Silver Quotes - Page 31

• Common men should esteem learning as silver, noble men prize it as gold, and princes as jewels.

  Pope Pius II

  Learning, Men, Noble Man

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• Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times.

  John Buchanan Robinson

  Gold, Use, Needed

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• A long-dead angel who thought to own me,” was his enigmatic answer, the silver in his eyes almost liquid. “I tore out his throat. After that, I ate his liver and his heart. The remaining internal organs weren’t as tasty so I gave them to his other creatures.” Elena’s hand tightened on the handle of the knife, conscious Naasir carried gleaming blades of his own in the sheaths strapped to his arms. “I wouldn’t think a vampire who killed an angel would be permitted to live.” A slow, feral smile. “I didn’t say I killed him.

  Nalini Singh

  Heart, Eye, Angel

  Nalini Singh (2013). “Archangel's Legion”, p.90, Penguin

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• The great ones in life are not those who are handed silver spoons. Their excellence comes from digging into the raw ore of their own character, through hard work, persistence and faith turning whatever they touch into gold.

  Guy Finley

  Motivational, Hard Work, Character

  FaceBook post by Guy Finley from Dec 11, 2014

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• I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing a piece of silver paper in the wind.

  Alex Ferguson

  Inspirational, Wind, Alex

  "Sir Alex Ferguson's 25 years at Manchester United - in quotes" by Benji Inwood, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2011.

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• Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his black T-shirt and jeans, that wicked silver skull ring on his finger, and the Stygian sword at his side. His tufts of black hair struck up in curls like baby bat wings. His eyes were sad and kind of empty, as if he’d stared into the depths of Tartarus—which he had.

  Rick Riordan

  Baby, Kids, Eye

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• His eyes went soft and silver as she spoke. “Zhe shi jie shang, wo shi zui ai ne de,” he whispered. She understood it. In all the world, you are what I love the most.

  Cassandra Clare

  Eye, World, Spokes

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.1095, Simon and Schuster

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• I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point...? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.

  J. K. Rowling

  Bonus, Length, Ends

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• A dead body was discovered this week on the grounds of a country estate owned by Queen Elizabeth. The queen said today she hopes this serves as a reminder to anybody on her staff that there is a right way and a wrong way to polish sterling silver.

  Jay Leno

  Country, Queens, Body

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• It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go; Take a look in the five-and-ten, glistening once again. With candy canes and silver lanes aglow.

  Meredith Willson

  Christmas, Looks, Lanes

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• The silver swan, who, living had no note, When death approached unlocked her silent throat.

  Orlando Gibbons

  Swans, Bird, Silent

  'The First Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts' (1612) 'The Silver Swan'

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• Queen and huntress, chaste and fair Now the sun is laid to sleep, Seated in thy silver chair, State in wonted manner keep: Hesperus entreats thy light Goddess, excellently bright.

  Ben Jonson

  Queens, Sleep, Light

  Cynthia's Revels act 5, sc. 3 (1600)

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• My eyes are green, my hair is silver and I freckly; the rest is subject to change without notice.

  Anne McCaffrey

  Eye, Hair, Green

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• Judas sold his soul for thirty pieces of silver; Faust sold his for some extra years of youth; Marilyn Monroe deserted Jesus Christ for Arthur Miller.

  Nicholas Samstag

  Jesus, Years, Soul

  Nicholas Samstag (1962). “The Uses of Ineptitude; Or: How Not to Want to Do Better”, Astor-Honor Incorporated

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• Fantasy is silver and scarlet, indigo and azure, obsidian veined with gold and lapis lazuli.

  George R. R. Martin

  Gold, Fantasy Books, Tofu

  George R.R. Martin (2008). “Dreamsongs: A RRetrospective”, p.215, Hachette UK

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• Faith is the silver thread upon which the pearls of the graces are to be hung. Break that, and you have broken the string - the pearls lie scattered on the ground.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Faith, Lying, Broken

  Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1963). “The New Park Street Pulpit: Containing Sermons Preached and Revised”

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• So, when dark thoughts my boding spirit shroud,
  Sweet Hope! celestial influence round me shed
  Waving thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Hope, Sweet, Dark

  John Keats (1914*). “The complete poetical works and letters of John Keats”, p.6, Рипол Классик

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• There is a velvety sensuality here at the mouth of the Mississippi that you won't find anywhere else. Tell me what the air feels like at 3 AM on a Thursday night in late August in Shaker Heights, and I bet that you won't be able to say because nobody stays up that late. But in New Orleans, I'll tell you, it's like ink and honey passed through silver moonlight.

  Andrei Codrescu

  Night, New Orleans, Air

  "A Dream of New Orleans, Interrupted". "All Things Considered" with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. September 13, 2005.

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• I have heard your orators speak on many questions. One among them the so-called vital question of money which is above all things the most coveted commodity but I, as a Jainist, in the name of my countrymen and of my country, would offer you as the medium of the most perfect exchange between us, henceforth and forever, the indestructible, the unchangeable, the universal currency of good will and peace, and this, my brothers and sisters, is a currency that is not interchangeable with silver and gold, it is a currency of the heart, of the good life, of the highest estate on the earth.

  Virchand Gandhi

  Country, Brother, Good Life

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• At the center, where a cuckoo bird would live in a more traditional timepiece, is the juggler. Dressed in harlequin style with a grey mask, he juggles shiny silver balls that correspond to each hour. As the clock chimes, another ball joins the rest until at midnight he juggles twelve balls in a complex pattern.
  After midnight the clock begins once more to fold in upon itself. The face lightens and the clouds return. The number of juggled balls decreases until the juggler himself vanishes.
  By noon it is a clock again, and no longer a dream.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Dream, Numbers, Clouds

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• The moon twangs its silver strings;
  The river swoons into town;
  The wind beds down in the pines,
  Covers itself with stars.

  George Elliott Clarke

  Stars, Moon, Wind

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• The silver friend knows your present and the gold friend knows all of your past dirt and glories. Once in a blue moon there is someone who knows it all, someone who knows and accepts you unconditionally, someone who is there for life.

  Jill McCorkle

  Past, Moon, Blue

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• Although gold and silver are not by nature money, money is by nature gold and silver.

  Karl Marx

  Gold, Buying Gold, Gold And Silver

  Karl Marx (1999). “Capital: An Abridged Edition”, p.126, OUP Oxford

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• What the two hands of the labourer can achieve, the capitalist will never get with all his gold and silver.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Hands, Two, Gold

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• I believe that there is a silver lining in everything, and once you begin to see it, you'll need sunglasses to combat the glare.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Believe, Sunglasses, Needs

  Sophia Amoruso (2014). “#GIRLBOSS”, p.100, Penguin

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