Gold Quotes - Page 20

• It was important that people come to value light as we value gold, silver, paintings, objects.

  James Turrell

  Light, People, Important

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• A good disposition is more valuable than gold, for the latter is the gift of fortune, but the former is the dower of nature.

  Joseph Addison

  Fortune, Disposition, Latter

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• We are assailed by the temptation of the love of money. If you wish to acquire riches ? they are the bait of the fishers hook ? by greed, by trafficking, by violence, by ruse or by excessive manual work that deprives you of leisure for the service of God ? in a word by any other means ? if you have desired to pile up gold or silver, remember what the Gospel says, 'Fool! They will snatch your soul away during the night! Who will get your hoard' (cf. Lk. 12:20)? Again, 'He piles up money without knowing to whom it will go' (Ps. 39:6).

  Pachomius the Great

  Christian, Mean, Night

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• If anything had or could have a value equal to gold and silver, it would require no tender law; and if it had not that value it ought not to have such a law; and, therefore, all tender laws are tyrannical and unjust and calculated to support fraud and oppression.

  Thomas Paine

  Law, Support, Unjust

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.167, Yale University Press

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• Time is so old and love so brief, love is pure gold and time a thief. We're late, darling, we're late, The curtain descends, everything ends, too soon, too soon.

  Ogden Nash

  Love Is, And Love, Thieves

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• Walk the lines of nature's palm crossed with silver and with gold.

  Ian Anderson

  Nature, Lines, Silver

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• Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the cage, they do not soar to the ultimate possibility.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Love, Life, Doors

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• May you and I run in such a way to receive the prize of gold when we run the race of passionate faith.

  Angela Thomas

  Running, Race, Passionate

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• You'll hit gold more often if you simply try out a lot of things.

  Ira Glass

  Trying, Ifs

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• We will continue to chase rainbows unless we recognize that they are rainbows and there is no pot of gold at the end of them

  Diane Ravitch

  Rainbow, Pot, Ends

  Diane Ravitch (2016). “The Death and Life of the Great American School System: How Testing and Choice Are Undermining Education”, p.15, Basic Books

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• Because gold is honest money it is disliked by dishonest men.

  Ron Paul

  Men, Honest

  Ron Paul, Lewis Lehrman (2007). “The Case for Gold: A Minority Report of the U.S. Gold Commission”, p.183, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• Gold is money and nothing else.

  J. P. Morgan

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• I would not have you exchange the gold of individual Christianity for the base metal of Christian Socialism.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Socialism, Individual

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 35: Sermons 2062-2120”, p.309, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• There is gold everywhere, most people are not trained to see it

  Robert Kiyosaki

  People

  Robert Kiyosaki (2015). “Rich Dad Poor Dad: What The Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!”, p.189, Robert Kiyosaki

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• Peering from some high window; at the gold of November sunset
  (and feeling that if day has to become night this is a beautiful way).

  e. e. cummings

  Beautiful, Sunset, Night

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• The shed of leaves became a cascade of red and gold and after a time the trees stood skeletal against a sky of weathered tin. The land lay bled of its colors. The nights lengthened, went darker, brightened in their clustered stars. The chilled air smelled of wood smoke, of distances and passing time. Frost glimmered on the morning fields. Crows called across the pewter afternoons.

  James Carlos Blake

  Morning, Stars, Distance

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• Time is not money or gold; it is life itself and is limited. You must begin to appreciate every moment of your life and always strive to make the best use of it.

  Khurram Murad

  Appreciate, Use, Moments

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• I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.

  Diane Paulus

  Beautiful, Sitting, Rooms

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There's a great quote from Henry Kissinger, which I became aware of from reading [Joseph] Heller's Good As Gold. He said: 'Every great achievement was a dream before it became a reality.'

  Roy Hodgson

  Dream, Reading, Reality

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• Encourage and listen well to the words of your subordinates.  It is well known that gold lies hidden underground.

  Nabeshima Naoshige

  Lying, Well Known, Wells

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• There’s something about the good-hearted guy fighting the system. I just love that. That’s how Speed is. He’s a really focused guy with a heart of gold and the corporations are trying to crush him and use him for his skills to make them more money.

  Emile Hirsch

  Crush, Heart, Fighting

  "‘Speed Racer’ Puts Emile Hirsch in the Driver's Seat". Hollywood Interview, www.hollywood.com.

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• I'm not to be confused with Natasha Henstridge in 'Species,' where I just emerge out of the weird alien womb looking amazing. I really rely heavily on my black outfits and my gold chains to give me sort of a thing.

  Natasha Lyonne

  Confused, Giving, Black

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• My stepdad is Bruce Jenner, the Olympian. The first time he came over was like a blind date, and we had show and tell. He took out the gold medal for me and my sisters, and we were like, 'So? Who the hell are you?'

  Kourtney Kardashian

  Firsts, Hell, Blind

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• Gold all is not that doth golden seem.

  Edmund Spenser

  Golden, Seems

  Edmund Spenser (1758). “The Fairy Queen”, p.272

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• Above us, outlined against the brilliant sky, dragons crowded every available perching space on the Rim. And the sun made a gold of every one of them.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Dragons, Sky, Space

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