Quotes of: Gold-standard Keyword

How are the veins of thee, Autumn, laden? Umbered juices, And pulpèd oozes Pappy out of the cherry-bruises, Froth the veins of thee, wild, wild maiden. With hair that musters In globèd clusters, In tumbling clusters, like swarthy grapes, Round thy ...

Poems of Francis Thompson

Colonel Smithers: We, here at the Bank of England, Mr. Bond, are the official depository for gold bullion... just as Fort Knox, Kentucky is for the United States. We know, of course, the amounts we each hold, we know the amounts deposited in other ba...

Goldfinger

Jon Osterman: Will you smile? If I admit I was wrong? Laurie Juspeczyk: About what? Jon Osterman: Miracles. Events with astronomical odds of occurring, like oxygen turning into gold. I've longed to witness such an event, and yet I neglect that in hum...

Watchmen

Princess Isabelle: The king desires peace. William Wallace: Longshanks desires peace? Princess Isabelle: He declares it to me, I swear it. He proposes that you withdraw your attack. In return he grants you title, estates, and this chest of gold which...

Braveheart

This morning, light lapped the water as if God had spilt a goblet of molten gold upon a ground of darkest velvet.

Caleb's Crossing

A hot lust for glory, gems, gold or mates, Leads reckless young drakes to the blackest of fates.

Dragon Champion

They’d blame a castoff just for breathing. You could be good as gold and they’d still blame you.

The Drowned Cities

Even if false gold makes a man happy: At the mint it will be identified.

The Dermis Probe

Gold is cold, and men who possess much of it are infected with its chill.

The Dying God & Other Stories

The scholar does not consider gold and jade to be precious treasures, but loyalty and good faith.

The Ethics of Confucius

Just as King Midas turned everything to gold, Stalin turned everything to mediocrity.

The First Circle

I thought dwarfs gold," said Angua. "They just say that to get it into bed.

Feet of Clay

It’s mind-blowing and delicious and better than finding a pot of gold, a unicorn, and a leprechaun who shits diamonds at the end of a rainbow.

Futures and Frosting

...often, stepping outside your comfort zone is not careless irresponsibility, but a necessary act of obedience.

Fields Of Gold

What you fear most will determine whether you merely save for the future or give for the future.

Fields Of Gold

So dawn goes down today... Nothing gold can stay. -- Robert Frost

The Fault in Our Stars

Dragons didn’t fool around when it came to protecting things that they acquired—be it gold, gems, or a monster’s body parts.

The Grendel Affair

The weak-minded choose to hate," she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

Gold Boy, Emerald Girl

Do not fight the thing in detail: turn from it. Look ONLY at your Lord. Sing. Read. Work.

Gold by Moonlight

The reason gold-diggers trivialize relationships is because they do not know love,they only know money.

How I Kissed Heartbreak Goodbye

Don’t interfere with false gods, you’ll get the gold paint all over your hands.

The Blind Assassin