[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
Too elevated qualities often unfit a man for society. We do not go to market with ingots, but with silver and small change.
Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves.
Not that I went into the Olympics with any doubt, but my holiday plans afterwards depended on how well I did - bronze, silver or gold.
most people lose the ability to see silver linings or even though they are always there above us.
Quotations are the gold mine of human mind, the silver pearls of the wisdom ocean, and the cool drops of the rain of intelligence.
And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.
The rain wasn't the usual glittering silver, but dark and dirty, as if nature were a scrubwoman wringing out a filthy mop.
When I was a kid in the '60s, I went shopping in downtown Silver Spring. Hecht's, JCPenney, the little retailers - they sponsored all my sports teams.
One thing I liked about 'Silver Bell' is that I barely knew how to play in the tuning I was writing in, and I just went for it anyway.
A friend once told me that I was always so manipulative, 'a silver-tongued devil,' as he put it. I was never aware of it.
A U.S. dollar is an IOU from the Federal Reserve Bank. It's a promissory note that doesn't actually promise anything. It's not backed by gold or silver.
Titles of honour are like the impressions on coin; — which add no value to gold and silver, but only render brass current.
While you can fill every heart as your own full of laughter loud as gold and passion quick as silver.
As I stepped on the moon, I looked around, dazed...magnifice nt. The vast, sandy silver surface was almost illusory.
In a world of war, pain and suffering, all I want for Christmas is an underwater watch and a silver clutch rod for my dirt bike.
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.
The cricket's gone, we only hear machines In erg and atom they exact their pay. And life is largely lived on silver screens.
The silver and black may have another home, but the Raiders will always belong to the people of Los Angeles.
One marvel of a day he had walked so far that when he returned the moon was high and full and all the world was purple shadow and silver.
We periodically note that there are no silver bullets, there are no magic formulas, there's no single action or component of the overall... comprehensive civil-military approach.
Any aluminum product may scratch or chip with use, exposing its natural silver color. That is normal.
Crackers!” said Dumbledore enthusiastically, offering the end of a large silver noisemaker to Snape, who took it reluctantly.
My tag line for 'Silver Linings' is this: It's about a man who thinks his life is a movie produced by God.
Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.
With 48 million subscribers through Xbox Live (silver and gold), Microsoft has a bigger audience than DirecTV.
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
The moon twangs its silver strings;
The river swoons into town;
The wind beds down in the pines,
Covers itself with stars.
When the 'Batman' TV series was taken to the silver screen, one of America's favourite sweethearts would don the mask and claws of Catwoman.
Ten silver saxes,
a bass with a bow
The drummer relaxes
and waits between shows
For his cinnamon girl.
Poetry is the cipher key to the five mystic wishes packed in a hollow silver bullet fed to a flying fish.
Nothing's handed to you on a silver platter. Everything takes work, no matter how many records you put out.
Like the appearance of silver in mother of pearl, the world seems real until the Self, the underlying reality, is realized.
The moon is so beautiful. It's a big silver dollar, flipped by God. And it landed scarred side up, see? So He made the world.
Our earthly loves are but so many silver steps leading us up to the great golden love of God.
If God awarded us medals, as they do in the Olympics, love would win the gold, joy the silver, and peace the bronze.
A ship, an isle, a sickle moon With few but with how splendid stars The mirrors of the sea are strewn Between their silver bars!
Most of us weren't born with a silver spoon in our mouth, but if life dealt you all the wrong cards, you still have to play.
The greatest test of Christianity is the wear and tear of daily life; it is like the shining of silver: the more it is rubbed the brighter it grows.
Dramas are incredibly compelling. I feel like 'Silver Linings Playbook' is a drama, but because it's funny, people market it as a comedy.
Beauty ...is of the great facts in the world like sunlight, or springtime, or the reflection in dark water of that silver shell we call the moon.
It sure looks good to see an honest-to-goodness audience after looking at you all for so long from the silver screen.
We, Filipinos, are really great about keeping a positive attitude and seeing the silver lining in all things. We're survivors!
I have had sculptures cast in bronze, silver and aluminium. My drawings are all graphite or pigment ink and gouache on paper.
Maybe a silver lining to growing old is being able to watch Usual Suspects for the first time, again.
What is the effect of unlimited coinage of silver in this country? and I invite your attention to this particularly, because it is a question of vital importance.
Ending educational inequality is going to require systemic change and a long-term, sustained effort. There are no shortcuts and no silver bullets.
You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.
'Hard Times' does not romanticize the Depression, but at least a few of Mr. Terkel's subjects managed to find silver linings.
Life has changed after Rio. Winning a silver medal was a huge moment for me. It has come with a lot of responsibilities.
It is well, when in difficulties, to say never a word, neither black nor white. Speech is silver but silence is golden.
The importation of gold and silver is not the principal, much less the sole benefit which a nation derives from its foreign trade.
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art.
It is because the administration is hostile to silver; and thus it is surrendering this country to the Shylocks of the Old World who have made war upon it.
Before you can teach children, you must get the silver key of kindness to unlock their hearts, and so secure their attention.
The boat was so old; it must have been launched when Long John Silver had two legs and an egg on his shoulder.
Remember, gold and silver always have had value and never have gone to zero. Can you say the same for stocks and bonds?
Pixie, kobold, elf, and sprite,
All are on their rounds tonight;
In the wan moon's silver ray,
Thrives their helter-skelter play.
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