Position Quotes

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me… — Hannah Arendt
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different… — Karen Armstrong
But, actually, so many of the clerics that I've met, particularly the Church of England clerics, are people of such extraordinary smugness and arrogance and… — Rowan Atkinson
I think every age lives in a blend of technology so there's always older ones mixed in with newer ones, and when the new technology… — Margaret Atwood
Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or… — Kevyn Aucoin
If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this… — Teresa of Avila
I have a very high opinion of Steve King and his ability, so I would encourage him to consider any position for higher office. — Michele Bachmann
I don't know that the Libertarian Party has an official position on the separation of church and state. — Michael Badnarik
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… — Franklin P. Adams
What you think means more than anything else in your life. More than what you earn, more than where you live, more than your social… — George Matthew Adams
Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases. — John Adams
When life knocks you to your knees, and it will, why, get up! If it knocks you to your knees again, as it will, well,… — Ethel Barrymore
I will use my position as chairman emeritus on the Energy and Commerce Committee to try to bring some common sense to EPA regulations. — Joe Barton
The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become… — Martha Beck
Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. — A. C. Benson
The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a humble person to change. — Ezra Taft Benson
In just the same way the thousands of successive positions of a runner are contracted into one sole symbolic attitude, which our eye perceives, which… — Henri Bergson
If you get a guy that can play a couple positions, it helps you out a real lot. — Yogi Berra
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
'Easter' is a movable event, calculated by the relative positions of sun and moon, an impossible way of fixing year by year the anniversary of… — Annie Besant

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