Top 1200 Grass Is Greener On The Other Side Quotes & Sayings - Page 14

Just remember, Someone is on your side (our side) Someone else is not While we're seeing our side Maybe we forgot: they are not alone. No one is alone.

To me, writing is a very physical process. I lay out the entire book with the two narratives side by side on my bedroom floor, and just get down on my hands and knees and start looking at it in that physical space. "Does this really follow from this? Should this be here or elsewhere?" I will literally cut the paper into paragraphs. I'll cut it into segments and move the segments around from one narrative to the other until I feel that I've found the natural structure.

I can assure you that those who have already passed have not only made it to the Other Side, but are in a state of bliss.

What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his own fearful outlook and by his fear of the other; each moves and is moved within a circle both vicious and lethal.

Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it's a game, all right - I'll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren't any hot-shots, then what's a game about it? Nothing. No game.

But on the other side I am very glad that I can at least enjoy some freedom.

He just seems as cool as ever. I can smell him. Even on the other side, there is smell. Like, when babies are born, there's two smells-one is chicken soup, which is the flesh, and the other is lilacs, which is coming from the spiritual garden. The spirit has a lilac smell.

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.

It's wonderful to have money. But It's good that I know what the other side is like. I don't take for granted what I have now.

The wall! Your success is on the other side. Can't jump over it or go around it. You know what to do.

Because we can't comprehend it, and that's what allows us to do it again. And it is the normal, it's the average person that can do this. Again, in an imaginary other universe, maybe we'd have done it. That's the terrible truth that lies at the heart of each of us; that imponderable, 'were I not Jewish, in Hungary, Czechoslovakia, Germany, would I have gone down on the other side?'

I've never turned over a fig leaf yet that didn't have a price tag on the other side.

The other side of it is that, despite all that, people reach out to poetry at the key moments in their lives.

A pier is a disappointed bridge; yet stare at it for long enough and you can dream it to the other side of the Channel.

Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.

When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in your struggle to do what's right and ethical. In fact, sometimes even you won't be on your side. You'll wrestle with inner conflict, torn between what you should do and what you want to do. You'll also aggravate other people. Seems when you walk the straight and narrow you always step on someone's toes. Don't count on the ethics of excellence to make you popular.

I mean, there'll always be room for big productions and everything but it's good to see the other side.

My mother always said, 'The best way to ruin a story is to tell the other side.'

You can almost get overwhelmed if you start focusing on Serena being on the other side of the court.

It's fun to kick ass and show that other dark side of yourself as well.

By the way, if you do your job on behalf of your country, you have meetings where you put your position forward strongly, and the other side does the same thing. And I've had plenty of meetings in my career that really were heated, people yelling at each other.

If you think you're meeting your destiny on the other side of a door you may not be interested in its design.

The hard part is that this is a very fine line. There's right on one side of it, and crazy on the other.

You don't automatically sprout angel wings when you get to the other side - you grow them here.

Early in my career, I played with a guy in Mike Rucker who was a threat on the other side.

When I played Imunique on 'Love That Girl,' that was on the other side of comedy - loud and out there.

I see that within each human being there are two extremes: there's the loving, the passionate, altruistic side that has evolved with us, and then there's the violent, brutal side that has evolved with us. The question for each individual is: which side is going to come out on top?

Side by side with the miseries of underdevelopment...we find ourselves up against a form of superdevelopment, equally inadmissable. This superdevelopment consists in an excessive availability of material goods for the benefit of certain social groups and makes people slaves of "possession" and immediate gratification, with no other horizon than the multiplication or continual replacement of the things already owned with others still better. This is the civilization of consumption, or "consumerism," which involves so much throwing away and waste.

I think you have to grieve the loss of youth before you can claim the joy on the other side of it.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

Ponzi and all of his successors tap into a fundamental part of human nature. One part of our brain tells us this is too good to be true. The other side tells us this is too good to miss. The key to any con is getting a mark to tip to the too-good-to-miss side.

