Sides Quotes - Page 27

The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.

Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.

The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

Between a high, solid wall and an egg that breaks against it, I will always stand on the side of the egg.

And girls need cold anger. They need the cold simmer, the ceaseless grudge, the talent to avoid forgiveness, the side stepping of compromise. They need to know when they say something that they will never back down, ever, ever.

In the '70s, anybody who was a connoisseur of collecting vinyl had the velvet brush. Remember the velvet brush? It would clean the record, and you would only grab the record from the sides and you would carefully slide it into the jacket. I never had a velvet brush.

There was always another side to a joke, the side of the victim.

If you exchange information internationally, you must strengthen data protection. Those are two sides of the same coin.

The law on the side of freedom is of great advantage only when there is power to make that law respected.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

I just took some ecstasy, ain't no tellin' what the side effects could be.

When you're thirteen and listening to punk, the aggressive nature of music can sway you to the dark side.

Courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin. Compassion without courage is not genuine. You may have a compassionate thought or impulse, but if you don’t do or say anything, it’s not real compassion.

At least I thought it was a wall. It sure felt like one. It was hard. It was flat. It stretched out on either side of me. You know... wall.

Fortune always fights on the side of the prudent.

On the other side of the handrail, the hallway's gray marble floor looks as if we've climbed a stairway through the clouds.

Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the destruction of traditional values.

Poetry is the dark side of the moon.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

I am hoping the four new players can bring in some energy and fresh enthusiasm because they do not have the baggage that comes from being part of a losing side.

A head is not drawn until you can feel the unseen side.

The mirror crack'd from side to side "The curse has come upon me," cried The Lady of Shalott

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.