Top 100 Quotes About Sides
#1. In fact, the legal system is in part responsible for their very size and growth. And too often when the individual finds himself in conflict with these forces, the legal system sides with the giant institution, not the small businessman or private citizen.
Edward Kennedy
#2. The sound of the wind against the sides of the house is exactly like the sound of wolf fur against cardboard.
Jennifer Egan
#3. Over the years, over the history of our country, liberals have stood on many of the right sides of the issues.
George Clooney
#4. According to the Hindus, the Muslims were to blame. The fact is, both sides killed. Both shot and stabbed and speared and clubbed. Both tortured. Both raped.
Khushwant Singh
#5. When you fall in love, you disregard logic. Because logic and love are two sides of the same coin. Together, they make a beautiful sort of currency, but you can never look them both in the face at the same time. I like that. "Hey,
C.M. Stunich
#6. There are three sides to every question-where a divorce is involved.
Elbert Hubbard
#7. We long to connect, all of us. We long to be noticed, to be cared for, to matter. Generosity is the invisible salve on our wound of loneliness, one that benefits both sides, over and over again.
Seth Godin
#8. I believe one should never invalidate another, even if you don't agree. No one is ever 100% right or 100% wrong. There is always some measure of truth on both sides. - L. R. W. Lee
L.R.W. Lee
#9. So let everyone take sides. Team Nick, Team Amy. Turn it into even more of a game: Sell some fucking T-shirts.
Gillian Flynn
#10. The faithfulness principle (of the conservative) and the flexibility principle (of the liberal) are two sides of the same coin. They are both necessary if Christians are to follow their instructions and remain simultaneously "in" the world but not "of" it.
Os Guinness
#11. If every person is born with two sides, one good, one bad, is it possible that each side could love a different heart?
Jillian Peery
#12. I don't know what the strategy will be in Washington. The reality is, is, I have got to go down there, as my mentor, as people like Bill Bradley have told me to do, get to know your colleagues on both sides of the aisle, recognize that they, too, beat with the same heart and the same type of blood.
Cory Booker
#13. Around them, late afternoon sun glistened off waves that slapped against the sides of the deck. Seabirds dipped in and out of the deep blue water. It would have been a perfect, tranquil scene except for the pounding of hammers and the whir of a saw.
Miranda Liasson
#14. Reality has changed, and we changed with it. However, I never changed sides. I have always been on the side of justice, democracy and social equality.
Dilma Rousseff
#15. The winner in a political contest is determined by the number and the effectiveness of the activists on the respective sides.
Morton Blackwell
#16. With a heavy heart I left the house and walked through the spotted blaze of the sun to my car. Two other cars were parked on both sides of it, and I had some trouble squeezing out.
Vladimir Nabokov
#17. Ileni."
She didn't stop.
"You could stay."
Almost, he managed to keep his voice expressionless. She stopped walking. He sat poised and powerful, both hands clenched at his sides.
"No," she said.
Leah Cypess
#18. Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.
Brooks Atkinson
#19. As long as man is alive, he will always deem himself to be the light of the world, and consider his enemies as the darkness. And they will be thinking like that on both sides of the front.
Dmitry Glukhovsky
#20. Everyone is a criminal! We are beset on all sides by antirevolutionary forces. Naturally, then, humans fall into three categories: the criminal, the not-yet-criminal, and the not-yet-caught.
Catherynne M Valente
#21. But how is the artist to protect himself against the corruption of the age which besets him on all sides?
Friedrich Schiller
#22. I think if you want to get to know me, you should come and see a show. A person might get to see more sides of me.
Nina Arianda
#23. The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.
Dalai Lama
#24. The vast majority of chatter surrounding parenthood is junk. All of these seemingly divisive decisions - like pain meds in labor, newborn sleep arrangements, and scheduling - are often phrased as moral imperatives from both sides. Screw that. Take care of your kid. Do what works.
J.J. Keith
#25. Rather, both sides fought as soldiers fought in most wars - for survival, and to protect the men who had become extended family.
Stanley Weintraub
#26. What is considered [True] Knowledge? There should be solution from all sides, there should be no contradiction. It is a non-contradicting principle when a spoken sentence will be the same even after fifty years; there will be no contradictions.
Dada Bhagwan
#27. There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.
Stanislaw Jerzy Lec
#28. Leadership has a harder job to do than just choose sides. It must bring sides together.
Jesse Jackson
#29. Often care of the soul means not taking sides when there is a conflict at a deep level. It may be necessary to stretch the heart wide enough to embrace contradiction and paradox.
Thomas Moore
#30. He hidden smiles, the stolen glances, we had always loved each other from opposite sides of our own storms. Only the two fronts had collided, one force.
