“The thought was, 'We're going to go to California, where the soil is black and ten feet deep, and there are no rocks, and there's gold in the hills.' The West becomes the surface onto which people project their fantasies, where once the future had been the place they projected their fantasies. So it's not just the war that ends the utopian communities, but what follows.” PeopleWarEndsBlackCommunityFantasyFeetRocksTenProjectsGoldWestSurfaceHillsCaliforniaSoilUtopian Author:Christine Jennings
“No one looks for pots of gold, it just happens. Sure, some people are born with an incredible financial ability, and some people are natural salesmen, but creating a business, driving a venture, mobilizing an army, is not something you are born to do - it just happens, by accident.” PeopleLooksHappensBornNaturalAbilityCreatingGoldArmyIncrediblesFinancialAccidentsDrivingPotVentureSalesmanPot Of Gold Author:Ronnie Apteker
“I think the way for [Marco] Rubio to say to [Donald] Trump supporters, hey, essentially he's conned you. He's a con man. That's what they do. You pour gold people.My goodness, that's not the way to bring them in.” PeopleThinkingMenWayTrumpGoodnessGoldHeySupporterOld PeopleMarcos Author:Bernie Sanders
“When greedy people are given gold, they are bitter that they haven't gotten jewels; when they are made barons they are resentful that they haven't been made lords. Though powerful and rich, their attitude is that of beggars. For those who know how to be content, simple fare is more delicious than rich delicacies, a cloth coat is warmer than fox fur, and an ordinary citizen does not defer to a king or a lord.” PeopleKnowsDoeMadeGivenSimplePowerfulAttitudeLordKnow HowRichHavensKingsCitizensOrdinaryGoldBitterTaoismFoxesCoatsGreedyDeliciousJewelsBeggarFurDelicacyResentfulOrdinary CitizensGreedy People Author:Zicheng Hong
“The best way to create and bring dependent voters in is to bring people that don't have much education and therefore do not have many skills and therefore are not as capable as others of providing for themselves. That's the gold standard in immigration, if you're a Democrat in 2016, 2002, 2000, as long as this current debate has been raging, that's their objective.” PeopleIfsWayLongHas BeensSkillsCapableStandardsGoldDemocratCurrentsRageDebateImmigrationBest WayObjectivesDependentVotersProvidingGold Standard Author:Rush Limbaugh
“There are so many currency exchange rate problems that people are buying gold as a safe haven. Right now, gold looks like a safe haven if international exchange rates break down.” PeopleIfsLooksProblemBreakHavensRight NowSafeGoldRateInternationalBuyingCurrencyBreaking DownSafe HavenBuying Gold Author:Michael Hudson
“The United States is pushing as policy division of the world into rival currency camps - the dollar area on the one hand, and the Russia-Chinese-Shanghai Cooperation Organization group on the other, especially now that the IMF has changed its rules. People think that if there are rival currency groupings and national currencies are going bust, we might as well use gold as a safe haven.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWellsStatesUseHandsMightUnitedUnited StatesGroupsHavensPolicyChangedSafeAreasGoldOrganizationDollarsRussiaChinesePushingDivisionCampsCooperationCurrencyRivalsSafe HavenShanghaiImf Author:Michael Hudson
“I think it doesn't happen overnight, that's for sure. As the first gold medalist since 1984, I think cycling needs to ride that wave right now, because people are excited.” PeopleThinkingNeedsFirstsHappensRight NowGoldWaveExcitedCycling Author:Kristin Armstrong
“If people are looking at me in my hometown, then every woman that races against me in the peloton is as well. I can tell you, every one of them now believes that they can do it. When I go to a Cascade or Nature Valley and they race against me, the girls that are say 30 seconds from me at the races are all of a sudden saying 'I'm 30 seconds from gold I mean why can't I do this.'” PeopleIfsBelieveWellsMeanI CanGirlCan DoRaceGoldSecondsValleysHometownCascade Author:Kristin Armstrong
“You could really belong to a group of people and with other people, you could really make some significant changes - through the electoral process, of course, by registering people to vote, and by supporting good people who were running for office. For me, it was like I had found the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.” PeopleEndsRunningCoursesFoundProcessGroupsOfficeGoldVoteSignificantPotGood PeopleRainbowRunning For OfficeSignificant ChangePot Of GoldElectoral Process Author:Dolores Huerta
