Sides Quotes - Page 48

Sometimes in life, random things can blind-side you.

The reason is that in a group, individual errors on either side of the true figure cancel each other out.

Life is a journey one that much better traveled with a companion by our side. Sometimes, we lose our companions along the way and then the journey becomes unbearable. You see, human beings are designed for many things, but loneliness isn't one of them.

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.

Human reason is like a drunken man on horseback; set it up on one side, and it tumbles over on the other

I have my dark side. You have your dark side. From the second that we have a brain, there are things that are not right - we are human beings with all these illusions and complexes and everything. That's attractive to me.

Yet we always envy others, comparing our shadows to their sunlit sides.

Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out on global warming. We'd link to the other side; we'd present their arguments. They do one-sided screeds.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.

I'm a tough coach, but on the other side of that is me telling them to go all out, "because you're great, because I don't want you to fail, because you were born to do this and you have a dream."

If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.

I have a quiet and an artistic side that many people don't know of.

For Members of Congress, we are saying here on the Democratic side of the aisle we are not going to vote for another pay increase for Members of Congress until the American people get an increase.

I did a lot of theater in the South side of Chicago.

I know I got angels watchin me from the other side.

We have marched in lockstep with Israel. We've been side by side with them as they've confronted the Iranian nuclear threat and we'll continue to be. All options do remain on the table. That's something that we've said all along. That continues to be the case.

The nastier the e-mail, the more likely I am to respond because they`ll realize there`s a human being on the other side.

And yet still I worried. I like being a person. I wanted to keep at it. Worry is yet another side effect of dying.

Death is only frightening from the near side.

Being witty was the only side effect of being depressed that was working for me.

What's needed on Earth is love of the dark side of ourselves

Love and hatred don't take turns; they exist side by side at the same time. And one's duty, one's obligation every day, is to choose to follow the nobler one.

I have also been touched by the dark side of power and leadership.

It's better to stand by someone's side than by yourself