Shey Stahl
#31. Each of the professions means a prejudice. The necessity for a career forces every one to take sides. We live in the age of the overworked, and the under-educated; the age in which people are so industrious that they become absolutely stupid.
Oscar Wilde
#32. Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall take flack from both sides.- Unofficial UN Motto
Robert Asprin
#33. From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.
Brad Thor
#34. When you live on a round planet, there's no choosing sides.
Wayne Dyer
#35. I grabbed the sides of my desk, as if I were about to pick it up and move it. Like a crazy person.
Cole walked over and noticed how I was grabbing my desk.
He raised an eyebrow. I think when Mrs. Stone said to take our seats, she didn't mean literally take our seats.
Brodi Ashton
#36. Manhattan's probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana's definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.
Jim Gaffigan
#37. The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place. There would be tables lying about, on their sides, naked! Not to mention flaccid dirigibles! Alexia shuddered at the very idea.
Gail Carriger
#38. I must for myself insist that when finished, that is when all the parts are in place and are working, that now it has become an object and will therefore have its boundaries as definite as the prow, the stern, the sides, and bottom bound as a boat.
John Marin
#39. I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.
Ben Whishaw
#40. He'd seen enough nature specials on the common room set to know that prey had eyes on the sides of their head, were constantly on guard, but predators' eyes were forward-facing, close together, unafraid.
V.E Schwab
#41. Hello, Captain Obvious. You two have been swiping at each other for so long, I figured it was only a matter of time before you realized that you're just two sides of the same coin.
Jessica Scott
#43. Our citizens never hesitate to take sides against one another, whether it's Democrats versus Republicans, Coke drinkers opposed to Pepsi enthusiasts or Yankee loyalists against Red Sox aficionados.
Jen Lancaster
#44. Hope and fear are two sides of the same coin ...
She didn't want to give up hope, so she was just going to have to live with the fear.
Shannon McKenna
#45. DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to reality. Choose the one that's best for you. Escape into the world of imagination.
Eugene Ionesco
#47. For years I had my hair parted down the middle in a ponytail, tucked down around the sides ... Well, I went and cut the bangs, and I've been wearing them ever since. They say it's my trademark.
Bettie Page
#48. Yoga has brought me to the part of religion I really like - the positive sides of religion, the parts we all share, rather than the things that create separation.
Christy Turlington
#49. I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides.
Elie Wiesel
#50. Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.
Thomas Jefferson
#51. Innocence was a blade of glory, yet it could blind on both sides.
Steven Erikson
#52. Backstabbing occurs when a friend agrees with you when the two of you are alone but later sides with your opponents in a social setting.
Les Parrott
#53. Madness and genius are two sides to the same coin.
John Hendy
#54. This book has been written against a background of both reckless optimism and reckless despair. It holds that Progress and Doom are two sides of the same medal; that both are articles of superstition, not of faith. It
Hannah Arendt
#55. Don't go getting all shy on me now, Lana, he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands
Abbi Glines
#56. Protagoras asserted that there are two sides to every question, exactly opposite to each other.
Diogenes
#57. The sight of her closed eyelids and parted lips was too much for his weak restraint, and he kissed her again. She put her hands on both sides of his face and started to kiss him back.
Melanie Dickerson
#58. Both sides know the last election was just the beginning of the next election. It's clear there has been no attempt to have any kind of getting along.
David Keene
#59. Hence it will not do for the Landlord to possess too fine a nature ... He must have no idiosyncracies, no particular bents or tendencies to this or that, but a general, uniform, and healthy development, such as his portly person indicates, offering himself equally on all sides to men.
Henry David Thoreau
#60. The friendship of the bad is like the shade of some precipitous bank with crumbling sides, which, falling, buries him who is beneath.
J. K. Bharavi
#61. It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.
Henry Ward Beecher
#62. When you see a crowd of people jumping up and down at a pop concert, all gloriously in the moment, I don't think you'll ever see a comedian there. They'll all be standing at the sides, looking at how it all fits together.
Steve Coogan
#63. Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
Jack Dee
#64. There are certain kinds of second-tier confrontations which the U.S. does not need to get directly involved in. However, even in the second tier of problems, our intervention as a friend to both sides is important.
Richard Holbrooke
#65. One can slide between poor and rich, the difference as slight as between paper and parchment, one voice and a choir, arms hanging by sides and a hug.
Jeannine Atkins
#66. Again, do you call those men leisured who spend many hours at the barber's simply to cut whatever grew overnight, to have a serious debate about every separate hair, to tidy up disarranged locks or to train thinning ones from the sides to lie over the forehead?
