Side Quotes

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that they are on the same side.

I hate politics. It's slimy. Any job where people pander for votes, I don't like. The country has gotten so partisan that if you're not on my side, you're the enemy. The only thing I ever try to support is a third party, like Unity08. We need more parties and more choice.

I got everybody on my side through comedy.

Language commonly stresses only one side of any interaction.

The story of my life is about back entrances, side doors, secret elevators and other ways of getting in and out of places so that people won't bother me.

As skills and energy became more of a demand, people who didn't have skills just got left behind, got shuttled to the side. Education didn't keep up with their promise. Education didn't prepare them for this new world. Jobs went overseas.

As a veteran, you're a little more poised on that mental side. But athletically, I didn't really think I could get better.

Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.

One on God's side is a majority.

There's only so many small shows you can do. A lot of the smaller things are more side project things. Not everything is appropriate for Sonic Youth to do.

I was bookish and dorky in high school, so the best part of this movie was getting to be on the other side.

In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have those orders obeyed.

When there are multiple versions of a story, you really have three ways to go. You can pick the most sensational version. You can try to balance things in your gut to get to what you think is the honest truth. Or you can err on the side of kindness.

My grandfather on my mother's side was a professor of mechanical engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; my other grandfather was a lawyer, and one time Speaker of the Tennessee House of Representatives.

I bite the skin on the side of my fingernails.

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

With my hours, I don't hang out with anybody. I work and come home to my Upper West Side apartment.

The Odyssey is the story of Americans up to the point where they are well-established, and even so it is detached from the historical side.

I grill almost all of my fish with the skin on because that gives you real protection at least on one side. It's a nice barrier against super high heat which tends to make a lot of fish to turn really flaky. It's very easy to overcook fish on the grill. But I still brush it with oil before I start.

A woman said to me when she first sat down, You're photographing the wrong side of my face. I said, Oh, is there one?

The agendas on the management side of the table now are not in sync like they used to be because you have vastly different entities supplying programming to networks.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler.

But I liked Yeats! That wild Irishman. I really loved his love of language, his flow. His chaotic ideas seemed to me just the right thing for a poet. Passion! He was always on the right side. He may be wrongheaded, but his heart was always on the right side. He wrote beautiful poetry.

I don't think that strategically it is smart to begin cutting your options when the other side does not move at all.

And I come here as a daughter, raised on the South Side of Chicago - by a father who was a blue-collar city worker and a mother who stayed at home with my brother and me.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

I think my songwriting might be a little more on the darker side maybe.