There have been unions based on gold or silver, but not on fiat money - money tempted to inflate - put out by politically independent entities.
The Obama administration has abused the executive power, enforcing Common Core on the states. It has used race to the top fans to effectively blackmail and force the states to adapt Common Core. But in one silver lining of Obama abusing executive power is that everything done with executive power can be undone with executive power and I intend to do that.
[Beauty is] a delicate bait with a deadly hook; a sweet panther with a devouring paunch, a sour poison in a silver pot.
Not all treasure is silver and gold, mate
Alas! for that accursed time They bore thee o'er the billow, From love to titled age and crime, And an unholy pillow! From me, and from our misty clime, Where weeps the silver willow!
Does the moon play only silver when it strums the galaxy?
Murphy is a writer's best friend, but you have to keep an eye on him, or he'll steal the silver.
Gold and silver grow, and so does every other kind of metal, the same as the hair upon my head, or the wheat in the field; they do not grow as fast, but they are all the time composing or decomposing
The silver Thames takes some part of this county in its journey to Oxford.
It is health that is real wealth and not pieces of gold and silver.
Gold and silver are but merchandise, as well as cloth or linen; and that nation that buys the least, and sells the most, must always have the most money.
Knowledge is silver. Outlook is gold. IQ is a lead weight.
There's a time for casting silver; a time for casting cannon. If that isn't in the red, it should be!
I heard from my dear friend Tiberius Ogden, that you can produce a Patronus? For a bonus point. . . ? Harry raised his wand, looked directly at Umbridge, and imagined her being sacked. Expecto Patronum! The silver stag erupted from the end of his wand and cantered the length of the hall.
We were really sick of silver.
There's the silver lining I've been looking for.
Kisses are like grains of gold or silver found upon the ground, of no value themselves, but precious as showing that a mine is near.
You may have crap that wants to drag you down, but if you really like what you're doing, then there's always a silver lining.
That knowledge humbles me, melts my bones, closes my ears, and makes my teeth rock loosely in their gums. And it also liberates me. I am a big bird winging over high mountains, down into serene valleys. I am ripples of waves on silver seas. I'm a spring leaf trembling in anticipation.
I 'd rather be handsome than homely; I 'd rather be youthful than old; If I can't have a bushel of silver I'll do with a barrel of gold.