Coins Quotations | Page 2

I tend to over-analyse things. I'm not the type of person to flip a coin and let things happen.

God (in His mercy) accepts false coin.

great artists can be uncertain. Of course they are while strugggling to find solutions. Tolstoi's scripts are almost indecipherable. Emily Dickinson provided four or more alternates for every word; Beethoven wrestled with endings to the point of exhaustion; in our day Jerome Robbins and his lack of decision are a byword in the dance profession. But all of these knew very well what they did not want, and what they did not want was the current coin, the well-worn usage. What they wanted was something newly experienced, and therefore unknown and hard to attain.

Initially, we've always strongly objected to any retailer having the coins before it's been put through the monetary system. As one of my favorite bankers said, these U.S. coins aren't Beanie Babies. It's the U.S. monetary system. There are rules and procedures that have to be followed.

Difficulty is a coin the learned make use of like jugglers, to conceal the inanity of their art.

You will be out of the lives of free people everywhere. Your face will be off the coins and with that, your arrogant, undue influence. Everywhere. ... Everywhere. .. Every. ...

The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.

It was a very spasmodic courtship, conducted mainly at long distance with a great clanking of coins in dozens of phone booths.

The African is not 'Communistic' in his thinking; he is -- if I may coin an expression - 'communitary'.

Cooperation and conflict are two sides of the same coin; both arise out of man's relationship with his fellows. The larger the group, the greater the possibility of development through cooperation, and the greater the possibility of conflict.