Take Sides Quotes

#1. People take sides on political things, such as the Vietnam War. War is immoral and war is wrong, but I don't think the clergy ought to bring it before the Church.

Warren Giles

#2. Whatever side I take, I know well that I will be
blamed.

Keith Richards

#3. I don't take sides for or against Hezbollah, or for or against Israel.

John Dingell

#4. I am open and willing to work with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle on a variety of appropriate measures we can take to prevent firearms from getting into the wrong hands and mitigate future tragedies.

Kurt Schrader

#5. Racism is an ism to which everyone in the world today is exposed; for or against, we must take sides. And the history of the future will differ according to the decision which we make.

Ruth Benedict

#6. Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

George W. Bush

#7. It is the fool who always rushes to take sides. Do not commit to any side or cause by yourself. By maintaining your independence, you become the master of others - playing people against one another, making them pursue you.

Robert Greene

#8. You don't win everything. And you ultimately have to take what you get. I think on the case of [Donald] Trump, there's a much bigger upside than down side.

Rush Limbaugh

#9. I suppose really I was a wife, a mother and a business woman, and then suddenly catapulted into this kind of world of craziness where it's ... there's good sides and there's bad sides ... I wouldn't kind of turn the clock back and take another direction.

Lisa Vanderpump

#10. There are all sorts of cries that the leaders of the Green Movement should submit themselves to the supreme leader, but that won't take place. Both sides have to be prepared for a serious negotiation.

Abdolkarim Soroush

#11. You can't take sides when you know the earth is round.

Patricia Sun

#12. I've really learned not to try to take responsibility for all things. And to keep my side of the street clean.

Sharon Stone

#13. Take whatever position you want, but do take a position, because once you do, ample money awaits you on either side.

Dick Morris

#14. It's no longer time to take sides for or against race, rather sides against those who still do.

Brian Spellman

#15. I never yet knew the sun to be knocked down and rolled through a mud-puddle; he comes out honor-bright from behind every storm. Let us then take sides with the sun, seeing we have so much leisure.

Henry David Thoreau

#16. You can't take sides against anything. If you would just be one who is for things, you would live happily ever after. If you could just leave the "against" part out.

Esther Hicks

#17. People are so conditioned to take sides that a balanced analysis looks to them like hatred.

Scott Adams

#18. 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

#19. I live, I am partisan. This is why I hate those who do not take sides; I hate those who are indifferent

Antonio Gramsci

#20. The international community unfortunately did take sides in Libya, and we would never allow the Security Council to authorise anything similar to what happened in Libya.

Sergei Lavrov

#21. Your mama musta had to take a double dose of laxatives to bring you into this world, ya lyin' little turd," he growled, fists clenching at his sides.

Amy Cook

#22. Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.

Leonard Cohen

#23. You can't escape your own period. Whether you take sides for or against, you're always in it.

Pablo Picasso

#24. Science doesn't take sides, does it?

James Luceno

#25. Be who you are and I'll be who I am. I refuse to take sides, because everybody has their story.

Sandra Bernhard

#26. If you rush to take a drug, do so with the full knowledge that you are being a Guinea Pig. The longer a drug is on the market, the more will be known about the side effects.

Robert S. Mendelsohn

#27. The smartest side to take in a bidding war is the losing side.

Warren Buffett

#28. you don't have to bend over backwards, either, and go asking her to dinner or something. She does have a family of her own. You're supposed to take my side in this." "I thought you didn't want us to take sides." "No, no, I don't. I mean you shouldn't take her side, is what I'm trying to say.

Anne Tyler

#29. If you are going to be a mediator or arbitrator you have to be in the middle between the two sides; you cannot take sides only with one party.

Bashar Al-Assad

#30. There is no more a 'political middle' than there is a family in America with 2.3 children. People with opinions take sides. Contrary to what you've heard, it's actually more important
to stand for something than it is for everybody to 'just get along'.

Ann Coulter

#31. A rule in life I don't break is - I never take sides between two people. There are two stories and somewhere in the middle lies the truth.

E.M. Benton

#32. Jesus doesn't take sides; He takes over.

Andy Stanley

#33. There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.

Robert Breault

#34. A poet's work ... to name the unnamable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world and stop it from going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

#35. He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.

Charles Lamb

#36. I take on everybody's problems. I have a very maternal side. I'm basically a very normal, down-to-earth person.

Shannen Doherty

#37. I find there's a thin, permeable membrane between journalism and history, and though some academic historians take a dim view of it, I gather a lot of strength and professional inspiration from passing back and forth across it.

Hampton Sides

#38. Americans are incredibly religious as a nation, and we have gotten that way by having the government stay out of religion and say religion is a private matter. The government doesn't take sides. Public schools don't promote or denigrate any religion.

