Quotes with position

Quotes 101 till 120 of 144.

  • Caitlin Moran The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • Booker T. Washington The last I heard of the young man in question, he was trying to eke out a miserable existence as a book agent while he was looking about for a position somewhere with the Government as a janitor or for some other equally humble occupation.
    Booker T. Washington
    American Black Leader and Educator (1856 - 1915)
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  • Albert J. Nock The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
    Albert J. Nock
    American libertarian author (1870 - 1945)
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  • Piet Mondrian The position of the artist is humble. He is essentially a channel.
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  • Bud Grant The quarterback is the most vulnerable one on the field. He's in an awkward position a lot of times when he throws the ball. So he does have to be protected. You lose a quarterback, you're in trouble. I don't know if they can make it too safe. I think health becomes an issue.
    Bud Grant
    American football coach and player (1927 - )
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  • Bill Bryson The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.
    Bill Bryson
    American-British author (1951 - )
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  • Maurice Switzer The surest way to establish your credit is to work yourself into the position of not needing any.
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  • Billie Jean King The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
    Billie Jean King
    American tennis player (1943 - )
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  • Angela Davis The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Washington Irving 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.
    Washington Irving
    American writer (1783 - 1859)
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  • Thornton T. Munger There is no road to success but through a clear strong purpose. Nothing can take its place. A purpose underlies character, culture, position, attainment of every part.
    Thornton T. Munger
    American scientist and environmentalist
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  • Bill Bailey There we go, that's it. I just hold my hand in this position for the next couple of hours.
    Remarkable Guide to the Orchestra
    Bill Bailey
    English comedian, musician and actor (1965 - )
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  • Arthur Henderson Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task in a mood of sober resolution and quiet confidence, without haste and without pause.
    Arthur Henderson
    British Labour politician
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  • Alexander Haig Those who are seeking ways to tap into the potential of e-mail will find themselves in a position to capitalize on the pending explosion in Internet usage.
    Alexander Haig
    American politician (1924 - 2010)
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  • George Eliot To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Ernest Renan 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.
    Ernest Renan
    French writer and critic (1823 - 1892)
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  • Pat Riley To have long term success as a coach or in any position of leadership, you have to be obsessed in some way.
    Pat Riley
    American basketball coach (1945 - )
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  • Georges Bataille To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
    Georges Bataille
    French writer and critic (1897 - 1962)
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  • Brent Scowcroft To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that our best bet was to take counsel from the people who did know him and who did deal with him.
    Brent Scowcroft
    American US Air Force officer (1925 - 2020)
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  • Abraham H. Maslow We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings.
    Abraham H. Maslow
    American psychologist (1908 - 1970)
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