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Familiar Quotations

Sides

There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.–Anonymous

The only exercise some people get is jumping to conclusions, running down their friends, side-stepping responsibility, and pushing their luck!–Anonymous

You can't choose up sides on a round world.–Wayne Dyer

Peace and justice are two sides of the same coin.–Dwight Eisenhower

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.–Stephen Fry

Sometimes I wonder if I'm patriotic enough. Yes, I want to kill people, but on both sides.–Jack Handy

In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.–Thich Nhat Hanh

In an audience of rough people a generous sentiment always brings down the house. In the tumult of war both sides applaud a heroic deed.–Thomas Wentworth Higginson

Leadership has a harder job to do than just choosing sides, it must bring sides together.–Jesse Jackson

Let both sides, for the first time, formulate serious and precise proposals for the inspection and control of arms--and bring the absolute power to destroy other nations under the absolute control of all nations.–John F. Kennedy

• Preface x
• Familiar Quotations 1
• Sides 1
• Sides – "Edges" 2
• Sides – "Faces" 2
• Sides – "Hand" 3
• Sides – "Party" 3
• Use in Literature 4
• Sides 4
• Sides – "Above" 19
• Sides – "Absolutely" 20
• Sides – "Acts" 20
• Sides – "Advance" 21
• Sides – "Angles" 22
• Sides – "Animal" 22
• Sides – "Appear" 23
• Sides – "Approach" 24
• Sides – "Arguments" 24
• Sides – "Arms" 25
• Sides – "Around" 27
• Sides – "Artillery" 28
• Sides – "Attacking" 29
• Sides – "Worst" 30
• Sides – "Battle" 31
• Sides – "Beds" 31
• Sides – "Being" 32
• Sides – "Beyond" 33
• Sides – "Black" 34
• Sides – "Bound" 35
• Sides – "Box" 35
• Sides – "Broken" 36
• Sides – "Buildings" 36
• Sides – "Canyon" 37
• Sides – "Case" 37
• Sides – "Changing" 39
• Sides – "Children" 39
• Sides – "Circular" 40
• Sides – "City" 41
• Sides – "Clear" 41
• Sides – "Closed" 42
• Sides – "Cold" 44
• Sides – "Came" 44
• Sides – "Country" 47
• Sides – "Covered" 48
• Sides – "Crowded" 49
• Sides – "Dark" 50
• Sides – "Days" 50
• Sides – "Dead" 51
• Sides – "Deep" 52
• Sides – "Descended" 53
• Sides – "Different" 54
• Sides – "Discuss" 54
• Sides – "Distance" 55
• Sides – "Done" 55
• Sides – "Doors" 56
• Sides – "Doubt" 57
• Sides – "Drew" 57
• Sides – "Earth" 58
• Sides – "Easy" 59
• Sides – "End" 59
• Sides – "Escaping" 61
• Sides – "Everything" 61
• Sides – "Expression" 62
• Sides – "Falling" 62
• Sides – "Far" 63
• Sides – "Foot" 65
• Sides – "Felt" 66
• Sides – "Few" 67
• Sides – "Fire" 69
• Sides – "Flowed" 70
• Sides – "Forces" 71
• Sides – "Former" 71
• Sides – "Found" 74
• Sides – "Garden" 76
• Sides – "Go" 77
• Sides – "Greater" 78
• Sides – "Grounds" 81
• Sides – "Growing" 82
• Sides – "Hair" 83
• Sides – "Hall" 84
• Sides – "Hand" 84
• Sides – "Hands" 85
• Sides – "Hung" 87
• Sides – "Having" 87
• Sides – "Heads" 88
• Sides – "Heard" 89
• Sides – "Hearts" 91
• Sides – "Heats" 91
• Sides – "Heavily" 92
• Sides – "Hid" 92
• Sides – "Hills" 93
• Sides – "Hold" 94
• Sides – "Holes" 95
