Quotes with side-steps

Quotes 121 till 140 of 351.

  • George Eliot If we had a keen vision and feeling of all ordinary human life, it would be like hearing the grass grow and the squirrel's heart beat, and we should die of that roar which lies on the other side of silence. As it is, the best of us walk about well wadded with stupidity.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
  • Alfred Kazin If we practiced medicine like we practice education, we'd look for the liver on the right side and left side in alternate years.
    - +
     0
  • Carolyn See If you are in any way squeamish or genteel, skip 'Gillespie and I.' If you'd like to know a little more about the seamy side of the human condition, by all means, pick this one up.
    Carolyn See
    American writer (1934 - 2016)
    - +
     0
  • Kofi Annan If you are neutral in a situation where one side is patently being mistreated, the conclusion is that you're siding with this wrong.
    Kofi Annan
    Ghanaian diplomat (1938 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Lord Chesterfield If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition (or whatever is their prevailing passion) on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.
    Lord Chesterfield
    English statesman, diplomat and writer (Philip Dormer Stanhope) (1694 - 1773)
    - +
     0
  • Sir Walter Scott If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
    Sir Walter Scott
    British writer and poet (1771 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • Quentin Crisp 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
    English writer and actor (1908 - 1999)
    - +
     0
  • Breyten Breytenbach In dancing with the enemy one follows his steps even if counting under one's breath.
    Breyten Breytenbach
    South African writer and painter (1939 - )
    - +
     0
  • Alex Cox In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius.
    Alex Cox
    English film director, screenwriter and actor (1954 - )
    - +
     0
  • Barbara Lynn In my relationship with a young guy I was going with in a band - his name was Sylvester, and I think he had another little girl on the side - I told him, 'If you lose me, you're going to lose a good thing.' And I went home and put that poem to music.
    - +
     0
  • Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe In politics, as on the sickbed, people toss from side to side, thinking they will be more comfortable.
    Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
    German writer and poet (1749 - 1832)
    - +
     0
  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it is more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • B. H. Liddell Hart In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
    B. H. Liddell Hart
    British soldier and military historian (1895 - 1970)
    - +
     0
  • Caprice Bourret In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
    - +
     0
  • Caprice Bourret In terms of my career, I am glad about the steps and moves that I have made. Because I would not want to blame anyone else but myself if anything goes wrong.
    Caprice Bourret
    American businesswoman, model and actress (1967 - )
    - +
     0
  • V.S. Naipaul In the beginning, before the arrival of the white men, I had considered myself neutral. I had wanted neither side to win, neither the army nor the rebels. As it turned out, both sides lost.
    A Bend in the River (2012) 52
    V.S. Naipaul
    Trinidad and Tobago-born British writer (1932 - 2018)
    - +
     0
  • Billy Corgan 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
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
    - +
     0
  • Gerald Holton In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
    - +
     0
  • Beth Behrs In today's world, most people are working side jobs while waiting to do what they really want to do.
    Beth Behrs
    American actress and writer (1985 - )
    - +
     0
  • 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
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
    - +
     0
All side-steps famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 7)