The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river; and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.
~By Lord Acton ~
Silently, God opens his golden eyes over the place of skulls.
~By Georg Trakl ~
The desire of gold is not for gold. It is for the means of freedom and benefit.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
You know you can get gaudy with something, and they didn't do that. To me, I think it's very tasteful, well done, with the silver and gold and the engraving. I think it's very tasteful.
~By Earl Scruggs ~
Praise, like gold and diamonds, owes its value only to its scarcity.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
~By Rene Daumal ~
Party of Five won a Golden Globe, it was a well-written television series.
~By Neve Campbell ~
If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.
~By Don Dokken ~
Olympic Gold changed me and my life dramatically. I became a celebrity overnight and people see me as a famous skater, not a real person.
~By Oksana Baiul ~
Our planes should be full, which among other things means we have a golden opportunity... to build on the momentum reflected in the financial results we are reporting today.
~By Gerard Arpey ~
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by. Yes, but some of them are golden only because we let them slip.
~By J. M. Barrie ~
I hate gold. I'm sort of a sterling-silver guy.
~By Michael Vartan ~
For a short time we lived quietly. But this could not last. White men had found gold in the mountains around the land of winding water.
~By Chief Joseph ~
So see every opportunity as golden, and keep your eyes on the prize - yours, not anybody else's.
~By Roberta Flack ~
A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Yes, winning the gold medal was undoubtedly the biggest day of my career - mostly because I won the way I had prepared to run it. It was a totally satisfying experience.
~By Frank Shorter ~
Every moment is a golden one for him who has the vision to recognize it as such.
~By Henry Miller ~
Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
~By A. B. Yehoshua ~
Realize what you really want. It stops you from chasing butterflies and puts you to work digging gold.
~By William Moulton Marston ~
There is no brilliant single stroke that is going to transform the water into wine or straw into gold.
~By Coleman Young ~
Bill Rehnquist makes Barry Goldwater look like a liberal.
~By John Dean ~
Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.
~By Democritus ~
You look like gold. I've been fooled before, but now I know I've made the mistake in the past. But now I, now I know the difference from gold and brass.
~By Ben Harper ~
That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.
~By Angela Ruggiero ~
'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.
~By Naomi Wolf ~
San Franciscans know we live in the most beautiful city in the world, a jewel on the edge of the Golden Gate.
~By Gavin Newsom ~
Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze.
~By Carolyn Gold Heilbrun ~
In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancee who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.
~By Pola Negri ~
You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.
~By James M. Barrie ~
As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power.
~By Douglas Hyde ~
Heck, gold medals, what can you do with them?
~By Eric Heiden ~
Because, you know, resilience - if you think of it in terms of the Gold Rush, then you'd be pretty depressed right now because the last nugget of gold would be gone. But the good thing is, with innovation, there isn't a last nugget. Every new thing creates two new questions and two new opportunities.
~By Jeff Bezos ~
We moved, and there was a golden era in the '40s when we were so conscious of who we were as Australians.
~By Graeme Murphy ~
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
~By Alan Greenspan ~
It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
The publisher has told - you know, if these editors, Andres Martinez and Nick Goldberg, were the least bit honest about this, they would tell you the publisher has told them he wants the editorial page to be conservative.
~By Robert Scheer ~
Very few of us have any idea whatsoever of what life is like living in a goldfish bowl, except, of course, for those of us who are goldfish.
~By Graham Taylor ~
Every director bites the hand that lays the golden egg.
~By Samuel Goldwyn ~
Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family.
~By Joachim du Bellay ~
I thought Paulie could jump. I know he's not fleet of foot, but at least have some hops. I guess we know who is not going to win a gold glove. I was trying to become a spokesperson for the U.S. Postal Service.
~By Billy Koch ~
What is fame? an empty bubble; Gold? a transient, shining trouble.
~By James Grainger ~
My philosophy is to do the best you can for somebody. Help. It's not just what do you for yourself. It's how you treat people decently. The golden rule. There isn't big anything better than the golden rule. It's in every major religion in one language or another.
~By Art Linkletter ~
It's a story of little girls who are pressed into working in sweat shops in games, who spend all day doing repetitive grinding tasks like making shirts, which are then converted into gold and sold on eBay.
~By Cory Doctorow ~
I'm a Golden Globe nominee, yes. It's very nice. It's a very nice thing, but I kind of think of all the awards I wasn't ever nominated for, for years and things.
~By Patrick Marber ~
Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
I can't moan about any of it. I had a great time in the goldfish bowl.
~By Robert Plant ~
I keep waiting for the roof to cave in. I was raised to follow the Golden Rule, you know, treat people the way you wish to be treated. That's kind of the way I live my life. Maybe someone up there likes me for that.
~By Matt LeBlanc ~
The idea that to make a man work you've got to hold gold in front of his eyes is a growth, not an axiom. We've done that for so long that we've forgotten there's any other way.
~By F. Scott Fitzgerald ~
Anyway, in the mid 80's I was spending a fortune buying old Golden Age books from the late 30's and 40's and I was making personal appearances at a lot of sci fi and comic book conventions all around the country here so that I could find books for my collection.
~By Bill Mumy ~
Sleep is that golden chain that ties health and our bodies together.
~By Thomas Dekker ~
It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.
~By Dan O'Brien ~
McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.
~By Pat Buchanan ~
The greatest memory for me of the 1984 Olympics was not the individual honors, but standing on the podium with my teammates to receive our team gold medal.
