Quotes About Taking Sides

#1. I found that in such a small, polarized society, taking sides meant you were actively rejecting others, animating opposition.

Thelma Adams

#2. Technology. No! When it comes to taking sides, I am not with [those] who are open mouthed in awe at the "new holiness" of a technological

Jeffrey M Shaw

#3. One should never take sides in anything, Mr. Kelvil. Taking sides is the beginning of sincerity, and earnestness follows shortly afterwards, and the human being becomes a bore.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Objectivity allows you the luxury of not taking sides

Garrett McCoy

#5. Butters's voice turned bitter. "Them or us, choose a side?" "It's not about taking sides," Karrin said. "It's about knowing yourself. About understanding why you make the choices you do. Once you know that, you know where to walk, too.

Jim Butcher

#6. 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

#7. What we need are people who are capable [...] of not taking sides so that they can embrace the whole of reality.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#8. 80 per cent of people who care about politics and national issues fall in the 'taking sides' category.

Chetan Bhagat

#9. Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.

Jacob Bronowski

#10. Cheer the bull, or cheer the bear; cheer both, and you will be trampled and eaten.

Robert Jordan

#11. The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one.

Shannon A. Thompson

#12. When a war breaks out, everyone is on the wrong side.

Marty Rubin

#13. I don't like taking a sly picture on the side. I like the direct approach. I want to be as honest to myself and the subject as possible. And I'm depending on their humanness to come through.

Jurgen Teller

#14. Growing up is like taking down the sides of your house and letting strangers walk in.

Maureen Daly

#15. There is only one side to be on-the side of life.

Marty Rubin

#16. 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

#17. My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls ...

Woody Guthrie

#18. The game (baseball)was a custom of his clan, and it gave outlet for the homicidal and sides-taking instincts which Babbitt called "patriotism" and "love of sport.

Sinclair Lewis

#19. My businesses are usually built around challenging conventional wisdom, so I tend to gain by taking the other side. It's been very profitable and entertaining for me

Mark Cuban

#20. Do it and do it now. Err on the side of taking action

J. Willard Marriott

#21. Every side attacks you when you don't take sides.

Marty Rubin

#22. The campaign for the White House is heating up with John Kerry taking heat for throwing his Vietnam medals away, getting a $1000 haircut, and wearing a 1970s wig known as 'the Leno.' There are really two sides to this story. And America can't wait for Kerry to present both of them.

David Letterman

#23. Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

Hillary Clinton

#24. Taking pleasure in the dark side may be some sort of occupational hazard for reporters.

Calvin Trillin

#25. So you're getting squeezed at both sides. You're taking care of your mom and dad and you're still doing caregiving with your kids, which is not easy. But I think overall, there's a level of satisfaction that might be unparalleled.

Anna Quindlen

#26. There are no independent people. Even when you are standing aside, you are taking a side.

Ljupka Cvetanova

#27. I'm on the side of whatever keeps the flowers growing.

Marty Rubin

#28. She was taking two sides at once, to please everyone; she always chose peace over truth, was always eager to conform.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

#29. We live in an increasingly sophisticated world that makes it difficult to make simple comments on stuff. There are too many people on both sides of the border who are taking advantage of circumstances and the situation.

Arlo Guthrie

#30. A bridge has no allegiance to either side.

Les Coleman

#31. Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

Joss Whedon