[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.
Warren BuffettTags: gold
Competing in an Olympics didn't scare her now. The thought of stepping up into the full roar of the crowd, in London, seemed simple and natural and good. It was ordinary days now that frightened her - endless Tuesday mornings and Wednesday afternoons of real life, the days you had to steer through without the benefit of handlebars. Off the bike she was like a smoker without cigarettes, never sure what to do with her hands. As soon as she got off the bike, her heart was expected to perform all these baffling secondary functions - like loving someone and feeling something and belonging somewhere - when all she'd ever trained it to do was pump blood.
Chris CleaveTags: gold
What glitters may not be gold; and even wolves may smile; and fools will be led by promises to their deaths.
Lauren OliverTags: glitter gold death fools promises
You came to tell us that the great cities are in favour of the gold standard; we reply that the great cities rest upon our broad and fertile plains. Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic. But destroy out farms and the grass will grow in the city...You shall not press down upon the brow of labour this crown of thorns. You shall not crucify mankind upon a cross of gold.
William Jennings BryanTags: gold cities farms william standard bryan jennings urbanisation
The gold of life is for those bold and brave in life.
Ifeanyi Enoch OnuohaTags: life gold america book author sage nigeria higherlife ifeanyi
I am too rich already, for my eyes mint gold.
- Coloured Money
Tags: wealth gold beauty eyes riches beauty-in-nature
It's as if people -- normal people -- are made of silver. Shiny to start with, but tarnished by time, by ill-treatment. Luca... Luca is gold. Nothing in the world could ever make him shine less brightly.
Zoë MarriottTags: inspirational love gold romance frostfire
Lev smiles. "Leave it to you to turn someone else's screwup into gold
Neal ShustermanTags: gold lev conner unwholly screwup
Am auzit sau am citit că filoanele de aur au uneori la suprafață un înveliș de cuarț, din care e greu să extragi metalul. Presupun că și inima ta are un asemenea înveliș; înăuntru se află metalul prețios, dar afurisita asta de coajă nu s-a topit de tot...
Henryk SienkiewiczTags: inspirational gold heart surface
But what's worth more than gold?"
"Practically everything. You, for example. Gold is heavy. Your weight in gold is not very much gold at all. Aren't you worth more than that?
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