Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

Jonathan Swift

I never look at it like I'm wasting money when I'm buying gold.

Big Sean

For gold is tried in the fire and acceptable men in the furnace of adversity.

George Santayana

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men.

Martha Graham

A child's giggle is worth one hundred pounds of gold.

Amy Leigh Mercree

The rainbow is the pot of gold to those who observe.

Thomas F. Shubnell

You gotta dig through the shit to get to the gold.

Love

Growing up means learning what life is. When you're little, you have a set of ideals, standards, criteria, plans, outlooks, and you think that you have to sit around and wait for them to happen to you and then life will work. But life isn't like that...

C. JoyBell C.

Neither is necessarily a better or more valuable oarsman than the other; both the long arms and the strong back are assets to the boat. But if they are to row well together, each of these oarsmen must adjust to the needs and capabilities of the other...

The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics

By the time they were pulling into the parking lot of the A&P, the mood was fading, the moment gone. Amy could feel it go. Perhaps it was nothing more than the two doughnuts expanding in her stomach full of milk, but Amy felt a heaviness begin, a fam...

Amy and Isabelle

We live and we die, but we are made of sterner stuff. The carbon atoms in our fingernails, the calcium in our bones, the iron atoms in our blood -- all the countless trillions of atoms of which we are made -- are ancient objects. They existed before ...

Hard Road West: History and Geology along the Gold Rush Trail

The plain old Sam Vimes had fought back. He got rid of most of the plumes and the stupid tights, and ended up with a dress uniform that at least looked as though its owner was male. But the helmet had gold decoration, and the bespoke armourers had ma...

Night Watch

... 'But Gold was not all. The other kings bring Frank Innocence and Mirth.' | Darcourt was startled, then delighted. 'That is very fine, Yerko; is it your own?' | 'No, it is in the story. I saw it in New York. The kings say, We bring you Gold, Frank...

The Rebel Angels

...as my eyes grew accustomed to the light, details of the room within emerged slowly from the mist, strange animals, statues, and gold - everywhere the glint of gold. For the moment - an eternity it must have seemed to the others standing by - I was...

Tomb of Tutankhamen

Reverend Clement Hedges: To kill such a creature will require nerves of steel and... a bullet! [lightning strikes] Lord Victor Quartermaine: A bullet? [lightning strikes] Reverend Clement Hedges: A bullet! [lightning strikes] Lord Victor Quartermaine...

The Curse of the Were-Rabbit

Barbossa: You don't know what this is, do ye? Elizabeth: It's a pirate medallion... Barbossa: This is Aztec gold. One of 882 identical pieces they delivered in a stone chest to Cortez himself. Blood money paid to stem the slaughter he wreaked upon th...

Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl

The very essence of the creative is its novelty, and hence we have no standard by which to judge it.

Carl Rogers

To create a new standard, you have to be up for that challenge and really enjoy it.

Shigeru Miyamoto

When I set out to become an actor, I had set myself a standard.

Sidney Poitier

I want the same standard applied to homosexuals as is applied to heterosexuals.

Rosie O'Donnell

Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard. p 44

Michael Perry