Position Quotes
2906 quotes by 2264 authors
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I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live…
— Oscar Wilde
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There would be little reason to lie down at night without the possibility of seeing things bigger and more amazing than the average day might…
— Obert Skye
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If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much…
— George MacDonald Fraser
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In relating the circumstances which have led to my confinement within this refuge for the demented, I am aware that my present position will create…
— H P Lovecraft
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I won't close down a business of subnormal profitability merely to add a fraction of a point to our corporate returns. I also feel it…
— Warren Buffett
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He awoke, opened his eye. The room meant very little to him; he was too deeply immersed in the non-being from which he had just…
— Paul Bowles
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The middle path makes me wary. . . . But in the middle of my life, I am coming to see the middle path as…
— Terry Tempest Williams
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Men who find themselves late are never sure. They are all the things the civics books tell us the good citizen should be: partisans but…
— Stephen King
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During the war, a battle was fought here, not only for the creation of a new Yugoslavia, but also a battle for Bosnia and Herzegovina…
— Josip Broz Tito
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It is astounding to me, and achingly sad, that with eighty thousand people on the waiting list for donated hearts and livers and kidneys, with…
— Mary Roach
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You do not become a ''dissident'' just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by…
— Vaclav Havel
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This is the time for every artist in every genre to do what he or she does loudly and consistently. It doesn't matter to me…
— Toni Morrison
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Never make a decesion until you have to". He'd also warn me that even if I was in a position of strenght, whether at work…
— Randy Pausch
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Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your…
— C.S. Lewis
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An indigenous culture with sufficient territory, and bilingual and intercultural education, is in a better position to maintain and cultivate its mythology and shamanism. Conversely,…
— Jeremy Narby
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If you identify with a mental position, then if you are wrong, your mind-based sense of self is seriously threatened with annihilation. So you as…
— Eckhart Tolle
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In the end we had changed the position of the hands so many times that we had no idea what the time really was.
— Sijie Dai
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Modern man has transformed himself into a commodity; he experiences his life energy as an investment with which he should make the highest profit, considering…
— Erich Fromm
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The male frog in mating season," said Crake, "makes as much noise as it can. The females are attracted to the male frog with the…
— Margaret Atwood
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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents... some day the piecing…
— H P Lovecraft
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