Top 225 One-Sided Quotes & Sayings

I despise this weakness in myself - this endless one-sided conversation that takes the place of action.

A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction.

I am not interested in one-sided characters.

This contract is so one-sided that I am astonished to find it written on both sides of the paper.

Love can't be just one-sided. It's always two ways.

The things we always disengage with are one-sided stories or one-sided characters. They're very boring. When you feel like you're being hit over the head, you disengage.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

We're like Magic 8-Balls. After you ask your question and shake the 8-Ball, you read the answer in the little window. If you ever broke open a Magic 8-Ball with a hammer, you discovered that it contained a many-sided plastic object, with an answer on every facet, floating in a cylinder of murky blue fluid. The many-sided core held the answer to your question. My theory is that, as with our children, as with every surface of that geodesic dome inside the 8-Ball, every age we've ever been is who we are.

I've been learning martial arts - nothing specific, as then it becomes one-sided - but basic exercises.

I want to inspire people to really open up their minds and not be one-sided or biased or hypocritical.

Companies which get misled by their own success are sure to be blind sided.

Americans are cultured from their earliest years to be either one-sided douloi or one-sided banausoi, i.e. either they cannot think abstractively/conceptually/orchestrally or else they can only think abstractively. Thinking in a truly rational dialectic between intuition and intellect is just beyond the reach of our nation of emotionalist helots. What prevails among us truly has to be called not thinking but "thinking," a pathetic surrogate for actual thinking for the benefit of existentially or modally crippled mentalities.

Education without social action is a one-sided value because it has no true power potential.

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.

There is a very good saying that if triangles invented a god, they would make him three-sided.

Like a four-sided porch I'm open to all winds.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

I have a record of wanting to make sure that campaigns are open and financing is fair, but it can't just be one sided.

One Sided Love is nothing but we can say its a one way hurt to yourself in any little moment while you see her

Two-sided markets are notoriously finicky.

no army has ever marched into battle thinking that the Creator had sided with their enemy.

Satire's nature is to be one-sided, contemptuous of ambiguity, and so unfairly selective as to find in the purity of ridicule an inarguable moral truth.

Almost everyone in heaven has someone on Earth they watch, a loved one, a friend or even a stranger who was once kind, who offered warm food or a bright smile when one of us had needed it. And when I wasn’t watching I could hear the others talking to those they loved on Earth: just as fruitlessly as me, I’m afraid. A one-sided card cajoling and coaching of the young, a one way loving and desiring of their mates, a single-sided card that could never get signed.

Friendship is two-sided. It isn't a friend just because someone's doing something nice for you. That's a nice person. There's friendship when you do for each other. It's like marriage - it's two-sided.

I described to my patent lawyer our new algorithm-that I was hoping to patent- about detecting clustering, that involved three probabilities ? , ?, ? that add-up to 1, and mentioned that it is like "a three-sided coin". A few days later he came up with a patent application for a "three-sided-coin".

Our whole educational problem suffers from a one-sided approach to the child who is to be educated, and from an equally one-sided lack of emphasis on the uneducatedness of the educator.

At the best and even unexpurgated, diaries give a distorted or one-sided portrait of the writer.

There is an idea of democracy produced by one-sided thinking.

We're all multi-sided. We should all keep that in mind.

The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

The UN structure is one-sided, stacked against the world of Islam.

The Republican Party has steadfastly sided with its donors and its lobbyists, and this is why we're where we are.

We need to have a more thoughtful, two-sided conversation about racial issues in this country.

The political is not compatible with the artistic, because the former, in order to prove, has to be one-sided.

Telling a one-sided story doesn't allow for others to have self-love.

Strong, responsible unions are essential to industrial fair play. Without them the labor bargain is wholly one-sided.

The purpose of a good education is to show you that there are three sides to a two-sided story.

You like a woman, she's got kids, it's a package. You can't just go in one-sided.

Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.

Private property has made us so stupid and one-sided that an object is only ours when we have it

It is a mistake to suppose that any technological innovation has a one-sided effect. Every technology is both a burden and a blessing; not either-or, but this-and-that.

I've always been a feminist, and what I love in my work is being able to explore a full-sided woman and not patronize her.

In a two-sided market, focusing on the customer will increase a business's ability to extract value from the supply side.

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual.

It is a mistake to make propaganda many-sided, like scientific instruction, for instance... As soon as you sacrifice this slogan and try to be many-sided, the effect will piddle away, for the crowd can neither digest nor retain the material offered.

Global warming is a false myth and every serious person and scientist says so. It is not fair to refer to the U.N. panel. IPCC is not a scientific institution: it’s a political body, a sort of non-government organization of green flavor. It’s neither a forum of neutral scientists nor a balanced group of scientists. These people are politicized scientists who arrive there with a one-sided opinion and a one-sided assignment.

The Middle East is rejecting any other religions, so it's a one sided multiculturalism.

Whatever it is, it feels like it's laughing at me Through the glass of a two-sided mirror.

No one sex can govern alone. I believe that one of the reasons why civilization has failed so lamentably is that is had one-sided government.

I say, isn't that a shame [a trade with Japan], it's so one-sided.

I have desired to go Where springs not fail, To fields where flies no sharp and sided hail And a few lilies blow.

What I think is wrong is spending £9m of taxpayers' money on one particular piece of one-sided propaganda.

Imagine what things would be like if the news media actually sided with civilization.

The photograph is married to the eye, Grafts on its bride one-sided skins of truth.

If we engage in a conflict that we know this is a threat to America, we should make it so one-sided that it gets over very quickly.

And if [Vladimir Putin] does fight ISIL alone, how does it work out for Russia to have sided with Assad, sided with Iran, sided with Hizballah, when they're trying to reach out to the rest of the Sunni world in the region? That's not a good equation for Russia.

Everything that is thought and expressed in words is one-sided, only half the truth; it all lacks totality, completeness, unity. When the Illustrious Buddha taught about the world, he had to divide it into Samsara and Nirvana, illusion and truth, into suffering and salvation. One cannot do otherwise, there is no other method for those who teach. But the world itself, being in and around us, is never one-sided. Never is a man or a deed wholly Samsara or wholly Nirvana; never is a man wholly a saint or a sinner. This only seems so because we suffer the illusion that time is something real.

I've always loved three-sided patios. Courtyard plans are very common, but it's rare that it has one side open.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

I love 'Battlestar Galactica;' I was a geeky kid. I was into Dungeons and Dragons. I had the 24-sided dice.