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When problems come, remain calm in two cases. One when you know you can solve them so smile; second when you know you can’t so be silent.

With a few swift steps, Adrian stood in front of me again. The wall was only a couple inches behind me, and I had nowhere to go. He made no threatening moves, but he did clasp my hands and hold them to his chest while leaning down to me. “No, you will listen. For once, you’re going to hear something that doesn’t fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. Because this isn’t reasonable. If you’re terrified, believe me—this scares the hell out of me, too. You asked about Rose? I tried to be a better person for her—but it was to impress her, to get her to want me. But when I’m around you, I want to be better because… well, because it feels right. Because I want to. You make me want to become something greater than myself. I want to excel. You inspire me in every act, every word, every glance. I look at you, and you’re like… like light made into flesh. I said it on Halloween and meant every word: you are the most beautiful creature I have ever seen walking this earth. And you don’t even know it. You have no clue how beautiful you are or how brightly you shine.

You are not just white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not just black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You don't become satisfied because you have a golden spoon in your palm; you become satisfied when it begins to feed you... Use it!

You are not white, but a rainbow of colors. You are not black, but golden. You are not just a nationality, but a citizen of the world. You are not just for the right or left, but for what is right over the wrong. You are not just rich or poor, but always wealthy in the mind and heart. You are not perfect, but flawed. You are flawed, but you are just. You may just be conscious human, but you are also a magnificent reflection of God.

You look beautiful, ma'am," Ernestine said, delighted with the results of her work. She had drawn Phoebe's hair up into a coil of neatly pinned rolls and curls, winding a velvet ribbon around the base. A few loose curls had been allowed to dangle down the back of her head, which felt a bit strange: she wasn't accustomed to leaving any loose pieces in her usual hairstyles. Ernestine had finished the arrangement by pinning a small, fresh pink rose on the right side of the coil. The new coiffure was very flattering, but the formal gown had turned out to be far less inconspicuous than Phoebe had expected. It was the pale beige of unbleached linen or natural wool, but the silk had been infused with exceptionally fine metallic threads of gold and silver, giving the fabric a pearly luster. A garland of peonies, roses, and delicate green silk leaves trimmed the deeply scooped neckline, while another flower garland caught up the gossamer-thin silk and tulle layers of the skirts at one side.

You mind is like a gold mine, if you dig deep you will find something golden.

Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God.

your smile. is the ultimate golden dream. all the poems in the world are waking up from.

After the golden age of Latinity, we gradually slide into the silver, and at length precipitately descend into the iron.

A bad book with a good cover is nothing but a wooden house with a golden door.

A cool & diversified version of a mix tape. The BreakBeat Poets is a thorough and complete summation of Golden Era writers who continue to build the scene of literary and performance poetry.

After a day of rain the sun came out suddenly at five o'clock and threw a golden bar into the deep Victorian gloom of the front parlour

A Golden Globe is a mood-altering substance, there's no doubt about that.

A golden chain is as much a chain as an iron one. Shri Ramakrishna used to say that, to pick out one thorn which has stuck into the foot, another thorn is requisitioned, and when the thorn is taken out, both are thrown away. So the bad tendencies are to be counteracted by the good ones, but after that, the good tendencies have also to be conquered.

A golden rule: to leave an incomplete image of oneself.

A good book for an illiterate is a golden ring for a fingerless hand!

A golden tomb is useful only for the thieves!

All our lives we are putting pennies — our most golden pennies — into penny-in-the-slot machines that are almost always empty.

A kind of golden hour one remembers for a life time... Everything was touched with magic.

All religions are like precious pearls strung on the golden thread of divinity.

All the crap they tell you about... getting joy and having a kind of wisdom in your golden years - it's all tripe.

And in the evening, everywhere Along the roadside, up and down, I see the golden torches flare Like lighted street-lamps in the town.

All theory, my friend, is grey, But green is life's glad golden tree.

And let these altars, wreathed with flowers And piled with fruits, awake again Thanksgivings for the golden hours, The early and the latter rain!

And in this community, as in all others, the Golden Rule still applies - we must be act toward other nations as we would have them act towards America.

And please God, grant me the wisdom to remember that I am writing for children, not golden stickers.

And you know what it is? San Francisco a golden handcuff with the key thrown away.

and silence is the golden mountain

An earnest purpose finds time, or makes it. It seizes on spare moments, and turns fragments to golden account.

An extra yawn one morning in the springtime, an extra snooze one night in the autumn is all that we ask in return for dazzling gifts. We borrow an hour one night in April; we pay it back with golden interest five months later.

A person with a golden heart is filled with love and likes to see something that he starts completed and done well.

Are you?” “What?” “Venomous?” Another savage smile. He touched the tip of one fang with his tongue and when he drew it away, she saw a pearl of golden liquid. “Try me and see.” “Maybe later, after I’ve survived Michaela.

Apuleius married a rich widow, then wrote _The Golden Ass_.

A portable friend to all readers-especia lly but not only women-who need to learn that the Golden Rule works only if it's reversible: We must learn to treat ourselves as well as we wish to treat others.

Are you the one with the blue eyes?" "Actually, my eyes are usually described as golden...and luminous.

A team like Golden State, when they get into a rhythm they make shots.

As you will come to see, much is governed by the Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules.

At Earth's great market where Joy is trafficked in, Buy while thy purse yet swells with golden Youth.

At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phoebus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.

Best of all she liked his eyes, such a translucent golden brown, and so laughing.

Being satisfied with what we already have is a magical golden key to being alive in a full, unrestricted, and inspired way.

Attack work! Even the toughest work will start running away! Attack the difficulties! This is the Golden Rule of every kind of victory.

Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.

Between Clive Owen winning at the Golden Globes and the British Academy announcing its nominations, of which Sideways received only one, I'm feeling pretty humbled these days.

- Be thou not technical with me,/Or else thine input valve may swift receive/a hearty helping of my golden foot.

But it is hard to resist the feeling that 70th was some kind of golden age.

But the basic value of a sustainable society, the ecological equivalent of the Golden Rule, is simple: each generation should meet its needs without jeopardizing the prospects for future generations to meet their own needs.

By the golden chain Homer meant nothing else than the sun.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.