Coin Quotes

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It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and… — Peter Matthiessen
Every moment in your life is a turning and every one a choosing. Somewhere you made a choice. All followed to this. The accounting is… — Cormac McCarthy
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. — Martin Luther King, Jr.
If you must mount the gallows, give a jest to the crowd, a coin the hangman, and make the drop with a smile on your… — Robert Jordan
All other swindlers upon earth are nothing to the self-swindlers, and with such pretences did I cheat myself. Surely a curious thing. That I should… — Charles Dickens
Days and nights passed over this despair of flesh, but one morning he awoke, looked (with calm now) at the blurred things that lay about… — Jorge Luis Borges
A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction. — Annie Proulx
On the one hand we are called to play the good Samaritan on life's roadside; but that will be only an initial act. One day… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
I got here the same way the coin did. — Cormac McCarthy
I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because theyâ€™re two… — Steve Pavlina
Above all, mine is a love story. Unlike most love stories, this one involves chance, gravity, a dash of head trauma. It began with a… — Gabrielle Zevin
You know what my mum once said?â€™ said Rosieâ€¦ â€˜She said that if a just-married couple put a coin in a jar every time they… — Neil Gaiman
Sometimes good and evil aren't so much opposites as two sides of a coin. You toss it one way and it looks good, another way… — Laurell K. Hamilton
This was always the problem with my mother and me, I suddenly realized. There were so many things we thought we agreed on, but anythign… — Sarah Dessen
The plot is so tired that even this reviewer, who in infancy was let drop by a nurse with the result that she has ever… — Dorothy Parker
Isn't it true that whatever isn't determined by our genes must be determined by our environment? What else is there? There's Nature and there's Nurture.… — Daniel Dennett
[Simone Weil's] life is almost a perfect blend of the Comic and the Terrible, which two things may be opposite sides of the same coin.… — Flannery O'Connor
Lies About Love We are all liars, because The truth of yesterday becomes a lie tomorrow, Whereas letters are fixed, and we live by the… — D. H. Lawrence
You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm… — Orson Scott Card
If the day comes when you would find me again, give that coin to any man from Braavos, and say these words to him--valar morghulis.â€… — George R. R. Martin

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