One-Sided Quotes

When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.

An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.

When affirmation and negation came into being, Tao faded. After Tao faded, then came one-sided attachments.

He hears but half who hears one party only.

Woe be to him that reads but one book.

Takers are self-serving in their interactions. It's all about what can you do for me.

I've never been at odds with the world of contemporary artists. If there is any animosity, it's one-sided.

It's all about what they can get out of me.

He never wants anything but what's right and fair; only when you come to settle what's right and fair, it's everything that he wants and nothing that you want.

When I talk to anyone or read the writings of anyone who has any axe to grind, I feel that intellectual honesty and balanced judgement have simply disappeared from the face of the earth. Everyone's thought is forensic, everyone is simply putting a "case" with deliberate suppression of his opponent's point of view, and, what is more, with complete insensitiveness to any sufferings except those of himself and his friends.

Nobody ever accused me of being objective.

Experience cannot possibly have decided between two courses, so long as there has only been experience of one.

The customer is a remarkably selfish person: He takes the relationship to where the execution is in his favor.

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account.

The pleasure was all yours.

In this closely divided nation, it satisfies no practical purpose for the entertainment elite to be identified as so intensely political and utterly one-sided.

[This is the] very first condition which has to be fulfilled in every kind of propaganda: a systematically one-sided attitude towards every problem that has to be dealt with.

I think when you are trying to be intimate with people that are so incredibly self-obsessed, it's not going to work. It's not going to be romantic, and it's probably going to be one-sided.

I only know that I love you. That's your misfortune.

Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor-unassisted.

I've always been very one-sided about science, and when I was younger, I concentrated almost all my effort on it.

In every truth, the opposite is equally true. For example, a truth can only be expressed and enveloped in words if it is onesided.

Longing is not always a reciprocal thing.

I have often been asked to be fair and view a matter from all sides. I did so, hoping that something might improve if I viewed allsides of it. But the result was the same. So I went back to viewing things only from one side, which saves me a lot of work and disappointment. For it is comforting to regard something as bad and to be able to use one's prejudice as an excuse.

Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.