Top 100 The Side Quotes
#1. And we're more valuable to you alive," said Marcus.
Delarosa cocked her head to the side. "How?"
"Because, um ... " Marcus grimaced. "I don't actually know, I just assumed because that's what people typically say at this point.
Dan Wells
#2. In a war where both sides are wrong, the side which loses first, wins.
Harsh Snehanshu
#3. God, as some cynic has said, is always on the side which has the best football coach.
Heywood Broun
#4. Yes, life always takes the side of life, and somehow the victims are blamed. But it wasn't the best people who survived, nor did the best ones die. It was random!
Art Spiegelman
#5. 'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.
Judith Hill
#6. To the right of the speakwrite, a small pneumatic tube for written messages; to the left, a larger one for newspapers; and in the side wall, within easy reach of Winston's arm, a large oblong slit protected by a wire grating.
George Orwell
#7. I talk to Oprah several times a week, and I see the side of Oprah that's having the time of her life. What she's getting to do with OWN is build a team to create a brand from nothing.
David Zaslav
#8. A big lemoncolored cat watched him from the top of a woodstove. He turned his head to see it better and it elongated itself like hot taffy down the side of the stove and vanished headfirst in the earth without a sound.
Cormac McCarthy
#9. A president can be unpopular for good reasons. You know, I'm not always on the side that the people are right, for God's sake. But, you know, he's not popular when he goes overseas. He couldn't go to Rosa Parks' funeral.
Bill Maher
#10. Every man should view himself as equally balanced: half good and half evil. Likewise, he should see the entire world as half good and half evil ... With a single good deed he will tip the scales for himself, and for the entire world, to the side of good.
Maimonides
#12. In the same way that the stewards of the Titanic were more concerned about the unemptied ashtrays on the bar than the enormous hole in the side of the ship which was letting in zillions of gallons of water, I too was worrying about the unimportant and ignoring the vital.
Marian Keyes
#13. I never knew anyone yet who got up at six who did anything more useful between that time and breakfast than banging a tennis ballup against the side of the house, waiting for the more civilized members of the party to get up.
Robert Benchley
#14. Anyway, Angua seemed to have taken this case personally. She always had a soft spot for the underdog.
So did Vimes. You had to. Not because they were pure or noble, because they weren't. You had to be on the side of underdogs because they weren't overdogs.
Terry Pratchett
#15. Self carries grief as a pack mule carries the side bags, being careful between the trees to leave extra room.
Jane Hirshfield
#16. The more you live, the better an actor you are, but maybe I'd like to do something else on the side. Something to pay the bills as well.
Clemence Poesy
#17. YouTube is a good way to discover new music now because it comes up with that thing at the side with other artists you might like.
Jake Bugg
#18. The law, unfortunately, has always been retained on the side of power; laws have uniformly been enacted for the protection and perpetuation of power.
Thomas Cooper
#19. Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without silence is life without privacy. The difference between sanity and madness is the quality of our thoughts. Silence is on the side of sanity.
Norman Cousins
#20. Kids know. They know everything. I would err on the side of pretty much sharing everything.
Michael Douglas
#21. Only in the struggle between two philosophies can the weapon of brutal force, persistently and ruthlessly applied, lead to a decision for the side it supports.
Adolf Hitler
#22. She knelt at the side of my bed, kissed my cheek, and I woke, rubbed my eyes, looked up at her dreamily. The hall light shone in my eyes. There was a halo in her hair. It must have been that Tupperware bowl on her head.
Laura Kasischke
#23. I want that there should be a belief, a faith in the possibility of removing mountains to the side of right. If we believe that war is wrong, as everyone must, then we ought to believe that by proper efforts on our part, it may be done away with.
Lucretia Mott
#25. I ask of writing what I ask of desire: that it have no relation to the logic which puts desire on the side of possession, of acquisition, or even of that consumption-consummation which, when pushed to its limits with such exultation, links (false) consciousness with death
Helene Cixous
#26. Time passes, her mother said, peeling carrots. No matter what you do. No matter what happens, she said, crushing garlic, hammering the side of her favorite knife with her fist. Beauty or horror, my heart. Turning on the stove. Beauty or horror, it passes.
