Top 100 The Gate Quotes
#1. Many a thief is a better man than many a clergyman, and miles nearer to the gate of the kingdom.
George MacDonald
#2. My family isn't safe. Mermen from Natatoria are coming today to reclaim the house and reopen the gate. We have to leave.
Brenda Pandos
#3. Keep a tight security on the gate of your mind so that only positive thoughts are allowed to enter and onlys words of wisdom are allowed to exit
Unknwon
#4. To be beyond yourself is the gate to wisdom.
Sorin Cerin
#5. My role is the shepherd's role. The shepherd is the one who opens the gate and allows the flock to go through and whoever opens the gate has to close it, and the gate is not yet closed.
Jimmy Cliff
#6. If the way of heaven be narrow, it is not long; and if the gate be straight, it opens into endless life.
William Beveridge
#7. But in dying so suddenly her mother had become a riddle at the gate instead of the road you walked to get there.
Stephanie Kallos
#8. Jesus Christ said the gate that leads to destruction is wide and the way is broad, but the gate which leads to life is straight and the way narrow.
Billy Graham
#9. It is the Spirit of God alone who opens the gate of heaven to the elect. Further,
John Calvin
#10. Poems should be like pins which prick the skin of boredom and leave a glow equal in its pride to the gate of the sadist who stuck the pin and walked away
Norman Mailer
#11. Like a rock, standing arrow straight. Like a rock, charging from the gate.
Bob Seger
#12. If I didn't look around it would not be true that somebody had opened the gate with the creaky hinges, and that is a wonderful principle for a man to get hold of. I had got hold of the
Robert Penn Warren
#13. 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
#15. I've seen plenty of films where the projector broke. The problems that we have in the digital age are exactly the same as we had. Instead of, 'There's a hair in the gate,' it's, 'The computer ate the footage.' There will always be things like that going on. Nothing is perfect.
Joss Whedon
#16. All loss is one, and one loss becomes all, a single death is the key to the gate that bars memory.
Diana Gabaldon
#17. I can see that everyone else is doing exactly what they wanted with the rest of their lives. They're all at the gate, pawing the dirt and ready to run, and I've already got a lame leg and am this close to being taken around back of the stable to be put out of my misery.
Sarah Dessen
#19. Where the Mystery is the deepest is the gate of all that is subtle and wonderful.
Lao-Tzu
#20. We did not choose to be the guardians of the gate, but there is no one else.
Lyndon B. Johnson
#21. Enter ye in at the astrait gate; for strait is the gate, and narrow is the way that leads to life, and few there be that find it; but wide is the gate, and broad the way which leads to death, and many there be that travel therein, until the night cometh, wherein no man can work.
The Church Of Jesus Christ Of Latter-day Saints
#22. Sometimes just getting up in the morning and standing at the gate can bring the gate down.
Joan Bauer
#23. People talk about opportunity knocking, but the gate was always swinging in the breeze before I got to the door.
Rufus Sewell
#24. I called a cab, still in my towel. I jumped in the cab before it had even stopped at the gate. I actually said, The nearest library with a cutting-edge professional grief- and trauma-therapy section, and step on it.
David Foster Wallace
#26. This was it; the Mystery of The Unseen, the Gate of Sorrow, that leads to the Grace of the Redeemer. I pressed my lips together, and my hands gripped the windowsill. I saw the hand of Fatima, and all the visible world sank away from me.
Kurban Said
#27. Love is as bitter as the dregs of sin, As sweet as clover-honey in its cell; Love is the password whereby souls get in To Heaven
the gate that leads, sometimes, to Hell.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
#28. Above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Death hath this also, that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy.
Francis Bacon
#29. -we wish you-"
"-a tale-"
"-worth telling."
"Not luck?" asked Vikram.
The gate heaved with wet laughter.
"-what good is-"
"-such a thing.
Roshani Chokshi
#30. The Champion must not waver. The Champion must not fear. The Gate of Darkness closes.
Rae Carson
#31. Before the gate
my walking stick's made a river of melting snow
Kobayashi Issa
#32. When infinity opens to us, terrible indeed is the closing of the gate behind.
Victor Hugo
#34. That the fighting was done, townspeople began to flood out of alleys and recesses, timidly making for the gate and - presumably - safety.
Robert Jordan
#36. It is my experience both as an artist and as a teacher that when we move out on faith into the act of creation, the universe is able to advance. It is a little like opening the gate at the top of a field irrigation system. Once we remove the blocks, the flow moves in.
Julia Cameron
#37. Religious life has to become an expression of the gifts of the person. (You don't) simply throw away your personality, your giftedness and leave everything at the gate and go in and expect to find Jesus.
Dolores Hart
#38. When I walked out of the gate I knew that if I continued to hate these people I was still in prison.