The government sent the Indians to Oklahoma. They had a treaty that said, 'You shall have this land as long as grass grows and water flows.' It was not only a good rhyme but looked like a good treaty, and it was till they struck oil. Then the Government took it away from us again. They said the treaty only refers to 'Water and Grass; it don't say anything about oil.'

There is always the fear of unknown - racism comes from people when they don't know something, they are strangers to the other side.

Consumers used to think they had to compromise with solar. It was, 'Okay, I'm doing the right thing for the environment; it's cool to see the panels. I have to compromise on the cost and convenience side.' And now they no longer have to. On the cost side, it's cheaper, and on the convenience side, we set it all up.

You have to have like a bit of amnesia both on the winning side and the losing side of this thing... On the losing side you need to be able to forget a loss to be able to move on and to be successful in your next fight. But on the winning side you need to be able to forget a win so you don't get stuck in this pattern of like, "I'm unstoppable". So there has to be a level of amnesia for a fighter.

It isn't such a bad thing to always know that someone on the other side of the world cares about you.

A hunk of beef raised on Scottish moorland has a very different ecological footprint from one created in an intensive feedlot using concentrated cereal feed, and a wild venison or rabbit casserole is arguably greener than a vegetable curry.

Love and faith go hand in hand. You can't have one without the other. And as we all know, taking the leap ain't always safe. Sometimes you judge poorly, and you land right on your face. But unless you make the jump, you'll never know what's on the other side. You just gotta find the guts to do it.

Beware of men who use words that relate pejoratively to females when describing the 'other side.

Yes, you have to treat playing Pakistan just like you would any other side, but in other matches, you often stress on the processes knowing that the result will take care of itself. Against Pakistan, the result is more important than the process, and that is the simple truth.

Step through new doors. The majority of the time there's something fantastic on the other side.

I think you can't demonize somebody that's on the other side of the political spectrum, or you can't generalize about them.

Run towards that very thing that you fear, because there's amazing blessings on the other side.

When you mess with someone's love or family, you don't want to be on the other side of the woman's wrath.

Sometimes you get so close to someone you end up on the other side of them.

Speech has both an individual and a social side, and we cannot conceive of one without the other.

Private property creates for the individual a sphere in which he is free of the state. It sets limits to the operation of the authoritarian will. It allows other forces to arise side by side with and in opposition to political power. It thus becomes the basis of all those activities that are free from violent interference on the part of the state. It is the soil in which the seeds of freedom are nurtured and in which the autonomy of the individual and ultimately all intellectual and material progress are rooted.

Look at the other side of things even if you know you'll never agree. It creates empathy.

We need to restore the full meaning of that old word, duty. It is the other side of rights.

I'm a firm believer that if the other side scores first, you have to score twice to win.

You don't appreciate life until you get to the other side. Like lying in a hospital bed.

I've always wanted to write about the other side of the tracks, the have-nots, maybe because that's who I was.

Inside Laila too a battle was being waged : guilt on one side, partnered with shame, and, on the other, the conviction that what she and Tariq had done was not sinful; that it had been natural, good, beautiful, even inevitable, spurred by the knowledge that they might never see each other again.

We gallop through our lives like circus performers balancing on two speeding side-by-side horses--one foot is on the horse called "fate," the other on the horse called "free will." And the question you have to ask every day is--which horse is which? Which horse do I need to stop worrying about because it's not under my control, and which do I need to steer with concentrated effort?

I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.

I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

I'm not as religious as some people about "the album." To be honest, that was a product of a format. You had vinyl, and you could fit five songs on each side, and that's 45 minutes. You had A-side songs and B-side songs; I always loved the first song on side B. And there's nothing wrong with that. Prog albums of the 70s adapted to that format very much. But not all musicians want to create 45 minutes of music that has to be listened to in chronological order.

When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.