Two Sides Quotes - Page 8

• Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with decision, and acting on it with effect, those who take the other will of course be hostile in proportion as they feel that effect.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Character, Men, Decision

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

  Spider Robinson

  Rupture, Threatening, Responsible

  Robert A. Heinlein, Spider Robinson (2010). “Variable Star”, p.212, Macmillan

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• People often get the wrong impression of Mick. The clever businessman is just one side of Mick. The other side is the same as the rest of us, a true rocker!

  Ronnie Wood

  Clever, People, Wrong Impression

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• I think utopianism and eschatology are really two sides of the same coin. They both assume that some massively transformative event is going to happen that's going to completely change the nature of society. They only disagree on whether we get a happy ending or all die horribly. And so utopianism is on the wane right now because at the moment most of the plausible candidates for huge historical transformation look like they're going to kill us.

  Phillip Sandifer

  Thinking, Historical, Events

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• In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's two sides to every question. That doesn't mean that sometimes one side has done something wrong and should not be condemned. But it does mean there's always two sides to an issue. I say the same thing to my Jewish friends, which is you have to see the perspective of the Palestinians. Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen.

  Barack Obama

  Mean, Eye, Shoes

  "Obama Holds a Town Hall in Istanbul". www.washingtonpost.com. April 7, 2009.

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• More generally, I made an effort to leave out things that weren't relevant to the main narrative themes of the book, namely that there were two sides to Steve Jobs: the romantic, poetic, countercultural rebel on one side, and the serious businessperson on the other.

  Walter Isaacson

  Romantic, Jobs, Book

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• There were two sides to David Lean: on the one side, he was kind of a rather stiff, disciplined Englishman. And then he had this kind of romantic side to him. I think being true to both sides of your nature is important.

  John Boorman

  Romantic, Thinking, Important

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• Partisanship is our great curse. We too readily assume that everything has two sides and that it is our duty to be on one or the other.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Political, Atheism, Assuming

  James Harvey Robinson (1921). “The Mind in the Making: The Relation of Intelligence to Social Reform”

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• Every street has two sides, the shady side and the sunny. When two men shake hands and part, mark which of the two takes the sunny side; he will be the younger man of the two.

  Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

  Men, Hands, Choices

  "What Will He Do With It?". Book by Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Book II. Heading of Chapter XV, 1858.

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• In the States, it takes you a lifetime just to get from Chicago's South Side to the West Side.

  Luther Allison

  Chicago, West, Lifetime

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• In the middle of this it was good to have some moments in which whatever was left of you could sit in silence. When you could remember. When the evidence that had gathered could be sorted. And it was a difficulty if another person imagined these moments were their property. Your life got sliced from two sides like a supermarket salami until there was nothing left in the middle. You were the bits that had been given away right and left to others. Because they wanted the piece of you that belonged to them. Because they wanted more. Because they wanted passion. And you did not have it.

  Philip O Ceallaigh

  Passion, Silence, Pieces

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• The two sides of industry have traditionally always regarded each other in Britain with the greatest possible loathing, mistrust and contempt. They are both absolutely right.

  Auberon Waugh

  Insulting, Loathing, England

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• One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits

  Manuel Alvarez Bravo

  Artist, Reality, Thinking

  Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”

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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, Singularity

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• We like things to be black or white, tall or short, here or there. We like to consider two sides to every story. Unfortunately, there aren't always two sides. Sometimes there's only one; more often, there are multitudes. Many facets on the stone. Nooks and crannies in abundance. Things are usually not either black or white, but multicolored.

  Barry Leiba

  Integrity, White, Black

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• What distinguishes the campaign finance issue from just about every other one being debated these days is that the two sides do not divide along conventional liberal/ conservative lines.

  James L. Buckley

  Issues, Campaigns, Lines

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• I've always supported myself. I like the sense of knowing exactly where I stand financially, but there is a side of me that longs for a knight in shining armor.

  Barbara Feldon

  Knights, Knowing, Shining

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• You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

  Stephen Fry

  Business, Work, Mba

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• I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.

  Mira Sorvino

  Jobs, Acting, Cameras

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• As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.

  Gene Tunney

  Sports, Kids, Blow

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• Music needs the juxtaposition of opposites to achieve its drama, so harshness and dissonance are simply part of the material a musician can use to create a musical work. All one thing is a bore - all dissonance, or all fatuous consonance. George Winston and Guns and Roses are two sides of the same worthless coin in my esthetic world.

  Chuck Israels

  Music, Drama, Gun

  "Chuck Israels: Evans, Education And Philosophy". Interview with Sean Dietrich, www.allaboutjazz.com. May 27, 2010.

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• Viktor Frankl, a Holocaust survivor and the author of Man's Search for Meaning, wrote that human beings create meaning in three ways: thought their work, though their relationships, and by how they choose to meet unavoidable suffering. Every life brings hardship and trial, and every life also offers deep possibilities for meaningful work and love... I've learned that courage and compassion are two sides of the same coin.

  Eric Greitens

  Meaningful, Men, Compassion

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• I used to be a mean maniac. Someone once threw a firecracker at a show and I jumped off the side of the stage and whacked 'em on the side of the head.

  Dick Dale

  Mean, Ems, Used

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• I'm optimistic because I'm pragmatic: Neither of the two sides, the military government nor the Islamic front, is capable of winning. If they continue to fight, they will both bleed to death.

  Ahmed Ben Bella

  Military, Islamic, Optimistic

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• There are two sides to a pancake. One is brown and fluffy; the other is burnt.

  Bill Parcells

  Motivational, Sports, Pancakes

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