Nelson Mandela
#39. We knock a time or two at the gate of mercy, and as no friendly messenger opens the door, we go our ways. Too many prayers are like boys' runaway knocks, given, and then the giver is away before the door can be opened.
John F. MacArthur Jr.
#40. Next, she put her left eye close to the glass-like square. It scanned her retina with a slide of dim blue-light. Immediately after the scan was complete, the gate glided to the side, revealing a closet-sized dark chamber.
A.O. Peart
#41. The world will not spin slower or faster when we have passed through the gate together. What remains is light on water, or a shifting shadow.
Emmi Itaranta
#42. No-thinking is the door. No-word is the gate. No-mind is the way.
Osho
#43. True knowledge of God and of the secret of his wisdom comes from faith, because the obedience of faith opens to us the gate of the Kingdom of Heaven.
John Calvin
#44. Perserverence 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
#45. Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
Tertullian
#46. We need to put undercover security armed people at the curbside of the terminal with the uniform of policemen. We need to protect the terminal. We need to protect the security checkpoint, the gate, the aircraft, the perimeter.
Isaac Yeffet
#47. I left her there crying as I walked toward the gate. A piece of my soul had died when Dimitri had fallen. Turning my back on her now, I felt another piece die as well. Soon there wouldn't be anything left inside me.
Richelle Mead
#48. You took me to adventure and to love. We two have shared great joy and great sorrow. And now I stand at the gate of the paddock watching you run in an ecstasy of freedom, knowing you will return to stand quietly, loyally, beside me.
Pam Brown
#49. Many people believe they have found the key to Heaven's gate, not realizing that there is no key hole. It is a barrier upon which you must knock. And I believe that it is by our small and simple acts of kindness that we find the gate left ajar.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#50. 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
#51. Ever desireless, one can see the mystery. Ever desiring, one can see the manifestations. These two spring from the same source but differ in name; this appears as darkness. Darkness within darkness. The gate to all mystery.
Laozi
#52. Sir, I'm afraid that the quality of this airline is partly measured by on-time departures. And unfortunately, on-time departures are measured by when we left the gate, not by wheels-up.
Marcus Buckingham
#53. have to open the gate to our heart. Opening the heart unlocks the heart of the universe, and we see what is always before us.
Jeff Brown
#54. In heaven and earth, pride, self-exaltation, is the gate and the birth, and the curse, of hell.1
Andrew Murray
#55. A woman's body is the gate to this life. A man's body is the gate to the next life.
Louise Erdrich
#56. The spring's already at the gate With looks my care beguiling; The country round appeareth straight A flower-garden smiling.
Heinrich Heine
#57. This is the ultimate end of man, to find the One which is in him; which is his truth, which is his soul; the key with which he opens the gate of the spiritual life, the heavenly kingdom.
Rabindranath Tagore
#58. Younger kids should realize that if dancing is what you wanna do, it's not always gonna be the easiest thing; you're not always going to end up dancing for Justin Timberlake right out the gate.
Ryan Guzman
#59. Loyalty is not a passive, negative guardianship of the gate-- loyalty arises from the complete & utter opening & subsequent blazing forth of one's inner life. It is an active, determined desire that demands total self-awareness & deliberate engagement.
Qiu Miaojin
#60. When the rose's flash to the sunset
Reels to the wrack and the twist,
And the rose is a red bygone,
When the face I love is going
And the gate to the end shall clang,
And it's no use to beckon or say, "So long"
Maybe I'll tell you then
some other time.
Carl Sandburg
#61. The day after we had pitched a game, it was our duty to stand at the gate, and afterwards to count the tickets. I remember counting 30,000 tickets one day at the Polo Grounds in New York.
Kid Nichols
#62. Only a small few can hold the gate open when profound love enters. A blessed and courageous few.
Jeff Brown
#63. Women are like lionesses at the gate of the home. Whatever happens in that home and family happens because she cares about it and it matters to her. She guards that gate, and things matter to that family if they matter to her.
Julie B. Beck
#64. Humility before the flower at the timber line is the gate which gives access to the path up the open fell.
Dag Hammarskjold
#65. I think I might miss you, too. So few things left in this world to terrorize me and look pretty while doing it. Now get out of here and enjoy your eternity." He glanced calculatingly at the gate once again, and I raised my hand in warning. "I can drain faster than you can run.
Kiersten White
#66. Where else is the gate of life if not in the eyes of your soul?
Sorin Cerin
#67. There was a large notice in black and red hung on the gate, stating that on June the Twenty-second Messrs Grubb, Grubb, and Burrowes would sell by auction the effects of the late Bilbo Baggins Esquire, of Bag-End, Underhill, Hobbiton.
J.R.R. Tolkien
#68. My guess is that most Australians today would vote for Babe. A piglet who dreams of being a statesmanlike sheepdog. Who merely by asking politely, can lead the electorate two by two through the gate where the grass is always greener.
