Sides Quotes - Page 76

The life you want is on the other side of the labor pains it takes to birth it.

I don't know if it's ever happened to you, but it's one of my funniest and saddest experiences, when you go into a hotel, and they have an accessible walk-in shower. So you go in and open the curtain, and there is a bench off to the side of the shower. However, the shower is rectangular. On one side there's a bench, but the faucets are across from you. So if you sit on the bench, you cannot reach the faucets.

Seated by her side in the narrow cabin, pressing cold compresses to her forehead and holding her while she vomited, he felt profoundly happy.

The kind of stuff I usually read is a bit more on the literary side, like books that I think are influential in the sense that they're doing pulpy subject matter in a refined way. Like 'The Road' by Cormac McCarthy, I loved that book.

Economics is on the side of humanity now.

More than life, I value vindication. When you are at peace with the truth and you know that you are on the side of the right and God is on your side, you are not afraid of anything, including jail.

Inviting an invasion by foreigners and instigating one against them are two sides of the same neoconservative coin.

There's also a down side.

Lenity has almost always wisdom and justice on its side.

Faults are committed within the walls of Troy and also without. [There is fault on both sides.]

It is time to pick a side.Either we stand with the gun lobby or we join the president and stand up to them.

I want a Supreme Court that doesn't always side with corporate interests.

Stay in the middle,don't get pushed to the side,every chance that's worth taking,is a chance worth the fight

He likes driving very fast on the wrong side of the road," said Sarah. "Which I can completely understand.

I just keep my horrible side well hidden.

You treat God like you treat any dangerous looney — keep him calm and stay on his good side.

It is necessary, if one would read aright, that he should read at least two newspapers, representing both sides of important subjects.

The moment one is on the side of life; peace and security drop out of consciousness. The only peace, the only security, is in fulfillment.

Historical and public memory is not merely on the side of domination.

The best poets, after all, exhibit only a tame and civil side of nature. They have not seen the west side of any mountain.

The front aspect of great thoughts can only be enjoyed by those who stand on the side whence they arrive.

More and more of the Taiwanese economy is connected with the mainland. There are more and more exchanges taking place. There's no reason to doubt that over a period of ten years or so, or maybe more, the conditions of life on the two sides of the Taiwan Strait will become more comparable, and the dialogue on the political level therefore easier.

The tragic side of many architectural enterprises is that they destroy natural beauties which are a priceless possession and cannot be replaced.

If there’s no one else to tell another side - the only story that can be told is the story that becomes true. (p. 173)

I kind of wish I'd been to these sci-fi conventions before I was on Heroes just so I could experience it from that side.