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“Well, I always tried to look nice and be feminine even in the worst tragedies and crisis, there's no reason to add to everyone's misery by looking miserable yourself. That's my philosophy. This is why I always wore makeup and jewelry into the jungle-nothing too extravagant, but maybe just a nice gold bracelet and some earrings, a little lipstick, good perfume. Just enough to show that I still had my self-respect.”

Source: Eat Pray Love 10th-Anniversary Edition: One Woman's Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia

“they say in the old tales that when a man and woman exchange looks the way we did, their spirits mingle. their gaze is a rope of gold binding each other. even if they never meet again, they carry a little of the other with them always. they can never forget, and they can never be wholly happy again”

Ifs Men Way Looks Littles Spirit Forget Men And Women Gold Tales Never Forget Rope Binding Happy Again

Book:Sister of My Heart

Source: Sister of My Heart

“I go now to the halls of waiting to sit beside my fathers, until the world is renewed. Since I leave now all gold and silver, and go where it is of little worth, I wish to part in friendship from you, and I would take back my words and deeds at the Gate. . . If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.”

Ifs World Littles Would Be Song Father Wish Waiting Gold Deeds Silver Gates Halls Cheer Gold And Silver Thorin

Book:The Hobbit

Source: The Hobbit

“But this time I'm not to blame; I want you to believe that. I simply slipped into those violets. No, I want to be really truthful. I am a little to blame. The sky, you know, was gold, and the ground all blue, and for a moment he looked like some one in a book.”

Knows Want Believe Littles Book Moments Sky Gold Blue Blame Truthful I Want You Violet

Book:Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of E. M. Forster (Illustrated)

“Everything is valuable under the right conditions. To a man dying of thirst, water be more precious than gold. To a drowning man, water be of little worth and great trouble.”

Men Littles Water Trouble Conditions Dying Gold Valuable Thirst Drowning

Book:Wizard's First Rule

Source: Wizard's First Rule

“In a room sit three great men, a king, a priest, and a rich man with his gold. Between them stands a sellsword, a little man of common birth and no great mind. Each of the great ones bids him slay the other two. ‘Do it,’ says the king, ‘for I am your lawful ruler.’ ‘Do it,’ says the priest, ‘for I command you in the names of the gods.’ ‘Do it,’ says the rich man, ‘and all this gold shall be yours.’ So tell me—who lives and who dies?”

Source: A Game of Thrones 4-Book Bundle: A Song of Ice and Fire Series: A Game of Thrones, A Clash of Kings, A Storm of Swords, and A Feast for Crows

“We all have someone we think shines so much more than we do that we are not even a moon to their sun, but a dead little rock floating in space next to their gold and their blaze.”

Thinking Littles Next Space Sun Rocks Moon Gold Shining Floating Little Rock Floating In Space

Author:Catherynne M. Valente

“As I thought of these things, I drew aside the curtains and looked out into the darkness, and it seemed to my troubled fancy that all those little points of light filling the sky were the furnaces of innumerable divine alchemists, who labour continually, turning lead into gold, weariness into ecstasy, bodies into souls, the darkness into God; and at their perfect labour my mortality grew heavy, and I cried out, as so many dreamers and men of letters in our age have cried, for the birth of that elaborate spiritual beauty which could alone uplift souls weighted with so many dreams.”

Source: The Yeats companion

“Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,” and slipped it under the curve of Anne’s arm. Whereupon Anne arose, took the pink heart gingerly between the tips of her fingers, dropped it on the floor, ground it to powder beneath her heel, and resumed her position without deigning to bestow a glance on Gilbert.”

Heart Littles Position Sweet Arms Gold Fingers Heels Desks Glances Candy Motto Curves Powder

Book:The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

Source: The Complete Novels of Lucy Maud Montgomery - 20 Titles in One Volume: Including Anne of Green Gables Series, Emily Starr Trilogy, The Blue Castle, The Story Girl & Pat of Silver Bush Series: Anne of Avonlea, Anne of the Island, Anne of Ingleside, Anne's House of Dreams, Rainbow Valley, Emily of New Moon, The Golden Road, Magic for Marigold, A Tangled Web, Jane of Lantern Hill & many more

“She wanted to return to her dream. Perhaps it was still somewhere there behind her closed eyelids. Perhaps a little of its happiness still clung like gold dust to her lashes. Don't dreams in fairy tales sometimes leave a token behind?”

Littles Stills Sometimes Dream Wanted Behinds Return Gold Tales Dust Fairy Fairy Tale Tokens Lashes Eyelids Inkheart Gold Dust

Author:Cornelia Funke

“The truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth. Little men are dissolved in it. If there is any gold, truth makes it shine more brightly. . . .Truth, even in the mouth of an informer, a spy, a briber, can become bigger than anybody who tries to destroy it. Truth survives.”

