Silver Quotes - Page 15

• A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin or when he sees silver he looks for the cloud it lines. A wise happy person does the exact opposite.

  H. L. Mencken

  Wise, Gratitude, Flower

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• "Great suffering has a silver-lining that we can be grateful for, because it builds up a human being and puts him or her within reach of self-knowledge."

  Anwar Sadat

  Gratitude, Grateful, Self

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• Finally Beiderbecke came out with a silver cornet. He put it to his lips and blew a phrase. The sound came out like a girl saying 'yes'.

  Eddie Condon

  Music, Girl, Sound

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• In the night the cabbages catch at the moon, the leaves drip silver, the rows of cabbages are a series of little silver waterfalls in the moon.

  Carl Sandburg

  Moon, Night, Vegetables

  Carl Sandburg (2003). “The Complete Poems of Carl Sandburg”, p.350, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I envy you going to Oxford: it is the most flower-like time of one's life. One sees the shadow of things in silver mirrors. Later on, one sees the Gorgon's head, and one suffers, because it does not turn one to stone.

  Oscar Wilde

  Flower, Mirrors, Oxford

  Oscar Wilde (1962). “Letters”

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• How strange a thing this is! The Priest telleth me that the Soul is worth all the gold in the world, and the merchants say that it is not worth a clipped piece of silver.

  Oscar Wilde

  Soul, Gold, Pieces

  Oscar Wilde, General Press (2016). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Novel, Short Stories, Poetry, Essays and Plays”, p.230, GENERAL PRESS

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• To the one who delights in the sovereignty of God the clouds not only have a 'silver lining' but they are silver all through, the darkness only serving to offset the light!

  Arthur W. Pink

  Christian, Clouds, Light

  Arthur W. Pink (2008). “Sovereignty of God”, p.275, Sovereign Grace Publishers,

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• The firelight magnified our shadows, glinted off the silver, flickered high upon the walls; its reflection roared orange in the windowpanes as if a city were burning outside. The whoosh of the flames was like a flock of birds, trapped and beating in a whirlwind near the ceiling. And I wouldn't have been at all surprised if the long mahogany banquet table, draped in linen, laden with china and candles and fruit and flowers, had simply vanished into thin air, like a magic casket in a fairy story.

  Donna Tartt

  Wall, Flower, Reflection

  Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.85, Vintage

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• ...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on a bush.

  Hannah Kent

  Bird, Guilt, Buttons

  Hannah Kent (2013). “Burial Rites”, p.73, Pan Macmillan

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• [on going to Sunday school:] It looks like rain, and I hope it will rain cats and dogs and hammers and pitchforks and silver sugar spoons and hay ricks and paper-covered novels and picture frames and rag carpets and toothpicks and skating rinks and birds of paradise and roof gardens and burdocks and French grammars before Sunday school time.

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Dog, Rain, School

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• A good marriage is like an incredible retirement fund. You put everything you have into it during your productive life, and over the years it turns from silver to gold to platinum.

  Willard Scott

  Inspirational, Retirement, Productive Life

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• I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play.

  Jerry Rice

  Opportunity, Thinking, Oakland

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• Yellow can express happiness, and then again, pain. There is flame red, blood red, and rose red; there is silver blue, sky blue, and thunder blue; every color harbors its own soul, delighting or disgusting or stimulating me.

  Emil Nolde

  Pain, Blue, Flames

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• Thus you may multiply each stone 4 times & no more for they will then become oyles shining in ye dark and fit for magicall uses. You may ferment them with gold and silver, by keeping the stone and metal in fusion together for a day, & then project upon metalls. This is the multiplication of ye stone in vertue. To multiply it in weight ad to it of ye first Gold whether philosophic or vulgar.

  Isaac Newton

  Science, Dark, Shining

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• Leadership is never given on a silver platter, one has to earn it.

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf

  Life, Silver Platter, Given

  "Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Speaks on Governance, Elections and Other Issues". Interview with Abdoulaye W. Dukulé, www.theperspective.org. May 6, 2005.

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• I'm excited about silver because as I write, it's relatively inexpensive. I'm also excited about silver because -- unlike real estate, which can require a lot of money, some finance skills, lots of due diligence and property management skills to do well -- silver is affordable to the masses, and management skills are minimum.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Real, Writing, Management Skills

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• There are no silver bullets.

  Ben Horowitz

  Growth, Bullets, Silver Bullets

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• I shop at thrift stores a lot. I have a lot of silver pitchers and I put my flowers in those. I collect antiques, so there are a lot of old rocking chairs... My friends call my home the vortex because nobody wants to leave.

  Monica Potter

  Flower, Home, Want

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• Somehow, you need to cling to your optimism. Always look for the silver lining. Always look for the best in people. Try to see things through the eyes of a child. See the wonder in the simplest things. Never stop dreaming. Believe anything is possible.

  Richie Sambora

  Dream, Children, Believe

  Doctorate Award Speech at Kean University, New Jersey, 2004.

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• When it comes to solving problems of poverty, impact investing can act as a catalyst, but it is not a silver bullet. Successful businesses serving the poor need more than investment capital. They also need infrastructure to enable effective distribution, strong regulatory systems, access to markets, technical assistance as they scale up, and more

  Jacqueline Novogratz

  Strong, Successful, Impact

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• The holy grail is right here in this gem of a book. Tosha Silver’s wisdom goes down as easy as a mint milkshake and leaves you feeling so free you’ll want to do cartwheels on the beach. But don’t be fooled by the simplicity of this message. Look no further for an easeful path to enlightenment infused with rapture and hope, which comes as much needed medicine for the soul.

  Lissa Rankin

  Beach, Book, Medicine

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• I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

  Holly Near

  Believe, Struggle, Silver Platter

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• By death the moon was gathered in Long ago, ah long ago;
  Yet still the silver corpse must spin
  And with another's light must glow.
  Her frozen mountains must forget
  Their primal hot volcanic breath,
  Doomed to revolve for ages yet,
  Void amphitheatres of death.
  And all about the cosmic sky,
  The black that lies beyond our blue,
  Dead stars innumerable lie,
  And stars of red and angry hue
  Not dead but doomed to die.

  Julian Huxley

  Death, Stars, Lying

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• The god of the world is the gold and the silver. The world worships this god. It is all-powerful to them, though they might not be willing to acknowledge it. Now it is designed, in the providence of God, that the Latter-day Saints should show whether they have so far advanced in the knowledge, in the wisdom and in the power of God that they cannot be overcome by the god of the world. We must come to that point.

  Lorenzo Snow

  Powerful, Gold, And Love

  "The Teachings of Lorenzo Snow: Fifth President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints".

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• To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.

  Chase Twichell

  Heart, Venice, Cities

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