Rachel Maddow

#39. Of course I have to take sides, said Pepper. Everyone has to take sides in something.

Neil Gaiman

#40. this is a time when we must all take sides for or against the king.

G.A. Henty

#41. If you can't take both sides, it means you can only play yourself.

Stella Adler

#42. Life isn't like a novel, you know. In life you have to take sides. And it's clear which side you've chosen.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#43. There's some downsides to being famous, which are not even worth mentioning. But to combat the bad sides of being famous, you really should take advantage of the good sides. The good sides are, you can use that fame to get projects you might not normally get.

Chris Rock

#44. I take no sides. I am interested in the shape of ideas. There is a wonderful sentence in Augustine: "Do not despair; one the thieves was saved. Do not presume; one of the thieves was damned." That sentence has a wonderful shape. It is the shape that matters.

Samuel Beckett

#45. The complexity of the situation of having a war going on around you and what that delivers to you is that you have to figure out which side to take.

Jamie Bell

#46. It was necessary to have an even depth of corn on the top compared to the sides, so the air would not take the easiest route and not evenly dry the stored corn.

Orville Redenbacher

#47. People always make choices, always take sides!

Deyth Banger

#48. On the question of whether a behavioral science can in principle be constructed, we shall take no sides. That some kinds of human behavior can be described and even predicted in terms of objectively verifiable and quantifiable data seems to us to have been established.

Anatol Rapoport

#49. My message to the Pope would be, don't take sides on the science. Don't make the same mistake as seven out of 10 judges in the trial of Galileo, when they invited him to retract his views.

Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley

#50. I think there does need to be give and take on both sides, and this idea that sex is kind of a woman's right to absolutely withhold, just as the idea that sex is a man's right to demand I think they are both they both need to be moderated, so to speak

Tony Abbott

#51. There's so many modern films where the fans take one side or the other. I'm hoping this isn't going to be like that; I'm hoping it isn't that kind of film at all. What I would love for the audience to take from it is to understand why she was so stuck in the middle and confused.

Saoirse Ronan

#52. Chimpanzees is hatin but I take it all in stride. Put her in a jungle with bananas on the side.

Nicki Minaj

#53. Victory takes sides on people who are
more compatible with nature and future.

Toba Beta

#54. I never take my own side in a quarrel.

Robert Frost

#55. Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong - but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong.

Robert A. Heinlein

#56. Caught in such a conflict, you must take sides.

Michael S. Heiser

#57. On the matters where your country is wrong, don't take side with your country! Because it is always wrong to be on the side of wrong!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#58. You have to put yourself to one side and get away from the 'Victorian poet' model where you are the universe. You have to do everything you can to take your ego out of the equation.

Peter Wolf

#59. [Louis Brandeis] insisted on the necessity of public reason, which he thought could only be achieved if all of us just take the time to inform ourselves about the best arguments on all sides of questions so that we can make up our own minds.

Jeffrey Rosen

#60. He who has a task to perform must know how to take sides, or he is quite unworthy of it.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#61. I couldn't make a choice between chaos and control. Not because it had been made for me. But because there was no choice to make. It wasn't one or the other. They were both inside me. They were both a part of me. I was nothing without both sides. Take one away and I would fall." ~ Skye

Jocelyn Davies

#62. Every artist, every scientist, every writer must decide now where he stands. The artist must take sides. He must elect to fight for freedom or for slavery. I have made my choice. I had no alternative.

Paul Robeson

#63. The world is upside down, it's going to take a lot of hands to turn it right side up.

Leymah Gbowee

#64. I cannot remember a time when I did not take it as understood that everybody has at least two, if not twenty-two sides to him.

Robertson Davies

#65. It strikes me that religion - in its essence - seeks to take natural events and ascribe supernatural causes to them. I, however, seek to take supernatural events and find the natural meanings behind them. Perhaps that is the final dividing line between science and religion. Opposite sides of a card.

Brandon Sanderson

#66. If you are convinced of a matter, you must take sides or you don't deserve to succeed.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#67. It's interesting that there's so many different sides of this: Women get frustrated that we don't get paid enough; and then the Republicans or the CEOs that are men say, "Well, it's because women take off time for maternity leave."

Jennifer Lawrence

#68. A poet's work is to name the unnameable, to point at frauds, to take sides, start arguments, shape the world, and stop it going to sleep.

Salman Rushdie

#69. When you say Yes, say it quickly. But always take a half hour to say No, so you can understand the other fellow's side.

Francis Spellman

#70. God doesn't take sides. He created all of them.

Toba Beta

#71. People tend to take sides in these discussions. They feel obligated to say baseball is in catastrophic circumstance or no problem at all. I think extremes are misleading. I think there's a problem and it's of modest dimensions.