Wendy Harmer
#69. I'm not a pretty boy who came to town and burst out of the gate, which is a good thing, because if I was, I probably wouldn't have been good enough then. I probably wouldn't have lasted. So I was very lucky not to be pretty.
Jeremy Piven
#70. I can't get through the gate. The gate is narrow.
Drew Brees
#71. A soldier of fortune with twisted tongue will come to pillage the sanctuary of the gods; To the heretics he will open the gate, thus stirring up the Church militant.
Nostradamus
#72. Death opens the gate of fame, and shuts the gate of envy after it; it unlooses the chain of the captive, and puts the bondsman's task into another man's hand.
Laurence Sterne
#73. The Murder Burger is served right here.
You need not wait at the gate of Heaven for unleavened death.
You can be a goner on this very corner.
Mayonnaise, onions, dominance of flesh.
If you wish to eat it you must feed it.
Yall come back soon.
You bet.
Stan Rice
#74. Oh you, straying heart, just come! Oh you, aching liver, just come! If the path to the gate is closed, Take the way by the wall, but come!
Rumi
#75. I wasn't scared, but I had started making sure the gate was locked at night and asking God what happens when you die.
Malala Yousafzai
#76. he knew from studying maps in preparation: the broad avenues leading to the Brandenburg Gate. He had played Bach's Brandenburg Concertos records many times, intricate magic alive in the air. The gate that led to the town of Brandenburg an der Havel.
Gregory Benford
#77. Then she lowered her arm and the gate closed behind her. That arm suddenly falling and the metallic clank of the gate shutting made me understand that from one moment to another one can lose heart.
Patrick Modiano
#79. He who wants to do good, knocks at the gate; he who loves finds the gates open.
Rabindranath Tagore
#80. Dad leapt over the garden wall instead of going through the gate. Sadly he didn't do himself a severe injury, and so he lives to embarrass me to death another day.
Louise Rennison
#81. For two are the mystical pillars, that stand at the gate of the shrine, And two are the powers of Nature, the forms and the forces divine.
Doreen Valiente
#82. In Japan, there are storm channels on either side of the main roads. There were so many times when I'd fall into these ditches because I was lost in stories as I was walking along. It's still dangerous for me to drive. I've driven into the gate outside my house numerous times.
Hideo Kojima
#83. As in other tests it was now the moment of decision; she was given a final chance to reverse the inevitable course of destiny - ever does free will move through the gate that binds the past and future.
Don Bradley
#85. The gate clicks behind me. The tulips along the border are redder than ever, opening, no longer wine cups by chalices; thrusting themselves up, to what end? They are, after all, empty.
Margaret Atwood
#86. Sick of this State
Of that Stateless States
That moves at this rate
That Knocks at the Gate
And Yearns for the remains
Of the brave new fate.
Khalid Chaouch
#87. It was not, she said, confessing to her husband her sleeplessness, that she was afraid. She was only "keepin' them company, an' haudin' the yett open," she said. The latter phrase was her picture-periphrase for praying. She never said she prayed; she held the gate open.
George MacDonald
#88. I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.
Johnny Depp
#89. You mustn't tell your dreams. Miss Testvalley says nothing bores people so much as being told other people's dreams. Nan said nothing, but an iron gate seemed to clang shut in her - the gate that was so often slammed by careless hands. As if anyone could be bored by such dreams as hers!
Edith Wharton
#90. A big part of making your own luck is just charging out of the gate every morning.
Tom Brokaw
#91. Humble we must be, if to heaven we go; High is the roof there, but the gate is low.
Robert Herrick
#92. Closing the gate is meant to be a season-long arc, but the questions that come up in the quest, and the series of reveals and discoveries, are meant to start being the under-pinings for questions, secrets and things that will be explored in future seasons.
Jeremy Carver
#93. I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say: O.K., you're not that good. You just reached the level here. I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
Quentin Tarantino
#94. When I go to the Gate, I'll play a duet with Gabriel. Yeah, we'll play 'Sleepy Time Down South' and 'Hello, Dolly!.' Then he can blow a couple that he's been playing up there all the time.
Louis Armstrong
#95. But the demonstration of the power of Jesus' name took place, not in the Temple, but outside the gate. God is on the move, not confined
N. T. Wright
#96. Christiana alures her to the Gate which is Christ, and promiseth there to enquire for her.
John Bunyan
#97. If you want to be religious, enter not the gate of any organised religions. They do a hundred times more evil than good, because they stop the growth of each one's individual development.
Swami Vivekananda
#98. The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes.
John Bunyan
#99. Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.
Bob Dylan
#100. That he live in all respects so compactly and preparedly that, if an enemy take the town, he can, like the old philosopher, walk out the gate empty-handed without anxiety.
Henry David Thoreau
