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Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
Ayn Rand
A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat
others.
Ayn Rand
A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal
which is worth achieving.
Ayn Rand
Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that
happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity,
since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.
Ayn Rand
Ask yourself whether the dream of heaven and greatness should be waiting for us in
our graves - or whether it should be ours here and now and on this earth.
Ayn Rand
Civilization is the progress toward a society of privacy. The savage's whole existence
is public, ruled by the laws of his tribe. Civilization is the process of setting man free
from men.
Ayn Rand
Contradictions do not exist. Whenever you think you are facing a contradiction,
check your premises. You will find that one of them is wrong.
Ayn Rand
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither
power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
Ayn Rand
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a
precondition of rebirth.
Ayn Rand
Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no
power to escape the necessity of choice.
Ayn Rand
Force and mind are opposites; morality ends where a gun begins.
Ayn Rand
From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to
the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute
of man - the function of his reasoning mind.
Ayn Rand
God... a being whose only definition is that he is beyond man's power to conceive.
Ayn Rand
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another
man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
If any civilization is to survive, it is the morality of altruism that men have to reject.
Ayn Rand
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
I swear, by my life and my love of it, that I will never live for the sake of another
man, nor ask another man to live for mine.
Ayn Rand
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the
government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by
permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of
rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
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Individual rights are not subject to a public vote; a majority has no right to vote
away the rights of a minority; the political function of rights is precisely to protect
minorities from oppression by majorities (and the smallest minority on earth is the
individual).
Ayn Rand
It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the
sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man
who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be
the master.
Ayn Rand
Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to
translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which
means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand
Love is the expression of one's values, the greatest reward you can earn for the
moral qualities you have achieved in your character and person, the emotional price
paid by one man for the joy he receives from the virtues of another.
Ayn Rand
Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves
to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.
Ayn Rand
Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent
to their reason.
Ayn Rand
Money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as
the driver.
Ayn Rand
Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth, the man who would make
his fortune no matter where he started.
Ayn Rand
People create their own questions because they are afraid to look straight. All you
have to do is look straight and see the road, and when you see it, don't sit looking at
it - walk.
Ayn Rand
Reason is not automatic. Those who deny it cannot be conquered by it. Do not count
on them. Leave them alone.
Ayn Rand
Run for your life from any man who tells you that money is evil. That sentence is the
leper's bell of an approaching looter.
Ayn Rand
So you think that money is the root of all evil. Have you ever asked what is the root
of all money?
Ayn Rand
The hardest thing to explain is the glaringly evident which everybody had decided
not to see.
Ayn Rand
The man who lets a leader prescribe his course is a wreck being towed to the scrap
heap.
Ayn Rand
The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well,
when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things
to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand
The purpose of morality is to teach you, not to suffer and die, but to enjoy yourself
and live.
Ayn Rand
The question isn't who is going to let me; it's who is going to stop me.
Ayn Rand
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights
cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand
The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.
Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the
middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand
There is a level of cowardice lower than that of the conformist: the fashionable non-
conformist.
Ayn Rand
Throughout the centuries there were men who took first steps, down new roads,
armed with nothing but their own vision.
Ayn Rand
To achieve, you need thought. You have to know what you are doing and that's real
power.
Ayn Rand
To say "I love you" one must first be able to say the "I."
Ayn Rand
Upper classes are a nation's past; the middle class is its future.
Ayn Rand
We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the
government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by
permission; which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of
rule by brute force.
Ayn Rand
When man learns to understand and control his own behavior as well as he is
learning to understand and control the behavior of crop plants and domestic animals,
he may be justified in believing that he has become civilized.
Ayn Rand
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and
the other is wrong, but the middle is always evil.
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What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and
the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And
that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
Many marriages would be better if the husband and the wife clearly understood that
they are on the same side.
Zig Ziglar
O' What may man within him hide, though angel on the outward side!
William Shakespeare
Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to pause and
reflect.
Mark Twain
If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are
backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up
imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis
I always like to look on the optimistic side of life, but I am realistic enough to know
that life is a complex matter.
Walt Disney
Justice cannot be for one side alone, but must be for both.
Eleanor Roosevelt
It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters
most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions.
Jim Rohn
A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are
less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler whom they consider god-fearing
and pious. On the other hand, they do less easily move against him, believing that
he has the gods on his side.
Aristotle
There are two sides to every issue: one side is right and the other is wrong, but the
middle is always evil.