• Sides – "Horses" 95
• Sides – "Hour" 96
• Sides – "House" 98
• Sides – "Ideas" 100
• Sides – "Judge" 100
• Sides – "Kept" 101
• Sides – "Kind" 102
• Sides – "Land" 103
• Sides – "Large" 103
• Sides – "Laughter" 106
• Sides – "Leading" 107
• Sides – "Leaves" 107
• Sides – "Life" 109
• Sides – "Lined" 109
• Sides – "Little" 111
• Sides – "Live" 114
• Sides – "Looked" 114
• Sides – "Loss" 117
• Sides – "Love" 117
• Sides – "Lie" 118
• Sides – "Make" 118
• Sides – "Man" 121
• Sides – "Manners" 126
• Sides – "Marked" 126
• Sides – "Matter" 127
• Sides – "Morning" 127
• Sides – "Mountains" 128
• Sides – "Movement" 131
• Sides – "Myself" 132
• Sides – "Narrow" 132
• Sides – "Nature" 133
• Sides – "Near" 134
• Sides – "Night" 134
• Sides – "North" 135
• Sides – "Nothing" 136
• Sides – "Number" 137
• Sides – "Old" 137
• Sides – "Once" 139
• Sides – "Open" 140
• Sides – "Order" 141
• Sides – "Others" 142
• Sides – "Parted" 142
• Sides – "Party" 144
• Sides – "Passage" 144
• Sides – "Passed" 145
• Sides – "Path" 146
• Sides – "People" 147
• Sides – "Perfectly" 149
• Sides – "Person" 149
• Sides – "Pictures" 150
• Sides – "Place" 151
• Sides – "Plain" 153
• Sides – "Plants" 154
• Sides – "Points" 155
• Sides – "Present" 156
• Sides – "Question" 157
• Sides – "Ranges" 158
• Sides – "Readily" 158
• Sides – "Reasoning" 159
• Sides – "Relations" 160
• Sides – "Rest" 160
• Sides – "Ridges" 161
• Sides – "Rising" 162
• Sides – "River" 162
• Sides – "Road" 163
• Sides – "Rocks" 164
• Sides – "Roof" 165
• Sides – "Room" 166
• Sides – "Rose" 167
• Sides – "Rough" 168
• Sides – "Row" 168
• Sides – "Ran" 169
• Sides – "Rushed" 170
• Sides – "Scene" 171
• Sides – "Sea" 171
• Sides – "Seat" 172
• Sides – "Saw" 173
• Sides – "Shape" 180
• Sides – "Sharp" 180
• Sides – "Shot" 181
• Sides – "Shout" 182
• Sides – "Show" 182
• Sides – "Silence" 184
• Sides – "Sat" 184
• Sides – "Size" 185
• Sides – "Sloping" 185
• Sides – "Smooth" 186
• Sides – "Snow" 186
• Sides – "Soldiers" 187
• Sides – "Sooner" 188
• Sides – "Spoke" 189
• Sides – "Square" 190
• Sides – "Stand" 192
• Sides – "Stepped" 193
• Sides – "Stone" 194
• Sides – "Story" 194
• Sides – "Stream" 195
• Sides – "Streets" 196
• Sides – "Stretched" 197
• Sides – "Stripes" 198
• Sides – "Strongly" 198
• Sides – "Successfully" 199
• Sides – "Surrounded" 200
• Sides – "Taking" 201
• Sides – "Ten" 202
• Sides – "Thick" 202
• Sides – "Things" 203
• Sides – "Think" 204
• Sides – "Third" 205
• Sides – "Thus" 206
• Sides – "Town" 207
• Sides – "Trees" 208
• Sides – "Tries" 208
• Sides – "Twenty" 209
• Sides – "Valley" 210
• Sides – "Walking" 211
• Sides – "Walls" 212
• Sides – "War" 213
• Sides – "Watched" 214
• Sides – "Water" 214
• Sides – "White" 217
• Sides – "Wildly" 217
• Sides – "Wind" 218
• Sides – "Windows" 219
• Sides – "Women" 219
• Sides – "Wood" 220
• Sides – "Words" 220
• Sides – "Work" 221
• Sides – "Years" 222
• Sides – "Young" 223
• Nonfiction Usage 224
• Script Usage 224
• Historical Usage 225
• Spoken Usage 225
• Presidential Usage 226
• Song Title Usage 227
• Bible Usage 227
• Qur'anic Usage 232
• Journalism Usage 233
• Encyclopedic Usage 395
• Lexicographic Usage 466
• Index 623