~By Mitch Gaylord ~
I live for playing live. All my records are live, since After the Gold Rush, with the exception of Trans and the vocals on Landing on Water.
~By Neil Young ~
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
~By Hedy Lamarr ~
Her godmother simply touched her with her wand, and, at the same moment, her clothes were turned into cloth of gold and silver, all decked with jewels.
~By Charles Perrault ~
I was all in gold sequins for Million Dollar Mermaid, 50 feet in the air.
~By Esther Williams ~
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
I cannot remember a time when the Golden Rule was not my motto and precept, the torch that guided my footsteps.
~By James Cash Penney ~
But in truth, should I meet with gold or spices in great quantity, I shall remain till I collect as much as possible, and for this purpose I am proceeding solely in quest of them.
~By Christopher Columbus ~
The goose lays the golden egg. Payrolls make consumers.
~By George Humphrey ~
We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure.
~By Hernando Cortez ~
A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.
~By Barbara Hershey ~
I go to Prague every year if I can, value my relationships there like gold, and feel myself in a sense Czech, with all their hopes and needs. They are a people I not only love, but admire.
~By Ellis Peters ~
I always look forward to working with Goldie because she's a great person to work with.
~By Kurt Russell ~
The people who live in a golden age usually go around complaining how yellow everything looks.
~By Randall Jarrell ~
They ought to put out the eyes of painters as they do goldfinches in order that they can sing better.
~By Pablo Picasso ~
Living in that childish wonder is a most beautiful feeling - I can so well remember it. There was always something more - behind and beyond everything - to me, the golden spectacles were very, very big.
~By Kate Greenaway ~
The only way I'm going to win a Gold Glove is with a can of spray paint.
~By Reggie Jackson ~
The battles that count aren't the ones for gold medals. The struggles within yourself - the invisible, inevitable battles inside all of us - that's where it's at.
~By Jesse Owens ~
Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.
~By Allan Sloan ~
I couldn't stop looking at the award when I received it. It was as if my whole career flashed in front of me, from beginning to the moment I was handed the Golden Globe.
~By Sharon Stone ~
The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment; it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others; it is in yourself alone.
~By Orison Swett Marden ~
Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls.
~By Antoine Rivarol ~
The first treasure California began to surrender after the Gold Rush as the oldest: her land.
~By John Jakes ~
Those that go gold into the furnace will come out no worse.
~By Matthew Henry ~
Gold all is not that doth golden seem.
~By Edmund Spenser ~
Well my thoughts on American swimming are that our prospects look favorable, but we may not have as strong a showing in the gold medal count as in previous Olympics. But I am not coaching.
~By Mark Spitz ~
There is no intrinsic worth in money but what is alterable with the times, and whether a guinea goes for twenty pounds or for a shilling, it is the labor of the poor and not the high and low value that is set on gold or silver, which all the comforts of life must arise from.
~By Bernard de Mandeville ~
We wanted to step off our island and add the color of the third world. We got gold cigarette paper and stuck it around our teeth. We really did look like pirates and dressed to look the part.
~By Vivienne Westwood ~
We have committed the Golden Rule to memory; let us now commit it to life.
~By Edwin Markham ~
Silver and gold are not the only coin; virtue too passes current all over the world.
~By Euripides ~
Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.
~By Thomas Haden Church ~
I made a gym, it's the best gym in Nicaragua, I have kids that this year July 6th through the 11th will be fighting and then will go on to the Central American Games and I'm sure at least one will win a gold medal.
~By Alexis Arguello ~
There was a period which I refer to as the 'Golden Age of Jazz,' which sort of encompasses the middle Thirties through the Sixties, we had a lot of great innovators, all creating things which will last the world for a long, long time.
~By Sonny Rollins ~
They wonder much to hear that gold, which in itself is so useless a thing, should be everywhere so much esteemed, that even men for whom it was made, and by whom it has its value, should yet be thought of less value than it is.
~By Thomas More ~
Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased.
~By Adam Smith ~
More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
Ross Hunter was my assistant on Take Me to Town, He was a young man, an actor before that, and learned a lot on the picture. During shooting, Goldstein left, and Ross was most pleasant. He never interfered.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
Silence is not only golden, it is seldom misquoted.
~By Bob Monkhouse ~
And should think freedom more to prize, than all the gold in world that is.
~By John Barbour ~
Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.
~By Lee Loevinger ~
There was never a golden era of American radio as far as I can tell.
~By Michael Stipe ~
It seems that almost every time a valuable natural resource is discovered in the world-whether it be diamonds, rubber, gold, oil, whatever-often what results is a tragedy for the country in which they are found. Making matters worse, the resulting riches from these resources rarely benefit the people of the country from which they come.
~By Edward Zwick ~
For in the true nature of things, if we rightly consider, every green tree is far more glorious than if it were made of gold and silver.
~By Martin Luther ~
I had been with the label since I was 21. The label wanted shiny pop but I didn't. I found a little independent and we've got all these great reviews in England and now it has gone gold.
~By Alison Moyet ~
I know too that we Americans like to think of ourselves as cleaner than clean, a healthy nation who would never take anything when a recent poll suggested that 65 per cent of the population would risk dying in 10 years if they would be guaranteed Olympic gold.
~By Greg LeMond ~
At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
~By John Buchanan Robinson ~
To keep the Golden Rule we must put ourselves in other people's places, but to do that consists in and depends upon picturing ourselves in their places.
~By Harry Emerson Fosdick ~
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