Silver Quotations | Page 5

Behold, I have refined you, but not as silver; I have tested you in the furnace of affliction.

The Marianne Vos Route goes through the seven villages of Aalburg, where I grew up, and celebrates my World and Olympic titles with a number of benches along the route, where you can stop and rest your legs. You'll see the white windmill in Meeuwen and, in Babylonienbroek, a statue of the silver bike I rode to celebrate my Olympic track win.

The truth is, Idaho has some of the lowest property taxes in the country and our system is really pretty balanced and not in need of dramatic change. But it seems pretty clear that something will come out of the Legislature this year, probably a mix of several approaches. Because there is no single silver bullet.

These are clearly issues of great complexity, there is no single structure, no single silver bullet that will be a solution to these problems,

These guys are incredibly gifted in their own right, ... but over the last few years, we've grown into something much more than the sum of our parts. We got into something deep on my last album, Silver Lining, and I'm just knocked out by their ability to stretch and morph into whatever style I want to delve into.

The high-gloss black looks a lot classier than that silver gray that's been around for years. It presents a good contrast for the high-definition TVs out there. You're seeing an upscale look on high-end TVs and audio equipment. The whole idea of digital and high-definition plays into that.

The hero with a great heart will become more real to Chinese of all ages when he leaps from the pages of textbooks and onto the silver screen in the serial.

The idols of the heathen are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

A lot of times kids, maybe they're resilient to begin with. And they've got good coping skills when the tragedy happens ... They're able to see the silver lining to the cloud.

All the vessels of gold and of silver were five thousand and four hundred. All these did Sheshbazzar bring up with them of the captivity that were brought up from Babylon unto Jerusalem.

The gold market held its ground. That it stayed well above $600 in the face of the silver sell-off convinced investors that it's still involved in a bull market.

The company has a standing policy that all new buildings will meet the energy-efficiency and environmental specifications of the LEED Silver standard. We have a wealth of in-house knowledge and experience that can help others create environmentally sound, energy-conscious buildings.

I live in a grey world, rather like the silver screen world. But yellow stands out.

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

The discussion around here was that we don't expect any silver bullet.

The difference between gold and silver is so big it's hard to put into words.

The launch of the silver ETF is expected to draw large investment money into the silver markets, which would most indisputably take silver prices much higher.

The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.

Silver is sometimes more valuable than gold ... that is, in large quantities.

Never in history was there a method devised of such efficacy for setting each country's advantage at variance with its neighbours' as the international gold (or, formerly, silver) standard.

The silver, snarling trumpets 'gan to chide.

We're on a collision course for disaster. All we can do, all your viewers can do is brace for impactBuy gold. Buy silver Get as far away as you can from U.S. currency and the U.S. economy.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

There is a hill beside the silver Thames, Shady with birch and beech and odorous pine; And brilliant underfoot with thousand gems, Steeply the thickets to his floods decline.

You never win the silver, you only lose the gold

Go fetch to me a pint o' wine, An' fill it in a silver tassie.

Fight thou with shafts of silver, and o'ercome When no force else can get the masterdom

I am silver and exact.I have no preconceptions.

I won my tournament. I won the Silver Medal.

When we see the shameful fortunes amassed in all quarters of the globe, are we not impelled to exclaim that Judas' thirty pieces of silver have fructified across the centuries?

Seine and Piave are silver spoons, But the spoonbowl-metal is thin and worn

Yeah, Silver and his math are jokes, because math has a liberal bias. After all, math is the reason Mitt Romney's tax plan doesn't add up.

I have the faith that even at my lowest points, there will come a silver lining through faith.

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.

You don't need to be born with a silver spoon to reach for the brass ring

Slowly, silently, now the moon Walks the night in her silver shoon.

So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by life, and whether this is living.

You see, Aslan didn't tell Pole what would happen. He only told her what to do. That fellow will be the death of us once he's up, I shouldn't wonder. But that doesn't let us off following the signs. - The Silver Chair

The sky is like a black sieve pierced by silver drops that tremble, ready to burst through.

Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!

Haven's warm, clammy palms press hard against my cheeks as the tarnished edge of her silver skull ring leaves a smudge on my skin.

I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth and never cherishes any memory except the face of the woman on the American silver dollar

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud / Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

No silver saints, by dying misers giv'n, Here brib'd the rage of ill-requited heav'n; But such plain roofs as Piety could raise, And only vocal with the Maker's praise.

Don't you have much more faith in ideas that you discover for yourself than in ideas that are handed to you on a silver platter?

DISOBEDIENCE, n. The silver lining to the cloud of servitude.

Beauty is a form of genius - is higher, indeed, than genius, as it needs no explanation. It 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.

Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud;Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun,And loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud.All men make faults.

A sensitive plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light, and closed them beneath the kisses of night.

There's beauty in the silver singing river, There's beauty in the sunrise in the sky, But none of these and nothing else can match the beauty, That I remember in my true love's eyes

Does the Eagle know what is in the pit / Or wilt thou go ask the Mole? / Can Wisdom be put in a silver rod, / Or Love in a golden bowl?

But I am sure I have always thought of Christmas time, when it has come round -- apart from the veneration due to its sacred name and origin, if anything belonging to it can be apart from that -- as a good time; a kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant time: the only time I know of, in the long calendar of the year, when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of people below them as if they really were fellow-passengers to the grave, and not another race of creatures bound on other journeys. And therefore, uncle, though it has never put a scrap of gold or silver in my pocket, I believe that it has done me good, and will do me good; and I say, God bless it!'

Do you remember Barbara Bush? I call her the silver douchebag.

The silver trump of freedom roused in my soul eternal wakefulness.

If he plays, being young and unskillful, For shekels of silver or gold, Take his money, my son praising Allah: The kid was ordained to be sold

Puccini - silver macaroni, exquisitely tangled.

The beauty of genuine brotherhood and peace is more precious than diamonds or silver or gold.

Reputation is a hall-mark: it can remove doubt from pure silver, and it can also make the plated article pass for pure.

Was I deceiv'd, or did a sable cloud Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ.

And she sees that the moonlight is losing its orange glow. It has become buttery, and will soon turn to silver.

Experience has proved to us that a dollar of silver disappears for every dollar of paper emitted.