Sidelines Quotes - Page 4

• I don't like work like that. I am the silent partner. I work through events, I live on the sidelines, I dabble in causes and effects, I watch how the misbegotten creatures of this world live their lives.

  Gregory Maguire

  Events, Watches, World

  Gregory Maguire (2011). “Wicked”, p.401, Hachette UK

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• Another activity that can detract us from the proper way is watching television excessively or viewing improper movies. While fine productions on these media are uplifting and entertaining, we need to be very selective in choosing what we see and how much of our time such an activity deserves. Our precious time must not be diverted to the sideline attractions of vulgar language, immoral conduct, pornography, and violence.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Uplifting, Media, Television

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• When I was playing, they said soccer was a man's world and women should remain on the sidelines, all I can say is I'm glad I never had to go up against Mia Hamm

  Pele

  Soccer, Men, Mia

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• Well now, Jack," Hastings said from the sidelines. "I'm afraid you've been beheaded. Not a good start." He sounded amused.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Said, Wells, Amused

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• Look, you couldn’t pay me to listen to their music, but I still feel like I have more in common with Insane Clown Posse than I do with someone who just sits on the sidelines and shits on other people’s work and who never puts themselves on the line.

  Tom Scharpling

  People, Insane, Looks

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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.

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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.

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• 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

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• When we mention the 1 percent and the 99 percent, everybody now knows what we are talking about. It's part of our vocabulary. How quickly these numbers jumped from the sidelines to the center.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Vocabulary, Talking, Numbers

  "Occupy Congress" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 9, 2011.

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• 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

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• 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

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• Michelle Tafoya - best NFL sideline reporter - period. She is always prepared and professional.

  Megan Alexander

  Nfl, Periods, Prepared

  Source: www.sheknows.com

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• As the church watches from the sidelines, the ungodly elect atheists and homosexuals to school boards and legislatures to enact policies and laws that destroy our Christian children and discriminate against Christian families.

  Robert Simonds

  Christian, Atheist, Children

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• I`m not planning to endorse anybody. I have a long friendship with the family and a long friendship with Jeb [Bush], but I`m, like a lot of people, sitting on the sidelines watching and waiting.

  Karl Rove

  Long, People, Waiting

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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

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• 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

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

  Iggy Pop

  Musical, Stuff, Plumbing

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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