"It's better to give than to receive. " Let me put this as elegantly as possible: "What a crock!" That statement is total hogwash, and in case you haven't noticed, it's usually propagated by people and groups who want you to give and them to receive. The whole idea is ludicrous. What's better, hot or cold, big or small, left or right, in or out? Giving and receiving are two sides of the same coin. Whoever decided that it is better to give than to receive was simply bad at math. For every giver their must be a receiver, and for every receiver there must be a giver.
There are two sides to this Baptism: The first is, you possess the Spirit; The second is that the Spirit possesses you.
The people who were against the Vietnam War thought I was attacking the Army. The guys in the Army thought I was representing their experiences. I was on both sides, and I survived.
Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly I find I don't have much time to code any more.
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides.
There are two sides to every question.
There's a very fine line between pleasure and pain. They are two sides of the same coin, one not existing without the other.
If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet, give him none.
Comedy and tragedy are two sides of the same coin. A talent in one area might also lead to a predisposition in the other.
There are two sides of the Velvet Rope. Those who want to be on the other side and those who are on the other side.
The fact is, there aren't just two sides to any issue, there's almost always a range of responses, and "it depends" is almost always the right answer in any big question.
There is no wholly masculine man, no purely feminine woman.
Science and religion, religion and science, put it as it may, they are the two sides of the same glass, through which we see darkly until these two focus together, reveal the truth.
If I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up.
I don't view myself as a political leftie. I view myself as a storyteller who is fair to both sides.
We view things not only from different sides, but with different eyes; we have no wish to find them alike.
In writing a novel, the writer must be able to identify emotionally and intellectually with two or three or four contradicting perspectives and give each of them very a convincing voice. It's like playing tennis with yourself and you have to be on both sides of the yard. You have to be on both sides, or all sides if there are more than two sides.
In the training process, the teacher addresses two sides of your being. One is the tonal and one is the nagual.
What a bunch of garbage, liberal, Democratic, conservative, Republican, it's all there to control you, two sides of the same coin! Two management teams, bidding for control of the CEO job of Slavery Incorporated!
And just as love has two sides, so too does Death. While Ismae will serve as His mercy, I will not, for that is not how He fashioned me. Every death I have witnessed, every horror I have endured, has forged me to be who I am -- Death's justice.