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on the side

«Maybe I am not very human - what I wanted to do was to paint sunlight on the side of a house.»
Author: Edward Hopper (Painter) | Keywords: on the side, sunlight
«I think the thing to remember, though, the next time you hear someone who is really certain that he is on the side of the angels, is that the idea of angels was created by human beings, who are famous for being frequently untrustworthy and occasional»
«If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.»
«One would always want to think of oneself as being on the side of love, ready to recognize it and wish it well /but, when confronted with it in others, one so often resented it, questioned its true nature, secretly dismissed the particular instance as folly or promiscuity. Was it merely jealousy, or a reluctance to admit so noble and enviable a sentiment in anyone but oneself?»
«It is better to err on the side of daring than the side of caution.»
«If one is going to err, one should err on the side of liberty and freedom.»
Author: Kofi Annan | About: Liberty | Keywords: err, on the side
«In an expanding universe, time is on the side of the outcast. Those who once inhabited the suburbs of human contempt find that without changing their address they eventually live in the metropolis.»
«Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.»
«It is the job of thinking people, not to be on the side of the executioners.»
«God is on the side of the strongest battalions»
Author: French Proverb | About: God | Keywords: on the side, strongest

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