Top 1200 Grass Is Greener On The Other Side Quotes & Sayings - Page 13

Imperialism, or the conquest and colonization of other populations, other peoples, has had as one of its side effects the growth of a discourse of objectivity. That is, when you encounter something new, something strange, something different, you have to find categories for it, you have to come to terms with new objects.

In 1957, 'West Side Story' had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; 'Bye Bye Birdie,' set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

All successful people learn that success is buried on the other side of frustration.

Atheism is so senseless & odious to mankind that it never had many professors. Can it be by accident that all birds beasts & men have their right side & left side alike shaped (except in their bowels) & just two eyes & no more on either side the face & just two ears on either side the head & a nose with two holes & no more between the eyes & one mouth under the nose & either two fore legs or two wings or two arms on the shoulders & two legs on the hips one on either side & no more?

... when things get rough, a breakthrough is just on the other side of the pain.

I had to go to the other side of the world to reach my dreams; it is possible.

They took to silence. They touched each other without comment and without progression. A hand on a hand, a clothed arm, resting on an arm. An ankle overlapping an ankle, as they sat on a beach, and not removed. One night they fell asleep, side by side... He slept curled against her back, a dark comma against her pale elegant phrase.

I'm an Obama supporter, no question. But it doesn't mean there's nothing to learn from the other side.

Deals work best when each side gets something it wants from the other.

I have tried to treat people on the other side civilly and look for common ground.

And because there is something they can’t see people think it has to be special, because people always think there is something special about what they can’t see, like the dark side of the moon, or the other side of a black hole, or in the dark when they wake up at night and they’re scared.

Stars are holes in the sky, they are the light of Heaven coming from the other side.

Every other fighter has a life on the side. I've never had another job.

When you grow up on the other side of the tracks, you're used to taking a few bumps.

When you have Khiladi Kumar on one side and Thalaiva on the other, you have to know your stuff well.

The whole art of war consists of guessing at what is on the other side of the hill.

Awaiting to see the other side of the Coin, whatever it is, Accept it, because you Deserve it

Epidemics on the other side of the world are a threat to us all. No epidemic is just local.

Nirvana is the other side, the source of all things, where all the aggregates come from, where the templates of infinity are.

My dad taught me never to be afraid of what's on the other side of the mountain.

To everything there is a bright side and a dark side; and I hold it to be unwise, unphilosophic, unkind to others, and unhealthy for one's own soul, to form the habit of looking on the dark side. Cheerfulness is to the spiritual atmosphere what sunshine is to the earthly landscape. I am resolved to cherish cheerfulness with might and main.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.

One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.

If you can out last that discomfort! I guarantee you baby; on the other side of it is success.

I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.

Auditur et altera pars. (The other side shall be heard as well.)

Apple's Industrial Design team is harder to get into than the Illuminati, and part of the reason is because no one leaves. In the last 15 years, not one of the 18 designers has ditched Apple for greener pastures.

The whole art of war consists in getting at what is on the other side of the hill.

The emotional side of humans interacting with each other is what makes TaskRabbit what it is.

I literally lived on the other side of the railroad tracks, but I learned that division doesn't work.

Nobody wants anything bad to happen; the other side isn't evil.

In 1957, “West Side Story” had introduced the musical to the reckless dark side of teen-age life; “Bye Bye Birdie,” set in Sweet Apple, Ohio, where the citizens apparently dress mostly in chartreuse, mauve, orange, periwinkle, and turquoise, was a walk on the bright side.

i have to cross the river of extreme awkwardness in order to get to the paradise on the other side.

What we have seen the Russians do is attempt to manipulate public confidence on both sides. So we've seen them encourage people go to a protest on one side; we've seen them simultaneously encourage people to go to that same protest on the other side.

I don't know exactly what a prayer is. I do know how to pay attention, how to fall down into the grass, how to kneel down in the grass, how to be idle and blessed, how to stroll through the fields, which is what I have been doing all day. Tell me, what else should I have done? Doesn't everything die at last, and too soon? Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

It wasn't as if I was simply some guy who had never seen the other side of the tracks.

I find myself more interested in producing. Not because I'm interested in the financial side of it, but just getting together the right elements to make a film, that side of production. I would not be good on the financial side. It would be a disaster from the beginning.

Kids at a certain age don't necessarily want to be dragged to the other side of the world.

Two there shall be; no more, no less. One to embody the dark side, the other to crave it.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

You have to believe there's something at the other side. And you have to have faith in yourself. You have to think that you have the tools to accomplish it.

There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side.

I do not want to live more from the past. I have my present and a great future that is on the other side.

The hacker mindset doesn't actually see what happens on the other side, to the victim.

The role of the intellectual cannot be to excuse the violence of one side and condemn that of the other.

I've learned over the years that freedom is just the other side of discipline.

I like the strings. I always have. Because that's how it feels. But the strings make pain seem more fatal than it is, I think. We're not as frail as the strings would make us believe. And I like the grass, too. The grass got me to you, helped me to imagine you as an actual person. But we're not different sprouts from the same plant. I can't be you. You can't be me. You can imagine another well – but never quite perfectly, you know?

At one side of the palette there is white, at the other black; and neither is ever used neat.

Many have believed that Walden reached quite through to the other side of the globe.

They say stay in the lines, but there's always something better on the other side.

The other side of the "sacred" is the sight of your beloved in the underworld, dripping with maggots.

I've had a couple opportunities where I've been on the other side of the audition process as a director.

To make physical gains, you would go to the gym and lift weights. It's the same for the mental side. The work you put in on the mental side needs the same dedication as the physical side.

I went to the circus, and loafed around the back side till the watchman went by, and then dived in under the tent. I had my twenty-dollar gold piece and some other money, but I reckoned I better save it.... I ain't opposed to spending money on circuses, when there ain't no other way, but there ain't no use in wasting it on them.

Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side

you fall into the mirror, come through the other side staring at a lightbulb.

Live disasters are wonderful attractions when you're safe on the other side of them.

The courage of one's opinions is always a form of calculating cowardice in the eyes of the "other side.

I don't see here on this side; but I will see on the other side. I know I'll get to see. I know I'll get to walk those golden streets and I'll get to see Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego; and I'll get to see the Lord. Oh yes I will.

Having been on the other side of the camera gives me such perspective on what I'm doing.