“I would have found something because I love to entertain people. I had the option to take the rest of the year off. But I said the songs on my last solo album, '24 Karat Gold,' mean so much to me. I need to get out there and sing them.” PeopleNeedsYearsMeanSaidLastsSongFoundGoldAlbumsSolo Author:Stevie Nicks
“I use the term "fool's gold white space" to highlight a common problem for innovation. People see a market that doesn't exist, and assume that one should exist.” PeopleShouldUseProblemTermSpaceWhiteCommonFoolGoldInnovationAssumingHighlightsWhite Space Author:Scott D. Anthony
“If we're going to stay the gold standard, we're going to stay ahead of the curve, well, then, when people try to do the things we're doing, we're trying to do more. We're trying to do something different. We're coming at it a different way. That, for me, to be honest, is the fun part.” PeopleIfsWayTryingWellsDifferentFunHonestStandardsGoldBeing HonestDifferent WaysCurvesGold Standard Author:John Calipari
“Who knows when Donald Trump will have a press conference? Maybe he's just going to stay in Trump Tower and issue tweets - you know, gold-plated tweets to the American people. It's scary.” PeopleKnowsIssuesTrumpGoldPressesScaryTowersConferencesTweetPress Conferences Author:Barbara Boxer
“People almost always imagine that life is going to be better in town and that the streets of the town are paved with gold.” PeopleLife IsImagineStreetsGoldTownsImagine That Author:Desmond Tutu
“Donald Trump is sort of an Orwellian figure, an authoritarian figure who is twisting words in an Orwellian manner, "1984," to exercise power and control people's minds, or is he a 5-year-old who has an ego that needs to be fed, and the universe has to warp around his ego needs so he can feel good about himself, and everybody has to produce photos to make the monarch feel like he's made of gold.” PeopleNeedsFeelsYearsMindMadeUniverseFiguresProduceTrumpExerciseEgoGoldFeel GoodFedsMonarchsWarpPower And ControlOrwellian Author:David Brooks
“When I read the script [of Glee], the whole premise was that all the high school kids were being cruel to this kid in the wheelchair, and then the quarterback comes along and has a heart of gold and takes him out of a Porta Potty. That's too often what I see in media, that the characters with disabilities are there to make other people seem like heroes for treating the character with a disability with respect. Those are the kinds of roles that are out there.” PeopleHeartKindWholeCharacterSeemsKidsSchoolRolesMediaHeroHigh SchoolGoldScriptsDisabilityPremisesQuarterbackGleeWheelchairsPottyHeart Of Gold Author:Zach Anner
“When I was on tour, people would say "We don't need a value-based currency, we can go out and buy gold and silver with US dollars now." I mean that it is so utterly brain dead, because they miss the whole point: the reason we need to have a gold and silver based currency is to bring discipline to the financial system so the government can't go out and do all sorts of bad things.” PeopleNeedsMeanReasonWholeGovernmentValuesBrainMissingDisciplineGoldDollarsFinancialSilverBad ThingsCurrencyGold And SilverFinancial SystemBrain Dead Author:Bernard von NotHaus
“I wanna feed 5,000 like Jesus, I wanna build a community center where the homeless and less fortunate can come take a shower, get a hot meal and a change of clothes. Maybe not new clothes but some clean clothes. Those are my goals, my raps and goals haven't changed. I'm about helping somebody, I use my celebrity status for the good of mankind. That's what I do, so for all the Hip-Hop people, if they just pull from me the gold, they're missing so much.” PeopleIfsHelpingUseJesusGoalCommunityMankindMissingHavensChangedClothesGoldHotCleanHip HopRapHipsFortunateMealsHopsShowersHomelessLess FortunateNew ClothesCommunity CentersCelebrity StatusClean Clothes Author:Mr. T
“As a Christian when I watched the people in Katrina they lost everything. I'm not just speaking about the Black people, I'm talking about White, Chinese, Oriental, whoever lost stuff. My heart went out to 'em. I said as a Christian it would be a sin before God for me to wear my gold around people, flashing it in their face and they don't have nothing. So I said never again would I wear my gold, I want people to know I have a heart of gold and not the gold around my neck.” PeopleKnowsWantHeartSaidWould BeChristianFacesLostStuffBlackSinWhiteTalkingMy HeartGoldChineseNecksEmsBlack PeopleKatrinaLost EverythingHeart Of Gold Author:Mr. T
