Top 100 Coin Quotes
#1. I feel like I'm at a place in my life where I'm really strangely happy, and in awe of how great the world can be, and I think that's because I have gone through periods of looking at the world through a really melancholy lenses. It's all just flip sides of the same coin.
Laurel Nakadate
#2. Now, who is inside my solar?'
'Lord Littlefinger.' Podrick managed a quick look at his face, then hastily dropped his eyes. 'I meant, Lord Petyr. Lord Baelish. The master of coin.'
'You make him sound a crowd.
George R R Martin
#4. May there always be work for your hands to do. May your purse always hold a coin or two. May the sun always shine on your windowpane. May a rainbow be certain to follow each rain. Irish blessing
Stephen Revell
#5. Suppose someone tells you that he just flipped a coin 10 times and all 10 were heads? What is the probability that the next flip will be heads too? If you think 50%, then you are discounting the very high probability that the game is rigged. And this makes you a sucker.
Dmitry Orlov
#6. I came up with the term 'mindfreak' because I didn't like the word 'magician.' I felt like I wanted to coin a term that would be basically the reaction to my art. It would be a mindfreak and so that's why I came up with that. But, many people say I'm really a student of humanity and psychology.
Criss Angel
#7. The condition of matter I have dignified by the term Electronic, THE ELECTRONIC STATE. What do you think of that? Am I not a bold man, ignorant as I am, to coin words?
Michael Faraday
#9. A pound coin can go wherever it thinks it will be safest ... It can disguise itself as power or property and there is nothing more serious than you are a girl who has neither. 12
Chris Cleave
#10. Awaiting to see the other side of the Coin, whatever it is, Accept it, because you Deserve it
Vinay Kumar
#11. On the days I'm pitching, it's almost a coin flip as to know if the guys behind me are going to be there to play 100%.
Cory Lidle
#12. All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,
The coin, Tiberius.
Henry Austin Dobson
#13. It turned out in the long run that Lincoln's credit and the popular confidence that supported it were as valuable both to his creditors and himself as if the sums which stood over his signature had been gold coin in a solvent bank.
John George Nicolay
#14. Pain is the coin they use now in all their transactions. Nothing else teaches them, nothing else will satisfy them.
Robin Hobb
#15. People simplify 'Apollonian' into 'mild', and 'calm', and 'cool'. But 'Apollonian' and 'Dionysian' are two sides of one coin
a nun kneeling in her cell, holding perfectly still, can be in ecstacy more frenzied than any priestess of Pan Priapus celebrating the vernal equinox.
Robert A. Heinlein
#16. Comedy and drama are different sides of the same coin. And the thing about comedy and drama is about likability. It's about character first. It's about story. And for me, it's about empathy, and I think the realer someone is, the further you can go either way with them.
Ricky Gervais
#17. Trust remains the coin of the realm in politics. A President who is trusted, by the people, by the congress, by the press, by foreign countries, is a President who can get a lot of good things done.
David Gergen
#18. When the machine had been fastened with a wire to the track, so that it could not start until released by the operator, and the motor had been run to make sure that it was in condition, we tossed a coin to decide who should have the first trial. Wilbur won.
Orville Wright
#19. Wall Street sometimes gets confused between risk and uncertainty, and you can profit handsomely from that confusion. The low-risk, high-uncertainty [situation] gives us our most sought after coin-toss odds. Heads, I win; tails, I don't lose much.
Mohnish Pabrai
#20. It is not funny that a man should be killed, but it is sometimes funny that he should be killed for so little, and that his death should be the coin of what we call civilization.
Raymond Chandler
#21. Two faces of the same coin. And I am the metal in between.
Orson Scott Card
#22. You can't see both sides of one coin at once, can you, child? The god of money always keeps a secret.
The god of money was also the god of spies.
Marie Rutkoski
#23. Happiness and sorrow are two sides of the same coin called life. Whatever befalls you, walk on unattached.
Sanchita Pandey
#24. Both sadness and anger are the two sides of same coin. Sadness is supressed anger, while anger is expressed sadness. Both sadness and anger are state of unhappiness, which are often because lack of self-love.
