Aside Quotes

At times discretion should be thrown aside, and with the foolish we should play the fool. (Menander)

No period of history has ever been great or ever can be that does not act on some sort of high, idealistic motives, and idealism in our time has been shoved aside, and we are paying the penalty for it.

Alfred North Whitehead

I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.

Izaak Walton

But they will give straight judgements to strangers and to the men of the land, and go not aside from what is just, their city flourishes, and the people prosper in it.

Hesiod

The writer of prose can only step aside when the poet passes.

W. Somerset Maugham

When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen.

George Washington

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

Walt Whitman

Love has its own instinct, finding the way to the heart, as the feeblest insect finds the way to its flower, with a will which nothing can dismay nor turn aside.

Honoré de Balzac

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan

When we try in good faith to believe in materialism, in the exclusive reality of the physical, we are asking our selves to step aside we are disavowing the very realm where we exist and where all things precious are kept -- the realm of emotion and conscience, of memory and intention and sensation.

John Updike

Books can only reveal us to ourselves, and as often as they do us this service we lay them aside. (Henry David Thoreau)

Hell is yourself and the only redemption is when a person puts himself aside to feel deeply for another person.

Tennessee Williams

The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many in shallows and in miseries, are the decrees of a large, farseeing be.

Herbert Spencer

Opium teaches only one thing, which is that aside from physical suffering, there is nothing real.

André Malraux

I really think that aside from admiring my talent you really admire me as a person and as a woman.

Katherine Dunham

Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now because we don't have people who have the capability to not only train fighters but also train and create decent respectable citizens of the world.

Alexis Arguello

The worst thing you can do is to put your life aside for someone else.

Brian Austin Green

When you go out onto the stage, all the preparation has to be forced into your subconscious. For the moment of the performance, we all have to return to a new level of unconsciousness. All the reflection and all the doubts have to be laid aside before you start.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

I once saw my mother playing Mary Magdalene in a parish event. But she had to put the role aside in order to go and front the choir who were singing at the same occasion. She left the stage halfway through the Crucifixion.

Fiona Shaw

Putting a little time aside for clean fun and good humor is very necessary to relieve the tensions of our time.

Hattie McDaniel

Twenty-five million veterans are living among us today. These men and women selflessly set aside their civilian lives to put on the uniform and serve us. (Steve Buyer)

There is no finer sensations in life that which comes with victory over one's self. Go forward to a goal of inward achievement, brushing aside all your old internal enemies as you advance.

Vash Young

I claim that many patterns of Nature are so irregular and fragmented, that, compared with Euclid - a term used in this work to denote all of standard geometry - Nature exhibits not simply a higher degree but an altogether different level of complexity ... The existence of these patterns challenges us to study these forms that Euclid leaves aside as being "formless," to investigate the morphology of the "amorphous."

Benoît Mandelbrot

And, hungry for the old, familiar ways, I turned aside and bowed my head and wept.

Claude McKay

Aside from a cold appreciation of my own genius I felt that I was a modest man.

Robert A. Heinlein

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