“I look at Playtone, the company that produced My Big Fat Greek Wedding. I call them my Playtoners. They are the kindest people who treated me like gold before that movie made a dime. We became personal friends. When I think about how lovely and wonderful they are that convinces me that you don't have to make a deal with the devil to succeed. It's a choice.” PeopleThinkingChoicesWonderfulSucceedDevilGoldLovelyGreekConvince Author:Nia Vardalos
“Science is not like the Olympic Games or something where there's a lot of people all trying to win gold medals, and if you don't get a gold medal, you're nothing. There are actually a lot of people working together and contributing to the science - and the science is the important thing.” PeopleTryingImportantTogetherWinningGoldWorking TogetherMedalOlympic Games Author:Frederick Sanger
“It's a very vulnerable position to be in. I was so young and I was not focused on what I looked like. I was focused on the gold medal. At the end of the day, I have changed. I can't blame anybody for saying, 'Oh, she changed!' You know, because I have. And that's OK. It's good to keep evolving and growing. I think most people should be accepting with stuff like that, but you know, you can't force anybody into feeling a certain way. So for anybody who's judging it and not liking it, that's fine. Unfollow me. I don't really care.” PeopleThinkingFeelingsCareAcceptingChangedJudgingGoldBlameFocusedVulnerableEvolveMedalI Have Changed Author:McKayla Maroney
“In America with the Olympics when you not only have a medal but a gold medal all of a sudden people come out of the wood work and you're treated a little bit differently. I guess that's where my personality is, that's where I just can't get used to all this.” PeoplePersonalityGoldMedal Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I love the sport, I haven't made millions off of it so maybe that's why I just feel like a normal person, I just feel regular, so that when I walk out of my house now with people requesting autographs in the middle of Albertson's aisles. I realize that I did go to the Olympics and did come back with a gold medal, but this is all strange. Somebody pinch me please, because I'm just here on my couch at night watching the Olympics now like everyone else in the world.” PeopleWorldNightHouseSportsRealizingStrangeGoldMedal Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I'm not the kind to go out and tell people 'Oh yeah I'm a gold medalist.'” PeopleKindGold Author:Kristin Armstrong
“I believe Sharia law, however it comes, is the future for America. I believe, one day, that the people will adopt it anyway. A lot of issues we're looking at now are already enshrined within the Sharia. For instance, the gold standard for when dealing with inflation and a lack of confidence with the stocks and shares, which has been prevalent for the last many decades. All of that is prohibited in Islam.” PeopleBelieveI BelieveShareOne DayGoldIslamInflation Author:Anjem Choudary
“When I devoted myself to poetry - and poetry is a very serious medium - I don't think the people that knew me as an individual with that tongue-in-cheek kind of humor...well, it didn't always lend itself to my poetry. When you're writing poetry, it's like working with gold, you can't waste anything. You have to be very economical with each word you're going to select. But when you're writing fiction, you can just go on and on; you can be more playful. My editor's main task is to cut back, not ask for more.” PeopleThinkingWritingKindIndividualCuttingSeriousGoldPoetry IsSelectWriting Poetry Author:Ana Castillo
“So if the meaning of the Trump brand is being the ultimate boss who has the power because he's so rich, the way you undermine that brand is by making him look like a puppet, and by showing that while he's playing gold and admiring his properties, it's actually other people making the key decisions and he doesn't really know what's going on.” PeopleDecisionRichGoldUltimatePropertyBossAdmiring Author:Naomi Klein
