#aside

I'm a typical middle child. I'm the mediator. The one that makes everything OK, puts their own needs aside to make sure everybody's happy. It's hard to change your nature, even with years and years of therapy. ↗

— Jennifer Jason Leigh

#change #child #even #everybody #everything

Science fiction made me aware of how big and strange the universe was, leaving aside the whole question of aliens. ↗

— Ken MacLeod

#aware #big #fiction #how #leaving

I don't think nations can stand aside for ethnic cleansing and genocide. ↗

— John Major

#cleansing #ethnic #genocide #i #nations

It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American. ↗

— Miriam Makeba

#am #american #american music #aside #because

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

— Andre Malraux

#nothing #one thing #only #opium #physical

And I said, yes, if you think that I avoid bloodshed by standing aside, then I will stand aside. ↗

— Kamisese Mara

#avoid #bloodshed #i #said #stand

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

#only #passes #poet #prose #step

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

— Hattie McDaniel

#clean #fun #good #humor #little

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#disgusted #experience #frightened #men #most

We can pay the ecological debt by changing economic models, and by giving up luxury consumption, setting aside selfishness and individualism, and thinking about the people and the planet Earth. ↗

— Evo Morales

#aside #changing #consumption #debt #earth