Quotes About Gold

Often we are not aware of how close we are to that which we need but we think we do not have. In His grace, God has placed some hidden gold somewhere in all of us that meets our need at a desperate moment.

And metaphors like cats behind your smile, Each one wound up to purr, each one a pride, Each one a fine gold beast you've hid inside (...)

At the exact moment when truth erupts, the subconscious changes from wastebasket file to angel writing in a book of gold.

And he knew something else as a social evolutionist that he might stress someday in his 'Every Change Is for the Worse' should he ever find time to write it: Gold knew that the most advanced and penultimate stage of a civilization was attained when chaos masqueraded as order, and he knew we were already there.

All were successful,and felt like failures. Gold no longer pretended to understand the nature of success.Instead,he pretended not to. He knew the components that were necessary: None,or maybe one: Dumb luck

Make a choice now! Begin to think constructively and harmoniously. To think is to speak. Your thought is your word. Let your words be as a honeycomb, sweet to the ear, and pleasant to the bones. Let your words be like apples of gold in pictures of silver.

But there's something flirty/sexy about his voice that's appealing to my inner romantic comedy actress. Then again, maybe it's just his penthouse apartment I'm hearing. My inner gold digger frequently beats the crap out of my inner Meg Ryan.

POTENTIAL IS A PRICELESS TREASURE, LIKE GOLD. ALL OF US HAVE GOLD HIDDEN WITHIN, BUT WE HAVE TO DIG TO GET IT OUT.

Sunlight streamed in through double-height windows and cast squares of rich gold on the carpet.

The palm at the end of the mind,Beyond the last thought, rises…A gold-feathered birdSings in the palm.

Tuesday night. A delicate, blue night-most gorgeous, golden stars & the air as fresh and as pure as the air of the moon. I have a great affection for moonlight nights somehow & could cry "moon, moon, moon" as fast as the world calls "thief" after a villain. What a treasure house of silver and gold they are—& how lovely the planets look in the heavens—Bah—mere words.

Petulance is not wit, although a few grains of wit may be found in petulance; quartz is not gold, although a few grains of gold may be found in quartz.

If there had been no gold discovery, Oregon would probably have been ready for admission as a state before California was. The first transcontinental railroad might have been built to Oregon. But if California's first transcontinental railroad had been built later, it might have been in the hands of a somewhat less rapacious group of men, and it might have obtained less of a stranglehold on the state's economy and politics.

The value of the California crude oil produced in the decade of the 1920s was more than two and a half billion dollars. . . . the value of all the gold ever mined in the state — about two billion dollars.

It could not be denied, however, that he set a high value upon justice, for he sold it at its weight in gold.

You don't make a journey like that alone. You make it with a lot of love and sacrifice. That's probably why I was searching the stands for my father after we won the gold medal against Finland. It was a moment that was begging to be shared.

Az összeesküvés-gyártó akképpen hasonlítható a hivatásos történészhez, mint a kincsvadász a régészhez; ami az elÅ'bbieket illeti, lehetetlenség meggyÅ'zni Å'ket, hogy a dokumentumok között végzett sietÅ's feltárásaik csak hamis aranyat hoznak a felszínre. (Michael Billig)

five-hundred-gram gold ingots.

Jacobi outlined the process by which Swiss banks accepted looted gold—and gold ripped from the teeth of Jews on the way to the gas chambers—and converted it into the hard currency Hitler used to buy the raw materials needed to keep his war machine running.

con quanta grazia Zurigo nasconde le sue ricchezze" pensò. Una gran parte dell'oro e dell'argentodi tutto il mondo era conservata nei caveau delle banche sotto i suoi piedi, ma non c'era nessuna odiosa torre di uffici a segnalare i confini del quartiere finanziario, ne altri monumenti dell'altre di accumulare denaro. solo discrezione e riservatezza. una donna denigrata che distoglie lo sguardo per nascondere la propria vergogna. la Svizzera

The blessed damozel leaned outFrom the gold bar of Heaven;Her eyes were deeper than the depthOf waters stilled at even;She had three lilies in her hand,And the stars in her hair were seven.

Sometimes in the company of others I find a disagreeable spirit of competitiveness kicks in and each person is shamed into spending rather more than he would have wished. This is a historically established syndrome, of course. One Magus going to Bethlehem would probably have sprung for a box of After Eights. Three Magi on the same trip found themselves laden with gold, frankincense and myrrh and bitterly comtemplating their overdrafts.

Tayos Gold: The Archives of Atlantis by Stan Hall

The kyara chips had turned to ash by now. Kyara was more expensive by weight than pure gold. Even its name in ancient Japanese meant "precious.