“Now it's a hard time in every business with the current economic situation, so being an actor where you're seen in different parts of the world is gold because it means that people in other countries will hopefully see your movies and like them, which means more money to make other movies. It's a hard time in movie making.” PeopleWorldMeanDifferentCountrySituationEconomicGoldHopefullyHard Times Author:Justin Chatwin
“Me and my sisters were taught that if our eyes worked and our legs worked, we were beautiful. We had so many kids in our family that if we all got in front of the mirror and were ashamed of browns and golds and yellows and whites, and we believed what society told us - that the darker people were less attractive and the lighter ones were prettier - we would have had sibling murders. My family, being half-rural and half-military, just came from a different place.” PeopleDifferentEyeKidsBeautifulMy FamilyGoldMurderOur FamilyAttractiveAshamedMy SisterSiblingDifferent Place Author:Pam Grier
“I went to a job and sat down as a proper apprentice, learning how to make jewelry. It involved a lot of remodeling and repairing. It was a bad time in England in those days and people didn't have much money - they would repair a ring rather than buy a new one. They would thicken up the gold. I learned all the ways to make something look new again.” PeopleGoldRingsSatJewelryBad Times Author:Laurence Graff
“We need to make seeing a therapist more accessible; we've got to crack down on this and allow people the opportunity to seek help. It's going to be a game-changer. I would love people to become more vulnerable and reach out and ask for help. I would never want somebody to go through the feelings I had, almost exactly three years ago, of not wanting to be alive. That's a scary thing, and to think of where I am today compared to that - that's way bigger than winning a gold medal.” PeopleThinkingHelpingFeelingsTodayOpportunityWinningGoldScaryVulnerableReach OutMedal Author:Michael Phelps
“Patience is a part of boxing. After I had missed out on the Olympic gold medal in 1984, a lot of people tried to talk me into turning professional quickly to make money. They told me that the next Olympics in Seoul would be boycotted again, that I was wasting my life, blah blah. But I still had unfinished business. I wanted the gold medal, and I got it in ‘88. Only then was I ready to turn professional.” PeopleGoldMaking MoneyBoxingMedal Author:Lennox Lewis
“Right now, I see a lot of alarming trends inside Russia, especially in Siberia, which I represent in the parliament. People start to ask questions: If we mine all the natural resources - if we have all the oil, all the gas, all the coal, all the gold, all the diamonds - why the hell do we need central Russia? They are just eating at our resources. Without Moscow having a response for this, it would face very nasty questions such as one that was asked during my recent reelection campaign - it actually became a slogan of my campaign - "Stop feeding Moscow."” PeopleNaturalHellEatingGoldResponseGasDiamondNastySlogansNatural Resources Author:Ilya Ponomarev
“The problem right now is that central banks have not normalized their balance sheet since 2009. They're trying, but it's not even close. If we had another crisis tomorrow, and you had to do QE4 and QE5, how could you do that when you're already at $4 trillion? They might have to turn to the IMF or SDR or to Gold. Then, if you go back to the gold standard, you have to get the price right. People say there's not enough gold to support a gold standard. That's nonsense. There's always enough gold, it's just a question of price.” PeopleTryingEnoughProblemSupportBalanceTomorrowGoldCrisisNonsense Author:James Rickards
“All I want to say to people, man, is, "Yo, you see me walking down the street and I got a little bop in my walk, don't think because I've got a bop in my walk I'm trying to be all that. The bop in my walk is because I'm just like you, man. I bop when I walk." Know what I'm saying? I'm proud. If you see me smiling, standing straight up, gold around my neck, it's not because I'm conceited. It's because I'm proud of what I achieved. I made this. I worked hard for this. That's all this is about.” PeopleThinkingMenTryingLike YouProudWalkingGoldConceitedStraight Up Author:LL Cool J
