“Avoid trying to win tough battles on the silver platter. If the struggle is tough the success is sweet.” — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
“...and the country is like a great unfolded mantle with a green velvet cape bordered with a fringe of silver.” — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
There are temptations more attractive than angels. Liberty, Patriotism, the good of humanity – words like that are the silver scales of… — Alfred de Musset Copy Share Image
He is like some sherry-crazed old dowager who has lost the family silver at roulette, and who now decides to double up… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his… — Chic Murray Copy Share Image
Let the rain kiss you. Let the rain beat upon your head with silver liquid drops. Let the rain sing you a… — Langston Hughes Copy Share Image
I've not done badly for a boy from Stockwell, where I used to gaze at the silver screen in wonderment, little realising… — Roger Moore Copy Share Image
most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us. — Matthew Quick Copy Share Image
“How did you know it was mine before?" "It's silver. No one in this village can afford silver. Except the council. But… — Karpov Kinrade Copy Share Image
With 'Silver Linings,' I didn't feel - I was thinking of certain things, but I just said, 'Let me go with it.'… — Robert De Niro Copy Share Image
Gold and Silver have been the predominant currency for 4,500 years, but they became money in Lydia, in about 680 B.C. When… — Michael Maloney Copy Share Image
EO 11110 did not order the printing of Silver Certificates. It ordered the amendment of a previous executive order so that the… — G. Edward Griffin Copy Share Image
One of the big things that if you've got a guy who is doing things that other people could view as evil… — Dylan Baker Copy Share Image
Book tours are really kind of fun. You get to stay in nice hotels, you are driven everywhere in big silver cars,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The night was clear and frosty, all ebony of shadow and silver of snowy slope; big stars were shining over the silent… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Be soft in your practice. Think of the method as a fine silvery stream, not a raging waterfall. Follow the stream, have… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
Will’s eyes met Tessa’s as she came closer, almost tripping again over the torn hem of her gown. For a moment, they… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Then there was Nico di Angelo. Dang, that kid gave Leo the freaky-deakies. He sat back in his leather aviator jacket, his… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Every flyer who ventures across oceans to distant lands is a potential explorer; in his or her breast burns the same fire… — Jean Batten Copy Share Image
But there still prevails, even in nations well acquainted with commerce, a strong jealousy with regard to the balance of trade, and… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
The trombones crunched redgold under my bed, and behind my gulliver the trumpets three-wise silverflamed, and there by the door the timps… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
So powerfully does fortune appear to sway the destinies of men, putting a silver spoon into one man's mouth, and a wooden… — William Mathews Copy Share Image
What would a man of God say, who felt aright, when Joseph asked him for his money? He would say, 'Yes, and… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Friday, August 04, 2006 MONUMENT posted 8:31 AM Silver nitrous girls pointed into occult winds of porn and destiny. — William Gibson Copy Share Image
Sail on silver girl, sail on by...your time has come to shine all your dreams are on their way...see how they shine..oh… — Paul Simon Copy Share Image
I'm fortunate for where I come from because even though I didn't grow up with a silver spoon in my mouth, it… — Daniel Jacobs Copy Share Image
When I was a kid I used to tell myself the moon was a silver gong and if I could climb high… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a… — Vince Neil Copy Share Image
I remember the first time I saw him. He was 13 and just floated over the ground like a cockier spaniel chasing… — Alex Ferguson Copy Share Image
No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver…The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh. — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I have read somewhere that in the Emperor's palace at Byzantium was a tree made of gold and silver, and artificial birds… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I grew up with a silver spoon. Yeah, I was very fortunate. I have a great family. — T.J. Dillashaw Copy Share Image
The true wealth of a nation lies not in it's gold or silver but in it's learning, wisdom and in the uprightness… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I've always tried to find a silver lining. I've always been a glass is half-full kind of person. — Paul Wall Copy Share Image
I ended up winning a silver medal at the Summer X Games Adaptive Supercross seven months after my injury - on a… — Mike Schultz Copy Share Image
There's always a silver lining to every cloud and everything has to happen for a reason and if everything's really challenging, then… — Joss Stone Copy Share Image
You're either my ship's cook-and then you were treated handsome-or Cap'n Silver, a common mutineer and pirate, and then you can go… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
I had a good chance when I went to Beijing and the guy who beat me, I'd beaten him three weeks before… — Billy Joe Saunders Copy Share Image
