Beside You Quotes - Page 3

• If you attack a mathematical problem directly, very often you come to a dead end, nothing you do seems to work and you feel that if only you could peer round the corner there might be an easy solution. There is nothing like having somebody else beside you, because he can usually peer round the corner.

  Michael Atiyah

  Peers, Might, Problem

  Michael Atiyah (1988). “Collected Works: Michael Atiyah Collected Works: Volume 1: Early Papers; General Papers”, p.214, Oxford University Press

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• I was left alone there in the company of the orchids, roses and violets, which, like people waiting beside you who do not know you, preserved a silence which their individuality as living things made all the more striking, and warmed themselves in the heat of a glowing coal fire.

  Marcel Proust

  Orchids, Fire, Glowing

  Marcel Proust (2000). “In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)”, p.124, Modern Library

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• White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in your mills and factories? Frank Graham favors mingling of the races.

  Jesse Helms

  Daughter, White, Race

  "Come on, you liberals" by Nick Cohen, www.theguardian.com. November 4, 2001.

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• Happiness doesn't lie in conspicuous consumption and the relentless amassing of useless crap. Happiness lies in the person sitting beside you and your ability to talk to them. Happiness is clear-headed human interaction and empathy. Happiness is home. And home is not a house-home is a mythological conceit. It is a state of mind. A place of communion and unconditional love. It is where, when you cross its threshold, you finally feel at peace.

  Dennis Lehane

  Lying, Home, Unconditional Love

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• Stand still. The trees ahead and bushes beside you
  Are not lost. Wherever you are is called Here,
  And you must treat it as a powerful stranger,
  Must ask permission to know it and be known.
  The forest breathes. Listen. It answers,
  I have made this place around you,
  If you leave it you may come back again, saying Here.
  No two trees are the same to Raven.
  No two branches are the same to Wren.
  If what a tree or a bush does is lost on you,
  You are surely lost. Stand still. The forest knows
  Where you are. You must let it find you.

  David Wagoner

  Powerful, Ravens, Two

  David Wagoner (1999). “Traveling Light: Collected and New Poems”, p.10, University of Illinois Press

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• -She is like the wind, open and free. If I cage the wind, would it die? -Then don't cage it, Mikhail. Trust it to stay beside you.

  Christine Feehan

  Wind, Cages, Dies

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• Madness will push you anywhere it wants. It never tells you where you're going, or why. It tells you it doesn't matter. It persuades you. It dangles something sparkly before you, shimmering like that water patch on the road up ahead. You will drive until you find it, the treasure, the thing you most desire. You will never find it. Madness may mock you so long you will die of the search. Or it will tire of you, turn its back, oblivious as you go flying. The car is beside you, smoking, belly-up, still spinning its wheels.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Car, Long, Water

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.114, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What's the difference between you and the man sitting beside you? It's one percent. In my business, only one percent makes it. If everyone had the same dream, only 1 will make it from this crowd. Who will be that one?

  Ray Lewis

  Inspirational, Dream, Men

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• I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there beside you.

  Thomas S. Monson

  Spiritual, Promise, One Day

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• So well do I love you, I go to my god singing your praises. When I meet my father, I will tell him I fought beside you.

  Janet Morris

  Love, Father, Singing

  Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.101, Paradise Publishing

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• It's easy to be cynical; harder is remembering that on any given day the person beside you on the subway or taking to long to pay for a tub of yogurt at the supermarket could be going through something tremendous and sorrowful and arduous.

  Rob Payne

  Long, Cynical, Yogurt

  "Working Class Zero". Book by Rob Payne, Chapter 33, 2003.

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• Sisters are the worst. And they are the best. A sister can be awful and complicated and loving and protective and petty and competitive, and when you die she is the person you want beside you holding your hand. Somebody's gotta organize the potluck after the service and you know your husband's not gonna be up to the job.

  Cathy Lamb

  Jobs, Husband, Hands

  Cathy Lamb (2009). “Henry's Sisters”, p.96, Kensington Publishing Corp.

