#silver

Finishing second in the Olympics gets you silver. Finishing second in politics gets you oblivion. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#gets #oblivion #olympics #politics #second

Many have said of Alchemy, that it is for the making of gold and silver. For me such is not the aim, but to consider only what virtue and power may lie in medicines. ↗

— Paracelsus

#alchemy #consider #gold #lie #making

Nature also forges man, now a gold man, now a silver man, now a fig man, now a bean man. ↗

— Paracelsus

#bean #fig #forges #gold #man

Make new friends, but keep the old; Those are silver, these are gold. ↗

— Joseph Parry

#gold #keep #make #new #new friends

Gold and silver, like other commodities, have an intrinsic value, which is not arbitrary, but is dependent on their scarcity, the quantity of labour bestowed in procuring them, and the value of the capital employed in the mines which produce them. ↗

— David Ricardo

#arbitrary #bestowed #capital #commodities #dependent

There was no silver bullet that could have prevented the 11 September attacks. There was nothing demonstrating or showing that something was coming in the United States. If there had been something, we would have acted on it. ↗

— Condoleezza Rice

#attacks #been #bullet #coming #could

I think I just went into a system that was willing to utilize me and gave me opportunities and I felt fortunate to be able to go to Oakland and put the silver and black on. I wanted to prove to everybody that I could still play. ↗

— Jerry Rice

#black #could #everybody #felt #fortunate

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I've seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon. ↗

— Elton John

#happen #i #many #ny times #seen

Labour was the first price, the original purchase - money that was paid for all things. It was not by gold or by silver, but by labour, that all wealth of the world was originally purchased. ↗

— Adam Smith

#first #gold #labour #money #original

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do. And for me, I just have such a love of the tactile and sensuous quality of a black and white silver gelatin print. ↗

— John Sexton

#black and white #get #i #image #in print