Top 188 Both Sides Quotes

I’m a middle child, so I have middle-child syndrome. With a middle child, you always have to take in everything and adjust and maybe compromise a little bit so you’re able to see both sides of an issue. I’m also a Leo – I love astrology – so that affected me, just being a lion.

I don’t feel real confident expressing myself except when I’m writing. I feel kind of scatterbrained. I can see everything from both sides and that makes it hard to reach conclusions. Writing enables me to clarify things.

Health care has become a political football that is being tossed back and forth by both sides in Washington. And it’s divided our country.

Both sides of the aisle – Republican and Democrat – have been unwilling and afraid to address the deficit, and someone’s got to.

I think that people on both sides of the aisle are rejecting what’s going on with Washington and the establishment.

It is my hope that I will be able to work with legislative leaders on both sides of the aisle and Gov. Hickenlooper to find a solution to fix our ailing pension system.

I actually have great respect for the professionals on both sides, journalism designers in the fashion industry, and I wanted to make a movie that celebrated what they did as much as poke fun at the challenges of their lives.

One of the things I find depressing about some of the upper echelons of Anglicanism on both sides of the Atlantic is that it’s sort of taken for granted that we all basically know what’s in the Bible, and so we just glance at a few verses for devotional purposes and then get on to the real business.

All too often, we see politicians on both sides desperately twisting themselves into partisan-hack pretzels, for the sole purpose of defending their own ‘team’ or attacking the other, without any thought to principles or values whatsoever.

Until the courts put a stop to it, public debate over same-sex marriage displayed American democracy at its best. Individuals on both sides of the issue passionately, but respectfully, attempted to persuade their fellow citizens to accept their views.

The war… was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides.

Manhattan’s probably one of the bluest parts in the country, and Indiana’s definitely one of the redder states. I have sympathy for both sides.

I have Irish on both sides of my family.

I have been a director who has starred, participated on both sides of the filmmaking process.

I turned atheist in the ’90s when India went through troubled times – communal riots, bomb blasts… Mumbai, where I live, was badly affected. I blamed religion; also, extremists on both sides – right and left.

Any Westerner can now buy a Koran for a dollar and burn it, while any Muslim with a platform can transform that act into a fighting offense. As passions rise on both sides of the divide, Western provocateurs and Islamist hotheads have found each other, as confrontations occur with increasing frequency.

As an Egyptian-American, I want both sides of that hyphen to enjoy the forms of freedom guaranteed by the First Amendment, as I want both sides of that hyphen to move beyond the deceptive simplicity of the question, ‘Why do they hate us?’

We’ve seen, in Washington, both sides say they don’t want to give up much of anything.

I’ve been on both sides of the boos.

I’m interested in everything about people. Not just, ‘what do you do for a living?’ but I want to know about their fears and sadnesses and listen to their regrets, both sides of it, the happy and the sad.

I’m not embarrassed that I’m mixed. I’m not ashamed that I’m mixed. I very much embraced both sides.

I ended up working on over 150 political campaigns in 42 states; over a third of those were for Republicans. I want to be clear about that. Approximately two-thirds were for Democrats, so, I worked on both sides of the aisle, across the United States.

You want to toe the line with tough investigations without falling into political grandstanding inherent in Washington on both sides of the aisle.

As the 2016 presidential race kicks off, candidates on both sides of the aisle are promising to stand up for the middle class. Voters deserve to know that anyone who champions Obamacare cannot honestly say she or he is also a champion of middle-class Americans.

I feel for the guys in UFC who helped open the UFC up. Obviously, I’m getting blackballed there by the UFC, so I’m kind of feeling on both sides. If a promotion or somebody in that promotion decides they don’t like an individual, then they get to make up the rules, and the fans don’t get a say in it at all.

We now should hope and pray for a peace process. We’ve had good negotiations with both sides. Those are going to continue; those are going to be a commitment by the president and something that we’re going to work hard on. And we all hope, for the sake of Israeli children and Palestinian children, that we do have peace.

I’ve made a career writing about fictitious anti-heroes. To create these worlds, I’ve spent a lot of time with active members on both sides of the law. And if I had to pick the most interesting of the two, the choice is obvious – we all love the guys in black.

Hopefully, I can play both sides of the fence. That’s probably what winning the Oscar gives me, the chance to do something with a studio and do other things that I really want to do.

The consistency of the game calls, I’ve been on both sides of it. I’ve been where the whistle has been in favor of you.

I consider myself a businessman, not a celebrity or a music star. When I’m getting involved with something I need to executive produce it or be a part of putting it together as an investor. I want to play both sides. That’s more important to me than just being a celebrity.

My original interest in the Nazi holocaust was personal. Both my father and mother were survivors of the Warsaw Ghetto and the Nazi concentration camps. Apart from my parents, every family member on both sides was exterminated by the Nazis.

At 13 I taught myself piano from an old song book, and Joni Mitchell’s ‘Both Sides Now’ was the first song I learned.

It is not just willy-nilly running around. I need to fill certain spaces and make sure we are covered on both sides of the ruck and the numbers are right.

Bunting is usually a waste of time. The – generally, yeah, I mean, if you think about it, bunt is the only play in baseball that both sides applaud. The – if the home team bunts, you get a base. The home team applauds because they get an out, and the other team applauds because they get a base. So what does that tell you?

‘Madden’ is all about speed, and the Falcons have it on both sides of the ball. I love playing sports games. I played my PlayStation so much, I pretty much wore it out.

I used to think that the Civil War was our country’s greatest tragedy, but I do remember that there were some redeeming features in the Civil War in that there was some spirit of sacrifice and heroism displayed on both sides. I see no redeeming features in Watergate.

On both sides of my family, my grandparents grew up in total poverty and came to California during the Great Depression. The only way they were able to work their way out of that was by joining the military, which is how they both went on to be able to go to college.

My mother’s a singer and my mother’s father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

Putting is so difficult, so universally vexing, that the best the pros can do is tell us how to miss. ‘Miss it on the pro side,’ they say, meaning miss it above the hole. I can’t even do that consistently. I miss it on the pro side. I miss it on the amateur side. I miss it on both sides of the clown’s mouth.

My father and all my uncles on both sides served in the military in World War II and Korea.

Both sides of my family had come from Ireland in the 19th century for the same reason: There was nothing to eat over there. Since then, I’ve tried to make up for the potato famine by making the potato the only vegetable that passes these lips.

Traditional technical interviews are terrible for everyone. They’re a bad way for companies to evaluate candidates. They’re a bad way for candidates to evaluate companies. They waste time and generate stress on both sides.

I come from a family of farmers on both sides of my family.

I have good friends who are politicians on both sides.

Most people here agree that the rhetoric got overblown on both sides of the Atlantic before the Iraq war, and it was a disagreement among friends over the timing, not the substance, of the Iraq war.

Both sides should demand a speedy trial.

Nevada is a little different than most states. We only meet every other year in the legislature. So it’s very important to have good relationships on both sides of the aisle… I have to have those relationships.

We were a great family for singing. There were good voices on both sides and no reluctance to use them.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.