Quotes with quick-silver

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  • Benjamin Graham Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
    World Commodities and World Currencies Ch. IX, Commodities, Gold, Credit as Money, p. 100
    Benjamin Graham
    British-born American economist, professor and investor (1894 - 1976)
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  • Julius Caesar Men in general are quick to believe that which they wish to be true.
    Julius Caesar
    Roman emperor (101 - 44)
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  • Sir Max Beerbohm Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up.
    Sir Max Beerbohm
    British Actor (1872 - 1956)
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  • Beverly Sills My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
    Beverly Sills
    American operatic soprano (1929 - 2007)
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  • Bernard M. Baruch My fellow citizens of the world, we are here to make a choice between the quick and the dead.... Behind the black portent of the new atomic age lies a hope which, seized upon with faith, can work our salvation.... We must elect World Peace or World Destruction.
    Speech to United Nations meeting, 14 June 1946
    Bernard M. Baruch
    American investor, philanthropist, statesman, and political consultant (1870 - 1965)
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  • Robert Browning Oh the wild joys of living! The leaping from rock to rock ... the cool silver shock of the plunge in a pool's living waters.
    Robert Browning
    English poet (1812 - 1889)
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  • Edward Dahlberg One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver faculty, and likely to be a cause of worry to any collective settlement.
    Edward Dahlberg
    American novelist, essayist and autobiographer (1900 - 1977)
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  • Andy Warhol People need to be made more aware of the need to work at learning how to live because life is so quick and sometimes it goes away too quickly
    Andy Warhol
    American artist (1928 - 1987)
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  • Ben Jonson Queen and huntress, chaste and fair,
    Now the sun is laid to sleep,
    Seated in thy silver chair,
    State in wonted manner keep:
    Hesperus entreats thy light,
    Goddess, excellently bright.
    Cynthias Revels
    Ben Jonson
    British Dramatist, Poet (1572 - 1637)
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  • Buffalo Bill Quick as lightning Wild Bill pulled his revolver. The stranger fell dead, shot through the brain.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Allan Bloom Rock gives children, on a silver platter, with all the public authority of the entertainment industry, everything their parents always used to tell them they had to wait for until they grew up and would understand later.
    Allan Bloom
    American writer (1930 - 1992)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Buddy DeSylva So always look for the silver lining And try to find the sunny side of life.
    Look for the Silver Lining (1920)
    Buddy DeSylva
    American songwriter and film producer (1895 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot Strange, that some of us, with quick alternate vision, see beyond our infatuations, and even while we rave on the heights, behold the wide plain where our persistent self pauses and awaits us.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Bill Medley That was the toughest thing I ever had to do: tell my son that his mum was gone. I was a bachelor living on the beach, but I had to pull it together very quick for my boy.
    Bill Medley
    American singer and songwriter (1940 - )
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  • Bobbi Brown The easiest ways to improve your appearance is with a really good moisturizer that will plump up your skin, a bit of concealer and a creamy blush on your cheek and lip. It's quick and easy and you'll look so much better.
    Bobbi Brown
    American professional makeup artist, author and public speaker
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  • Anish Kapoor The eye is a very quick instrument, much quicker than the ear. The eye gets it immediately.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Billy Campbell The first trip I remember taking was on the train from Virginia up to New York City, watching the summertime countryside rolling past the window. They used white linen tablecloths in the dining car in those days, and real silver. I love trains to this day. Maybe that was the beginning of my fixation with leisurely modes of travel.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Bayard Taylor The hearts that dare are quick to feel; The hands that wound are soft to heal.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Haniel Long The moment one accosts a stranger or is accosted by him is above all in this life the moment of drama... Whoever we meet watches us intently at the quick, strange moment of meeting, to see whether we are disposed to be friendly.
    Haniel Long
    American writer, poet, journalist (1888 - 1956)
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