Position Quotes · Page 16

To be right and overruled is not forgiven to persons in responsible positions.

— Barbara Tuchman

You ask what position I play, I say point guard.

— Jimmy Butler

I'm in a position where it doesn't matter what people think of me now.

— J. R. R. Tolkien

Dominant companies can't abuse their position to create advantage in related markets.

— Margrethe Vestager

I feel like the tight end position hasn't been appreciated.

— George Kittle

I am qualified for this position, have a right to run for it, and am in the race.

— Reba Hurn

I do think the position I play is a powerful position.

— Denise Morrison

Men are, by nature, hunters, and women have been put in the position of being the prey.

— Steve Harvey

What great comedians, great comic writers, great comic actors do is that they just read the headlines with the right eyebrow position…

— David Salle

I do not think the crowd affected us, but the position of being in a big time game may well have affected…

— Les Miles

He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher…

— David Josiah Brewer

I surrendered my moral conscience to the fact that I was a soldier, and therefore a cog in a relatively low position…

— Otto Ohlendorf

On the allegation of withholding temperature data, we find that CRU was not in a position to withhold access to such data…

— Muir Russell

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like…

— Pieter Zeeman

I don't think it's man's function to write. I don't think it's a normal thing like teeth-brushing and going to the bathroom.…

— Rod Serling

When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.

— Jean Alesi

I don't generally talk about medical terms when I discuss my position as a disabled person. I take a social rather than…

— Stella Young

After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create…

— Loren Eiseley

A cult hero? I don't think of myself as any kind of hero. I don't want to say it's a fairy tale,…

— Jeremy Shockey

Vegetarianism as a moral position is no more coherent than saying that you think it morally wrong to eat meat from a…

— Gary L. Francione

A woman is gentle, soft, delicate, and a man's position is to protect her, help her up stairs, make sure she's in…

— Taraji P. Henson

As far as from a standpoint of success, the only person who is in a position to make a claim like that…

— T.I

Insanity and psychosis can no longer be respected as meaningful [terms] - but are used by limited individuals in positions of social…

— Seymour Krim

Women's position includes so many pre-Islamic customs that have become an integral part of the Shariat. I am fighting that. Triple talaq…

— Asghar Ali Engineer

What really worries me is that those who are in positions of power are not really affected by what we are writing.…

— Chinua Achebe

I knew very little about Rugby. But, I think it helps in terms of an American audience the game is enough like…

— Matt Damon

Close reading of tough-minded writing is still the best, cheapest, and quickest method known for learning to think for yourself... Reading, and…

— John Taylor Gatto

And it's kind of my own fault too, in the sense that I've used my own life as a literary device so…

— Chuck Klosterman

Success is as dangerous as failure. Hope is as hollow as fear. What does it mean that success is a dangerous as…

— Laozi

Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through…

— Arthur Golden

If the veteran only has a year or two left on his contract, teams are hesitant to trade a draft pick for…

— Marty Hurney

There are some conversations that are undeniably improved when the rule going in is that you have to stand behind what you…

— Jonathan Zittrain

Position yourself well enough, and circumstances will do the rest.

— Mason Cooley

Nothing is more difficult than the art of maneuvering for advantageous positions.

— Sun Tzu

Equal rights for the sexes will be achieved only when mediocre women occupy high positions.

— Francoise Giroud

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

— Lord Acton

So a moral position is not a message. A moral position is a passionate caring inside you.

— Anne Lamott

Time eventually positions most photographs, even the most amateurish, at the level of art.

— Susan Sontag

“A good man never makes excuses, a smart man is never in a position to need one.”

— Kyle Barger

There are a lot of players out there who want to be in my position.

— Patrick Beverley