Ayn Rand
I don't stand for the black man's side, I don' t stand for the white man's side.I stand
for God's side.
Bob Marley
I was a peripheral visionary. I could see the future, but only way off to the side.
Steven Wright
The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world
upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has
never been the same.
Billy Graham
The chief reason for going to school is to get the impression fixed for life that there is
a book side for everything.
Robert Frost
Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.
Norman Vincent Peale
Every fact is related on one side to sensation, and, on the other, to morals. The
game of thought is, on the appearance of one of these two sides, to find the other:
given the upper, to find the under side.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.
Voltaire
Really, if I'm gonna eat a meat, I'd rather eat venison than anything and I do like it
a little on the rare side. That's probably my favorite meat and I've had some awfully
good venison in some of the great restaurants.
Mike Ditka
The abilities of man must fall short on one side or the other, like too scanty a blanket
when you are abed. If you pull it upon your shoulders, your feet are left bare; if you
thrust it down to your feet, your shoulders are uncovered.
Thomas Paine
By rendering the labor of one, the property of the other, they cherish pride, luxury,
and vanity on one side; on the other, vice and servility, or hatred and revolt.
James Madison
We've finally given liberals a war against fundamentalism, and they don't want to
fight it. They would, except it would put them on the same side as the United States.
Ann Coulter
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding
oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
On the same bill and on the same side of it there should not be two charges for the
same thing.
Stephen Leacock
On September 11 2001, America felt its vulnerability even to threats that gather on
the other side of the Earth. We resolved then, and we are resolved today, to confront
every threat from any source that could bring sudden terror and suffering to
America.
George W. Bush
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done as easily lying
down .
Woody Allen
The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the
roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.
Douglas MacArthur
The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side,
but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them.
George Orwell
There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins.
Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less
for reaction.
George Orwell
But audio is a component of video, so there's always been that anyway, and
although we've never expressed a visual side apart from the Grateful Dead movie, I
don't find it that remote, you know what I mean? It's a departure of sorts, but it's
like a first cousin.
Jerry Garcia
Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite
distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving
the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole
against the sky.
Rainer Maria Rilke
All emotions are pure which gather you and lift you up; that emotion is impure which
seizes only one side of your being and so distorts you.
Rainer Maria Rilke
There are times in politics when you must be on the right side and lose.
John Kenneth Galbraith
Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe.
When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.
P. J. O'Rourke
John's time and effort were, in the main, spent on pretty honorable stuff. As for the
other side, well, nobody's perfect, nobody's Jesus. And look what they did to him.
Paul McCartney
The price one pays for pursuing any profession, or calling, is an intimate knowledge
of its ugly side.
James A. Baldwin
A lot of good has come from drugs. I think 'Penny Lane' is worth 10 dead kids. Dark
Side of the Moon is worth 100 dead kids. Because a lot of kids wouldn't even be born
if it weren't for that album, so it evens out.
Bill Maher
The only place that the left hasn't placed the blame is on their agenda, so some
advice for our friends on that side of the aisle: that's where you've gotta look
because that's what got you into this mess.
Sarah Palin
Can anything be stupider than that a man has the right to kill me because he lives
on the other side of a river and his ruler has a quarrel with mine, though I have not
quarrelled with him?
Blaise Pascal
Deliberation, n.: The act of examining one's bread to determine which side it is
buttered on.
Ambrose Bierce
Love always brings difficulties, that is true, but the good side of it is that it gives
energy.
Vincent Van Gogh
Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of
gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a
certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Boredom is just the reverse side of fascination: both depend on being outside rather
than inside a situation, and one leads to the other.
Arthur Schopenhauer
That's the trouble with being me. At this point, nobody gives a damn what my
problem is. I could literally have a tumor on the side of my head and they'd be like,
'Yeah, big deal. I'd eat a tumor every morning for the kinda money you're pulling
down.'
Jim Carrey
There are three side effects of acid: enhanced long-term memory, decreased short-
term memory, and I forget the third.
Timothy Leary
A lot of times people look at the negative side of what they feel they can't do. I
always look on the positive side of what I can do.
Chuck Norris
My wife is so analytical with raising kids, and I am not. My feeling is if they turn out
good, then that means I was a good daddy and put a lot of effort into it. If they turn
out bad, it means they took after her side of the family.
Jeff Foxworthy
I've been to all 50 states, and traveled this whole country, and 90 percent of the
people are good folks. The rest of them take after the other side of the family.
Jeff Foxworthy
If you have a complete set of salad bowls and they all say Kool Whip on the side, you
might be a redneck.