“Most governments, not all of them, but most, certainly don't want their citizens using gold. They want them in the currency that they are creating. When they are debasing money, or printing money, they are spending it and they want it to have as much value as possible when they originally spend it. Of course once they spend it, it will lose value for them and everyone else that holds it. But they need demand for their currency. They need as many people as possible holding it and transacting it. The more people that use gold, the harder it makes it.” PeopleValuesGoldCurrencyPrinting Author:Peter Schiff
“Over the past decade or so, you have seen the flip side of that as you've seen stock prices have come down a lot relative to gold. Now you are getting a change where people are more comfortable holding gold because in the rear-view mirror it doesn't look so bad for gold. Bonds have not come down as much relative to gold, but I think the bond bubble is going to burst and will be falling for years too. And gold will look that much better.” PeopleThinkingPastFallGoldRelativeBubblesOver The Past Author:Peter Schiff
“Unless we do things in this country to slow down our population, slow down our birth control, provide better water for people, provide power for people, we're gonna find out that the next wars are not going to be fought over diamonds, gold and political things.” PeopleWarCountryPoliticalNextWaterBirthGoldPopulationDiamondSlow DownBirth Control Author:Evel Knievel
“I think it's the people who have no doubt that every word they put down is gold that probably don't write very well.” PeopleThinkingWritingWellsDoubtGoldNo Doubt Author:Dean Koontz
“I don't know about you, but I lie awake nights worrying about Canadian uranium. I know these people. I grew up there. You have no idea what they're capable of doing. If Sidney Crosby hadn't scored that goal to win the Olympic gold medal, there's no telling what might have ensued.” PeopleIfsKnowsIdeasMightLyingNightWinningGoalWorryGrewGrew UpCapableGoldNo IdeaAwakeMedalGold MedalsUraniumCrosby Author:Charles Krauthammer
“If you think it's hard to meet new people, try picking up the wrong golf ball.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingHardSportsGoldBallsGolfDirtyGolfersGolfingHandicapsGolf LifeGreat GolfFunny GolfGreat GolfingFunny GolfingMeeting New PeopleGolf BallGolf ClubsGreatest GolfGolf SwingGolf JokesInspirational GolfGolf HumorMotivational GolfHumorous GolfGolf LoveHole In One Author:Jack Lemmon
“I'm not one of those people who wakes up and thinks, 'Bring on the day!' I have to have about 7 pints of coffee before I'm even remotely awake. But I love the golden hour in the evening, as hokey as that sounds. Just as the sun is about to set and you get those lovely shadows and everything looks gold and yellow.” PeopleThinkingLooksSoundHoursSunShadowGoldWake UpCoffeeLovelyGoldenEveningAwakeYellowPintsGolden Hour Author:Stacy London
“Growing up in Alaska, they don't really teach you to swim there. I learned to swim just a few summers ago with Olympic gold medalist Amanda Beard. She did great, and right after that I went to get scuba certified. I had fun with it. I didn't really get scared, but some people thought that was a risk.” PeopleFunTeachGrowing UpGrowingRiskSummerGoldScaredSwimBeardAlaskaAmandaHad FunScubaI Had Fun Author:Holly Madison
“All the people in Korea are cheering me like I'm a gold medalist or something, so I have a responsibility to my country.” PeopleCountryResponsibilityGoldCheerKoreaGangnam Style Author:PSY
“My goal is one Olympic gold medal. Not many people in this world can say, 'I'm an Olympic gold medalist.'” PeopleWorldLifeInspirationalSportsGoalThis WorldGoldMedalGold Medals Author:Michael Phelps
“If I bring back only one gold people are going to say it's a disappointment. But not too many of them own an Olympic gold medal so if I get one I'm going to be happy.” PeopleIfsGoldDisappointmentMedalGold MedalsOlympic Medals Author:Michael Phelps
“A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.” PeopleStandardsGoldGoodsStabilityGoods And ServicesGold Standard Author:Ben Bernanke
“The world's central banks and the International Monetary Fund still have vaults full of bullion, even though currencies are no longer backed by gold. Governments hold on to it as a kind of magic symbol, a way of reassuring people that their money is real.” PeopleWorldWayKindStillsRealGovernmentMagicGoldInternationalSymbolsFundCurrencyMonetaryReassuringCentral BanksVaults Author:James Surowiecki