Best 442 quotes in «position quotes» category

All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.

Although I felt I was quite good at criticising a philosophical position, I was not very good at defending and making a case for a philosophical position.

A man is most accurately judged by how he treats those who are not in a position either to retaliate or to reciprocate.

A man who marries his mistress leaves a vacancy in that position.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

And understandably so, that when you're in legal jeopardy, you really cannot put yourself in a position to open yourself up to the media.

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.

Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

Are decent people in positions of leadership eternally condemned to Calvary?

As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.

As soon as you set yourself up in the position of transferring paint from one place to another, your whole culture invades you. It tells you all about the history of art.

As someone who was born in Israel, you're put in a position of defending Israel because you know how much is at stake.

At the same time, [princess Margaret] had a fragility and an insecurity in who she was and her position, because her sister had always got the education ever since David [Edward VIII] abdicated.

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

Center is a very tough position to play.

Bashing the elite is what I'm all about in my music because they absolutely don't deserve the privileged position that they're in, and we're seeing this around the globe right now.

Because a truly skeptical position would be a very uncertain one.

Before you can have great employees you have to put them in a position to create their own future.

Character - not wealth, power, or position - is the supreme word.

Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas.

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all.

Donald Trump is not softening his position on immigration.

China is the largest and most ancient of Asiatic countries, but it is not for us boastfully to talk of her right to a position of 'leadership' among those countries.

Chart positions are for people with manbags who get to work at 11 A.M. because they've been at a digital meeting.

Consider how Jesus came from a position of glory and consistently reached out to the lowly.

Donald Trump has been someone who has basically taken every position that Vladimir Putin has.

Do not always be thinking of attack! Moves that safeguard your position are often far more prudent.

Everyone in a position of authority is hysterical, and everyone else is pretending to be asleep.

Either Mitt Romney, through his own words and his own signature, was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the SEC, which is a felony, or he was misrepresenting his position at Bain to the American people...

Everybody brings their personality to any position, and that's true for presidents like anyone else.

Everyone's life is a page in the human history irrespective of the position he or she holds or the work he or she performs.

Even though [Donald] Trump is reported to not read very much and to have a limited range of experience, he is often certain that he is right and boldly asserts the correctness of his positions.

Everything Mengistu has done since 1977 has been to place himself in a position of uncontestable power. Neither Haile Selassie nor any of the previous emperors had this insatiable thirst for power.

Get your personal needs met, once and for all; if you have unmet needs, you'll attract others in the same position.

Extremism is so easy. You've got your position, and that's it. It doesn't take much thought. And when you go far enough to the right you meet the same idiots coming around from the left.

For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

Geoffrey [Howe] and I were mates, and he disagreed with [ Margaret Thatcher] position. So, we cooperated surreptitiously.

For as long as one has no further point of reference, apart from the position of the maximum, the wavelength thus remains uncertain by an integral factor.

Fundamentally, [prayer] is a position, a placement of oneself.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

Greece's position in Europe will not be put in doubt.

Have empathy, gratitude and respect for every position in the company.

Having to know the answers puts in terrible positions from which to learn.

He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.

Honor is infinitely more valuable than positions of honor.

I always promised myself that if I was in position to be successful, I wouldn't take it for granted, because I know in the past how hard I've worked.

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.