Both Sides Quotes

• Every truth has two sides; it is as well to look at both, before we commit ourselves to either.

  Aesop

  Inspirational, Truth, Two Sides

  Aesop, Thomas James (1866). “Æsop's Fables: A New Version, Chiefly from Original Sources”, p.28

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• Try taking a stand on just one leg. You need to see both sides.

  Joss Whedon

  Trying, Needs, Legs

  Joss Whedon's Commencement Address at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, newsletter.blogs.wesleyan.edu. May 26, 2013.

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• Life and death are one thread,
  the same line viewed from different sides.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sympathy, Death

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• Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Peace, Military

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1958). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1957”, p.152, Best Books on

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• Life and death are one thread.

  Laozi

  Life And Death, Thread, Different Sides

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• I believe in singularity in relationships because you've got to have trust on both sides.

  Thomas Haden Church

  Trust, Believe, Two Sides

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• To reconcile conflicting parties, we must have the ability to understand the suffering of both sides.

  Nhat Hanh

  Forgiveness, Party, Suffering

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• As Marcus considered various ways to open the subject of Daisy, Swift surprised him with a blunt statement. “My lord, there is something I would like to discuss with you.” Marcus adopted a pleasantly encouraging expression. “Very well.” “It turns out that Miss Bowman and I have reached an…understanding. After considering the logical advantages on both sides, I have made a sensible and pragmatic decision that we should—” “How long have you been in love with her?” Marcus interrupted, inwardly amused. Swift let out a tense sigh. “Years,” he admitted.

  Lisa Kleypas

  Love, Expression, Years

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• A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic, and warmth of heart on both sides to enjoy each other’s good qualities without being irritated by each other’s shortcomings and blaming each other for them.

  Ivan Goncharov

  Heart, Two, People

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• To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.

  David Viscott

  Love, Friendship, Marriage

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• Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

  Voltaire

  Weakness, Sides, Argument

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.4667, Delphi Classics

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• Lying at the root of the social agreements of 1980 are the courage, sense of responsibility, and the solidarity of the working people. Both sides have then recognized that an accord must be reached if bloodshed is to be prevented.

  Lech Walesa

  Courage, Lying, Responsibility

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• 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

  Religious, Jobs, War

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• It's really grinding to always play out of both sides of your mind and always be thinking what will offend people. Or what won't. But I'm strong enough to deal with that. I own that I'm freakish in my way.

  Johnny Weir

  Strong, Thinking, Play

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• Since 1994, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have considered it politically risky to offer a plan to fix America's broken health care system. The American public, though, has paid the price for this silence as health care costs skyrocketed, millions went uninsured, and millions more grappled with financial insecurity and hardship.

  Ron Wyden

  America, Broken, Silence

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• I understand that not everyone agrees with my perspective on Ray Kelly. But what you gotta look at here is somebody like Bill de Blasio talking out of both sides of his mouth and trying to have it both ways on a really critical issue like stop-and-frisk.

  Christine Quinn

  Issues, Talking, Perspective

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• Barack Obama's large contributor was Goldman Sachs - same thing on the Republican side. If you go to both their conventions, you see the same lobbyists paying off both sides so they win either way.

  Jesse Ventura

  Winning, Lobbyists, Way

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• Nixon is one of the few in the history of this country to run for high office talking out of both sides of his mouth at the same time and lying out of both sides.

  Harry S. Truman

  Running, Country, Lying

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• From the political angle, I'm trying to be apolitical if you will. I mean people say, 'Are you a red state or blue state?', I say, 'I'm purple.' I think there are great ideas on both sides of the aisle and neither side has cornered the market.

  Brad Thor

  Mean, Thinking, Purple

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• Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by the traffic from both sides.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Business, Two Sides, Decision

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• What we Americans go through to pick a president is not only crazy and unnecessary but genuinely abusive. Hundreds of millions of dollars are spent in a craven, cynical effort to stir up hatred and anger on both sides.

  Matt Taibbi

  Crazy, Cynical, Effort

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• Music can be healing, and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world, I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.

  Cat Stevens

  Healing, Way Forward, Common Humanity

  "The Billboard Q&A: Yusuf Islam". Interview with Nigel Williamson, November 17, 2006.

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• Gays don't have a lot of testosterone. I'm talking about that they use both sides of their brain. Straight men only use one side. Gay men are very bright, very handsome... they put themselves better together. They dress good, they decorate, they clean, they cook.

  Patti Stanger

  Gay, Men, Talking

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• We extend our hand towards peace. Our people are committed to peace. We know that peace entails painful compromise for both sides.

  Ariel Sharon

  Peace, Pain, Hands

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• Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

  Paul Rodriguez

  Sports, Animal, Hunting

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