Gold? Yellow, glittering, precious gold?. . . This yellow slave Will knit and break religions, bless th' accursed, Make the hoar leprosy adored, place thieves, And give them title, knee and approbation With senators on the bench.
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
I have managed to eke out a good and substantial existence. I'm not shoveling gold bricks or anything, but I do very, very well.
Gold is a living god and rules in scorn, All earthly things but virtue.
Naught is possessed, neither gold, nor land nor love, nor life, nor peace, nor even sorrow nor death, nor yet salvation. Say of nothing: It is mine. Say only: It is with me.
She was a lovely blonde, with fine teeth. She had gold and pearls for her dowry; but her gold was on her head, and her pearls were in her mouth.
Markets need not be in sync with one another. Simultaneously, the bond market can be priced for sustained tough times, the equity market for a strong recovery, and gold for high inflation. Such an apparent disconnect is indefinitely sustainable.
Amos clapped his hands. “Khufu!” I thought he’d sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three feet tall with gold fur and a purple shirt came clambering down the stairs. It took me a second to realize it was a baboon wearing an L. A. Lakers jersey.
The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.
[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.
I positively, positively, positively want to play. I've got everything else so why not a gold medal? I want to play.
A book store is a treasure chest. Every time you walk in one, you strike gold.
If I had to pick one exact moment when we were live on air and something very, very special happened it was at the Athens Olympics. Chris Hoy won the Gold Medal in the kilometre time trial and that was incredible.
Everything within a half-a-minute or a half-an-inch is gold, silver, bronze or nothing.
Is it thy will that I should wax and wane, Barter my cloth of gold for hodden grey, And at thy pleasure weave that web of pain Whose brightest threads are each a wasted day?
In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American -- on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.
Adventure is something you seek for pleasure, or even for profit, like a gold rush or invading a country;. . . but experience is what really happens to you in the long run; the truth that finally overtakes you.
I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.
Britain's last gold medal was a bronze in 1952 in Helsinki
Julie Taymor. She is my gold standard of stage directors. I think she has a comprehensive knowledge of theatrical form, since she lived in Indonesia, Java, Japan and France. Her knowledge of form is limitless. Whenever I get painted in a corner, I think about what form she would use, because that is what she practices. It's about accessing the theater traditions of the whole world.