I said, yes, if you think I will avoid bloodshed by…

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

— Kamisese Mara

I think my resignation was the only way to avoid bloodshed.

— Eduard Shevardnadze

My goal was to avoid bloodshed. But unfortunately there was some bloodshed, after all.

— Mikhail Gorbachev

“There are no independent people. Even when you are standing aside, you are taking a side.”

— Ljupka Cvetanova

It's not always easy to stand aside and be unable to do anything except record the sufferings around one.

— Robert Capa

Just stand aside and watch yourself go by; Think of yourself as 'he' instead of 'I'.

— Strickland Gillilan

I did not want to be a source of diversion from the Mondale-Ferraro ticket. It appears no matter what I did or tried to…

— Bert Lance

We must use words as they are used, or stand aside from life.

— Ivy Compton-Burnett

We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

— Irvine Welsh

As Brian Urquhart has said quite correctly, I don't think that individual countries in the international community can stand aside and let all of…

— Anonymous

“ENOUGH NOISE. STAND ASIDE. I WILL GUT HIM.”

— Jay Kristoff

Stand aside! I will kill him! He is mine!

— Voldemort

“And as for you, Holden, old son: if you happen to meet my body coming through the rye, I'd really appreciate it if you'd…

— Frank Portman

I promise you that one day you will stand aside and look at your difficult times, you will realize that he was always there…

— Thomas S. Monson

Amid a world of noisy, shallow actors it is noble to stand aside and say, 'I will simply be.

— Henry David Thoreau