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Quotes About Gates

Within her, the rusty gates to her heart groaned as they slowly, slowly began to open.
~ Zoe Archer
The massive bronze gates were wide open now, too late. Inside, the cemetery had been turned into a grotesque place gleaming with high-powered searchlights, blue flashlight flares, winking pocket torches. Uniformed men were already swarming about. Red cigarette-embers showed oddly amidst the headstones here and there. ("The Street Of Jungle Death")
~ Cornell Woolrich
The book grew out of the introduction I did for Brady's Gates of Janus. I knew that the writing in that introduction had a better than average chance of being read by people involved in Brady's life - parents of victims, police, Brady himself.
~ Peter Sotos
When it comes to climate and energy, Gates is a radical consumerist. In his view, energy consumption is good - it just needs to be clean energy.
~ Jeff Goodell
In France, we don't yet have the craft that American TV does or big studios like Paramount. It was so cool going through those famous gates when you have your own little pass and picture on it. Woo hoo, I'm going to work!
~ Lizzie Brochere
At the gates, prickly rolls of barbed wire sagged with middle-aged disappointment.
~ Viet Thanh Nguyen
There are two gates of Sleep. One is of horn, easy of passage for the shades of truth; the other, of gleaming white ivory, permits false dreams to ascend to the upper air.
~ Virgil
The descent to hell is easy, the black gates stand open night and day, but to climb back up again to retrace ones steps to the upper air there in lies the laborious task, the toil.
~ Virgil
The gates of hell are open, night and day; smooth the descent, and easy the way.
~ Virgil
while the royal burghers rush to the gate and the town guard fling themselves at the bolts and then the great gates
~ Philippa Gregory
Dawn breaks / And blossoms open / Gates of paradise.
~ Dean Koontz
As we drew near to the gates of Dother Hall the old bell in the belfry rang out. I said, 'I must go in, it's nigh on ten of the clock.' He half-turned away from me, his jacket collar hiding his expression. Was he angry? Disappointed?" Jo looked intently and I said, "Hungry?" Jo ignored me, but as she passed by acting out walking away from Phil, she allowed her hand to slap against my head.
~ Louise Rennison
But unlike Mama, I would not go to heaven. My secrets padlocked the gates. I'd be a torn kite stuck in the dead branches of a tree, unable to fly.
~ Ruta Sepetys, Salt to the Sea
was picking my son up at the prison gates when I spotted the mother of the girl he had murdered. Two independent clauses, ten words each, joined by an adverb, made up entirely of words that would once have been unimaginable to think, much less say.
~ Jacquelyn Mitchard
The language also owed its existence to the Harvard PDP-10, interestingly enough. Since Gates and Allen didn't have access to an Intel 8080 at the time, they used Gates's student account on the big machine to create a simulation of the microprocessor
~ Unknown
Unfast'ns: on a sudden op'n flie With impetuous recoile and jarring sound Th' infernal dores, and on thir hinges great Harsh Thunder, that the lowest bottom shook Of Erebus. She op'nd, but to shut Excel'd her power; the Gates wide op'n
~ John Milton
There is not an enemy so stout, as to storm and take the fortress of the mind, Unless its infirmity turn traitor, and Fear unbar the gates.
~ John Adams
We are all inventors, each sailing out on a voyage of discovery, guided each by a private chart, of which there is no duplicate. The world is all gates, all opportunities.
~ Unknown
Embrace paradox. Look for patterns. Beethoven holds the key but doesn't know it yet. Hiding inside your Shangri-La you might find the Gates of Hell
~ Mark Frost
Love is the master key opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Mutual Forgiveness of each vice, Such are the Gates of Paradise.' William Blake (1757-1827)
~ Martina Cole
Love is the master key which opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Love is the only angel, who can bid the gates unroll, and when he comes to call thee, arise and follow fast, his way mat lie through darkness, but leads to light at last.
~ John Donne