Vishwas Chavan
#25. Nothing is truly free. Every gift has a price, paid for by someone in coin, favors, expectations or goods.
Things get a little sticky when Life shows up wanting to collect on something you thought was free.
Always ask the price.
Jaime Buckley
#26. When we save, everybody in the household is just suffering. By having the coin in a visible way, when you scratch, you can say the person that is in charge of the making money for the family is doing the right thing.
Dan Ariely
#27. We are seeing the birth of a new perspective of the world, where ecology and economics are two sides of the same coin.
Leif Johansson
#28. A word is worth one coin, silence is worth two
Chaim Potok
#29. The troubling truth is that rewards and punishments are not opposites at all; they are two sides of the same coin. And it is a coin that does not buy very much.
Alfie Kohn
#30. In other words, even though one coin certainly isn't sufficient to make a man rich, a man only becomes rich by adding one coin after another.
Gretchen Rubin
#31. The Claw smiled. You have begun to learn, Paran. Never be too easy with the knowledge you possess. Words are like coin - it pays to hoard.
Steven Erikson
#32. Dodger grabbed the tiny coin. "Can read "beer", "gin" and "ale". No sense in filling your head with stuff you don't need, that's what I always say.
Terry Pratchett
#33. Victim" and "Volunteer" can often be the two sides of the same coin.
Jose N. Harris
#34. But these aren't just stories," she'd said. "They're whole kingdoms. They're worlds. They're perspectives and opinions you can't offer, from lives you haven't lived. They're more valuable than any gold coin, and more important than any state luncheon. I should hope you, as king, would know that!
Melissa De La Cruz
#35. Only very few people are born with awareness. Those are the people who die in awareness. If the death was conscious, then the birth will be conscious, because the death is the one side and the birth is the other side of the same coin.
Rajneesh
#36. A truth and its opposite are flip sides of the same coin.
Gayle Forman
#37. You see, the problem with being a bully is that on the flipside of that particular coin, you'll find the imprint of a coward.
Jeffrey Archer
#38. [Roger] Vadim became famous worldwide as a director, and I as an actress, but the other side of the coin was terrible. My life was totally turned upside down. I was followed, spied upon, adored, insulted. My private life became public.
Brigitte Bardot
#39. That's when I tossed a coin. If it came up heads, I'd take on Sakamochi and...
If the coin came up tails, I decided I'd take part in the game.
Koushun Takami
#40. Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.
Maya Angelou
#41. There are three sides to every coin (Heads, Tails, and The Edge). Your ability to understand contrasting points of view and your ability to glean what information you believe to be valuable from each side is a crucial skill.
Robert Kiyosaki
#42. Temptation and testing (or a trial) are two sides of the same coin. Satan uses an occasion or a person to tempt us to fall; God uses the same to try us and make us stronger.
Ruth Graham
#43. We tend to look only on one side of God's blessing, without noticing the other side of the coin
Sunday Adelaja
#44. Then too there was the irrepressible librarian in her who could not stand by and watch a human being in distress without leaping to her aid, whether that person could not find the coin slot on the copier or was on the brink of domestic destruction.
Jennifer Tseng
#45. It's a double-headed coin, because technology is a convenience but it's stifled our attention spans. At one time, albums had songs that were like ten minutes long, with different variations and chord progressions and changes.
Cee Lo Green
#46. It is an advantage to all narrow wisdom and narrow morals that their maxims have a plausible air; and, on a cursory view, appear equal to first principles. They are light and portable. They are as current as copper coin; and about as valuable.
Edmund Burke
#47. I was actually the manager of the games department of an amusement park when I was at college, so I understood the coin-op side of the games business very well.
Nolan Bushnell
#48. I find it shocking that anybody can be brought down in D.C. for gossip, ostensibly. I thought that was the coin of the realm there. That's like getting hit with lightning on a cloudless day.
Dennis Miller
#49. If we have drifted 10 heads above the zero line in our coin flip experiment, what is the probability of getting 10 tails in a row to return us to zero? About 1 in 1,000.
