Top 100 Sidney Quotes
#1. I think people throughout the world identify with my characters.
Sidney Sheldon
#2. It many times falls out that we deem ourselves much deceived in others because we first deceived ourselves.
Philip Sidney
#3. I come from a great family. I've seen family life and I know how wonderful, how nurturing, and how wonderful it can be.
Sidney Poitier
#4. Let my name perish,
the poetry is good poetry and the music is good music,
and beauty dieth not, and the heart that needs it will find it.
Sidney Lanier
#5. I do know that I'm responsible not for what happens, but for what I make of it.
Sidney Poitier
#6. It is easy to club people together, but there are bound to be influences of authors you've read. I grew up reading fast paced authors such as Sidney Sheldon and Jeffrey Archer, but to say I'm one of them isn't true; my style is intrinsically my own.
Ashwin Sanghi
#7. We're flimflam artists. But remember, sonny, you can't con people unless they're greedy to begin with. W. C. Fields had it right. You can't cheat an honest man.
Sidney Sheldon
#8. When the critics come around it's always too late.
Sidney Nolan
#9. Sidney Poitier and Sidney Lumet were instrumental in helping me get started as the first black composer to get name credit for movie scores.
Quincy Jones
#10. My intention was to enroll at McGill University but an unexpected series of events led me to study physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Sidney Altman
#11. The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.
Algernon Sidney
#12. We don't often look into these unpleasant details of our great struggle. We all prefer to think that every man who wore the blue or gray was a Philip Sidney at heart.
Rebecca Harding Davis
#13. Much more may a judge overweigh himself in cruelty than in clemency.
Philip Sidney
#14. Surely you've been sent from the heavens to teach us mortals what beauty is.
Sidney Sheldon
#15. Nooooooo ... favorite film, that's like asking if you have a favorite kid!
Sylvia Sidney
#17. To the disgrace of men it is seen that there are women both more wise to judge what evil is expected, and more constant to bear it when it happens.
Philip Sidney
#18. I knew what it was to be uncomfortable in a movie theater watching unfolding on the screen images of myself - not me, but black people - that were uncomfortable.
Sidney Poitier
#19. Libraries store the energy that fuels the imagination. They open up windows to the world and inspire us to explore and achieve, and contribute to improving our quality of life. Libraries change lives for the better.
Sidney Sheldon
#20. I'm most comfortable definitely when I'm on the ice. I love to play. It's something that I just love to do.
Sidney Crosby
#21. I hooked up everybody in Sidney, including one guy who was blind.
Dave Willis
#22. Sidney Crosby, our greatest player, I don't want to see Sidney Crosby in the penalty box. I don't want to see Sidney Crosby hurt. I want to see Sidney Crosby play.
Bobby Orr
#24. One ends up with a landscape one has never seen before but it is presumably the landscape you were feeling as you started the painting.
Sidney Nolan
#25. Paradoxically, we fail to disclose ourselves to other people because we want so much to be loved. Because we feel that way, we present ourselves as someone we think can be loved and accepted, and we conceal whatever would mar that image.
Sidney Jourard
#26. 'Tis hard to comprehend how one man can come to be master of many, equal to himself in right, unless it be by consent or by force.
Algernon Sidney
#27. Noam Chomsky skittles and skithers all over the political landscape to distract the reader's attention from the plain truth.
Sidney Hook
#28. It's not that hard to stay grounded. It's the way I was brought up.
Sidney Crosby
#29. When you write a movie, you have a hundred collaborators. But when you write a novel, it's yours.
Sidney Sheldon
#30. Reason! how many eyes hast thou to see evils, and how dim, nay, blind, thou art in preventing them.
Philip Sidney
#32. The Democrats need to remind people of where were, in terms of our progress, as markers against where we are, and where we've fallen, and how we've declined under Bush.
Sidney Blumenthal
#33. Liberty is too precious to be buried in books. Men should hold it up in front of them every single day of their lives and say, 'I'm free'.
Sidney Buchman
#34. If I'm remembered for having done a few good things, and if my presence here has sparked some good energies, that's plenty.
Sidney Poitier
#35. But a comedian is naked. His only weapon was his wit.
Sidney Sheldon
#36. A churlish courtesy rarely comes but either for gain or falsehood.
Philip Sidney
#37. He said, "Dance for me," and he said,
"You are too beautiful for the wind
To pick at, or the sun to burn." He said,
"I'm a poor tattered thing, but not unkind
To the sad dancer and the dancing dead.
Sidney Keyes
#38. Philosophy, most broadly viewed, is the critical survey of existence from the standpoint of value.
Sidney Hook
#39. The truly great man is as apt to forgive as his power is able to revenge.
Philip Sidney
#40. There have been many most excellent poets that have never versified, and now swarm many versifiers that need never answer to the name of poets.
Philip Sidney
#41. It's absolutely crucial for the Democrats to have a sense of their history, of who they are, in order to be able to project their values and stand up for them.
Sidney Blumenthal
#42. The next time anyone asks you "What is Bertrand Russell's philosophy?" the correct answer is "What year, please?"
Sidney Hook
#43. Clinton was very early on aware of the problem of international terrorism.
Sidney Blumenthal
#44. Our fellow Negro citizens could be summed up in something Tessie said after watching Sidney Poitier's performance in To Sir with Love, which opened a month before the riots. She said, You see, they can speak perfectly normal if they want.
Jeffrey Eugenides
#45. After I consumed Frost in his entirety, my days of exploration began. I read The Diving Comedy while leafing through E. E. Cummings. I read Sidney and Milton and Shelley, piecing together my own aesthetics, my own defence of poetry. I felt alone and religious and desperately sad.
