Coins Quotes - Page 20

• Climate change and global poverty are two sides of the same coin. Both challenges must be addressed together. If we fail on one, we will also fail on the other.

  Nicholas Stern

  Two Sides, Challenges, Together

  16 Copy quote

• With every step of the recent traveler our inheritance of the wonderful is diminished. Those beautiful pictured notes of the possible are redeemed at a ruinous discount in the hard coin of the actual.

  James Russell Lowell

  Beautiful, Travel, Inheritance

  James Russell Lowell (1864). “Fireside Travels”, p.172

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Learning, like money, may be of so base a coin as to be utterly void of use.

  William Shenstone

  Learning, Use, May

  William Shenstone (1768). “The Works, in Verse and Prose, of William Shenstone, Esq: In Two Volumes. With Decorations”, p.237

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• The volumes of antiquity, like medals, may very well serve to amuse the curious, but the works of the moderns, like the current coin of a kingdom, are much better for immediate use.

  Oliver Goldsmith

  May, Kingdoms, Use

  Oliver Goldsmith, Henry George Bohn (1848). “Works: With a Life and Notes”, p.218

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Grief does not end and love does not die and nothing fills its graven place. With grace, pain is transmuted into the gold of wisdom and compassion and the lesser coin of muted sadness and resignation; but something leaden of it remains, to become the kernel arond which more pain accretes (a black pearl): one pain becomes every other pain ... unless one strips away, one by one, the layers of pain to get to the heart of the pain - and this causes more pain, pain so intense as to feel like evisceration.

  Barbara Grizzuti Harrison

  Pain, Grief, Heart

  4 Copy quote

• Conventions are like coins, an easy way of dealing with the commerce of relations.

  Freya Stark

  Way, Easy, Conventions

  Freya Stark (1964). “The Journey's Echo: Selections”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In the interchange of thought use no coin but gold and silver.

  Joseph Joubert

  Gold, Use, Silver

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Government has become a machine that runs only when gold coins are inserted.

  Patricia Schroeder

  Running, Government, Gold

  9 Copy quote

• Money never remains just coins and pieces of paper. Money can be translated into the beauty of living, a support in misfortune, an education, or future security.

  Sylvia Porter

  Motivation, Support, Pieces

  Sylvia Porter (1976). “Money”

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Money in the hand is real - coins and bills. The rest I don't believe in, and I don't think I ever did, really. What's a check, after all, but a promise - mine, the bank's. Me, I know, but the bank?

  Joanne Greenberg

  Money, Real, Believe

  4 Copy quote

• I've been doing magic since I was five years old, and when I was trying to get acting gigs, I found I could make a good living at it. It's great to kind of shake the cobwebs off and get the feeling of a live audience again. I love close-up magic, the card stuff, the coin stuff, the really up-close David Blaine stuff.

  Steve Valentine

  Years, Feelings, Magic

  4 Copy quote

• Wide, wide world, but as narrow as the coins in your hand.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Hands, World, Earth

  Kamala Markandaya (1954). “Nectar in a Sieve: A Novel”

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• Sculpture may be almost anything: a monument, a statue, an old coin, a bas-relief, a portrait bust, a lifelong struggle against heavy odds.

  Malvina Hoffman

  Art, Struggle, Odds

  Malvina Hoffman (1939). “Sculpture inside and out”

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Your heart-as you call it-and hers are alike, after all: they are like mine, like everyone's. They resemble nothing so much as those meters you will find on gas-pipes: they only perk up and start pumping when you drop coins in.

  Sarah Waters

  Heart, Meter, Perks

  Sarah Waters (2002). “Fingersmith”, p.140, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Calumny is like counterfeit money; many people who would not coin it circulate it without qualms.

  Diane de Poitiers

  Calumny Is, People, Qualms

  14 Copy quote

• Success and failure are two edges of the same blade, two sides of the same coin. To fear one is to forever deny the possibility of the other.

  Michelle Sagara

  Two Sides, Forever, Success And Failure

  Michelle Sagara (2016). “Cast in Courtlight”, p.217, MIRA

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• I know only one thing. when i sleep, i know no fear, no, trouble no bliss. blessing on him who invented sleep. the common coin that purchases all things, the balance that levels shepherd and king, fool and wise man. there is only one bad thing about sound sleep. They say it closely resembles death.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Wise, Kings, Sleep

  22 Copy quote

• How do you get all those coins?" asked Mort. IN PAIRS.

  Terry Pratchett

  Pairs

  "Mort". Book by Terry Pratchett, 1987.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hadrian shook his head and sighed. “Why do you have to make everything so difficult? They’re probably not bad people—just poor. You know, taking what they need to buy a loaf of bread to feed their family. Can you begrudge them that? Winter is coming and times are hard.” He nodded his head in the direction of the thieves. “Right?” “I ain’t got no family,” flat-nose replied. “I spend most of my coin on drink.” “You’re not helping,” Hadrian said.

  Michael J. Sullivan

  Winter, People, Hadrian

  Michael J. Sullivan (2014). “Hollow World”, p.368, Riyria Enterprises

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• So one must be resigned to being a clock that measures the passage of time, now out of order, now repaired, and whose mechanism generates despair and love as soon as its maker sets it going? Are we to grow used to the idea that every man relives ancient torments, which are all the more profound because they grow comic with repetition? That human existence should repeat itself, well and good, but that it should repeat itself like a hackneyed tune, or a record a drunkard keeps playing as he feeds coins into the jukebox.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Love, Men, Order

  10 Copy quote

• We two remake our world by naming it / Together, knowing what words mean for us / And for the other for whom current coin / Is cold speech - but we say, the tree, the pool, / And see the fire in the air, the sun, our sun, / Anybody's sun, the world's sun, but here, now / Particularly our sun.

  A. S. Byatt

  Mean, Knowing, Fire

  A S Byatt (2012). “Possession: A Romance”, p.114, Random House

  14 Copy quote

  Show source

• 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

  Two Sides, Perspective, Society

  44 Copy quote

• In real life these women experienced different sides of the same sexism coin. People who didn't like Hillary called her a ballbuster. People who didn't like Sarah called her Caribou Barbie. People attempted to marginalize these women based on their gender.

  Tina Fey

  Real, People, Barbie

  "Tina Fey and Amy Poehler: sisters in comedy rip into the boys' club" by Ryan Gilbey, www.theguardian.com. December 18, 2015.

  10 Copy quote

  Show source

• Taking LSD was a profound experience, one of the most important things in my life. LSD shows you that there’s another side to the coin, and you can’t remember it when it wears off, but you know it. It reinforced my sense of what was important—creating great things instead of making money, putting things back into the stream of history and of human consciousness as much as I could.

  Steve Jobs

  Creating, Profound, Important

  36 Copy quote

• Message and policy are very much a part, you know, two parts of the same coin.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Two, Messages, Policy

  The New York Times Interview, www.scoop.co.nz. August 23, 2005.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source