Jeff Foxworthy
God has placed no limits to the exercise of the intellect he has given us, on this side
of the grave.
Francis Bacon
If we had a keen vision of all that is ordinary in human life, it would be like hearing
the grass grow or the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which is
the other side of silence.
George Eliot
Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of
experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?
George Eliot
In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once
inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address
they eventually live in the metropolis.
Quentin Crisp
If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the
oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are
neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.
Desmond Tutu
Enraging liberals is simply one of the more enjoyable side effects of my wisdom.
Rush Limbaugh
There's a hunger and a fervor that I have, but there's no person I'm going to push to
the side to get where I'm going. I want to create my own road.
Drew Barrymore
The best that we can do is to be kindly and helpful toward our friends and fellow
passengers who are clinging to the same speck of dirt while we are drifting side by
side to our common doom.
Clarence Darrow
America will always side with those whom she can direct, give orders to and have
those orders obeyed.
Louis Farrakhan
Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you!
Nikita Khrushchev
Once people see this 'Unplugged,' I just want them to feel the spontaneity, to feel
passionate... I want you to see another side of me, that's free, and feel where my
head is, where whatever happens, happens. I want you to feel inspired.
Alicia Keys
Small debts are like small shot; they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be
escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon; of loud noise, but little
danger.
Samuel Johnson
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.
Al Gore
I believe the record I was allowed to help establish by the side of the president was
important.
Rahm Emanuel
Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the
person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the
side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.
Simone Weil
Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up
and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law
follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm
of death.
Horace
I once shook hands with Pat Boone and my whole right side sobered up.
Dean Martin
Everybody has a job to do. There are people in Iraq on both sides of this war who do
what they do for religious reasons, and they feel with God on their side. Some people
are good at annihilating people. Maybe that's their gift.
Denzel Washington
Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing
the other side and defending it.
Gertrude Stein
In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had
particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the
origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time.
Hideki Tojo
The stores and the things like that, the business side of things came out at the point
when, I'd say probably in the early '70s, it looked like the year of the singer-
songwriter was over, 'cause music changed in our time and the spotlight was out.
Jimmy Buffett
I sing seriously to my mom on the phone. To put her to sleep, I have to sing "Maria"
from West Side Story. When I hear her snoring, I hang up.
Adam Sandler
It's a matter of taking the side of the weak against the strong, something the best
people have always done.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.
Ken Kesey
I have nothing to ask but that you would remove to the other side, that you may
not, by intercepting the sunshine, take from me what you cannot give.
Diogenes
That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously,
it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's
awesome either way.
Bode Miller
We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When
our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know
nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from
Nepal.
V. S. Naipaul
Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right
side up.
Billy Sunday
You have to have conviction and completely question everything and anything you
do. No matter how much you study, no matter how much you know, the side of your
brain that has the smarts won't necessarily help you in making art.
Maya Lin
Fairness forces you - even when you're writing a piece highly critical of, say,
genetically modified food, as I have done - to make sure you represent the other
side as extensively and as accurately as you possibly can.
Michael Pollan
I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.
Saul Bellow
You should be able to voice your opinion and respect the voice of the other side. You
should be willing to educate yourself and know what it is you're dealing with.
Steve Nash
Those days if you drove cross country and you broke down on the side of the road,
and the sign says 200 miles to the next gas station, you knew you were so screwed.
Rob Zombie
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that.
John Stuart Mill
A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.
Joseph Conrad
Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the
car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.
Richard Widmark
An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the
case. God has written all the books.
Samuel Butler
I'm lying in my bed, blanket is warm, this body will never keep me safe from harm. I
still feel your hair, black ribbons of coal. Touch my skin to keep me whole. If only
you'd come back to me. To feel you at my side, wouldn't need no Mojo Pin to keep
me satisfied.
Jeff Buckley
I had a wonderful contact, especially with Uncle Bert who was an angel and led the
whole group over to my side of a steep ravine I could not cross to get over to them.
Dian Fossey
With the crowds on your side, it's easier to play up to your potential.
Julius Erving
Our country presents on every side the evidences of that continued favor under
whose auspices it, has gradually risen from a few feeble and dependent colonies to a
prosperous and powerful confederacy.
Martin Van Buren
The only way I'd worry about the weather is if it snows on our side of the field and
not theirs.
Tommy Lasorda
The negative side of football. The negative side of our society. People sometimes go
to football and bring to it the negative aspects of our society.
