#gold

Romance is the glamour which turns the dust of everyday life into a golden haze. ↗

— Carolyn Gold Heilbrun

#everyday #everyday life #glamour #golden #haze

You do not boo an Olympic Gold Medalist. I'm the best in the world. I came here for you. You don't boo me. ↗

— Kurt Angle

#boo #came #gold #here #i

Let me ask you outright, gentle reader, if there have not been hours, indeed whole days and weeks of your life, during which all your usual activities were painfully repugnant, and everything you believed in and valued seemed foolish and worthless? ↗

— Ernst Theodor Amadeus Hoffmann

#ichschmertz #weariness #life

I did not know that mankind were suffering for want of gold. I have seen a little of it. I know that it is very malleable, but not so malleable as wit. A grain of gold will gild a great surface, but not so much as a grain of wisdom. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #suffering #wisdom #wit #life

I like a man who can be a real friend, has a good sense of humor, a good pair of shoes and a healthy gold card. ↗

— Victoria Beckham

#friend #gold #good #good pair #good sense

She was one of those golden mulatas that French-speaking Caribbeans call chabines, that my boys call chicas de oro; she had snarled, apocalyptic hair, copper eyes, and was one whiteskinned relative away from jaba. ↗

— Junot Díaz

#woman #ybon #life

Whoever, then, thinks that he understands the Holy Scriptures, or any part of them, but puts such an interpretation upon them as does not tend to build up this twofold love of God and our neighbor, does not yet understand them as he ought. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#bible-interpretation #golden-rule #love #scriptures #love

You were supposed to love me. You convinced me it was safe to love you back." Liz Sutton to Ethan Hendrix ↗

— Susan Mallery

#love

While parchment may burn and gold may be stained or melted down, the things that are truly important to us will never lose their value. ↗

— Evan Meekins

#fantasy-fiction #fiction #gold #importance #love

True love was beyond the bars, but a facsimile of it came with no suffering at all. ↗

— D. Morgenstern

#broken-heart #love #the-golden-bridle #love