Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money. — Alfred Marshall Copy Share Image
In America with the Olympics when you not only have a medal but a gold medal all of a sudden people come… — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
This is also evident in Europe, not the dependence on oil and gas, but the fact that structural reforms are long overdue,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
Amos clapped his hands. “Khufu!” I thought he’d sneezed, because Khufu is a weird name, but then a little dude about three… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
'Witches of East End' is certainly wild, and so are a lot of other shows these days. But 'Twin Peaks' still holds… — Madchen Amick Copy Share Image
Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency,… — Alan Greenspan Copy Share Image
Golden Verses So-called because they are "good as gold." They are by some attributed to Epicarmos, and by others to Empedocles, but… — Pythagoras Copy Share Image
At the devil's booth are all things sold. Each ounce of dross costs its ounce of gold. — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
Eight gold medals? If I wanted I could make a movie about me winning nine gold medals. Now that's real power. — Zach Braff Copy Share Image
I say, if you believe what you read in the comic strips, then you believe that mice run around with little gold… — Mort Walker Copy Share Image
I really just appreciate good jewelry, clarity, gold. I think gold is made for kings and pharaohs - that's what I am.… — Big Sean Copy Share Image
You have never tasted freedom, friend, or you would know it is purchased not with gold, but steel. — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
Every individual is a potential gold buyer, although he may not need the gold. It may be added to the store of… — Hans F. Sennholz Copy Share Image
I'm not the kind to go out and tell people 'Oh yeah I'm a gold medalist.' — Kristin Armstrong Copy Share Image
I think directors can become overly infatuated by gilt and gold, and the word 'lavish' and everything being magnificent. — Tom Hooper Copy Share Image
If my words did glow with the gold of sunshine And my tunes were played on the harp unstrung Would you hear… — Robert Hunter Copy Share Image
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
Look, I won in high school, I won a national championship in college, I want to win one in the NBA. But… — Carmelo Anthony Copy Share Image
On August 28, 1933, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 6260, outlawing the constitutional right of U.S. citizens to own gold. — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
Just as gold is burnt, cut and rubbed, Examine my words carefully and Do not accept them simply out of respect — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Men know not the gold which lies in the mine of Christ Jesus, or surely they would dig in it night and… — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
We looked into the abyss if the gold price rose further. A further rise would have taken down one or several trading… — Eddie George Copy Share Image
Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Women have the genius of charity. A man gives but his gold; a woman adds to it her sympathy. — Ernest Legouve Copy Share Image
Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the… — Frederic Farrar Copy Share Image
I knew that life isn't always just about the Olympic gold medals and the sponsors. — Nastia Liukin Copy Share Image
The recent market run-up that appreciated run-of-the- mill shares also chanced to send up those token gold holdings. Pure luck, undeserved and… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
Mother of the Sun, Theia of many names, for your sake men honor gold as more powerful than anything else; and through… — Pindar Copy Share Image
The time and the quality of the time that their parents devote to them indicate to children the degree to which they… — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Getting the degree meant more to me than an NCAA title, being named All-American or winning an Olympic gold medal. — Patrick Ewing Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things about traveling is experimenting with different workouts in different gyms. If I can't get to a Gold's… — Buddy Murphy Copy Share Image
Tobacco, divine, rare, superexcellent tobacco, which goes far beyond all the panaceas, potable gold, and philosophers stones, a sovereign remedy to all… — Robert A. Burton Copy Share Image
Therefore, to be possess'd with double pomp, To guard a title that was rich before, To gild refined gold, to paint the… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit… — Errol Flynn Copy Share Image
“And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof Aesop makes the fable,… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