Jose Mourinho
The man who has planned badly, if fortune is on his side, may have had a stroke of
luck; but his plan was a bad one nonetheless.
Herodotus
Conservatives unwittingly side with the social forces that contribute to the
destruction of traditional values.
Christopher Lasch
At the side of the everlasting why, is a yes, and a yes, and a yes.
E. M. Forster
It just seems to be a human trait to want to protect the speech of people with whom
we agree. For the First Amendment, that is not good enough. So it is really
important that we protect First Amendment rights of people no matter what side of
the line they are on.
Floyd Abrams
Television knows no night. It is perpetual day. TV embodies our fear of the dark, of
night, of the other side of things.
Jean Baudrillard
Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.
Lord Chesterfield
If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need
not fear what their reason can do against you.
Lord Chesterfield
The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape
hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without
too much apparent loss of face.
Sydney J. Harris
When there's people on the other side of the room trying to wipe out your life and
things are stacked against you, you can get nervous.
Jello Biafra
The liberals in the House strongly resemble liberals I have known through the last
two decades in the civil rights conflict. When it comes time to show on which side
they will be counted, they excuse themselves.
Shirley Chisholm
I've just finished my next collection, Possible Side Effects, and I'm now working on a
collection of holiday stories as well as a memoir about my relationship with my
father.
Augusten Burroughs
I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman's equality with man
that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
You got to look on the bright side, even if there ain't one.
Dashiell Hammett
A man must be both stupid and uncharitable who believes there is no virtue or truth
but on his own side.
Joseph Addison
A social problem is one that concerns the way in which people live together in one
society. A racial problem is a problem which confronts two different races who live in
two separate societies, even if those societies are side by side.
Pauline Hanson
We're really quite nice and friendly, but everyone has a beastly side to them, don't
they?
Sid Vicious
I was very much on the mathematical side, where you probably do your best work
before you're forty-five. Having passed that significant date, I thought I would do
something else.
John Polkinghorne
We started playing music from an early age and so we wasn't really aware of that
side of it, the weird thing is the more successful you get the more free booze and
drugs you get, they should be given to the bands who don't have the money.
Ville Valo
It's a great moment for Argentinean tennis, more on the men's side. I would like to
see more on the women's side. I think we have to work a little bit more on that.
Gabriela Sabatini
Marketing is what gets you noticed, and that side of it something - this side of it, if
you like, doing interviews - is the side of it that I least enjoy, and yet is 50% of the
project.
Rowan Atkinson
The chess-board is the world, the pieces are the phenomena of the universe, the
rules of the game are what we call the laws of Nature. The player on the other side is
hidden from us.
Thomas Huxley
When the Constitution gave us the right to bear arms, it also made us responsible for
using them properly. It's not fair of us as citizens to lean more heavily on one side of
that equation than on the other.
Jesse Ventura
I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five
leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more
than ten leagues.
Christopher Columbus
Take a walk on the wild side.
Lou Reed
I certainly wasn't able to get it when I was a kid growing up on the Lower East Side;
it was very hard at that time for me to balance what I really believed was the right
way to live with the violence I saw all around me - I saw too much of it among the
people I knew.
Martin Scorsese
There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and
thither side of vital experience.
Rebecca West
All the business of war, and indeed all the business of life, is to endeavour to find out
what you don't know by what you do; that's what I called 'guess what was at the
other side of the hill'.
Duke of Wellington
Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means
to side with the powerful, not to be neutral.
Paulo Freire
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
Oscar Levant
I think the thing's that perhaps sad really is that younger people haven't come in and
I think it must have been absolutely fantastic to have worked in the 50's when you
had all of the great Broadway composers and when West Side Story didn't win the
Tony Award.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
The Arena League is the best thing that could have happened to me because I get to
run the whole process. I'm seeing not only the football side but the business side.
John Elway
The winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
Edward Gibbon
I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from
either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.
Mother Jones
The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets.
In the end, bayonets always win.
Mother Jones
The left side of my brain is telling me I want to sleep with every woman in the world
and the other side of my brain is telling me I met this great girl and if I let that go
I'm going to regret it.
Scott Caan
If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side
of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there,
but no better.
Galen Rowell
They may have turned this up, whether you had the Paula Jones case or not. But
again maybe not, but again that's like if a frog had side pockets he'd probably wear a
handgun.
Dan Rather
Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the
right side.
Baltasar Gracian
Shiloh is a wonderfully dramatic battle. The leader of one side is killed, and the other
one is going on to glory, and it was the first great battle. It lasted two days.