Ifs Men Trying Littles Whole Truth Mouths Gold Bigger Shining Spy Little Man Whole Truth Nothing But The Truth Informers

Author:Adela Rogers St. Johns

“Little self-denials, little honesties, little passing words of sympathy, little nameless acts of kindness, little silent victories over favorite temptations-these are the silent threads of gold which, when woven together, gleam out so brightly in the pattern of life that God approves.”

Source: : Sermons on Practical Subjects, Preached at Marlborough College, from 1871-1876

“Not till the fire is dying in the grate, Look we for any kinship with the stars. Oh, wisdom never comes when it is gold, And the great price we paid for it full worth: We have it only when we are half earth. Little avails that coinage to the old!”

Looks Littles Age Earth Stars Half Fire Atheism Dying Gold Paid Aging Old Age Kinship Grate

Book:The Egoist

Source: The Egoist

“That's the awesome part. Little girls now have a chance to look up and see women playing soccer, basketball, softball and now hockey - and know they can win a gold medal, too.”

Knows Looks Littles Motivational Girl Winning Chance Basketball Gold Soccer Look Up Hockey Role Models Inspirational Sports Medal Softball Gold Medals Playing Soccer Playing Hockey

Author:Angela Ruggiero

“If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all.”

“Whereas the chemico-chemists always find in industry a beautiful field of gold-laden soil, the physico-chemists stand somewhat farther off, especially those who seek only the greatest dilution, for in general there is little to make with watery solutions.”

Littles Beautiful Science Fields Industry Solutions Gold Soil Chemistry Chemist

Author:Jacobus Henricus van 't Hoff

“It's an interesting thing in this country. I haven't won a gold medal, yet Australians still take me into their houses and hearts, they know my name and they care. I think Aussies like the little Aussie battler and the person who will stand up for their rights and I've never been short of a word, especially with officialdom.”

Thinking Knows Heart Littles Persons Stills Country Care House Names Sports Interesting Rights Havens Gold Take Me Inspirational Sports Medal Interesting Things Gold Medals Aussies

Author:Raelene Boyle

“In relation to God, we are like a thief who has burgled the house of a kindly householder and been allowed to keep some of the gold. From the point of view of the lawful owner this gold is a gift; Form the point of view of the burglar it is a theft. He must go and give it back. It is the same with our existence. We have stolen a little of God's being to make it ours. God has made us a gift of it. But we have stolen it. We must return it.”

Giving Littles Made God Form House Views Existence Return Gold Relation Point Of View Owners Thieves Stolen Theft Burglars

Author:Simone Weil

“The 2002 (Olympic) team was a great team, we won the gold medal, they deserved all the accolades that they got. But this team seems to have a little more depth and maybe a little more talent to pick from. So it makes the job of picking the right 23 guys even more difficult.”

Littles Seems Jobs Guy Difficult Team Talent Picks Gold Depth Medal Gold Medals Great Team Accolades

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“For a bowl of water give a goodly meal; For a kindly greeting bow thou down with zeal; For a simple penny pay thou back with gold; If thy life be rescued, life do not withhold. Thus the words and actions of the wise regard; Every little service tenfold they reward. But the truly noble know all men as one, And return with gladness good for evil done.”

Source: Autobiography: The Story of My Experiments with Truth

“Ever since the Evil Empire turned out to be a collection of third-world countries, Americans aligned on the far right have tried to cast gay men and lesbians as the new enemy, calculating deviants seducing the nation's young, anti-Avon ladies selling sodomy door-to-door. This simply won't wash. Just as seeing the Russians up close and personal on television humanized them, so seeing the lesbian grandmother of two little girls wearing her gold medal with pride makes the notion of otherness, much less deviance, silly and ignorant.”

“Gold, on the contrary, though of little use compared with air or water, will exchange for a great quantity of other goods.”

Littles Use Water Air Gold Contrary Goods Quantity

Book:On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

Source: On the Principles of Political Economy, and Taxation

“It is extraordinary how many emotional storms one may weather in safety if one is ballasted with ever so little gold.”

Ifs May Littles Emotional Gold Safety Extraordinary Storm Weather

Book:Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul

Source: Casuals of the Sea: The Voyage of a Soul

“I have one other issue I'd like to throw on the table. I hesitate to do it, but let me tell you some of the issues that are involved here. If we are dealing with psychology, then the thermometers one uses to measure it have an effect. I was raising the question on the side with Governor Mullins of what would happen if the Treasury sold a little gold in this market. There's an interesting question here because if the gold price broke in that context, the thermometer would not be just a measuring tool. It would basically affect the underlying psychology.”

Ifs Littles Use Happens Sides Interesting Issues Psychology Effects Involved Tools Gold Let Me Tables Broke Governors Measuring Treasury Thermometers Gold Price

Author:Alan Greenspan