Spencer Gordon
#46. Sidney Poitier, who is class personified, said: 'Lou, you're a leading man because you're a good actor.' Brought tears to my eyes.
Lou Diamond Phillips
#48. But then, he continued, the idea of duality was also at the heart of Christianity. You had to be both a man and a Christian, and if there was ever a conflict between the two then it was his duty as a priest to put his acquired identity, as a man of faith, above his own essential nature. Sidney
James Runcie
#49. My father was a tomato farmer. There is the phrase that says he or she worked their fingers to the bone, well, that's my dad. And he was a very good man.
Sidney Poitier
#50. All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.
Sidney Lumet
#51. In contrast to totalitarianism, democracy can face and live with the truth about itself.
Sidney Hook
#53. The foolish think the Eagle weak, and easy to bring to heel. The Eagle's wings are silken, but its claws are made of steel.
Sidney Sheldon
#56. The trailblazers are my role models in this industry: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, and Billy Dee Williams. I keep their pictures in my trailer and try to measure to their standards every time I act.
Brian J. White
#57. Whatever comes out of despair cannot bear the title of valor, which should be lifted up to such a height that holding all things under itself, it should be able to maintain its greatness, even in the midst of miseries.
Philip Sidney
#59. Sing me no songs of daylight,
For the sun is the enemy of lovers
Sing instead of shadows and darkness,
And memories of midnight
Sidney Sheldon
#60. I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game.
I want to add to that.
Sidney Crosby
#61. I always wanted to be the best and to get the most out of myself.
Sidney Crosby
#62. Each would treasure going to hell if it would keep the other safe!
Sidney St. James
#63. I heard Sidney Bechet play a Duke Ellington piece and fell in love with the soprano saxophone.
Steve Lacy
#64. Approved valor is made precious by natural courtesy.
Philip Sidney
#65. If you would seek to find yourself
look not in the mirror
for there is but a shadow there'
A stranger ...
SILENIUS, ODES TO TRUTH
Sidney Sheldon
#66. The nature of the work is to prepare for a good accident .
Sidney Lumet
#67. At the same time, Clinton was doing a lot things right, like the economy.
Sidney Blumenthal
#68. Abraham Lincoln because he was a man filled with great compassion who believed that all men are created free and equal, and was not afraid to stand on that platform. The way Lincoln lived his life has served me well in mine.
Sidney Sheldon
#69. Cockney girl who was already beneath his tastes. He quit
Sidney Sheldon
#71. My dad introduced me to the game, gave me a stick. Since then I've had a passion for it.
Sidney Crosby
#72. Do you always throw your money away like this?"
"Only when I'm in love,
Sidney Sheldon
#73. A fair woman shall not only command without authority but persuade without speaking.
Philip Sidney
#74. Men are almost always cruel in their neighbors' faults; and make others' overthrow the badge of their own ill-masked virtue.
Philip Sidney
#75. But I cannot bring myself to believe that I was intended for a musician, because it seems so small a business in comparison with other things which, it seems to me, I might do. Question here: 'What is the province of music in the economy of the world?'
Sidney Lanier
#77. I want to be the best, so whatever comes with that, I'll have to accept.
Sidney Crosby
#78. Unlawful desires are punished after the effect of enjoying; but impossible desires are punished in the desire itself.
Philip Sidney
#79. The common Notions of Liberty are not from School Divines, but from Nature.
Algernon Sidney
#80. The poet, he nothing affirmeth, and therefore never lieth.
Philip Sidney
#81. The impact of the black audience is expressing itself. They look to films to be more expressive of their needs, their lives. Hollywood has gotten that message - finally.
Sidney Poitier
#82. That which is not just, is not Law; and that which is not Law, ought not to be obeyed.
Algernon Sidney
#84. It didn't feel like it was anything too major, but if you had to look at one hit that would be it.
Sidney Crosby
#85. The tip no jewel needs to wear:
The tip is jewel of the ear.
Philip Sidney
#87. So I'm OK with myself, with history, my work, who I am and who I was.
Sidney Poitier
#88. God cannot take sides; for He is in all of us. We are all a part of Him, and when we try to destroy Him, we destroy ourselves.
Sidney Sheldon
#89. I think the way I want to think. I live the way I want to live.
Sidney Poitier
#90. For our immediate family and relatives, Canada was a land of opportunity.
Sidney Altman
#91. Every film by Will Smith, Harry Belafonte, Sidney Poitier, Lena Horne, Ruby Dee, Don Cheadle will have great acting and carry good messages in the film. The films starring those actors are the films I tell young people to watch for good acting and to view for quality movies.
Brian J. White
#92. Death is the number two fear that people have and public speaking is the first!
Sidney Sheldon
#93. It is the nature of the strong heart, that like the palm tree it strives ever upwards when it is most burdened.
Philip Sidney
#94. Uncertainty is as good a way as any to kill a story.
Sidney Zion
#95. It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.
Sidney Crosby
#96. Courage ought to be guided by skill, and skill armed by courage. Neither should hardiness darken wit, nor wit cool hardiness. Be valiant as men despising death, but confident as unwonted to be overcome.
Philip Sidney
#97. The mystique associated with the bomb, the role that scientists played in it, and its general importance could not fail to impress even a six-year old.
Sidney Altman
#98. Nevertheless, as is a frequent occurrence in science, a general hypothesis was constructed from a few specific instances of a phenomenon.
Sidney Altman
#99. We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists ... in the loved one, perfection.
Sidney Poitier
#100. I set my star so high that I would constantly be in motion toward it.
Sidney Poitier
