Sidestep Quotes

#1. Writing in other voices is almost Japanese in the sense that there's a certain formality there which allows me to sidestep the embarrassment of directly expressing to complete strangers the most intimate details of my life.

Suzanne Vega

#2. Who wins at the end of the day? The self-satisfied people who heatedly debate some obscure details? Or the people who sidestep the entire debate and get started?

Ramit Sethi

#3. How gratifying it is to amuse. How easy it gets to toss off a witticism to ease any awkwardness, to sidestep any solemnity. When you amuse, it even seems, for the briefest possible moment that you are who you appear to be, so clever and confident and at ease.

Caroline Kettlewell

#4. I know how easy it is for one to stay well within moral, ethical, and legal bounds through the skillful use of words - and to thereby spin, sidestep, circumvent, or bend a truth completely out of shape. To that extent, we are all liars on numerous occasions.

Sidney Poitier

#5. Love isn't some unavoidable destiny, some fate you can't sidestep - It's a choice you make - and keep making - every day of your life.

Julie Johnson

#6. Each album we [The Replacements] made was the one we were capable of making and wanted to make at the time. Each one was a progression or, depending on your opinion, a sidestep or tumble forward. I don't know what.

Paul Westerberg

#7. I didn't want to fall into the trap of competing with all these other great guitar players. I just want to sidestep the whole thing and get out of the race.

Kirk Hammett

#8. One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is.

Don Richard Riso

#9. We're not depressed; we're on strike. For those who refuse to manage themselves, "depression" is not a state but a passage, a bowing out, a sidestep towards a political disaffiliation.

The Invisible Committee

#10. Don't sidestep suffering. You have to go through it to get where you're going.

Katherine Anne Porter

#11. I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet
within the chambers of a quivering heart.

Terry Tempest Williams

#12. into his path, causing him to sidestep. He apologised for the near collision. As he carried on his way, the girl scurried off to her mother setting up a stall for

Andrew Butcher

#13. A moment of reserve. "That was it? The whole story?"
"Yes. God, you're right. That was pants."
I sidestep another aggressive couscous vendor. "Pants?"
"Rubbish. Crap. Shite."
Pants. Oh heavens, that's cute.

Stephanie Perkins

#14. If you cannot recognize the problem, there is no way that I could explain it to you."
He laughed, damn the man. "My goodness," he said, "that was an expert sidestep.

Julia Quinn

#15. I believe we should all know each other, we human carriers of so many pleasurable differences. To not know is to doubt, to shrink from, sidestep or destroy.

Gwendolyn Brooks

#16. I'm like a fish in a pool, turning quickly to avoid what challenges it. My only decision is whether to go right or left to sidestep confrontation.

Doug Cooper

#17. The measure of human character is our reaction to dark times. No one can sidestep darkness. It is the throne upon which light sits. If a soul has not known sadness and struggle, there is no chance of overcoming, no cherishing the dawn.

David Wolpe

#18. So it's the kind of business where you can't wait to get up in the morning and read the papers, or listen to what's on the news, and you know, how the world's going to change.

Sanford I. Weill

#19. The UNIA teaches our race self-help and self-reliance ... in all those things that contribute to human happiness and well-being.

Marcus Garvey

#20. -And I'm sorry too.
-For what?
-For calling you an asshole doctor.
-That's okay.
-Even though, technically, that is what you are.

Astrid Amara

#21. The sun of truth rises in the human being and illuminates his world when he lifts his mind from the darkness of ignorance and selfishness into the light of wisdom and altruism

Samael Aun Weor

#22. So, are you just going to stand there looking like a piece of furniture?

Brenna Yovanoff

#23. Let me here call attention to one of the most universally popular mistakes that have to do with photography - that of classing supposedly excellent work as professional, and using the term amateur to convey the idea of immature productions and to excuse atrociously poor photographs.

Alfred Stieglitz

#24. Being on the outside of something, watching someone make a risky decision, it's so easy to judge someone for that. But when you're in it, it's impossible to see it.

Kathryn Hahn

#25. The sexiest thing in the world is to be totally naked with your wedding band on.

Debra Winger

#26. Blow me, Grim Reaper!

J.R. Ward

#27. Hate is too strong of an emotion to waste on someone you don't like

Sixto Rodriguez

#28. Reading is the Magic key,
To take you where you want to be.

Alice Joyce Davidson