Position Quotes · Page 64

The books say that it is not so serious to lose time in a closed position; I am lucky, since these comments…

— Bent Larsen

[The American position at the UN is] essentially impotent, without influence, heavily outvoted, and isolated.

— Jeane Kirkpatrick

Nothing in life is certain except death, taxes and the second law of thermodynamics. All three are processes in which useful or…

— Seth Lloyd

'Soul Plane' put me in a position to succeed. I'm glad I had the opportunity to be the lead man.

— Kevin Hart

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager…

— Sparky Anderson

If I could write directly on a typewriter or a computer, I would do it. But keyboards have always intimidated me. I've…

— Paul Auster

If you'd asked me some years ago, I would have said [Dalai Lama] is an extraordinarily compassionate, clear-sighted, calm human being. But…

— Pico Iyer

The human mind naturally adapts itself to the position it occupies.

— Charles Tupper

Since I ought to be arrogant, impressed with my social position, overwhelmed by my beauty, therefore I am. Actually I was never…

— Gore Vidal

We are in the extreme centre, the radical middle. That is our position.

— Pierre Trudeau

As I say the UK's position on the issue of torture and the use of torture has not changed. Our policy is…

— Theresa May

I think it's very important to know what you want to do next versus just leave it up to chance, really position…

— Kellan Lutz

[Gambling] is a perfidious passion. ... It is bad for one to win, and bad not to win. ... it ends by…

— Matilde Serao

I always think it's best to pretend you're in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in…

— Billie Jean King

Gentlemen are not supposed to tell the truth about their sex lives, nor are ladies, for that matter. Of course Clinton lied…

— Gore Vidal

I would have said, before the World Trade Center events, that he would try to get a normal relationship with China -…

— Henry A. Kissinger

When we came along there was only Decca, Philips and EMI who could really produce a record for you. You had to…

— John Lennon

“Shouldn't it be made a crime to vie for a position you can't deliver? We have a confused and compromised executive and…

— DON SANTO

We might as easily reprove the east wind, or the frost, as a political party, whose members, for the most part, could…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

We see pluralism: We can see that there are different ideological and political positions in Russia. If the authoritarianism finally ends, we…

— Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I really like the No. 9 position, but I also know that as a striker you have to score goals.

— Kai Havertz

How often have we seen politicians take a principle position only to give it up three days later? That is what makes…

— Colin Powell

You have to put yourself in a position to be lucky.

— Roelof Botha

Perhaps there is no position more perilous to a man's honesty thanthat?of knowing himselftobe quiteloved by a girl whom he almost loves…

— Anthony Trollope

Pianists of extraordinary talent, such as Christina Petrowska,spend a large part of their early lives perfecting technique…Miss Petrowska,a Canadian with a phenomenal…

— Donal Henahan

When I see the attention movie stars get, it doesn't make me want to be in that position at all.

— Benjamin Millepied

I've got bills to pay like everyone else. I'm a high-earner but I don't see myself as rich. I know in some…

— Steve McFadden

All the old clichés about women need to be undone. Enough already. We're in the other position now. We are desirable older,…

— Jennifer Lopez

You are only as powerful as that for which you stand. Do you stand for more money in the bank and a…

— Gary Zukav

Of course I've already taken a very modest position on the monetary system, I do take the position that we should just…

— Ron Paul

According to our social science, we can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be…

— Leo Strauss

We women are callow fledglings as compared with the wise old birds who manipulate the political machinery, and we still hesitate to…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war…

— John Negroponte

To sum up, the position we took was that since we didn't know the internal situation in Iraq nor Saddam Hussein, that…

— Brent Scowcroft

Obviously my parents have been a massive influence on me my whole career, taking me around everywhere and putting me in this…

— Judd Trump

Ballet is ultimately a logical technique; it favors the shortest, most efficient route from one position into another. This factor gives an…

— Anna Paskevska

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in…

— Anonymous

Today we are again witnessing the emergence of transnational elites ... [Whose] ties cut across national boundaries ...It is likely that before…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Society is about masks and hiding and pretending to be something that you're not and not opening up, and in acting, you…

— Ben Wheatley