Donald G. Reinertsen
#50. Fear is an underrated emotion. And that's why I think it's very dangerous to try and cosset children from it. A healthy scare is as good as as a healthy laugh. In fact, they're two sides of the same coin. There is a desire to shield from the knocks and bumps of reality.
Mark Gatiss
#51. Norm MacDonald is here - one of the funniest people ever. Norm's got a giant gambling problem. He's dropped more coin in a casino than Michael J. Fox at a parking meter.
Greg Giraldo
#52. In life's work, bliss and sacrifice are two sides of the same coin, complementary opposites.
Laurence Boldt
#53. Our relationship with God and relationship with others are two sides of the same coin.
Peter Scazzero
#54. I think that the religious and the military right wings are just two sides of the same coin if somebody uses God and religion and somebody uses country and security.
Bassem Youssef
#55. The substitution of meaning accounts for the grasping of misers as well as the extravagance of spendthrifts. Karl Marx well understood this peculiar transformation of flesh into coin.
Lewis H. Lapham
#56. When someone has the wit to coin a useful phrase, it ought to be acclaimed and broadcast or it will perish.
Jack Smith
#57. I'm a guy who has problems with moderation. All or nothing. Binge and purge. Kill or be killed. Gray is not a color I wear well. I should be dead. I know that. I should not be successful. I know that too. My daily existence is a toss of the coin - one side, fear, the other side, gratitude.
Kurt Sutter
#58. Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos
#59. I want to go," I break in. "I'm no help to the rebels here." "And if you're killed?" asks Coin. "Make sure you get some footage.
Suzanne Collins
#60. Elimination of child labour and access to education are like two sides of one coin. One cannot be achieved without the other.
Kailash Satyarthi
#61. It is as bad to clip conscience as to clip coin; it is as bad to give a counterfeit statement as a counterfeit bill.
Edwin Hubbel Chapin
#62. Tell me, when you give alms do you look into the eyes of the man or woman to whom you give alms? ... And when you give alms, do you touch the hand of the one to whom you give alms, or do you toss the coin?
Pope Francis
#63. This relentless bonhomie of yours, I knew it would wear out in the end. It is a coin that has changed hands so often. And now the small silver is worn out and we see the base metal.
Hilary Mantel
#64. The first money memory that many of us have as children is finding a coin on the street, in the park, or while walking to school. Then when we picked up the penny or nickel and showed it to our mother or father, and they immediately told us to go wash our hands saying, That is dirty!
Celso Cukierkorn
#65. Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
Carl Sandburg
#66. Like many things, power is like the two sides of a coin.
Pearl Zhu
#67. Life is a value to be bought and thinking is the only coin noble enough to buy it.
Ayn Rand
#68. NOMISMA, MEANING 'COIN', was used by both Greeks and Romans. Our own word 'money' derives, via the French monnaie, from the Latin moneta, meaning the mint, where coins are struck. (In early Rome the mint was situated on the Capitoline Hill in the temple of Juno Moneta.)
Norman Davies
#69. On the other side of that coin, and far outweighing it, is the fact that I've been able to use genre of Fantasy/Horror and express my opinion, talk a little about society, do a little bit of satire and that's been great, man. A lot of people don't have that platform.
George A. Romero
#70. Melancholy and utopia are heads and tails of the same coin.
Gunter Grass
#71. Protector and destroyer were two sides of the same coin. Who knew which one would come out in a toss-up?
Mina Khan
#72. I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it.
Sara Sheridan
#73. In the Old Way, women might decorate themselves with ornaments bought with coin, but a warrior wore only the jewelry he took off the corpses of enemies slain by his own hand. Paying the iron price, it was called.
George R R Martin
#74. What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!
Alex Jones
#75. Is this how you think we should fight, Baru Fisher? With coin and open roads?" "No war has ever been won by slaughtering the enemy wholesale.
Seth Dickinson
#76. The flip side of the coin was that even good programmers and language designers tended to do terrible extensions when they were in the heat of programming, because design is something that is best done slowly and carefully.