Alexander Maksik
#27. Fortune has often been blamed for her blindness; but fortune is not so blind as men are. Those who look into practical life will find that fortune is usually on the side of the industrious, as the winds and waves are on the side of the best navigators.
Samuel Smiles
#28. One of the side benefits of staying in the closet is you can have a much bigger career.
Edmund White
#29. I like cats ... When I meet a cat, I say, "Poor Pussy!" and stoop down and tickle the side of its head; and the cat sticks up its tail in a rigid, cast-iron manner, arches its back, and wipes its nose up against my trousers; and all is gentleness and peace.
Jerome K. Jerome
#30. Am I alone in this mother-food connection or does being with your mom trigger the sudden and voracious need for large amounts of mac & cheese, rice pudding, and the scraps along the side of a bowl of cookie dough?
April Paine
#31. Blood erupted in great throbbing gouts from a severed artery at the side of his neck. His open windpipe blew clouds of red mist as he struggled to breathe.
Terry Goodkind
#32. My mother has stories of leaving me in the bath as small kid, like a 3-year-old, and there being mirrors on the side, and her going to get a towel and coming back in, and me making faces at myself, like, 'Now I'm happy. Now I'm sad.'
Allison Tolman
#33. What every artist should try to prevent is the car, in which is our civilized life, plunging over the side of the precipice
the exhibitionist extremist promoter driving the whole bag of tricks into a nihilistic nothingness or zero.
Wyndham Lewis
#34. To me, 'Underground Luxury' is kinda like a contrasting title, and the reason for that is because on this album I plan on introducing to people and reintroducing to people the side of me that they didn't see on the first album.
B.o.B
#35. Never trust a woman's tears, Alyosha. I am never for the woman in such cases. I am always on the side of the men.
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
#36. I was looking at a bottle of water; they have nutritional facts printed on the side. You know, I'm no chemist, but I have a rough idea what's in water.
Jim Gaffigan
#37. When a country goes to war, it acts like a sociopath. It sends people like me out in the woods to do the most evil things we can think of, but everybody else pretends like they're on the side of the angels. The reality is, if the angels want to win, it takes the devil to succeed.
Jon Roberts
#38. Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.
Andre Gide
#39. My virginity's still intact, Guy," I say as I stand up and brush the dirt from my butt. "Yours, on the other hand, has been gone for so long I've seen it on the side of a milk carton.
Cheryl McIntyre
#40. I'd only met him once, at the mall. He was tall, with a big floppy shock of blond hair he was always getting out of his face by jerking his head suddenly to the side, whiplash-style. Rina found this incredibly sexy. It made me nervous. - Caitlin about Jeff
Sarah Dessen
#41. Music is a big passion of mine, and to be able to do it on the side of acting would be amazing.
Tony Oller
#42. I got the sense that Alabama is a place where people don't want handouts and don't much care for people talking out of the side of their mouth.
Adam McKay
#43. But when your life is broken, you'll let that misery roll by for years, and ignore the side of you that isn't finished.
Sandra Kring
#44. She dropped her hand to the side of the chair and it dangled in the air between them. And, like it had been perfectly choreographed, Henry reached over and took it.
Sarah Addison Allen
#46. I know what feels good to eat and what doesn't. I try to err on the side of choices I know will leave me feeling more energized and ready to go, because it's always better to feel healthy.
Taylor Schilling
#47. I want to ride my motorcycle up the side of the Luxor to the light and vanish.
Criss Angel
#49. I stroke her hair, then the side of her face. I'm sorry it took me so long to get it. It's my faul you had doubts. I promise, there won't be a day that goes by from now on that I won't show you how
much you mean to me.
Colleen Hoover
#50. When I became a mature woman, I put both feet firmly on the side of maturity.
Victoria Principal
#51. I think a lot of Americans are not sure which side Washington is on: the side of banks or the side of the people.
