Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

One day an intrepid sole will climb this mountain on its east side, reaching the summit and the passage that exist between the main peak and secondary peaks, by which he can descend to the west side of the mountain. It is at this site near Lake Brunn...

LUST FOR INCA GOLD: Second Edition

Here I find the true nature of the tree - not in the bulk of its shape but in the way its form alters my vision of the world.

Prairie Gold: An Anthology of the American Heartland

In an extreme credit crunch, leveraged purchases of gold cause forced sales, because any price correction triggers margin calls. As a result, gold can be very volatile - upward and downward - at the peak of a crisis.

Nouriel Roubini

Opting for gold shoes could have been considered downright cocky, but I was confident and never doubted my ability to deliver gold medals to match my shimmering footwear.

Michael Johnson

If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.

Michael Phelps

The Seven Cities of Gold always fascinated me. Southwestern U.S. history especially fascinates me. The whole spur of the Spanish exploration of the Southwestern U.S. was the search for these mythical Seven Cities of Gold.

Neil Peart

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 c...

Jeff Bezos

Like an old gold-panning prospector, you must resign yourself to digging up a lot of sand from which you will later patiently wash out a few minute particles of gold ore.

Dorothy Bryant

This man has talent, that man genius And here's the strange and cruel difference: Talent gives pence and his reward is gold, Genius gives gold and gets no more than pence.

W.H. Davies

Two hundred and fifty mummies covered in gold. Something like this cannot be explained - mummy after mummy covered in shining gold.

Zahi Hawass

The truth is like gold: keep it locked up and you will find it exactly as you first put it away.

Senegalese

Religious doctrines … are all illusions, they do not admit of proof, and no one can be compelled to consider them as true or to believe in them.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

Where the questions of religion are concerned people are guilty of every possible kind of insincerity and intellectual misdemeanor.

The Future of an Illusion (The Standard Edition)

Create a standard for yourself and not a limit. A limit tells where you can reach in life, but standard tells about what you will love to do best at a time!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

Aspire to high standards, expect strong results, offer self praise, and stack your confidence.

No Excuses, The Fit Mind-Fit Body Strategy Book

You cannot choose your battlefield, God does that for you; But you can plant a standard Where a standard never flew. (From )

The Singing Crow And Other Poems

A man's heterosexuality will not put up with any homosexuality, and vice versa.

The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works, 24 Vols

I cannot let my blood pressure rise because someone wishes to spread his or her bad day around, as if to dilute instead of multiply it.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

I discuss my beliefs less because I bed my atheist, who cannot believe in much more sacred than our kisses.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft

Nothing in my beliefs tells me to let my relationship with the divine interfere with romantic love, the friction of sects never getting in the way of the friction of sex.

Pagan Standard Times: Essays on the Craft