Alan Kay
#77. I think my gap adds character. A while ago, on the street, a guy yelled, 'You could stick a gold through your front teeth!' Which meant I could put a £1 coin between them. But you can't. I've tried! Fifty-pence coins and 2-pence coins, yes. But not a pound.
Georgia May Jagger
#78. Life is a mystery. But listen. Why did I turn up in your life in the first place? Do you believe in fate? Was your fate controlled by me, or was being controlled by me your fate? But in the end, aren't they just two sides of the same coin?
Fuminori Nakamura
#79. It is the relationship between the physical environment and the environed organism, between physiography and ontography (to coin a term), that constitutes the essential principles of geography today.
William Morris Davis
#80. We're two sides of the same tragic coin. It's like we were tied together before we even met.
Robyn Schneider
#81. There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
E.L. James
#82. I want her face to feel at home on an ancient coin, he said. I want her eyes to harm me.
Miriam Toews
#83. I've seldom minded other people's opinions, but the other side of that coin is that I've seldom been interested by them, um their opinions about me I mean.
Tom Stoppard
#84. Bitcoin is not an actual physical coin, and if computers are shut down, you can't buy or sell them. That's why nothing will ever replace gold and silver coins themselves, and all investors should have them at home or in a safe deposit box.
Mark Skousen
#85. But Jesus always leaves the ninety-nine to chase after the one. He always searches for the one lost coin.
Heidi Baker
#86. Violence and sex were two sides of the same coin, were they not?
Sarah MacLean
#87. There is a lump of desolation beneath the bony dip at my throat. It is no bigger than a coin, this spot, a peculiarly small place to hold such a feeling. I try to shove it to some deeper region, but there it sticks, a fragile skin-thickness from the outside world.
Franny Billingsley
#88. Truth always prevails. Both divine and devil are two sides of the same coin. Rather, devil is in the divine and divine is in the devil. It is for us to make a conscious choice, whether we want to be devil or divine. Let us choose good over evil.
Vishwas Chavan
#89. For just a little while, in all our lives, we're granted brief glimpses at the way things really operate. In those times, we learn the hardest lessons. To coin a few phrases, there are none so blind as those who will not see ... and sometimes, the sweetest kittens have the sharpest claws.
Edward Morris
#90. Your husband this morning! Mine tonight! What do you take him for?'
'A man' smiled Cynthia. 'And therefore, if you won't let me call him changeable, I'll coin a word and call him consolable.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#91. There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.
Ed Koch
#92. It's always fifty-fifty, Pete. Like tossing a coin. Either I'm wrong, or I'm right, either you bring us back, or you don't, either Deputy Chiefs are what they say they are, or they're not. Always fifty-fifty. One thing or the other is always true.
Lee Child
#93. Creativity and freedom are two sides of the same coin. I like the best of both worlds.
David Allen
#94. Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for the trickster and catch him at the first attempt, but beware of an honest man. (said by the author to be a Somali saying)
Louis L'Amour
#95. The sun was a molten coin burning a circle in the low-hanging overcast, surrounded by a fairy-ring of moisture.
Stephen King
#96. Julius rose to his feet. The towel dropped, showering cut brown hair over Monna Alessandra's elegant tiles. His hair, finely tailored, clung to a thick-boned face with slanting eyes and a blunt profile which would have looked well on a coin. Tobie, who had almost no hair, gazed at him sadly.
Dorothy Dunnett
#98. Washington society has always demanded less and given more than any society in this country
demanded less of applause, deference,etiquette, and has accepted as current coin quick wit, appreciative tact, and a talent for talking.
M. E. W. Sherwood
#99. It's sort of good to see your vocation as a daily task and have fairly modest expectations for financial or reward in other coin - glory, love, whatever.
John Updike
#100. Editing yourself is like an irksome coin toss. You've got to strip yourself of super ego and operate from the id. Maybe I've got my Freud mixed up. It's just hard to trade a beauty shot for the performance with truth and a brightly lit zit.
Vera Farmiga
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