Elizabeth Warren
#52. Gripping her hips in his hands, he thrust into her, and her eyes closed, her head tilting to the side as he pumped in and out of her, wondering how a quickie in the back of a limo could be the hottest sex he'd had in a long time. It's her. It's always been her.
Codi Gary
#53. I remember finding a Houdini book at the library and seeing an image of him chained on the side of a building. He looked so intense and scary, and I couldn't get that image out of my head. That started building up my love of magic.
David Blaine
#54. We plan our lives in long, unbroken stretches that intersect our dreams the way highways connect the city dots on a road map. But in the end we learn that life is lived in the side roads, alleys, and detours. Alan Christoffersen's diary
Richard Paul Evans
#55. The selfish thing about an athlete is you always look at the side of things where you say I could've done that better.
Andy Roddick
#56. When sadness comes, just sit by the side and look at it and say, "I am the watcher, I am not sadness," and see the difference. Immediately you have cut the very root of sadness. It is no more nourished. It will die of starvation. We feed these emotions by being identified with them.
Rajneesh
#57. You're praying, they're praying, and God, oddly enough, will come down on the side of the one with the most guns and most willing to use them. God always does.
Robert Ferrigno
#58. Lots of people would say House doesn't have any charm at all. I would disagree, though: I find him immensely charming and endlessly entertaining. He has a sort of grace and a wit about him, and ultimately, I think he is on the side of the angels.
Hugh Laurie
#59. Clary?" Jace tilted his head to the side, studying her face. "You do - you still love me, don't you?"
"I love Jace Lightwood," she said. "I don't know who you are.
Cassandra Clare
#60. I'm a lot of things at once. I want my audience to choose the side they like most about me.
Thalia
#61. On which side is truth, - on the side of the thoughts which seem true and well-founded, or on the side of the lives of others and myself?
Leo Tolstoy
#62. I've never gotten a release from any person. I'm not a businessman; I'm on the side of common sense. Releases ruin the atmosphere of photography.
Peter Beard
#63. The ( Catholic ) church, as far as I know, has not endorsed any war as just since it supported General Franco 's invasion of Spain to destroy the Spanish republic with a Muslim mercenary army in the thirties, on the side of Hitler .
Christopher Hitchens
#65. I sat with it, the porn still going, the load of hate now trickling down the side of my hip and I wondered if there was a machine in existence that could possibly gauge how much I had regressed in the past five minutes.
Eric Monsky
#66. It is a common enough mid-career urge: having taken care of life's immediate needs, some of us yearn to chase villains, right wrongs, fight on the side of the angels.
Tim Wu
#67. God is on the side of virtue; for whoever dreads punishment suffers it, and whoever deserves it, dreads it .
Charles Caleb Colton
#68. Sit here long enough you get to know everything. You listen, see ?"
She taps the side of her head.
"Nobody listens any more. Everyone knows what they want to hear, but nobody actually listens.
Jojo Moyes
#69. Hate is love on fire, set out to burn like a flare on the side of the road. It says, stop here. Something terrible has happened. Envy is like, the skin you're in burns. And the salve is someone else's skin.
Alexander Chee
#70. I think that the problem with network television is that they cling to the whole business model like they are clinging to the side of a cliff.
Bill Lawrence
#71. It used to be believed that the parent had unlimited claims on the child and rights over him. In a truer view of the matter, we are coming to see that the rights are on the side of the child and the duties on the side of the parent.
William Graham Sumner
#72. I just want to kiss you." He slid his hand up her neck, cupping the side of her face. "Do you want to kiss me?
Aprilynne Pike
#73. You will find that God is always by the side of the fearless.
Mahatma Gandhi
#74. In a very little time they got to the corner of the field by the side of the pine wood where Eeyore's house wasn't any longer.
'There!' said Eeyore. 'Not a stick of it left! Of course, I've still got all this snow to do what I like with. One mustn't complain.
A.A. Milne
#75. The bullet of your thought must have overcome its lateral and ricochet motion and fallen into its last and steady course before it reaches the ear of the hearer, else it may plow out again through the side of his head.
