Sides Quotes - Page 35

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

. . .only the victims and survivors can truly comprehend the awfulness of that time and place; the rest of us live on the other side of the fence, staring through from our own comfortable place, trying in our own clumsy ways to make sense of it all.

There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

If in the infinite you want to stride, Just walk in the finite to every side.

There are always sides. There is always a winner and a loser. For every person who gets, there's someone who must give.

I've been called over the top. How silly. If you don't go over the top, you can't see what's on the other side.

You know the day destroys the night, Night divides the day, Tried to run, Tried to hide, Break on through to the other side...

I always received much more satisfaction as a defense attorney in obtaining an acquittal for a client than I ever have as a D.A. in obtaining a conviction. All my interests and sympathies tend to be on the side of the individual as opposed to the state.

I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things.

Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

It was wisely said, by a man of great observation, that there are as many miseries beyond riches as on this side of them.

A remarkable feature of the humanitarian movement, on both its sentimental and utilitarian sides, has been its preoccupation with the lot of the masses.

Change a virtue in its circumstances find it becomes a vice; change a vice in its circumstances, and it becomes a virtue. Regard the same quality from two sides; on one it is a fault, on the other a merit. The essential of a man is found concealed far below these moral badges.

The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.

That great America on the other side of the sphere, Australia.

In my life, I have almost always been on the side of active foreign policy. But you need to know with whom you are cooperating. You need reliable partners.

The majority never has right on its side.

At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other side, are beginning to be seen as both alike unjustified.

You can't not have feelings about country clubs, whichever side you're on.

Cricket is the only game where you are playing against eleven of the other side and ten of your own.

After all, bluff and real emotion exist so easily side by side.

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

I would love to work with Sir Anthony Hopkins. How and why that would happen in a comedy I'm not sure - why he would be dragged over to my side, or I'd be be dragged over to his side.