Many people talk about winning two straight gold medals, but I'm not focusing on defending the title.
Gold gives to the ugliest thing a certain charming air, For that without it were else a miserable affair.
I grew up with a beautiful gold harp sitting in our living room. My older sister played it.
There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on.
What is Fortune, what is Fame?
Futile gold and phantom name-
Riches buried in a cave,
Glory written on a grave.
I was running sub-13 minutes for 5,000 when I was still coached by Alan Storey, and I won double gold at the Europeans in 2010.
It is right precious to behold
The first long surf of climbing light
Flood all the thirsty east with gold.
In the absence of the gold standard, there is no way to protect savings from confiscation through inflation. There is no safe store of value.
I'm not a peak oil person. I'm not a biohazard apocalyptic kind of freak. I don't have a supply of weapons or gold bars under my house.
A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.
I looked a hundred times and all I saw was dust. The sun broke through and flecks of gold filled the air.
Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
Finer than any sand are dusts of gold that gleam, Vague starpoints, in the mystic iris of their eyes.
A gold medal is a goal and something that we've never done before as the United States indoor women's volleyball team.
All the gold in the world cannot buy a dying man one more breath--so what does that make today worth?
A chest of gold coins or a fat wallet of bills is of no use
whatsoever to a wrecked sailor alone on a raft.
Gold is a relic from a time when government's were less trustworthy in these matters (currency debasement) than they are now.
According to research,when given a choice, babies choose gold. It's my favourite colour after black and red.
The gold standard sooner or later will return with the force and inevitability of natural law, for it is the money of freedom and honesty.
It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.
Riches too increase, and the maddening craving for gold,
So that men ever seek for more, that they may have the most.
With the aid of a minute correction - that of the dispersing lens - in a gold frame perched on her nose, Miranda can see into hell.
The Thames was all gold. God it was beautiful, so fine that I began working a frenzy, following the sun and its reflections on the water.
Not what we think, but what we do, / Makes saints of us: all stiff and cold, / The outlines of the corpse show through / The cloth of gold.
I'm six-foot-five. I'm not going to win the gold medal in figure skating. But I can try, and that's what matters. Trying.
The European countries are really hoping to do well in the Olympics. If they win gold medals, they can use them as cash.
All metallics are neutrals. So it is absolutely fine to mix gold and silver; you just want it to look like it has purpose.
The Golden Straitjacket is the defining political-economic garment of globalization. [...] The tighter you wear it, the more gold it produces.
Oppressors in front of the Lord, truth be told shall inherit oppression, while others receive gold.
The ability to manage large assets well - it's like being Michael Jordan or winning the gold in the Olympics; it's what you aspire to.
I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!
My first gold was in the 2002 cadet national. I realized I was good enough even outside my village and my district.
Whenever anything important happens in America, they have to gold-plate it, like baby shoes. That way you can forget it.
Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come Again in this identical guise.
I have always felt that if a man gives you a solid gold key to his door he is entitled to the courtesy of a visit.
There is no poverty in life when you have a loving, peaceful, happy family. They are a gift which cannot be bought nor traded for gold.
I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.
Gold and Silver have always had value, never gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
I would think it a greater happiness to gain one soul to Christ than mountains of silver and gold to myself.
Researching and writing about the Klondike Gold Rush of 1897-98 was one of the most exciting and involving projects I've undertaken.
When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.
Till you can sing and rejoice and delight in God, as misers do in gold, and kings in sceptres, you never enjoy the world.
My goal is one individual gold. I know how hard it is: you have to have a good day; there can also be some problems with the weather.
I'd probably say the championships mean more to me, but the gold medal makes you a bit different. It's a special award.
After I came back from London with a gold medal, my focus straight away was to defend it four years on.
I've had so many great experiences in my life, of living total free will, that I wouldn't change it for all the gold in the earth.
I cant immediately get all this coverage when my record comes out. The way I sell gold and platinum records is by being on the road.
In love and friendship, small, steady payments on a gold basis are better than immense promissory notes.
God often used bitter experiences to make us better. Gold can be a helpful servant, but a cruel master.
In my experience, 'let's think about it' usually ends up as me watching Solid Gold in my basement on prom night.
Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find-nothing.
Some people think I look like a sweet potato, I consider myself a spud with a heart of gold.
Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!
I invest in anything that Bernanke can't destroy, including gold, canned beans, bottled water and flashlight batteries.
I am fundraising gold. Democrat donors hate me so much, they hear my name and they run to their checkbooks.
I don't get back as much as I'd like to, so I don't have a lot of close ties [Pittsburgh], but I'll bleed black and gold until I die.
It's a big dream for me to go home with two gold medals. It's not very easy as it looks like.
The ease and pleasure of a long marriage is like gold dust. You feel fed and sustained and that you're intimately known.
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