Shelby Foote
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.
Greta Garbo
All those authors there, most of whom of course I've never met. That's the poetry
side, that's the prose side, that's the fishing and miscellaneous behind me. You get
an affection for books that you've enjoyed.
Norman MacCaig
On the whole, I am on the side of the unregenerate who affirms the worth of life as
an end in itself, as against the saints who deny it.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter
how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
Billie Jean King
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts
of the sport. I love the business side.
Billie Jean King
No nation can rise to the height of glory unless your women are side by side with
you.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
No struggle can ever succeed without women participating side by side with men.
Muhammad Ali Jinnah
At the outset, at least, all three groups had something else to recommend them, as
well: They were headquartered 3,000 miles away from the East Side of Manhattan.
Tom Wolfe
I identify with women more than men. I guess I have a strong feminine side.
Lenny Kravitz
We know now that in modern warfare, fought on any considerable scale, there can
be no possible economic gain for any side. Win or lose, there is nothing but waste
and destruction.
Lester B. Pearson
Well, the reports are correct that we're conducting very robust military operations on
the Afghan side of the border in areas where we think al-Qaida is operating and
Taliban remnants are.
John Abizaid
I don't like to talk about things where you're going to gt one side or the other
unhappy. My music has no politics.
Loretta Lynn
When the baby dies, On every side Rose stranger's voices, hard and harsh and loud.
The baby was not wrapped in any shroud. The mother made no sound. Her head was
bowed That men's eyes might not see Her misery.
Helen Hunt Jackson
I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I
love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
Vanessa Hudgens
I watched Janis one time - we opened for her - and that's the only time I ever saw
her. We opened for Jimi Hendrix. I got to stand on the side of the stage and watch
him for two hours and then he died. But I got the essence before they left.
Stevie Nicks
I hope to live long enough to see my surviving comrades march side by side with the
Union veterans along Pennsylvania Avenue, and then I will die happy.
James Longstreet
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?
Imogen Cunningham
Look at the product pipeline, look at the fantastic financial results we've had for the
last five years. You only get that kind of performance on the innovation side, on the
financial side, if you're really listening and reacting to the best ideas of the people we
have.
Steve Ballmer
This big part flies off on the floor. The other part goes like this and lands in my foot!
Standing up! It's standing in my foot! Right in the side of my foot. The flute glass. I
think I'm like in one of my own pictures.
Danny DeVito
Will we fight or will we retreat? That is the question that is posed to us. Some of my
friends on the other side of the aisle often refer to Iraq as a distraction.
John Boehner
And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low
cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high
cholesterol.
Mark Spitz
The only side effect of too much training is that you get into better shape. There is
nothing wrong with that.
Mark Spitz
And I don't believe that I have to stay on one side of the fence or the other. I don't
believe that there is any good career move or bad career move. I believe there are
only the things that make me happy.
Whoopi Goldberg
I had a solo career before Van Halen. My fan base filtered through Van Halen with
me and came right on out the other side with me.
Sammy Hagar
I bet I made close to 20 tackles because nobody on either side knew what they were
doing.
Merlin Olsen
It's just that back then we didn't know that was considered being a coproducer. I
would sit on the side and say what I wanted musically, but at the time we thought if
you aren't the one playing it, you don't get the credit. Now you'll start seeing my
name listed as producer.
Missy Elliot
I'm surprised at the extent of the bigotry. But it really plays out when companies or
schools take a side and prohibit the other platform at all. We Mac users should be
good even when the other side is bad. We should do what we can to accept the other
platforms.
Steve Wozniak
You wouldn't believe that I still have the bikers with the caps to the side at my door,
ringing the doorbell.
Tina Turner
I guess I just prefer to see the dark side of things. The glass is always half empty.
And cracked. And I just cut my lip on it. And chipped a tooth.
Janeane Garofalo
Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth
with falsehood, for the good or evil side.
James Russell Lowell
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.
Willa Cather
First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side
is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
The two most precious things this side of the grave are our reputation and our life.
But it is to be lamented that the most contemptible whisper may deprive us of the
one, and the weakest weapon of the other.
Charles Caleb Colton
I get my best ideas in a thunderstorm. I have the power and majesty of nature on
my side.
Ralph Steadman
xxx Constant success shows us but one side of the world; adversity brings out the
reverse of the picture.
Charles Caleb Colton
What I would do is when I was younger I would draw in a sketch book something
that happened in my life and then write a little something on the side about what
happened or what the story.
