Gateposts Quotes & Sayings

Your value depends on how much love you gave away, not on how much money you have accumulated. — Debasish Mridha

Legislation for the Caribbean basin has led to more jobs in the Dominican Republic. — Elliott Abrams

No militia or political leader is so powerful - his name never so influential - as when he is dead, enshrined on wall posters and gateposts amid naively painted clusters of tulips and roses, the final artistic accolade of every armed martyr in Lebanon. — Robert Fisk

Wrap your legs around me, he said, tightening his grip on my ass. I did what he told me to do. — Raine Miller

I think a lot of philosophers get so absorbed and distracted from the real matters of the world that they get lost in irrelevant sub-details. — Pam Gems

It is well for us if we have learned to listen to the sweet persuasion of the Beatitudes, but there are crises in all lives which require also the emphatic "Thou shalt not" of the decalogue which the founders wrote on the gateposts of their commonwealth. — John Greenleaf Whittier

step between the gateposts of the forest with the greatest trepidation and infinite precautions, for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you. They are grey as famine, they are as unkind as plague. The — Angela Carter

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing. — Antisthenes

Tramps and vagabonds have marks they make on gateposts and trees and doors, letting others of their kind know a little about the people who live at the houses and farms they pass on their travels. I think cats must leave similar signs; how else to explain the cats who turn up at our door through the year, hungry and flea-ridden and abandoned? — Neil Gaiman

You are always in danger in the forest, where no people are. Step between the portals of the great pines where the shaggy branches tangle about you, trapping the unwary traveller in nets as if the vegetation itself were in a plot with the wolves who live there, as though the wicked trees go fishing on behalf of their friends--step between the gateposts of the forest with the greatest trepidation and infinite precautions, for if you stray from the path for one instant, the wolves will eat you. They are grey as famine, they are as unkind as plague. — Angela Carter