Quotes About Coin

The chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value.

Somewhat ironically, Clarke later committed suicide as a result of a 'violent and hopeless passion for a very beautiful lady of a rank superior to his own'. To decide the method he tossed a coin: heads he would hang himself, tails he would drown. The coin landed on its side in a mud patch, so he shot himself.

Life is like a coin, pleasure and pain are the two sides, only one side is visible at time, but remember other side also waiting for its turn.

A coin in the fountain The Trevi Fountain in Rome is a popular gathering place for tourists. There is a legend that if you toss a coin into the water, you will be certain to return to Rome.

A core fundamental of human existence is wonder—and its analogue is fear. You can't have one without the other, flip sides of the coin.

For the origin of literature at Rome was closely connected with Roman overseas expansion: 'The Muse imposed herself in warlike fashion on the fierce inhabitants of Rome,' as one second-century BCE author described it. The beginning of empire and the beginning of literature were two sides of the same coin.

After marriage, husband and wife become two sides of a coin; they just can't face each other, but still they stay together.

Ah no, you desire the humblest coin, and stamped upon it the word Beauty. MONK Long past are the days when once I thought this coin would ransom the heart of a dark age.

If you see Ingrid, don't look at her. Walk the other way." I give him a two-dollar coin and he returns to the background, like he's part of an endless line of characters provided by a talent agency.

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.

Even pregnancies should be included in the games of probabilities, like tossing a coin.

we had to coin the term "stressed out" to describe this common condition of a disordered heart.

Writing and coin. She could send a message and gift to anyone, anywhere. She could watch and weave the pattern of the world. And all she had to do was earn the gifts to turn into coin was to see clearly, see first.

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.)

I think if you knew what you did, even the most thoughtless amongst you would not sanction with your praise, and encourage with your coin, the brutality that trains dancing-dogs.

I could save Cat Neely and her mother. If only Anna would give me that coin.

I brought you a feather with the spring wind in it, but since you were late...' she looked a me gravely, 'you get a coin instead.

“But so that we may not offend them, go to the sea, cast a hook, and take the first fish you catch. When you open its mouth, you will find a four-drachma coin. Take it and give it to them for My tax and yours.”

Show Me the coin used for the tax.” And they brought Him a denarius.