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• for true happiness, sane enjoyment, you must look to the country, not town. Only you want one true heart beside you with which to enjoy it!

  Ellen Buckingham Mathews

  Country, Heart, Looks

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• My thing is, and I've always been this way - to get to know as many people as I possibly can on a personal level, so that way, when you get on the football field, you've got your buddy right beside you, and you're ready to go.

  Russell Wilson

  Football, People, Fields

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• I can't take not knowing what the next day will bring- the uncertainty is sawing me in two. The room is dark. A flickering candle burns on the window ledge a few feet away. I take a deep breath, which is to say, as deep a breath as I can take. "Are you okay?" Sarah asks. I wrap my arms around her. "I miss you," I say. "You miss me? But I'm right here." "That's the worst way to miss somebody. When they' re right beside you and you miss them anyway.

  Pittacus Lore

  Missing Someone, Dark, Two

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• The most common of all antagonisms arises from a man's taking a seat beside you on the train, a seat to which he is completely entitled.

  Robert Benchley

  Men, Common, Antagonism

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• They say it's not the snoring itself but those anxiety-packed moments in between snorts. It's the waiting for the nasal passages of the person lying beside you to strike again. And strike it always does. In the dark, almost against your will, you produce that special glare reserved for people who cannot control their own behaviour.

  Sloane Crosley

  Lying, Dark, People

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• Beside my obvious physical structure, I have been told on almost every set I've been on that I am a joy to have around. I grew up as a team player on team sports. Later as a doorman where you had to watch each other's back and trust the guy beside you.

  James Preston Rogers

  Sports, Team, Player

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• Prayer is an act of faith. Just by praying to God, you are declaring our trust in someone other than yourself. Your faith is increased as you pray and watch how God answers your prayers. God says in Jeremiah 33:3, Call to Me and I will answer you, and I will tell you great and mighty things, which you do not know. God is awesome in power and there is never a time when He is not beside you. He is faithful and holy.

  Charles Stanley

  Faith, Religious, Prayer

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• The trouble with sharing one's bed with cats is that they'd rather sleep on you than beside you.

  Pam Brown

  Sleep, Cat, Bed

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• It's a long haul bringing up our children to be good; you have to keep doing that — bring them up — and that means bringing things up with them: Asking, telling, sounding them out, sounding off yourself — finding, through experience, your own words, your own way of putting them together. You have to learn where you stand, and make sure your kids learn [where you stand], understand why, and soon, you hope, they'll be standing there beside you, with you.

  Erik Erikson

  Children, Mean, Kids

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• A broken heart is merely an empty manger. Invite the Virgin and the carpenter to pray beside you. Invite the Savior to dwell there.

  Mark Hart

  Heart, Broken, Praying

  Mark Hart (2017). “Unleashing the Power of Scripture: A Guide for Catholics”, p.50, The Word Among Us Press

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• To me, the labor movement was never just a way of getting higher wages. What appealed to me was the spiritual side of a great cause that created fellowship. You wanted the girl or the man who worked beside you to be treated just as well as you were, and an injury to one was the concern of all.

  Rose Schneiderman

  Girl, Spiritual, Men

  Rose Schneiderman, Lucy Goldthwaite (1967). “All for one”

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• Step 4: Cough and gag. Step 5: Repeat Step 4 until it feels like maybe your lungs aren't inside your body anymore. Step 6: Remember that a really cute boy is beside you, so try to cough in a far more attractive manner.

  Ally Carter

  Cute, Boys, Trying

  Ally Carter (2011). “Only the Good Spy Young”, p.218, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When feeling came back, in a storm of color and force and sensation, the most you could do was hold on to the person beside you and hope you could weather it. Alex closed her eyes and expected the worst-but it wasn't a bad thing; it was just a different thing. A messier one, more complicated one. She hesitated, and then she kissed Patrick back, willing to concede that you might have to lose control before you could find what you'd been missing.

  Jodi Picoult

  Eye, Color, Weather

  Jodi Picoult (2008). “Nineteen Minutes”, p.308, Simon and Schuster

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