Both Sides Quotes

In war, as it is waged now, with the enormous losses on both sides, both sides will lose. It is a form of mutual suicide.

I don't think either one of them knows what it's all about, to be honest with you. Both sides are doing nothing but just looking towards the next election.

Amnesty is as good for those who give it as for those who receive it. It has the admirable quality of bestowing mercy on both sides.

Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point - a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

I learned to have the patience to listen when people put forward their views, even if I think those views are wrong. You can't reach a just decision in a dispute unless you listen to both sides.

There is really no crisis except an artificial one...If the great American people will only keep their temper, on both sides of the line, the trouble will come to an end.

There is always hope when people are forced to listen to both sides.

The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.

If any of you wish to know how to have your bread fall butter side up, butter it on both sides, and then it will fall butter side up.

Trade is a proper and decent relationship, with dignity and respect on both sides.

I'm such a failed politician that all of my rivals have disappeared, on both sides.

Both sides have scored a couple of goals, and both sides have conceded a couple of goals.

If he really wanted to make it a prayer for peace he should have listened to both sides of the story and reflected reality, rather than serving the Zionist side alone.

And realizing there is no such thing as the Black experience. Time and events allow for change on both sides.

One hearty laugh together will bring enemies into a closer communion of heart than hours spent on both sides in inward wrestling with the mental demon of uncharitable feeling.

The meat of the buffalo tastes the same on both sides of the border.

I'm half Scotch-Irish on both sides, and when I lose my temper-brother, I go.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

A philosopher is a person who doesn't care which side his bread is buttered on; he knows he eats both sides anyway.

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.

Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.

When you're trying to please both sides of the fence at the same time you really can't do that.

There is a dispute about the existence of God. Both sides try to hide that they killed Him - even before He came into being.

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

Everybody has to play a side because if you play both sides you a snake if you not a peacemaker.

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.

Immigration in America is a highly polarized issue and there are passionate views on both sides.

The India-Nepal border should not be a barrier but a bridge which helps bring prosperity to both sides.

It's one of the best programs I've ever seen because it benefits both sides: children, who need love, and grandparents, elderly people, who need to feel wanted.

On both sides the troops were commanded by royal princes and they massacred each other mercilessly.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

The United States played the role of encouraging both sides to come together to try to finally resolve this issue, and we were pleased to see leaders on both sides work courageously to get that done.

Jury selection is strictly an emotional process. They're looking for people they can manipulate. Both sides are.

I've looked at life from both sides now...from win and lose, and still somehow it's life's illusions I recall I really don't know life at all.

The violence had broken out in both sides, but our philosophy as a party was very, very clear.

There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis.

Fear hath the common fault of a justice of peace, and is apt to conclude hastily from every slight circumstance, without examining the evidence on both sides.

My misfortune is my ability to see both sides even of the fundamental religious question.

the main necessity on both sides of a revolution is kindness, which makes possible the most surprising things. To treat one's neighbor as oneself is the fundamental maxim for revolution.

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

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.

Perhaps art is a quest for the perfect, or even the imperfect. Reality always falls short on both sides.

Senator Kerry has been in Washington long enough to take both sides on just about every issue.

Ground which can be freely traversed by both sides is called accessible.

Global war has become Frankenstein's monster, threatening to destroy both sides.

By dawn he had surrendered, gratefully, to the old inertia, the product of always seeing both sides of every question.

... it's important that people who are politically active understand both sides.

The man who sees both sides of a question is a man who sees absolutely nothing at all.

The combination of modern ordnance and outdated tactics had, as usual, created enormous casualties on both sides.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.