Side Quotes - page 10

I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball? (Roger Ebert)
The problem with being sure that God is on your side is that you can't change your mind, because God sure isn't going to change His. View quote
Roger Ebert
Mere longevity is a good thing for those who watch Life from the side lines. For those who play the game, an hour may be a year, a single day's work an achievement for eternity. View quote
Helen Hayes
Every accommodation of Muslim demands leads to a sense of euphoria and a conviction that Allah is on their side. They see every act of appeasement as an invitation to make fresh demands. View quote
Ayaan Hirsi Ali
The man who is right is a majority. We, who have God and conscience on our side, have a majority against the universe. View quote
Frederick Douglass
The gods are on the side of the stronger. View quote
Tacitus
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence. View quote
Upton Sinclair
The laws are with us, and God on our side. View quote
Robert Southey
Perhaps the only misplaced curiosity is that which persists in trying to find out here, on this side of death, what lies beyond the grave. View quote
Colette
The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. View quote
Hunter S. Thompson
I am colored but I offer nothing in the way of extenuating circumstances except the fact that I am the only Negro in the United States whose grandfather on the mother's side was not an Indian chief. (Zora Neale Hurston)
When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly. View quote
George Washington
I had an apartment and I had a neighbor, and whenever he would knock on my wall, I knew he wanted me to turn my music down, and that made me angry 'cause I like loud music... So when he knocked on the wall, I'd mess with his head. I'd say "Go around! I cannot open the wall! I don't know if you have a door on your side, but over here there's nothin.' View quote
Mitch Hedberg
The objective psychologist, hoping to get at the physiological side of behavior, is apt to plunge immediately into neurology trying to correlate brain activity with modes of experience ... The result in many cases only accentuates the gap between the total experience as studied by the psychologist and neural activity as analyzed by the neurologist. View quote
Roger Wolcott Sperry
What comfort there is in a cheerful spirit! how the heart leaps up to meet a sunshiny face, a merry tongue, an even temper, and a heart which either naturally, or, what is better, from conscientious principle, has learned to take all things on their bright side, believing that the Giver of life being all-perfect Love, the best offering we can make to Him is to enjoy to the full what He sends of good, and bear what He allows of evil! View quote
Dinah Craik
By betrayal, I mean promising to be on your side, then being on somebody else's. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
I want someone who is fierce and will love me until death and knows that love is as strong as death, and be on my side forever and ever. I want someone who will destroy and be destroyed by me. View quote
Jeanette Winterson
When I saw her I was in love with her. Everything turned over inside of me. She looked toward the door, saw there was no one, then she sat on the side of the bed and leaned over and kissed me. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
The Seal, she lounges like a bride,Much too docile, there's no doubt;Madame Récamier, on side,(if such she has), and bottom out. View quote
Djuna Barnes
The grass isn't always greener on the other side! View quote
Ricky Gervais
Fortune is always on the side of the largest battalions. (Marie de Rabutin-Chantal, marquise de Sévigné)
It is unjust and absurd of those advancing in years, to expect of the young that confidence should come all and only on their side: the human heart, at whatever age, opens only to the heart that opens in return. View quote
Maria Edgeworth
We shelter children for a time; we live side by side with men; and that is all. We owe them nothing, and are owed nothing. I think we owe our friends more, especially our female friends. View quote
Fay Weldon
The Labor Party is not going to profit from having these proven unsuccessful people around who are frightened of their own shadow and won't get out of bed in the morning unless they've had a focus group report to tell them which side of bed to get out. View quote
Paul Keating
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you might be a redneck. View quote
Jeff Foxworthy