Why, sir," said he, looking about him, "what splendour I see: gold lace, breeches, cocked hats. Allow me to recommend a sandwich.… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“I see,' said the Patrician sweetly. 'You feel, perhaps, that it would be a marvellous thing to go to the Counterweight Continent… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
When we talk about the Far East we usually mean the Far East itself, including Primorye Territory, Khabarovsk Territory, Kamchatka, and Chukotka,… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
If art could be absolutely verified as to importance in, say, the way gold can be judged for purity and weight, then… — Harold Town Copy Share Image
In whatever system where the weight attached to the wheel should be the cause of motion of the wheel, without any doubt… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Every man carries about him a touchstone, if he will make use of it, to distinguish substantial gold from superficial glitterings, truth… — John Locke Copy Share Image
No, he was no such charlatan-- Count de Hoboken Flash-in-the-Pan-- Full of gasconade and bravado, But a regular, rich Don Rataplane, Santa… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
Put in every joke that's not a dud and then let's just start pulling the ones that work the least. You're just… — Jason H. Moore Copy Share Image
So, in our wisdom and fair justice we go on - "Giving to dust that is a little gilt, More laud than… — Samuel Laman Blanchard Copy Share Image
Man's books are but man's alphabet, Beyond and on his lessons lie - The lessons of the violet, The large gold letters… — Joaquin Miller Copy Share Image
Above the dirt of an unmarked grave and beneath the shadow of the abandoned refinery, the children would play their own made… — Joe Meno Copy Share Image
The world was so beautiful when regarded like this, without searching, so simply, in such a childlike way. Moons and stas were… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
As the prosperity of the nation and the height of wage rates depend on a continual increase in the capital invested in… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
When I pictured myself, it was always like just an outline in a coloring book, with the inside not yet completed. All… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
...tell me the word that will win you, and I will speak it. I will speak the stars of heaven into a… — Stephen R. Lawhead Copy Share Image
“Within the earth’s womb each metal grows slowly developing and transforming into its perfection, its highest manifestation – gold. Nature and God… — Natasa Pantovic Nuit Copy Share Image
The darkness is not so dense as it was; there are faint streaks on the horizon's verge; mist is in the valleys,… — William Morley Punshon Copy Share Image
Any objection to the carryings on of our present gold-calf Christianity is met with the triumphant reply, ‘But we are winning them!’… — Aiden Wilson Tozer Copy Share Image
As eternity is longer than time, as mind is stronger than matter, as thought is swifter than the wind, as genius is… — Edward Miner Gallaudet Copy Share Image
The problem with commodities is that you are betting on what someone else would pay for them in six months. The commodity… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
The City is a machine miraculously organised for extracting gold from the seas, airs, clouds, from barren lands, holds of ships, mines,… — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The gift of creative reading, like all natural gifts, must be nourished or it will atrophy. And you nourish it, in much… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
I hold the view that the alchemist’s hope of conjuring out of matter the philosophical gold, or the panacea, or the wonderful… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
Italians have always had a high savings rate. They love putting their money into their own government bonds - even more than… — Kenneth Fisher Copy Share Image
There's nothing of any importance in life - except how well you do your work. Nothing. Only that. Whatever else you are,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
It is hard to know what other way men can come to truth, to lay hold of it, if they do not… — John Locke Copy Share Image
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
By common consent of the nations, gold and silver are the only true measure of value. They are the necessary regulators of… — Hugh McCulloch Copy Share Image
Love is the very essence of life. It is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Yet it is… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
But that wasn't fancy enough for Lord Byron, oh dear me no, he had to invent a lot of figures of speech… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Of all created things the source is one, Simple, single as love; remember The cell and seed of life, the sphere That… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
So the crew fly on with no thought that they are in motion. Like night over the sea, they are very far… — Antoine de Saint-Exupery Copy Share Image
Though a country be sundered, hills and rivers endure; And spring comes green again to trees and grasses Where petals have been… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is no best anything in art. Phillip [Hoffman] isn't better than Heath [Ledger]; Joaquin [Phoenix] isn't better than David [Strathairn] or… — Jeff Daniels Copy Share Image
I wanted to give five solid years of being there all the time (with Sean). I hadn't seen my first son Julian… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
Children are a burden to a mother, but not the way a heavy box is to a mule. Our children weight hard… — Nancy E. Turner Copy Share Image
The gold standard did not collapse. Governments abolished it in order to pave the way for inflation. The whole grim apparatus of… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
There has never been a greater illusion than fear. Fear exists only whilst you believe in it - whilst you fear it.… — Geoff Thompson Copy Share Image