Quotes with position

  • I've had some threaten not to give Communion to me, even though they don't know my position, just because I'm a Democrat. I've had cardinals refuse to shake my hand because I'm a Democrat.
  • To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious.
  • And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
  • America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
  • You're not going to see me ever be partisan. I'll never take a position on a candidate or an issue.
  • Pawns not only create the sketch for the whole painting, they are also the soil, the foundation, of any position.
  • I don't think of form as a kind of architecture. The architecture is the result of the forming. It is the kinesthetic and visual sense of position and wholeness that puts the thing into the realm of art.
  • You can't ever put yourself in a position where someone is requiring you to inhabit somebody else's energy. You have to own your thing, or own it with very fiber of your being.
  • There is a certain relief in change, even though it be from bad to worse! As I have often found in traveling in a stagecoach, that ;it is often a comfort to shift one's position, and be bruised in a new place.
  • Many progressive economists insist that gold is now in essentially the same position as silver and that the arguments the simon-pure gold advocates use against the white metal can be directed with equal effect against their own fetish.
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  • Douglas Adams Anyone who is capable of getting themselves into a position of power should on no account be allowed to do the job.
    Douglas Adams
    British science-fiction writer (1952 - 2001)
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  • Stephen R. Covey Leadership is a choice, not a position.
    Stephen R. Covey
    American educator, author and businessman (1932 - 2012)
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  • Leo Buscaglia The easiest thing to be in the world is you. The most difficult thing to be is what other people want you to be. Don't let them put you in that position.
    Leo Buscaglia
    American author and motivational speaker (1924 - 1998)
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  • Peace Pilgrim You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them.
    Peace Pilgrim
    American activist, mystic and pacifist
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  • Carl von Clausewitz A general who allows himself to be decisively defeated in an extended mountain position deserves to be court-martialled.
    On War (1832) Ch. 17
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Bill Kurtis A journalist enjoys a privileged position. In exchange for not being able to participate in the rough-and-tumble issues of a community, we are given license to observe it all, based on the understanding that we'll tell everyone what happens fairly and squarely. That's harder than it sounds.
    Bill Kurtis
    American television journalist (1940 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Calvin Trillin A t American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
    Calvin Trillin
    American journalist, humorist, food writer and poet (1935 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Jonathan Swift Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Carlisle Floyd America tends to worship the modest talent because it doesn't put us in an uncomfortable position vis-a-vis the artist.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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  • John Updike Among the repulsions of atheism for me has been its drastic uninterestingness as an intellectual position. Where was the ingenuity, the ambiguity, the humanity (in the Harvard sense) of saying that the universe just happened to happen and that when we're dead we're dead?
    John Updike
    American writer and criticus (1932 - 2009)
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  • Brandi Chastain And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
    Brandi Chastain
    American soccer player (1968 - )
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  • Karl Marx Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.
    Karl Marx
    German economist and state philosopher (1818 - 1883)
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  • Bill Goldberg As a professional wrestler, it's not my position to be the booker, to formulate a match, unless you're asked to do that.
    Bill Goldberg
    American professional wrestler and actor (1966 - )
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  • Ada Leverson As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.
    Loves Shadow (1908) Ch. xxxix
    Ada Leverson
    British writer (1862 - 1933)
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  • E. M. Forster Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Queen Victoria Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.
    Queen Victoria
    Queen of Great Britain (1819 - 1901)
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  • Barry Sternlicht Booking windows are shrinking, and customers are going mobile: trends which position HotelTonight perfectly for the future.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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