Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Caleb Colton

Afflictions sent by providence melt the constancy of the noble minded, but confirm the obduracy of the vile, as the same furnace that liquefies the gold, hardens the clay Charles Caleb Colton.

Alan Watts

A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.

Alan Greenspan

Nor can private counterparties restrict supplies of gold, another commodity whose derivatives are often traded over-the-counter, where central banks stand ready to lease gold in increasing quantities should the price rise.

Alan Greenspan

Gold, unlike all other commodities, is a currency...and the major thrust in the demand for gold is not for jewelry. It's not for anything other than an escape from what is perceived to be a fiat money system, paper money, that seems to be deteriorating.

Alan Greenspan

Remember what we're looking at. Gold is a currency. It is still, by all evidence, a premier currency, that no fiat currency, including the dollar, can match.

Alan Greenspan

Gold still represents the ultimate form of payment in the world. Fiat money in extremis is accepted by nobody. Gold is always accepted.

China Mieville

Anything for gold and experience.

Byron Katie

The greatest stock market you can invest in is yourself. Finding this truth is better than finding a gold mine.

Buddy Hackett

Your financial cost can best be figured out when you realize that if you were to devote the same time and energy to business instead of gold, you would be a millionaire in approximately six weeks.

Ben Wagner

I don't have any illusions that I'll become rich off this project.

Hillary Clinton

There is nothing fast or easy about diplomacy. I have no illusions about that.

Brian Goldberg

Junior has no illusions that he's 25, but he'll go at it and work hard. If everything is working out, he'll play.

Mike Bennett

I would like to see someone come in second that tells it like it is. I don't have any illusions that he'll come in first, but I do think it might be nice.

Fran Wallis

I'm not having any illusions that it will be a piece of cake.

Eugene Ionesco

Many people have delusions of grandeur but you're deluded by triviality.

David Sanborn

But I never had any illusions at that time that it was going to be how I was going to make a living. I thought, well, I'll make a solo record, and it'll be fun.

Jorge Amado

I'm under no illusions about the importance of my work. But if it has any worth, it is that it truly reflects the Brazilian people.

William Wordsworth

Where the statue stood/ Of Newton with his prism and silent face,/ The marble index of a mind for ever/ Voyaging through strange seas of thought, alone.

Emile Galle

Do glassmakers not have the ability to knead their own agates, marbles and rock crystals?

Susan Bennett

We have tourists who actually take pictures of the marble sidewalk. There are not many of them left.

William Butler Yeats

See how the sacred old flamingoes come,Painting with shadow all the marble steps:Aged and wise, they seek their wonted perchesWithin the temple, devious walking, madeTo wander by their melancholy minds.

Horace

Brighter than Parian marble.

Melina Mercouri

There are no such things as the Elgin Marbles.

Budd Schulberg

I ran the newspaper, at Dartmouth, and there was a marble quarry strike about 40 miles away,

Brent Brown

When I called from the school, they said 'You need to be here at the Salt Palace at 3:30 p.m.,'

Anibal Cavaco Silva

Don't expect ambiguities, hesitations or palace intrigues from me.

Danny Kaye

The pellet with the poison's in the vessel with the pestle; the chalice from the palace has the brew that is true!

Christopher Love

I am now going from a prison to a palace: I have finished my work, and am now going to receive my wages.

Petrarch

Where are the numerous constructions erected by Agrippa, of which only the Pantheon remains? Where are the splendorous palaces of the emperors?

Mark Twain

You aim for the palace and get drowned in the sewer.

Keith Thibodeaux

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Henry David Thoreau

I will come to you, my friend, when I no longer need you. Then you will find a palace, not an almshouse.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

You cannot make a cheap palace.

August Wilson

Suffice it to say, I'm not poor.

Carol Vorderman

If you're from a poor background, you have to work even harder. But that's what makes you who you are.

Andy Robinson

We were awful, we started poorly and never got in the game. At no stage did we put any pressure on the French.

Alan Kay

I hired finishers because I'm a good starter and a poor finisher.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

What have they done to you, my poor child?

Benjamin Franklin

The Sting of a reproach, is the Truth of it.

Anton Chekhov

It is a poor thing for the writer to take on that which he doesn't understand.

Walter Mare

Too tired to yawn, too tired to sleep: / Poor tired Tim! It's sad for him.

George Moore

The poor would never be able to live at all if it were not for the poor.

David Pogue

If you continue to improve a product enough, you'll eventually ruin it.

Bill Murray

I've never made any horrible, horrible movies. If you don't ruin your reputation, you can always get work.

Chang-Rae Lee

For sometimes you can't help but crave some ruin in what you love.

Boman Irani

Fear is one thing that can ruin everything. It's the greatest problem.

Juvenal

It is a wretched thing to rest upon the fame of others, lest, the supporting pillar being removed, the superstructure should collapse in ruin.

Bruce Sterling

The frontiers of the future will be the ruins of the unsustainable.

Bruce Sterling

The ruins of the unsustainable are the 21st century’s frontier.

Brandon Sanderson

Welcome, Ruin said, to godhood.

Anne Hutchinson

Therefore, take heed how you proceed against me; for I know that for this you go about to do to me, God will ruin you and your posterity, and this whole state.