Robert Redford
Let him who expects one class of society to prosper in the highest degree, while the
other is in distress, try whether one side; of the face can smile while the other is
pinched.
Thomas Fuller
I hope we can keep doing it this way - making music and art that are pure products
of our influences while not really having to let the whole celebrity side of it get in the
way. Then maybe more virtual bands will come out and do the same thing.
Damon Albarn
But when we place God on our side of things, that we are now ridding the world of
evil - that's very dangerous, that one nation has this role to rid the world of evil.
What about the evil we have committed, that we are complicit in?
Jim Wallis
xxx Every man wants a woman to appeal to his better side, his nobler instincts, and
his higher nature - and another woman to help him forget them.
Helen Rowland
I'd love to play a villain in a movie, the kind of bad guy you would never think of me
being able to play. Like most people, I have a darker side I'd like to explore
onscreen.
Garth Brooks
And remember, it's also very funny, because side by side with grief lies joy.
Fran Drescher
The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the
victim.
Kevin Mitnick
The enemy is anybody who's going to get you killed, no matter which side he's on.
Joseph Heller
It is not worth the paper it is written on unless it is backed by the kind of force that
will make the other side consider the penalties too heavy to break the agreement.
Yitzhak Rabin
I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.
Mary-Kate Olsen
Brian and I were both science students. You know science sort of math and physics
side, you know.
John Deacon
The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is
dying out.
Walter Benjamin
Changes in the traditional way of building are only permitted if they are an
improvement. Otherwise stay with what is traditional, for truth, even if it be
hundreds of years old has a stronger inner bond with us than the lie that walks by
our side.
Adolf Loos
With optimism, you look upon the sunny side of things. People say, 'Studs, you're an
optimist.' I never said I was an optimist. I have hope because what's the alternative
to hope? Despair? If you have despair, you might as well put your head in the oven.
Studs Terkel
Leadership is the other side of the coin of loneliness, and he who is a leader must
always act alone. And acting alone, accept everything alone.
Ferdinand Marcos
Lets not push it under the rug, or push it to the side because, no matter what, it's
going to keep coming up. You know, if you never deal with that dirt up under the
carpet, it's going to get larger and larger, and it's going to keep coming up.
Herschel Walker
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
Alan Bennett
Painting is sometimes like those recipes where you do all manner of elaborate things
to a duck, and then end up putting it on one side and only using the skin.
Lucian Freud
The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them
irrespective of subject matter.
Lucian Freud
Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a
song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every
human ought to have.
Sean O'Casey
I'm writing new songs for a Broadway version of Tarzan, which is very interesting. I
think what I learned from the Brother Bear score side of things, I've brought into the
new Tarzan songs. Thinking outside just guitar, bass, drums and keyboards.
Phil Collins
I've found a more personal, pagan kind of religion to satisfy the spiritual side of
things.
Julian Clary
We had an apartment on west side of Central Park. The rent was very reasonable.
We found out later that it belonged to a gangster called Legs Diamond and it was a
front to his headquarters. It was fine.
James Stewart
People do not realise that many of my works are done in urban places. I was brought
up on the edge of Leeds, five miles from the city centre-on one side were fields and
on the other, the city.
Andy Goldsworthy
If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over.
Bolt up at once.
Walter Scott
If you can't laugh at yourself, then how can you laugh at anybody else? I think
people see the human side of you when you do that.
Payne Stewart
In debate, one randomly was assigned to one side or the other. This had at least one
virtue - it made one see that there was more than one side to these complex issues.
Joseph E. Stiglitz
If the terrorists have the sympathy of people, it's much harder to find them. So we
need people on our side, and that leads us to be responsible leaders of the world,
show some concern with the problems.
George Soros
Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side
of a house.
Edward Hopper
It's a terrible thing to go through life thinking that you have a rock on your side
when you haven't.
Maria Callas
We began building this incredible new foundation in this restaurant, and that's what
began giving me the left-hand side of tradition and the right-hand side, my new
palate.
Emeril Lagasse
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I
did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came
out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
Billy Corgan
And I'd like to give my love to everybody, and let them know that the grass may
look greener on the other side, but believe me, it's just as hard to cut.
Little Richard
So I sat down with him and portrayed more the side of the character he needed to
see. Which is what I do when I go in for an interview for a part I like. As much as
you think you're dealing with creative people, they see you for what your image is
out there.
