Position Quotes

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance , the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe are challenged by this point of pale light.

Faith is the power to stand up to the madness and chaos of the physical world, while holding the position that nothing external has any authority over what heaven has in mind for you.

He, general or mere captain, who employs every one in the storming of a position can be sure of seeing it retaken by an organized counterattack of four men and a corporal.

Our minorities alone are in a position to know what the fathers of our democracy were talking about.

I think the one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope. If you put me in a position where you took all my hope away, I'm not sure I could make it through the day.

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

If you don't try and explore genres and have freedom of creativity, you're just wasting your position as a pop band.

At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.

It's a life-changing thing to be in a position of needing help and being so lucky as to get it.

Doctrinal rightness and rightness of ecclesiastical position are important, but only as a starting point to go on into a living relationship - and not as ends in themselves.

We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations.

If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

I look upon those who would deny others the right to urge and argue their position, however irksome and pernicious they may seem, as intellectual and moral cowards.

It is placing the Executive and the Movement in an absolutely wrong position to be taking your conscience round from body to body asking to be told what you ought to do with it.

The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.

One of my life goals is to be a best man. It's a baller position. You get drunk, you make speeches, and you make love to the prettiest bridesmaid, usually standing from behind.

The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals.

People who criticize The Selfish Gene like that often haven't read it. The selfish gene accounts for altruism toward kin and individuals who might be in a position to reciprocate your altruism.

Like Midas, the Rationalist is always in the unfortunate position of not being able to touch anything, without transforming it into an abstraction; he can never get a square meal of experience.

Never to have occasion to take a position, to make up one's mind, or to define oneself - there is no wish I make more often.

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.

Real answers need to be found in dialogue and interaction and, yes, our shared human condition. This means being open to one another instead of simply fighting to maintain a prescribed position.

The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.

Until you can intelligently articulate the other side's position, you are not an adult. You are a liberal.

Skepticism is not a position; skepticism is an approach to claims, in the same way that science is not a subject but a method.

None of us is in a position to eliminate war, but it is our obligation to denounce it and expose it in all its hideousness. War leaves no victors, only victims.

It is impossible to carry the American people along with you on a program of caution to forestall a threatening position.

I have never had a governmental position, and I will never accept such a position.

I have always been anonymous, that is the position I should be. And it is hard to say why or how you did something, it just happens.

By then The Kite Runner had become quite successful and I found myself in a position that I had always dreamed of my whole life, which was to write for a living.

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

'Drugs' and psychedelics are not two members of a family, they are antithetically opposed to each other. The pro-psychedelic position is an anti-drug position.

But for 30 years, Orthodox leaders have tipped the balance between hawks and doves, and have been in a position to determine who forms a coalition and who runs the country.

That was the first time I saw a horse start from a kneeling position!

Let me always remember that it is not the amount of religious knowledge which I have, but the amount which I use, that determines my religious position and character.

The relevance of Marxism to science is that it removes it from its imagined position of complete detachment and shows it as a part, but a critically important part, of economy and social development.

In my opinion, a master is morally obliged to seize every sort of opportunity and to try to solve the problems of the position without fear of some simplifications.

I've supported Jeremy Corbyn all the way along because I think that was the right thing to do. I've reluctantly reached the conclusion that his position is untenable.

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is the same as it has been. We condemn torture.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

A man without a purpose is like a ship without a rudder - never likely to reach home port. To us comes the signal: chart your course, set your sail, position your rudder, and proceed.

The only position that leaves me with no cognitive dissonance is atheism.

I am in the position of judging people by the best they've ever done rather than the worst.

The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.