Henry David Thoreau
#76. She felt hot, strong, alive against him, and he found he had this crazy urge to move his mouth down to the side of her neck, to press it against her, to taste her skin. He wanted to feel her breasts, wanted to pull her T-shirt up and feel her hot skin against his. Damn, he wanted her.
Anne Stuart
#77. He leaned toward me, and I realized his eyes looked forward, not to the side. Eyes to the front, the creature hunts. Eyes to the side, the creature hides. "Haven't you ever wanted to rule the world, Mr. Fraser?" I
Bryan Fields
#78. The lake was no longer frozen; the complete stillness of the water
was in stark contrast to what she has just seen only moment ago. On the side
of the lake Rose could see the four figures still there and her fear returned....
Tomos A. Roberts
#79. The whole Universe is on your side. Life is forever biased on the side of healing, on the side of overcoming, on the side of success. When you get yourself centered in the Universal flow you become synchronized with this divine bias for good.
Eric Butterworth
#80. My mom gets so upset at me when I say stuff in the press about anything political, and it drives me crazy because I say to my mom: 'I can't be on the side of any sort of war and I'm not going to be.'
Jake Shears
#81. Walking along, I occasionally had to stop by the side of the road to spit out the mucus that kept rising in my throat. It rather pleased me to think of the malignant tubercle bacilli that I had brought from Japan being scorched to death under the tropical sun.
Shohei Ooka
#82. Her on the side of the road? He ran a hand through his wet hair, wishing he could
Bella Andre
#83. ...a single tongue of flame shooting out the side of the O'Learys' barn.
(Where the fire started)
Jim Murphy
#84. Don't try to make life fair, instead, be on the side where life is extra good.
Sarvesh Jain
#85. The lamp on the side table illuminates his half-eaten dinner, now decorated with a fat winter fly bogged down in the mashed potatoes. It's still struggling a little, threadlike legs pushing against gravy.
Mindy McGinnis
#86. Having been once incarcerated and treated in ways he had not enjoyed, he had since tended to come down on the side of flies and to reject the claims of spiders.
Matthew Hughes
#87. I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional.
Jon Carroll
#88. When it came to football there was a certain age where I realized that my future in football was being a grease spot on the side of some bigger player.
Leigh Steinberg
#89. He knocks once against the side. I don't get it at first, and then I laugh.
Let's establish a code for when you want to go all creeper on me. One knock means you'd like to come in.
"Yes, Evan." I'm laughing so hard, it's starting to hurt. "You can come in.
Rick Yancey
#90. I come down on the side of free will but I have sympathy for those who believe in fate because there is something about life which we feel we have no control over.
Dean Koontz
#91. Personally." My mother digs a smile into the side of her cheek. "I'm rooting for Logan."
Logan produces a grin that suggests he's the cat that ate the canary, and suddenly I'm feeling rather canary-ish.
Addison Moore
#92. I love the feeling of the weightlessness. I always love being in the water and to combine jumping off the side into the water feels like a different and fun way to be able to swim. I feel free like I could do anything
Tom Daley
#93. The kind of late where the 99% effective warnings on the side of condom boxes flashed before my eyes as I white knuckled my way down the 405, silently screaming, why me? Why, oh why me? I'm a new millennium girl. I took copious notes in 6th grade Sex Ed.
Gemma Halliday
#94. John lowered the book he'd been reading.
"Im sorry. Were you speaking to me?"
"I know you were listening, " I said in disgust, taking the book from him and tossing it over the side of the bed. "You couldn't possibly have been reading that. You were holding it upside down.
Meg Cabot
#95. It's strange - there's a public persona of me that does nothing for me: the side of me where it's 'US Weekly,' where 12 cars sit outside my house because of who I married. That side never shuts off. I would like that to shut off sometimes, yes.
Pete Wentz
#97. If we let all the negative roadblocks influence us then it's only a matter of time before we end up detoured, lost, or possibly stranded on the side of the highway. Our positive attitude keeps our battery powered and our gas tank full, so that we can make it in one piece to our destination.
Lindsey Rietzsch
#99. The sun never knew how great it was until it hit the side of a building.
Louis I. Kahn
#100. Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.
Maria Menounos
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