Jennifer Lopez
I can see the humorous side of things and enjoy the fun when it comes; but look
where I will, there seems to me always more sadness than joy in life.
Jerome K. Jerome
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.
Julian Bond
From the first moment on the set I was consumed with curiousity about the technical
side of shooting a sound picture.
Gloria Swanson
Wait a minute, guys, I have always been on your side. I have always spoken for you,
always tried to put on a good face for the state of Indiana. All of a sudden, some of
you people think I'm a bad guy?
John Mellencamp
The decision to use only the name Christo was made deliberately when we were
young because it is difficult for one artist to get established and we wanted to put all
the chances on our side.
Christo
I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me.
Portia de Rossi
God is on everyone's side... and in the last analysis, he is on the side with plenty of
money and large armies.
Jean Anouilh
Obviously, the greater the length of a war the higher is likely to be the number of
casualties in it on either side.
Douglas Haig
I don't hang out with agents and producers and I'm not into the business side at all.
Winona Ryder
We never thought it would be something everyone would listen to. We never thought
people who listen to Britney Spears would run to listen to it. It was intended for
people on the fanatical side of production and hi-fi.
Wayne Coyne
There are many different kinds of radioactive waste and each has its own half-life so,
just to be on the safe side and to simplify matters, I base my calculations on the
worst one and that's plutonium.
David R. Brower
I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that
Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't
side with. I think that's been the problem.
Glenn Danzig
Well, there's no doubt about the fact that, that higher energy prices lead to greater
conservation, greater energy efficiency, and they also, of course, play a useful role
on the supply side.
John W. Snow
Eve was not taken out of Adam's head to top him, neither out of his feet to be
trampled on by him, but out of his side to be equal with him, under his arm to be
protected by him, and near his heart to be loved by him.
Matthew Henry
The negative side to globalization is that it wipes out entire economic systems and in
doing so wipes out the accompanying culture.
Peter L. Berger
People who are friends with me and who know me, know a side of me that is totally
not cold.
Bernhard Langer
Be able to recognize when you're reading or hearing material biased to your own
side.
Marilyn vos Savant
xxx All men wish to have truth on their side; but few to be on the side of truth.
Richard Whately
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are
losers.
Neville Chamberlain
When you're a mother and you have a son, you hide your feminine side. It's the fear
of incest, Oedipus.
Jeanne Moreau
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
Mac Thornberry
All too often arrogance accompanies strength, and we must never assume that
justice is on the side of the strong. The use of power must always be accompanied
by moral choice.
Theodore Bikel
Men are like the earth and we are the moon; we turn always one side to them, and
they think there is no other, because they don't see it - but there is.
Olive Schreiner
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is
admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.
Adolf Hitler
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.
Roger Ebert
We must have our say, not through violence, aggression or fear. We must speak out
calmly and forcefully. We shall only be able to enter the new world era if we agree to
engage in dialogue with the other side.
Tahar Ben Jelloun
I can pretty much get in touch with my evil side pretty easily.
Kelly Hu
After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care
reform is no longer an unmet promise. It is the law of the land.
Barack Obama
Al Qaeda is still a threat. We cannot pretend somehow that because Barack Hussein
Obama got elected as president, suddenly everything is going to be OK.
Barack Obama
America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they
overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the
dignity of all human beings.
Barack Obama
Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible - they just don't
think their leaders do.
Barack Obama
As a nuclear power - as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon - the
United States has a moral responsibility to act.
Barack Obama
xxx Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We
are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
Contrary to the claims of some of my critics and some of the editorial pages, I am an
ardent believer in the free market.
Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It
asks too little of yourself. Because it's only when you hitch your wagon to something
larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
Barack Obama
I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a
year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not
your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes.
Barack Obama
I don't care whether you're driving a hybrid or an SUV. If you're headed for a cliff,
you have to change direction. That's what the American people called for in
November, and that's what we intend to deliver.
Barack Obama
I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to
is a rash war.
Barack Obama
I don't take a dime of their [lobbyist] money, and when I am president, they won't
find a job in my White House.
Barack Obama
I found this national debt, doubled, wrapped in a big bow waiting for me as I stepped
into the Oval Office.
Barack Obama
I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the
promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of
mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up
to our best intentions.
Barack Obama
I opposed the Defense of Marriage Act in 1996. It should be repealed and I will vote
for its repeal on the Senate floor. I will also oppose any proposal to amend the U.S.
Constitution to ban gays and lesbians from marrying.
