Gold Quotes - Page 12

• And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.

  Donna Leon

  Distance, Angel, Cities

  Donna Leon (2015). “Death In A Strange Country: (Brunetti 2)”, p.151, Random House

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• In practice [monetary management] is merely a high-sounding euphemism for continuous currency debasement. It consists of constant lying in order to support constant swindling. Instead of automatic currencies based on gold, people are forced to take managed currencies based on guile. Instead of precious metals they hold paper promises whose value falls with every bureaucratic whim. And they are suavely assured that only hopelessly antiquated minds dream of returning to truth and honesty and solvency and gold.

  Henry Hazlitt

  Dream, Honesty, Lying

  "What You Should Know about Inflation".

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• As you know, Microsoft eventually kind of grabbed the gold ring out of Apple's hands, I guess.

  Andy Hertzfeld

  Apples, Hands, Microsoft

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• I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's not optional; that's a moral obligation. If you're capable of understanding the world, you have a moral obligation to become rational. And I don't see how you become rational hoarding gold. Even if it works, you're a jerk.

  Charlie Munger

  Understanding, Hoarding, World

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• I think gold is a great thing to sew onto your garments if you're a Jewish family in Vienna in 1939, but civilized people don't buy gold, they invest in productive businesses.

  Charlie Munger

  Thinking, People, Vienna

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• In dreams, through longings, we can see—
  All latent in the dust of gold
  These forests that perhaps could be—
  But that will never, ever, grow.

  Lucian Blaga

  Dream, Dust, Forests

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• A painter can turn pennies into gold, for all subjects are capable of being transformed into poems.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  Pennies, Painter, Turns

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• While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.

  Ryan Adams

  Laughter, Passion, Heart

  Ryan Adams (2009). “Infinity Blues”, p.232, Akashic Books

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• The spectacle of a great, solvent government paying a fictitious price for gold it did not want and did not need and doing it on purpose to debase the value of its own paper currency was one to astonish the world.

  Garet Garrett

  Government, Needs, Purpose

  Garet Garrett (1944). “The Revolution was”

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• That was how a Salomon bond trader thought: He forgot whatever it was that he wanted to do for a minute and put his finger on the pulse of the market. If the market felt fidgety, if people were scared or desperate, he herded them like sheep into a corner, then made them pay for their uncertainty. He sat on the market until it puked gold coins. Then he worried about what he wanted to do.

  Michael Lewis

  Sheep, People, Pulse

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• Do not hold as gold all that shines as gold.

  Alain de Lille

  Shining

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• Youth -- nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability -- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

  Richard Halliburton

  Beautiful, Indulge In, Wish

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• Horror need not always be a long-fanged gentleman in evening clothes or a dismembered corpse or a doctor who keeps a brain in his gold fish bowl. It may be a warm sunny day, the innocence of girlhood and hints of unexplored sexuality that combine to produce a euphoria so intense it becomes transporting, a state beyond life or death. Such horror is unspeakable not because it is gruesome but because it remains outside the realm of things that can be easily defined or explained in conventional ways.

  Vincent Canby

  Clothes, Doctors, Long

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• Anna Journey, in her new book of poems, Vulgar Remedies, creates an alchemical self whose shimmering limbic / alembic lyrics distill the mysterious terrors of childhood, the dangerous passions of adults, into her own honey-dusk 'voodun': protective, purified to gold. Poetry is always a time machine: here we are invisible travelers to a bewitched past, a beautifully occluded future. These poems are erotic, vertiginous, revelatory, their dazzling lyric force reflecting profound hermetic life.

  Carol Muske-Dukes

  Book, Passion, Past

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• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  Laura Wilkinson

  Winning, Goal, Want

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• People who postpone happiness are like children who try chasing rainbows in an effort to find the pot of gold at the rainbows end...Your life will never be fulfilled until you are happy here and now.

  Ken Keyes Jr.

  Happiness, Happy, Children

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• I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds that sang.

  William Butler Yeats

  Byzantium, Bird, Tree

  William Butler Yeats (2001). “The Major Works”, p.503

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• Her beauty was sold for an old man's gold. She's a bird in a gilded cage.

  Arthur J. Lamb

  Beauty, Men, Bird

  "A Bird in a Gilded Cage" (song) (1900)

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• The Olympics is my favourite sporting event. Although I have a problem with that silver medal. When you think about it, you win the gold - you feel good, you win the bronze - you think, 'Well at least I got something'. But when you win silver, it's like, 'Congratulations, you 'almost' won. Of all the losers, you came in first of that group. You're the number one 'loser.' No one lost ahead of you.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Congratulations, Winning, Thinking

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• If, in the present chaotic and shameful struggle for existence, when organized society offers a premium on greed, cruelty, and deceit, men can be found who stand aloof and almost alone in their determination to work for good rather than gold

  Lucy Parsons

  Determination, Lying, Struggle

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• Men rush to California and Australia as if the true gold were to be found in that direction but that is to go to the very opposite extreme to where it lies. They go prospecting farther and farther away from the true lead, and are most unfortunate when they think themselves most successful.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Lying, Successful, Men

  Henry David Thoreau (2012). “The Portable Thoreau”, p.419, Penguin

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• It's a gold rush ad we're selling the shovels.

  Josh Williams

  Selling, Shovels, Ads

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• Keeping plenty of gold and jade in the palace makes no one able to defend it.

  Laozi

  Taoism, Jade, Able

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• One cannot help asking sadly, why is love of gold more potent than love of souls? The number of men mining and prospecting for gold in Shantung is more than double the number of men representing Southern Baptists! What a lesson for Southern Baptists to ponder!

  Lottie Moon

  Men, Numbers, Southern

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• There is never enough gold to redeem all the currency in circulation.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Enough, Currency, Circulation

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