The utility, or intrinsic value of gold as a commodity is now considerably less than in the past; its monetary status has become extraordinarily ambiguous; and its future is highly uncertain.
BENJAMIN GRAHAMMen show no mercy and expect no mercy, when honor calls, or when they fight for their idols or their gods.
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Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.
ALAIN DE BOTTON -
When inspiration does not come to me, I go halfway to meet it.
SIGMUND FREUD -
But with a sigh he had released her hand, while she was so lost in the fantasy that she hadn’t felt it go away, as if he’d known the best moment to let go.
THOMAS PYNCHON -
A great destiny needs a generous diet. What can be expected of a people that live on macaroni!
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE -
Sometimes there is a 36-piece orchestra going off in my stomach.
WILLIE NELSON -
It is awfully important to know what is and what is not your business.
GERTRUDE STEIN -
But what we eat can nevertheless help us to be much more than what we are.
ADELLE DAVIS -
Leadership is getting someone to do what they don’t want to do, to achieve what they want to achieve.
TOM LANDRY -
I’m single but interviewing.
BILLY JOEL -
No poem is worth anything unless it starts from a poetic trance, out of which you can be wakened by interruption as from a dream. In fact, it is the same thing.
ROBERT GRAVES -
When I was done with the movie [Ordinary World], I felt really compelled to start working on another album. Little did I know, they were going to come out back to back.
BILLIE JOE ARMSTRONG -
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives. Priority management is the answer to maximizing the time we have.
JOHN C. MAXWELL -
You wanted to be the Superman who was never Clark Kent.
LEONARD COHEN -
I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
RAHUL DRAVID -
Real serious waiting is done in waiting rooms, and what they all have in common is their purpose, or purposelessness,
ADA LOUISE HUXTABLE