Position Quotes

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The heart can think of no devotion Greater than being shore to the ocean- Holding the curve of one position, Counting an endless repetition. — Robert Frost
She felt a little betrayed and sad, but presently a moving object came into sight. It was a huge horse-chestnut tree in full bloom bound… — F. Scott Fitzgerald
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change… — Carl Sagan
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make… — Max Beerbohm
I don't care if people hate my guts; I assume most of them do. The important question is whether they are in a position to… — William S. Burroughs
On some positions, cowardice asks the question, is it expedient? And then expedience comes along and asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
With monuments as with men, position means everything. — Honore de Balzac
Sometimes she went so far as to wish that she should find herself in a difficult position, so that she might have the pleasure of… — Henry James
We are in the position of a little child entering a huge library, whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different… — Albert Einstein
I am the most miserable person who ever lived," he said... "You are young, and in love," said Primus. "Every young man in your position… — Neil Gaiman
The universe is a million billion light-years wide, and every inch of it would kill you if you went there. This is the position of… — Martin Amis
The curse should no longer rest upon the world itself, but upon that which is sinful in it, and instead of monastic flight from the… — Abraham Kuyper
If someone who wanted to learn to dance were to say: For centuries, one generation after the other has learned the positions, and it is… — Soren Kierkegaard
She might, in fact, go crazy, as has happened to a lot of people who break rules. Not the people who play at rebellion but… — E. Lockhart
There comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but he must take it because conscience… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
In organizations, real power and energy is generated through relationships. The patterns of relationships and the capacities to form them are more important than tasks,… — Margaret J. Wheatley
He was weary of the uncertainty of the vicious circle of that eternal war that always found him in the same place, but always older,… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
You see, proteins, as I probably needn't tell you, are immensely complicated groupings of amino acids and certain other specialized compounds, arranged in intricate three-dimensional… — Isaac Asimov
Autobiography, if there really is such a thing, is like asking a rabbit to tell us what he looks like hopping through the grasses of… — Arthur Golden
Although I didn't think so at the time, things were a lot simpler in 1969. All you had to do to express yourself was throw… — Haruki Murakami

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