Seneca.
#68. If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.
Mohammed Daoud Khan
#69. There are always two sides to every story, Kelley. Something I learned playing Richard the Third and Macbeth: if you're playing the 'bad guy', you never really think of yourself as bad. It's just that your motives are often ... misunderstood by everyone else.
Lesley Livingston
#70. I can understand why mankind hasn't given up war. During a war you get to drive tanks through the sides of buildings and shoot foreigners - two things that are usually frowned on during peacetime.
P. J. O'Rourke
#71. The firing pattern of both mirror and canonical neurons in area F5 shows clearly that perception and action are not separated in the brain. They are simply two sides of the same coin, inextricably linked to each other. Some
Marco Iacoboni
#72. People do see me as sweet and innocent. Not to say that I am not those things. But I have other sides to me.
Janet Jackson
#73. He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
Yogi Berra
#74. Sustainable development and climate change are two sides of the same coin
Ban Ki-moon
#75. She laid a row of cushions down the center of the bed, carefully dividing it into two sides ...
I dinna know how this strategy escaped Napoleon's notice. If only he'd erect a barricade of feathers and fabric, we Highlanders wouldna have known how to get over it.
Tessa Dare
#76. The 70's hair with the long on the sides, just doesn't look good coming down the sides of the helmet.
Steve Yzerman
#77. It's well known there's always two sides, if no more.
George Eliot
#78. The health care crisis that the world is facing has two interrelated sides: access to health care attention and access to pharmaceuticals.
Ibis Sanchez-Serrano
#79. He grinned. "Hey."
"Who are you?" I snapped, jerking the sides of my robe together and tying the sash.
His eyebrows shot up. "Most people I know respond to a greeting with another greeting.
Rachel Hawthorne
#80. Art is amoral, whether we accept this or not; it does not take sides. The finest fictions are cold at heart.
John Banville
#81. Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They're a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They're a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.
Jon Evans
#82. Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.
Anna Deavere Smith
#83. My hands clench at my sides. I cannot adequately express how tickled I am to know that I wasted four years pursuing a business degree at Oregon State so I could scan and file papers while my incompetent twenty-four-year-old boss supervises.
Winter Renshaw
#84. The wisdom of bridges comes from the fact that they know the both sides, they know the both shores!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#85. Do not think that fairness to all sides means balancing yourself evenly between positions; truth is not handed out in equal portions before the start of a debate.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
#86. The refusal to take sides on great moral issues is itself a decision. It is a silent acquiescence to evil. The Tragedy of our time is that those who still believe in honesty lack fire and conviction, while those who believe in dishonesty are full of passionate conviction.
Fulton J. Sheen
#87. Throughout the lead-up to the war, CNN worked hard to air all sides of the story. We had a regular segment called Voices of Dissent in which we spent time covering antiwar protests and interviewing those who were opposed to the war with Iraq.
Jim Walton
#88. Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
Scott Bakula
#89. I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.
Ahmed Ben Bella
#90. I got 15 trumpets where other women got hips
& a upright bass for both sides of my heart
Ntozake Shange
#91. I'm pleased to have the support of working men and women throughout the state of Wisconsin. And I found in the primary I did. Now the key is to get that turnout activated. And we know we can do that. Again, the temperature here is very, very high on both sides of the aisle.
Tom Barrett
#92. Surely it must be plain that an ingenious man could speculate without end on both sides, and find analogies for all his dreams. Nor does it help me to tell me that the aspirations of mankind
Thomas Huxley
#93. Despite their difference, because of their differences, they were a perfect mismatched set. Two sides of the same tarnished penny.
Sarra Manning
#94. The atmosphere of war brutalizes everyone involved, begets a fanaticism in which the original moral factor is buried at the bottom of a heap of atrocities committed by all sides.
Howard Zinn
#95. You heard on all sides that the brightest Jewish children were turned down if the examining officers did not like the turn of their noses.
Mary Antin
#96. I respect the Governor's position to veto SB1062, especially in light of the concerns brought up over the past week. I understand the concerns of people of good faith on all sides of this issue.
Andy Tobin
#97. I think both sides [China and United States] should work hard to build a new type of relationship between big powers. The two sides should cooperate with each other for a win-win result in order to benefit people from the two countries and the world.
Xi Jinping
#98. I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.
Robbie Robertson
#99. I've learned that generosity is far easier than justice and that, in the highly distorted markets of the poor, it is all too easy to veer only toward the charitable, to have low
or no
expectations for low-income people. This does nothing but reaffirm prejudices on all sides.
Jacqueline Novogratz
#100. Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!
Patrick Swayze
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