Nomisma Quotes

#1. 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

#2. A fault denied is twice committed.

A.C. Grayling

#3. There is no general doctrine which is not capable of eating out our morality if unchecked by the deep-seated habit of direct fellow-feeling with individual fellow-men.

George Eliot

#4. Elementary propositions consist of names.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

#5. For the first time in human evolution, the individual life is long enough, and the cultural transformation swift enough, that the individual mind is now a constituent player in the global transformation of human culture.

William Irwin Thompson

#6. Vegas is great, isn't it, man? This is the greatest place on Earth. Lookit; you have everything you could want; adult movies ... this is a nice neighborhood!

Triple H

#7. But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him, and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

Ryu Murakami

#8. It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

Steve Carlton

#9. You gotta learn to make lemonade out of lemons.

Christopher Anderson

#10. What I loved about the acting class was that you got to think all day long about a person that wasn't you, and figure out why they were sad and what they wanted, what they dreamed.

Beth Henley

#11. Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Hosea Ballou

#12. When it comes to love, everyone wants to receive it, but at the end of the day, you don't get to receive it until you start to give it. That goes for everything. What you give is what you receive. If you want the drug, you have to give the drug.

Ashton Kutcher