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  • He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul. -- David Lloyd George
  • On the issue of abortion, I'm ever on the fence, or, at most, an inch or two to either side. -- Victoria Moran
  • I try and sit on the fence because as soon as you voice any kind of opinion, people begin to think you're an idiot. -- Calvin Harris
  • Every politician must be able to keep both feet on the fence with his ear to the ground. -- Gracie Allen
  • India cannot sit on the fence anymore. It may have to make a choice. Either way it is going face problems, -- Jawaharlal Nehru
  • In actual fact those who do not care for politics and sit on the fence do indeed side for a political party: The ruling party. -- Max Frisch
  • The enemies you make by taking a decided stand generally have more respect for you than the friends you make by being on the fence -- Henry A. Kissinger
  • I can attempt to stay on the fence. However, the problem is that the fence is a figment of my fear not a reality of my journey. -- Craig D. Lounsbrough
  • You can choose not to sit on the fence. You can choose not to criticise. You must stand as guard at the door of your own mind and choose to be positive. -- Gail Kelly
  • I don't think we can sit on the fence anymore. We have to make up our minds. And if one wants to choose the path of darkness, then so be it, but be conscious of what it is you're doing. -- Seal
  • In 1998, in Laramie, Wyoming, two guys beat up Matthew Shepard and left him on the side of the road hanging on the fence to die. They killed him, because Matthew Shepard was gay. They killed him, because Matthew Shepard was gay? They killed him. -- Christopher Titus
  • Pedestrian's rights - because we live in California, I've got to address this issue. I don't know where on the fence I am about that. I suppose if I'm walking, I'm all for it, but if I'm driving, that's a whole other can of worms. -- Janeane Garofalo
  • But the positive thoughts would give way to negative thoughts, and the negative thoughts seemed to swoop into her mind the way a big flock of black crows takes over the landscape, sitting thick in the trees and on the fence rails and lawns, staring at you in ominous silence. -- Jeannette Walls
  • I remembered the 500 people that lived on a reserve outside my little town, behind a big fence. -- Phillip Noyce
  • A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. -- H. L. Mencken
  • You try to - you want to fly on both sides of the political fence because that's where the - where the comedy is. -- Denis Leary
  • A number of people who have supported me on the border fence in the U.S. have observed the fences in Israel and their effectiveness. -- Duncan Hunter
  • Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds. -- Clive Sinclair
  • It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions. -- Jim Rohn
  • Sides are being divided now. It's very obvious. So if you're on the other side of the fence, you're suddenly anti-American. It's breeding fear of being on the wrong side. -- Sam Shepard
  • The idea that I have to be on the same side of the fence as Dan Quayle is cruelly depressing to me, but the truth is, I believe in family values. -- Harold Prince
  • There are three kinds of men. The one that learns by reading. The few who learn by observation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence for themselves. -- Will Rogers
  • Human beings are human beings. They say what they want, don't they? They used to say it across the fence while they were hanging wash. Now they just say it on the Internet. -- Dennis Miller
  • Everyone saw me on TV or read articles, and it was all about my great marriage, the white picket fence, all this success and my perfect life. But behind the scenes, it was a struggle. -- Lindsey Vonn
  • All things on earth point home in old October; sailors to sea, travellers to walls and fences, hunters to field and hollow and the long voice of the hounds, the lover to the love he has forsaken. -- Thomas Wolfe
  • When I walked out on the mound, I felt enclosed. You see, I'd been used to playing on pastures, where when somebody hit a ball you had to stop it from rolling. Well, this field had fences around it. -- Ted Lyons
  • When you're given a newspaper column, you're not being paid to sit on a fence and scratch your chin and say 'On the one hand this' and 'On the other hand that.' You're getting paid for your opinion. -- Carl Hiaasen
  • The once inviolate frame within which programs or commercials were displayed on television - always separately - has been violated to a pulp. Program content is seen increasingly as a mere backdrop on which ads are posted like billboards on a fence. -- Tom Shales
  • The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there's nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It's the absolute cutoff point between man and nature. -- Douglas Coupland
  • That's the thing about zombies. They don't adapt and they don't think. Literally, you could have a zombie on one side of a chain link fence and you could be on the other side and they could be trying to get to you and six feet down could be an open door and they will not go through that door in the fence. That's why they're so scary. -- Max Brooks
  • If the fence is strong enough I'll sit on it. -- Cyril Smith
  • Someone's always going to come down on the side of the fence. -- Morgan Freeman
  • Opportunity never sneaks up on those who straddle the fence of indecision. -- Napoleon Hill
  • I never sit on a fence. I am either on one side or another. -- Harry S. Truman
  • There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence. -- Sting
  • I'm one of these people that always looks on the bad side of the fence. -- Ozzy Osbourne
  • If the grass on the other side of the fence is greener, try watering your side. -- Ernie J Zelinski
  • Winning depends on where you put your priorities. It's usually best to put them over the fence. -- Jason Giambi
  • I can't give you the white picket fence, and if I did, you'd set it on fire. -- Ilona Andrews
  • Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help. -- Alex Haley
  • If there was two birds sitting on a fence, he would bet you which one would fly first. -- Mark Twain
  • If the grass is greener on the other side of the fence, you can bet the water bill is higher. -- Debbie Macomber
  • The grass is not always greener on the other side of the fence. The grass is greenest where it is watered. -- Robert Fulghum
  • Of course the grass is greener on the other side of the fence. Why do you think the neighbors put up the fence? -- Teresa Bloomingdale
  • This is how your heart gets snagged, like a balloon on a barbed-wire fence, this is where pieces of you get torn away. -- Pete Wentz
  • To give you an idea how bad the American economy is, Mexico is now calling for a fence along the border. Stay on your side! -- Jay Leno
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  • We're on the other side of the fence now, Lena,' she says, tiredly, as she passes. "Don't you get it? You can't tell me what to feel. -- Lauren Oliver
  • An island Utopia in a modern, busy, everyday world. A land where there are neither rich nor poor. A heaven on earth - without a fence around it. -- William Wrigley, Jr.
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