Silver Quotes - Page 24

• One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.

  Frances Hodgson Burnett

  Moon, Purple, Shadow

  Frances Hodgson Burnett (2016). “The Secret Garden”, p.197, Xist Publishing

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• Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.

  Aberjhani

  Stars, Eye, Ignorance

  Aberjhani (2000). “I Made My Boy Out of Poetry”, p.84, Bright Skylark Book Products

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• That's a lot of vegetables. "It is, yes, and if you eat them like a good girl..." He lifted the silver lid on another plate, revealed a small pizza, with pepperoni arranged into a smiley face. She tried to give him a stony stare, but the laugh won out. "You think you're cute, don't you, pal?" "Adorable." "In this case, you can have adorable. Ow!" She managed the stony stare when he slapped her hand away from the pizza. "Vegetables first.

  Nora Roberts

  Cute, Girl, Thinking

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• Do you remember when we stood together on Blackfriars Bridge?” he asked softly, and his eyes were like that night had been, all black and silver. “Of course I remember.” “It was the moment I first knew I loved you,” Jem said. “I will make you a promise. Every year, Tessa, on one day, I will meet you on that bridge. I will come from the Silent City and I will meet you, and we will be together, if only for an hour. But you must tell no one.

  Cassandra Clare

  Princess, Eye, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.499, Simon and Schuster

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• Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

  Marie Lu

  Eye, Heart, Boys

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• For Humanity sweeps onward: where today the martyr stands, On the morrow crouches Judas with the silver in his hands; Far in front the cross stands ready and the crackling fagots burn, While the hooting mob of yesterday in silent awe return To glean up the scattered ashes into History's golden urn.

  James Russell Lowell

  Yesterday, Hands, Humanity

  James Russell Lowell (2016). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell (Illustrated)”, p.190, Delphi Classics

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• The soul of the river had entered my soul, And the gathered power of my soul was moving So swiftly, it seemed to be at rest Under cities of cloud and under Spheres of silver and changing worlds Until I saw a flash of trumpets Above the battlements over Time!

  Edgar Lee Masters

  Moving, Clouds, Cities

  Edgar Lee Masters (2007). “Spoon River Anthology: Literary Touchstone Classic”, p.185, Prestwick House Inc

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• Because silver and gold have their value from the matter itself, they have first this privilege, that the value of them cannot be altered by the power of one, nor of a few commonwealths, as being a common measure of the commodities of all places. But base money may easily be enhanced or abased.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Gold, May, Matter

  Thomas Hobbes (2010). “Leviathan - Revised Edition”, p.222, Broadview Press

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• Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up.

  Stephen Colbert

  Math, Add, Reason

  "The Colbert Report". Comedy, News, Talk-Show, November 05, 2012.

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• I'll need you to get a leash for my monkey, Claude, and also a hat." "Of course, monsieur" "Do you think he needs a little coat as well?" "Perhaps not in this weather, monsieur." "You are right," Magnus said with a sight. "Make it a simple dressing gown, just like mine." "Which one, monsieur?" "The one in rose and silver." "Excellent choice, monsieur.

  Cassandra Clare

  Simple, Thinking, Sight

  "The Bane Chronicles". Book by Cassandra Clare, Sarah Rees Brennan and Maureen Johnson, November 11, 2014.

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• We've introduced the New Apollo Energy Act, which is, I think, safe to say the most comprehensive and aggressive bill that has been introduced in Congress because it does have the scale, scope, and ambition of the original Apollo Project, and it attacks the problem in every way you can imagine. There's no silver bullet here, but there are lots of opportunities.

  Jay Inslee

  Ambition, Opportunity, Thinking

  "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008 Issue.

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• So learn about life. Cut yourself a big slice with the silver server, a big slice of pie. Open your eyes. Let life happen.

  Sylvia Plath

  Eye, Cutting, Pie

  Sylvia Plath (2007). “The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.438, Anchor

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• There is probably not more than one hundred dollars in cash in circulation today. That is, if you were to call in all the bills and silver and gold in the country at noon tomorrow and pile them on the table, you would find that you had just about one hundred dollars, with perhaps several Canadian pennies and a few peppermint Life Savers.

  Robert Benchley

  Country, Money, Gold

  Robert Benchley (1922). “Love Conquers All”

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• There are acacias, a graceful species amusingly devitalized by sentimentality, this kind drooping its leaves with the grace of a young widow bowed in controllable grief, this one obscuring them with a smooth silver as of placid tears. They please, like the minor French novelists of the eighteenth century, by suggesting a universe in which nothing cuts deep.

  Rebecca West

  Grief, Cutting, Grace

  Rebecca West (1928). “The strange necessity: essays by Rebecca West”

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• Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

  Dale Carnegie

  Silver Platter, Ideas

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to win friends & influence people”, p.137, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Seine and Piave are silver spoons,
  But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Use, Spoons, Worn

  Stephen Vincent Benet, “American Names”

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• Tea at college was served on long tables with an urn at the end of each. Long baguettes of bread, three to a table, were set out with meagre portions of butter and jam; the china was coarse to withstand the schoolboy-clutch and the tea strong. At the Hôtel de Paris I was astonished at the fragility of the cups, the silver teapot, the little triangular savoury sandwiches, the éclairs stuffed with cream.

  Graham Greene

  Strong, Food, College

  Graham Greene (1966). “The Comedians”

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• The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.

  Adam Smith

  Gold, Benefits, Sole

  Adam Smith (2007). “The Wealth of Nations: An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations: With an introduction by Jonathan B. Wight, University of Richmond”, p.400, Harriman House Limited

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• It would be too ridiculous to go about seriously to prove that wealth does not consist in money, or in gold and silver; but in what money purchases, and is valuable only for purchasing. Money no doubt, makes always a part of the national capital; but it has already been shown that it generally makes but a small part, and always the most unprofitable part of it.

  Adam Smith

  Doubt, Gold, Doe

  Adam Smith (1843). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations With a Life of the Author: Also a View of the Doctrine of Smith, Compared with that of the French Economists, with a Method of Facilitating the Study of His Works, from the French of M. Jariner”, p.177

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• Corn is a necessary, silver is only a superfluity.

  Adam Smith

  Corn

  Adam Smith, William Playfair (1811). “An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations”, p.139

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• The man who never in his life Has washed the dishes with his wife Or polished up the silver plate - He still is largely celibate.

  Christopher Morley

  Marriage, Men, Wife

  Christopher Morley (2007). “Chimneysmoke”, p.58, Wildside Press LLC

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• The bathroom door swings open. Emma sees the blood painting my skin and the red rivers carved on my body. Emma sees the wet knife, silver and bone. The screams of my little sister shatter mirrors.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Blood, Knives, Rivers

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2009). “Wintergirls”, p.168, Penguin

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• In prayer, it is better to have heart without words, than words without heart. Prayer will make a man cease from sin, or sin entice a man to cease from prayer. The spirit of prayer is more precious than treasures of gold and silver. Pray often, for prayer is a shield to the soul, a sacrifice to God, and a scourge for Satan.

  John Bunyan

  Prayer, Heart, Sacrifice

  John Bunyan (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of John Bunyan (Illustrated)”, p.659, Delphi Classics

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• Every cloud has a silver lining.

  John Milton

  Inspirational, Clouds, Billiards

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• I never thought that the possession of money would make me feel rich: it often does seem to have an opposite effect. But then, I have never had the opportunity of knowing, by experience, how it does make one feel. It is something to have been spared the responsibility of taking charge of the Lord's silver and gold.

  Lucy Larcom

  Money, Responsibility, Opportunity

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