Barack Obama
I think it is important for Europe to understand that even though I am president and
George Bush is not president, Al Qaeda is still a threat.
Barack Obama
I think when you spread the wealth around it's good for everybody.
Barack Obama
I will cut taxes - cut taxes - for 95 percent of all working families, because, in an
economy like this, the last thing we should do is raise taxes on the middle class.
Barack Obama
I've been fighting with Acorn, alongside Acorn, on issues you care about, my entire
career.
Barack Obama
I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of
all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished
with a baby.
Barack Obama
xxx If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to
protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.
Barack Obama
xxx If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking,
eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama
It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have
just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we
leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
Barack Obama
It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to
people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a
way to explain their frustrations.
Barack Obama
Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to
be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you
have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America.
Barack Obama
My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks.
Barack Obama
My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the
possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed,
believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success.
Barack Obama
No one is pro-abortion.
Barack Obama
One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian
population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a
Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals
and a set of values.
Barack Obama
We have real enemies in the world. These enemies must be found. They must be
pursued and they must be defeated.
Barack Obama
We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure
that we are not spending money unwisely.
Barack Obama
We need somebody who's got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to
be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or
African-American or gay or disabled or old - and that's the criterion by which I'll be
selecting my judges.
Barack Obama
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time
trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy
cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to
accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential.
Barack Obama
We proved that we are still a people capable of doing big things and tackling our
biggest challenges.
Barack Obama
We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we don't like federal agents
poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue
States and have gay friends in the Red States.
Barack Obama
What do you think a stimulus is? It's spending - that's the whole point! Seriously.
Barack Obama
What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and
the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And
that's just not what the founders intended.
Barack Obama
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to
mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of
threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans - an avian flu
pandemic.
Barack Obama
Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed
without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions
require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative
enforcement.
Barack Obama
With the changing economy, no one has lifetime employment. But community
colleges provide lifetime employability.
Barack Obama
You will not see any of your taxes increase one single dime.
Barack Obama
Even the rich are hungry for love, for being cared for, for being wanted, for having
someone to call their own.
Mother Teresa
I am a little pencil in the hand of a writing God who is sending a love letter to the
world.
Mother Teresa
I have found the paradox, that if you love until it hurts, there can be no more hurt,
only more love.
Mother Teresa
I know God will not give me anything I can't handle. I just wish that He didn't trust
me so much.
Mother Teresa
I try to give to the poor people for love what the rich could get for money. No, I
wouldn't touch a leper for a thousand pounds; yet I willingly cure him for the love of
God.
Mother Teresa
I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next
door neighbor?
Mother Teresa
If we want a love message to be heard, it has got to be sent out. To keep a lamp
burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.
Mother Teresa
A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and
what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.
Thomas Jefferson
A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the
gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise
and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that
nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your
gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.
Thomas Jefferson
A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own
pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor
the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.
Thomas Jefferson
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
Thomas Jefferson
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is
in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority
possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be
oppression.
Thomas Jefferson
An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has
never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting
or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson
As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can
fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson
Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most
abhorrent is body without mind.
Thomas Jefferson
Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of
years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often
in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.
Thomas Jefferson
But friendship is precious, not only in the shade, but in the sunshine of life, and
thanks to a benevolent arrangement the greater part of life is sunshine.
Thomas Jefferson
Commerce with all nations, alliance with none, should be our motto.
Thomas Jefferson
Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and
prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
Thomas Jefferson
Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own
accord.
Nikolai Gogol
Everywhere across whatever sorrows of which our life is woven, some radiant joy will
gaily flash past.
Nikolai Gogol
It is no use to blame the looking glass if your face is awry.
Nikolai Gogol
It's the most righteous, which of course is not the same thing as the most profitable.
Nikolai Gogol
Let me warn you, if you start chasing after views, you'll be left without bread and
without views.
Nikolai Gogol
The experience of ages has shown that a man who works on the land is purer,
nobler, higher, and more moral... Agriculture should be at the basis of everything.
That's my idea.
Nikolai Gogol
There are certain words which are nearer and dearer to a man than any others.
Nikolai Gogol
They're thinking of turning the peasant into an educated man. Why, first of all they
should make him a good and prosperous farmer and then he'll learn all that is
necessary for him to know.
Nikolai Gogol
We ought to thank God for that. Yes, the man who tills the land is more worthy of
respect than any.
Nikolai Gogol
You can't imagine how stupid the whole world has grown nowadays.
Nikolai Gogol