole, we would re-emerge, it is conjectured, in a different part of the universe and in another epoch in time . . . Black holes may be entrances to Wonderlands. But are there Alices or white rabbits?
Carl Sagan
