Heads Or Tails Quotes

• War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Travel, War, Adventure

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• Every betrayal contains a perfect moment, a coin stamped heads or tails with salvation on the other side.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Betrayal, Perfect, Coins

  Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.311, Faber & Faber

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• Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.

  David Lynch

  Intuition, Way, Life Is

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• We're deciding the fate of the multiverse with a flip of a coin. Heads or tails, doc. If that isn't a game, I don't know what is.

  E. C. Myers

  Fate, Games, Coins

  E. C. Myers (2016). “Quantum Coin”, p.74, Jabberwocky Literary Agency, Inc.

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• I have decided many a stylistic problem first by my head, then by heads or tails.

  Karl Kraus

  Style, Firsts, Problem

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• I can't make head or tail of Life. Love is a fine thing, Art is a fine thing, Nature is a fine thing; but the average human mind and spirit are confusing beyond measure. Sometimes I think that all our learning is the little learning of the maxim. To laugh at a Roman awe-stricken in a sacred grove is to laugh at something today.

  Wallace Stevens

  Love, Art, Thinking

  Wallace Stevens, Holly Stevens (1966). “Letters of Wallace Stevens”, p.86, Univ of California Press

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• Well, well, the world must turn upon its axis, And all mankind turn with it, heads or tails, And live and die, make love and pay our taxes, And as the veering winds shift, shift our sails.

  Lord Byron

  Axes, Wind, Making Love

  Lord Byron (2013). “Don Juan”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• I could tell you that when you have trouble making up your mind about something, tell yourself you'll settle it by flipping a coin. But don't go by how the coin flips; go by your emotional reaction to the coin flip. Are you happy or sad it came up heads or tails?

  David Brooks

  Graduation, Emotional, Mind

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• There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

  Jonathan Swift

  Funny, Life, Money

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• God is, or He is not." But to which side shall we incline? Reason can decide nothing here. There is an infinite chaos which separated us. A game is being played at the extremity of this infinite distance where heads or tails will turn up. What will you wager?

  Blaise Pascal

  God, Distance, Games

  Pensees no. 680 (1658). Popularly known as "Pascal's wager."

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• When you live alone you no longer know what it is to tell a story: the plausible disappears at the same time as the friends. You let events flow by too: you suddenly see people appear who speak and then go away; you plunge into stories of which you can't make head or tail: you'd make a terrible witness.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  People, Going Away, Flow

  "Nausea". Book by Jean-Paul Sartre, Diary entry of Tuesday, 30 January, 1938.

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• There was no protection, no quota system when it came to luck. It was like that moment in math when a child learns that the odds of heads or tails is always one-in-two, no matter how many times one has flipped the coin and gotten heads. Every flip, the odds are the same. Every day, you could be unlucky all over again.

  Laura Lippman

  Children, Math, Odds

  "I'd Know You Anywhere". Book by Laura Lippman, 2010.

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• Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Peace, War, Adventure

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• I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make head or tail of E=MC squared by Einstein, but I try to baffle my way through that.

  Anthony Hopkins

  Reading, Trying, Way

  Source: www.pbs.org

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