Golden Quotes - Page 33

• It was just at the end of the golden era of BBC comedy, which was fantastic.

  John Leeson

  Eras, Comedy, Fantastic

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• The newcomers quickly learned their way about and soon felt at home. The Homestead Act of 1862 provided them, as well as many other pioneers, with an opportunity to acquire land and establish family farms. To the land-hungry immigrants, the tough prairie sod seemed a golden opportunity and they conquered it by hard work.

  Harry S. Truman

  Hard Work, Home, Opportunity

  United States. President (1945-1953 : Truman), Harry S. Truman (1964). “Harry S. Truman: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President, 1945-53”

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• Jerusalem the Golden,
  With milk and honey blest,
  eneath thy contemplation
  Sink heart and voice oppressed.

  John Mason Neale

  Blessed, Heart, Milk And Honey

  "Collected Hymns, Sequences and Carols of John Mason Neale".

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• Lovers of literature will look for the remains of the golden treasure in that shipwreck on the bottom of the sea of criticism.

  Josef Skvorecky

  Writing, Sea, Hygiene

  Josef Škvorecký (1985). “The Engineer of Human Souls”, Pocket Books

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• The common belief that coaches must be abusive to be successful is a myth. Research shows that if you find a task fun, you'll perform better. If more coaches took . . . a Golden Rule approach to coaching, treating their players the way they themselves would like to be treated, fewer athletes would drop out of sports in their teens, and more athletes at every level would be happier and more satisfied.

  Ralph Nader

  Sports, Fun, Athlete

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• Keep the golden mean between saying too much and too little.

  Publilius Syrus

  Life, Mean, Saying Too Much

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• A crown Golden in show, is but a wreath of thorns, Bring dangers, troubles, cares, and sleepless nights To him who wears the regal diadem

  John Milton

  Night, Historical, Care

  John Milton (1854). “Milton's Paradise lost and Paradise regained, with notes by J. Edmondston”, p.425

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• You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

  Aberjhani

  Self Esteem, Age, World

  Aberjhani (2009). “The Bridge of Silver Wings 2009”, p.66, Lulu.com

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• That's a great golden nugget that's going in my tactical toolbox

  Joe Teti

  Survival, Nuggets, Toolbox

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• Fruit of all the kinds that the country produced were laid before him; he ate very little, but from time to time a liquor prepared from cocoa, and of an aphrodisiac nature, as we were told, was presented to him in golden cups... I observed a number of jars, above fifty, brought in, filled with foaming chocolate of which he took some.

  Bernal Diaz del Castillo

  Country, Numbers, Chocolate

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• You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

  Alexander Payne

  Age, Golden Age, Knows

  "Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession". Documentary, History, www.imdb.com. 2004.

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• I remember what J. Golden Kimball said when he came down to the stake where I was presiding. I introduced him as the 'Will Rogers' of the Church, and told the congregation that he was a great humorist. When he got up he said, 'You know, I think the Lord himself likes a joke. If he didn't, he wouldn't have made some of you folks!

  Hugh B. Brown

  Thinking, Church, Roger

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• We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.

  Stephen Baxter

  Kids, Would Be, Done

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• I truly believe that at times like this, silence is not golden. It is yellow.

  Zell Miller

  Believe, Yellow, Silence

  Zell Miller (2005). “Zell Miller A Senator Speaks Out on Patriotism Values and Character”, p.49, Xulon Press

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• ... both individuals and companies are using the Netherlands as a haven for productive activity. ... This is good news for all taxpayers. The rich directly benefit, since greedy politicians are unable to seize as much of their money. And the rest of us benefit, since this puts downward pressure on tax rates as governments try to keep the geese that lay the golden eggs from flying away.

  Daniel J. Mitchell

  Government, Eggs, Political

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• There are many matters and many circumstances in which consciousness is undesirable and silence is golden, so that secrecy can be used as a marker to tell us that we are approaching the holy.

  Gregory Bateson

  Music, Silence, Listening

  Gregory Bateson, Mary Catherine Bateson (1987). “Angels fear: towards an epistemology of the sacred”, MacMillan Publishing Company

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• True effectiveness is a function of two things: what is produced (the golden eggs) and the producing asset (the goose).

  Stephen Covey

  Eggs, Two, Effectiveness

  Stephen R. Covey (2016). “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change Interactive Edition”, p.64, Mango Media Inc.

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• I hear you reproach, "But delay was best, For their end was a crime." Oh, a crime will do As well, I reply, to serve for a test As a virtue golden through and through, Sufficient to vindicate itself And prove its worth at a moment's view! . . . . . . Let a man contend to the uttermost For his life's set prize, be it what it will! The counter our lovers staked was lost As surely as if it were lawful coin; And the sin I impute to each frustrate ghost Is-the unlit lamp and the ungirt loin, Though the end in sight was a vice, I say.

  Robert Browning

  Life, Frustration, Men

  'The Statue and the Bust' (1863 revision) l. 246

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• I also have in mind that seemingly wealthy, but most terribly impoverished class of all, who have accumulated dross, but know not how to use it, or get rid of it, and thus have forged their own golden or silver fetters.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Class, Mind, Gold

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.20, Graphic Arts Books

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• The golden age has not passed; it lies in the future.

  Paul Signac

  Lying, Age, Golden Age

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• Dripping rain like golden honey-
  And the sweet earth flying from the thunder

  Jean Toomer

  Sweet, Rain, Flying

  Jean Toomer (1988). “The Collected Poems of Jean Toomer”, p.10, UNC Press Books

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• The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Strong, Pain, Healthy

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• The era of Christianity peace, brotherhood, the Golden Rule as applied to governmental matters is. yet to come, and when it comes, then, and then only, will the future of nations be sure.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Brotherhood, Eras, Matter

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• There would have to be bread, some rich, whole-grain bread and zwieback, and perhaps on a long, narrow dish some pale Westphalian ham laced with strips of white fat like an evening sky with bands of clouds. There would be some tea ready to be drunk, yellowish golden tea in glasses with silver saucers, giving off a faint fragrance.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Clouds, Glasses, Sky

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• A crucial Elite group behind the Civil War was the Knights of the Golden Circle, again based in Cincinnati, Ohio.

  David Icke

  War, Cincinnati Ohio, Knights

  David Icke (1998). “The Biggest Secret”, David Icke Books

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