Position Quotes · Page 61

Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close.

— Robert Frost

Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,…

— Aldous Huxley

My position attracts a fair amount of rumors and gossip and misperceptions, but I'd rather not focus on that.

— Queen Rania of Jordan

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

— Vandana Shiva

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the…

— James Longstreet

There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer,…

— Hillary Clinton

Netanyahu and his coalition have no strategy of their own except endless counterinsurgency against the backdrop of a steadily deteriorating diplomatic position…

— Jonathan Chait

The discourse on the Text should itself be nothing other than text, research, textual activity, since the Text is that social space…

— Roland Barthes

I don't subscribe to the theory that all politicians are crap. I think the 'cool people' often take that position.

— Eddie Izzard

The Republicans I've been talking to have said, 'Oh, the public is cynical about indictments, they happen so often.' Well, that's whistling…

— Larry Sabato

When you get new people in, you're going to have a breath of fresh air and there's going to be a window…

— Ted Gup

Page one of the script, I launch into, "How would I feel if I were in this position?" That's an actor's job.

— Dermot Mulroney

John Kerry will undergo surgery to repair his right shoulder. He originally hurt it when he suddenly switched positions on Iraq.

— Craig Kilborn

Pippo Inzaghi was born in an offside position.

— Alex Ferguson

I am trying to stay away from this position of me "returning to my roots." As if my roots are that I'm…

— Spike Lee

If you want to create a beautiful world, people in positions of responsibility and power should know a certain sense of joyfulness…

— Jaggi Vasudev

You are young, and in love. Every young man in your position is the most miserable young man who ever lived.

— Neil Gaiman

I'm not an atheist. I don't think I can call myself a pantheist. The problem involved is too vast for our limited…

— Albert Einstein

It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president's say-so, any American citizen can…

— Laurence Tribe

I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on…

— Charles Bukowski

In my position, I could be a debutante. But we only got to this position by being a politically active family.

— Amy Carter

It seems sensible to discard all hope of observing hitherto unobservable quantities, such as the position and period of the electron... Instead…

— Werner Heisenberg

If an enemy has alliances, the problem is grave and the enemy's position strong; if he has no alliances, the problem is…

— Sun Tzu

Okay, here is the uplifting part: Your life isn't and has never been about you....about what you accomplish, how successful you are…

— Zoketsu Norman Fischer

Every climb is different, has its own unique set of movements and body positions. Climbing and my appreciation for nature are totally…

— Chris Sharma

The best way to defend the bombers is to catch the enemy before it his in position to attack. Catch them when…

— Robin Olds

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to…

— Gabrielle Union

Fifth positions, heads, musicality, energy. Not technical things so much-getting your leg higher or doing more turns but things that would set…

— Suzanne Farrell

I'm not ashamed of selling millions of records. I'm very fortunate to be in that position.

— Chris Daughtry

One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on…

— Elliott Sober

You don't like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election.…

— Barack Obama

I recognize that as the guy who lost the election, I'm not in a position to tell everybody else how to win,…

— Mitt Romney

Comparing the three domains, I found that for jobs of all kinds, emotional competencies were twice as prevalent among distinguishing competencies as…

— Daniel Goleman

We are very cautious in judging [Donald Trump], especially as he wasn't in a political position before.

— Bashar al-Assad

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

— Corbin Bleu

In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a…

— Paul von Hindenburg

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

— Paul Walker

And all of you, all your lives, should be telling those of us in the media leadership positions to tell the whole…

— Geneva Overholser

I feel I should be valued as a player, not so much my position.

— Le'Veon Bell

It helps certain church leaders identify the fact that they have the spiritual gift of leadership that the Bible talks about in…

— Bill Hybels