Andrew Zimbalist

#72. Mayors are very different, because mayors can't be on both sides of every issue. Mayors have to take an explicit stance. Just go with your gut and say what you believe, and you'll be fine. If you're not fine, at least you'll like what you see in the mirror.

Michael Bloomberg

#73. In this new digital landscape, this sort of international marketplace, it's come full circle, and I wanted to take advantage of my talent relations on both sides of the Atlantic.

Colin Callender

#74. Some of us like to take a walk on the wild side.

Michael Jackson

#75. What am I going to do? I take a deep breath. My arms rise slightly - as if recalling the black-and-white wings Cinna gave me - then come to rest at my sides. I'm going to be the Mockingjay.

Suzanne Collins

#76. You take sides if your smart. Offer up your loyalty cause it's all you've got to trade. Trouble is, most times, when you're looking to sell your soul, nobody's buying." - Radiance

Catherynne M Valente

#77. I welcome newcomers to cons, or 'con-virgins' as I like to call them, by saying 'Welcome to the 'Supernatural' Circus,' and I mean it. We take pride as a cast to deliver a show that not only entertains the fans but ourselves, Creation Entertainment, and everyone involved on both sides.

Matt Cohen

#78. I'm pretty calculating. I take stuff that I know appeals to people's bad sides and match it up with stuff that appeals to their good sides.

Kanye West

#79. To see in a thousandth of a second what indifferent people come close to without noticing - that is the principle of photographic reportage. And in the thousandth of a second that follows, to take the photo of what one has seen - that is the practical side of reportage.

Martin Munkacsi

#80. It struck Yuki as almost comic that humans drew lines on the globe, and on both sides of those lines raised up armies. Then they fought and died to take possession of...what? Hills. Yuki knew he had to fight, and had to win, but that didn't make war anything to be proud of.

Dean Hughes

#81. I don't like to put outrageous titles on young guys' heads, but he could be one of the best at that position. All it's going to take are longevity and health. If he has those two things by his side, he'll be one of the best.

Nate Burleson

#82. Cubism is not a reality you can take in your hand. It's more like a perfume, in front of you, behind you, to the sides, the scent is everywhere but you don't quite know where it comes from.

Pablo Picasso

#83. For in our own day we see many who are stupid enough to be so overcome by the mere title of "the church," that they take sides with the pope, and would be damned forever rather than raise a finger against his authority.

John Calvin

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

Marty Rubin

#85. I think it's become much harder because I'm more afraid of every step I take. I'm more aware of its ramifications, I'm more aware of the less creative aspects of music - like the business-side of things for example.

Zach Condon

#86. Sooner or later ... one has to take sides. If one is to remain human.

Graham Greene

#87. When you write, you take the ball and you hold it up to the light and you turn it slowly, and let people draw their own conclusions. And try to bring empathy to all sides of the equation.

Justin Cronin

#88. When you start talking about abortion and gay rights, people take that seriously and they're passionate about it - on both sides.

Bob Buckhorn

#89. Most of us know nothing about constitutional law, so it's hardly surprising that we take sides in the Obamacare debate the way we root for the Red Sox or the Yankees. Loyalty to the team is what matters.

Paul Bloom

#90. Friends you will have need of, for in you two worlds meet. There is no one on both sides with you, so you must learn to take your own counsel; and not to fear what is strange, if you know it also to be true.
- Luthe

Robin McKinley

#91. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.

Elie Wiesel

#92. So long as man remains no real threat to the Enemy, Satan's line to him is 'You're fine'. But after you do take sides, it becomes 'Your heart is bad and you know it'.

John Eldredge

#93. Every once in awhile, have a really good argument with yourself. I mean really get pissed off. Take both sides. Then look in the mirror, and in the middle of the argument say, "You know, you're a pain in my butt. I'm not arguing with you. Get lost.

Art Hochberg

#94. To take sides with life and experience how we can transcend ourselves is a process that has many names and faces. Religion is one of those names.

Dorothee Solle

#95. When we speak for the poor, please note that we do not take sides with one social class. What we do is invite all social classes, rich and poor, without distinction, saying to everyone let us take seriously the cause of the poor as though it were our own.

Oscar Romero

#96. 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

#97. It's important to always take sides. Both sides,

Steve Toltz

#98. Fate does not take sides. It is fair-minded and generally prefers to maintain some balance between the likelihood of success and failure in all our endeavors.

Amor Towles

#99. Fredo you're my older brother and I love you. But don't ever take sides against the family ...

Mario Puzo

#100. This split the scientific community up into factions and promoted conflict. This was Stalin's objective. It permitted him to intervene and take sides whenever deemed necessary

Martin McCauley