Sidelines Quotes - Page 4

• Under my leadership the Liberal Democrats would not be making polite interjections from the sidelines, we would be hammering on the doors of power.

  Menzies Campbell

  Doors, Would Be, Democrat

  Birmingham Post, January 21, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Time after time, on matters great and small, we are still standing on the sidelines, mutely accepting what is decided elsewhere instead of raising our voices and making our own choices. Scotland's much vaunted partnership of Jonah and the whale.

  Winnie Ewing

  Voice, Whales, Scotland

  Quoted in Michael Russell (ed) Stop the World: The Autobiography of Winnie Ewing (2004).

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• During the scrimmage, Tarkanian paced the sideline with his hands in his pockets while biting his nails.

  Jerry Tarkanian

  Stupid, Hands, Pockets

  9 Copy quote

• When we played against Dan Marino, the best defense was to keep him on the sideline. By keeping him on the sideline, you made him frustrated. You made him anxious. When he came on the field, he felt like he had to score every time. I think that is where Peyton Manning is.

  Boomer Esiason

  Sports, Thinking, Frustrated

  "5 Questions For Boomer Esiason". Interview with Andrew Marchand, nypost.com. November 24, 2006.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If you have not seen it, FOOTBALL is a game in which men shove one another back and forth for no reason. They do not choose how, when, or whom they shove. They are doing this in order to please one angry old man on the sidelines. This old man is called the 'coach' or 'yelling surrogate' dad who will never be happy.

  John Hodgman

  Football, Dad, Men

  John Hodgman (2012). “That is All”, p.58, Penguin

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets. That kind of spilled out into translation as a way to earn money, pay for food and put bread on the table.

  Paul Auster

  Tables, Pay, Way

  4 Copy quote

• I don't like writing straight-up thrillers. I like writing about families hurled into crisis and danger - soccer moms and regular dads and husbands who might have to rescue their daughters or who are, say, hedge fund managers and have one foot on the sidelines watching their kids and the other in nefarious cover-ups and conspiracies.

  Andrew Gross

  Soccer, Mom, Daughter

  52 Copy quote

• Sorry, investing was pretty boring and I really missed being part of building something. I felt like I was always standing on the sidelines, so Zappos... really liked the people there and got involved full-time and I've been full-time ever since.

  Tony Hsieh

  Sorry, People, Investing

  "Big Think Interview With Tony Hsieh". Interview with Peter Hopkins, bigthink.com. September 24, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My heart throbs and aches and, for once, it's not for myself. It's for all of us. It's for everyone who knows what it's like to be helpless, to have to watch on the sidelines, to be paralyzed, literally unable to do anything.

  Sarah Wylie

  Heart, Watches, Ache

  Sarah Wylie (2012). “All These Lives”, p.243, Macmillan

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• We do not serve a distant and detached God who spouts encouraging cliches safely from the sideline. Instead, he enters into our suffering. Jesus did it in the Incarnation and his Spirit does it in us now. God will never leave us alone in our suffering.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Suffering, Doe

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Dec 26, 2016

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyone can love peace, but Jesus didn't say, "Blessed are the peace-lovers." He says �peacemakers.� He is referring to a life vocation, not a hobby on the sidelines of life.

  Jim Wallis

  Life, Jesus, Peace

  20 Copy quote

• It is in the act of offering our hearts in faith that something in us transforms... proclaiming that we no longer stand on the sidelines but are leaping directly into the center of our lives, our truth, our full potential.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Faith, Heart, Offering

  6 Copy quote

• As the world's largest economy and second-largest carbon emitter, as a country with unsurpassed ability to drive innovation and scientific breakthroughs, as the country that people around the world continue to look to in times of crisis, we've got a vital role to play. We can't stand on the sidelines. We've got a unique responsibility.

  Barack Obama

  Country, Responsibility, Unique

  6 Copy quote

• Basically, I’m a musical vocalist, but I do voiceover stuff as a sideline, like plumbing or something.

  Iggy Pop

  Musical, Stuff, Plumbing

  5 Copy quote

• I get appalled when I see good drivers being left on the sidelines because they haven't come up with the half million to a million to put themselves in a competitive car.

  John Surtees

  Car, Half, Come Up

  12 Copy quote

• Sitting on the sidelines, cribbing and moaning is a lost opportunity. I don’t know how people who engage in that don’t commit suicide.

  Bertie Ahern

  Suicide, Opportunity, People

  "NAMA makes £150m on London deal" by Lisa O'Carroll, www.theguardian.com. March 9, 2011.

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• There have always been and there always will be the peripheral sideline activities which are a form of entertainment, which is to say you pay a couple of cents and you see something freakish. That is what reality TV is.

  Mike Leigh

  Couple, Reality, Pay

  "All Films Must Entertain". Interview with Max Miller, bigthink.com. October 7, 2010.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

  Frank-Walter Steinmeier

  Military, World Issues, Germany

  11 Copy quote

• People ask me what Nick (Saban) says to me on the sidelines. It is just, 'I love you so much. Can we just run some.'

  Lane Kiffin

  Running, Love You, People

  14 Copy quote

• I live to the rhythm of my country and I cannot remain on the sidelines. I want to be here. I want to be part of it. I want to be a witness. I want to walk arm in arm with it. I want to hear it more and more, to cradle it, to carry it like a medal on my chest. Activism is a constant element in my life, even though afterwards I anguish over not having written 'my own things.' Testimonial literature provides evidence of events that people would like to hide, denounces and therefore is political and part of a country in which everything remains to be done and documented.

  Elena Poniatowska

  Country, People, Political

  8 Copy quote

• You gain all of the rights and privileges and respects that are afforded the majority, and that's ultimately what matters for your kids, or anybody - because we're all innocent of the fact that we are the way we are. But it also means the ways that you coped, and the languages and narratives and points of view that you had no choice but to make from the sidelines - and that often carried with them really acute readings of dominant society - those no longer have the same need.

  Todd Haynes

  Reading, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• God is compassionate and just, loving and holy, wrathful and forgiving. WE can't sideline His more difficult attributes to make room for the palatable ones.

  Francis Chan

  Forgiving, Rooms, Holy

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.237, David C Cook

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• It is important that artists are not outside the equation, we don't stand on the sidelines. Artists are part of the story of a response, we cannot stand aside and let others make the response.

  Anish Kapoor

  Artist, Important, Stories

  "Ai Weiwei and Anish Kapoor lead London walk of compassion for refugees" by Mark Brown, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.

  Garrison Keillor

  Jobs, Zoos, Teaching

  Source: jonathanlowe.wordpress.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• What worries me sometimes in the culture is that the role for music that actually challenges and enlightens the audience is being pushed to the sidelines.

  Taylor Ho Bynum

  Worry, Challenges, Culture

  4 Copy quote