Both Sides Quotes - Page 8

• Play on both sides of the board is my favourite strategy.

  Alexander Alekhine

  Play, Boards, Chess

  Alexander Alekhine (1955). “My best games of chess, 1924-1937”

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• When Sir Winton Turnbull [who represented a large rural seat], a slow and sometimes stumbling speaker, was raving and ranting on the adjournment and shouted: "I am a Country member." I interjected "I remember." Sir Winton could not understand why, for the first time in all the years he had been speaking in the House, there was instant and loud applause from both sides.

  Gough Whitlam

  Country, Years, House

  Gough Whitlam's speech during a debate at the Sydney Town Hall, May 24, 2000.

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• The waltz can be sad and at the same time uplifting. You have to see life from both sides, and the waltz encapsulates that. If you're in my audience you give yourself to me and the waltz will grab you.

  Andre Rieu

  Uplifting, Giving, Sides

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I think I was always subconsciously driven by an attempt to restate that faith and to show where it was properly grounded, how it grew out of what a great many young men on both sides felt and believed and were brave enough to do

  Bruce Catton

  Men, Thinking, Bravery

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• Although both sides of my family were religious, I was never forced to practice the Jewish faith. I did not really rebel against it, but then, as today, I disliked organized religion. I have a strange inhibition about praying with others.

  Georg Solti

  Religious, Practice, Rebel

  Georg Solti, Harvey Sachs (1997). “Solti on Solti: a memoir”, Vintage

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• It will be a shame if either side lose, and that applies to both sides.

  Jock Brown

  Soccer, Football, Sides

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• Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory.

  Warren Christopher

  Unconditional Love, Sides, Release

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• If we follow the traditional way of thought, there will always be traditional enemies. Extremist circles from both sides will find causes to give rise to problems.

  Fatos Nano

  Two Sides, Circles, Giving

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• Don't judge without having heard both sides. Even persons who think themselves virtuous very easily forget this elementary rule of prudence.

  Josemaria Escriva

  Thinking, Judging, Sides

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• Most of the methods of training the conscious side of the writer-the craftsman and the critic in him- are actually hostile to the good of the artist's side; and the converse of this proposition is likewise true. But it is possible to train both sides of the character to work in harmony, and the first step in that education is to consider that you must teach yourself not as though you were one person, but two.

  Dorothea Brande

  Character, Artist, Two

  Dorothea Brande (2016). “Becoming a Writer”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• From the viewpoint of absolute truth, what we feel and experience in our ordinary daily life is all delusion. Of all the various delusions, the sense of discrimination between oneself and others is the worst form, as it creates nothing but unpleasantness for both sides. If we can realize and meditate on ultimate truth, it will cleanse our impurities of mind and thus eradicate the sense of discrimination. This will help to create true love for one another. The search for ultimate truth is, therefore, vitally important.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Important, Ordinary

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• To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

  Idries Shah

  Two Sides, Way, Problem

  Idries Shah (1983). “Reflections”, p.58, Octagon Press Ltd

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• I devote my life to the rebirth of the Jewish State, with a Jewish majority, on both sides of the Jordan.

  Ze'ev Jabotinsky

  Majority, Jordan, Sides

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• There is a creative act involved by the receiver as well as by the sender and that makes for innovation. Both sides are equally important.

  Kirk Varnedoe

  Creative, Innovation, Important

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• Our judgment will always suspect those weapons that can be used with equal prospect of success on both sides.

  William Godwin

  Peace, Weapons, Sides

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• Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

  Joseph Wambaugh

  Emotional, People, Manipulation

  Interview with Ann Bruns, www.bookreporter.com. May 17, 2002.

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• Look at it! It's a once in a lifetime opportunity, man! Let me go out there and let me get one wave, just one wave before you take me in. I mean, come on man, where I am I gonna go? Cliffs on both sides! I'm not gonna paddle my way to New Zealand! Come on, compadre. Come on!

  Patrick Swayze

  Mean, Opportunity, Men

  "Fictional character: Bodhi". "Point Break", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• A belief in moral absolutes should always make us more, not less, critical of both sides in any conflict. This doesn't mean that both sides are equally wrong; it means that since we all fall short of moral perfection, even the side whose cause is truly righteous may commit terrible acts of violence in defense of that cause -- and, worse, may feel quite justified in committing them. That is the difference between being righteous and being self-righteous. Moral standards are absolute; but human fidelity to them is always relative.

  Joseph Sobran

  Fall, Mean, Self

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• My goal was to show the history of the end of the Cold War through both sides - the U.S. side and the Soviet side. I really felt that especially the Soviet side of the story hadn't been well told because we didn't know.

  David E. Hoffman

  War, Goal, Stories

  "'Next to Normal' wins Pulitzer Prize for drama" by Michael Kuchwara, www.today.com. April 13, 2010.

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• There are all these new books out there portraying Asian mothers as scheming, callous, overdriven people indifferent to their kids' true interests. For their part, many Chinese secretly believe that they care more about their children and are willing to sacrifice much more for them than Westerners, who seem perfectly content to let their children turn out badly. I think it's a misunderstanding on both sides. All decent parents want to do what's best for their children. The Chinese just have a totally different idea of how to do that.

  Amy Chua

  Mother, Children, Believe

  "But Will It All Make 'Tiger Mom' Happy?" by Janet Maslin, www.nytimes.com. January 19, 2011.

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• Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

  Chen Shui-bian

  Wisdom, Peace, Opportunity

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• Tears and fears and feeling proud
  To say I love you, right out loud
  Dreams and schemes and circus crowds
  I've looked at life that way.
  But now old friends are acting strange
  They shake their heads, they say I've changed
  Something's lost, but something's gained
  In living every day
  I've looked at life from both sides now
  From win and lose, and still somehow
  It's life's illusions I recall
  I really don't know life at all

  Joni Mitchell

  Dream, Song, Love You

  "Both Sides Now" (song) (1967)

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• Although the theater is not life, it is composed of fragments or imitations of life, and people on both sides of the footlight have to unite to make the fragments whole and the imitations genuine.

  Brooks Atkinson

  People, Theatre, Sides

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• American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story.

  Denis Halliday

  Country, Media, White

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• This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

  Raymond Evershed, 1st Baron Evershed

  Paper, Sides, Contracts

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