Position Quotes

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in a sense, all poetry is positional: to try to express one's position in regard to the universe embraced by consciousness, is an immemorial urge.… — Vladimir Nabokov
So it is best to keep an open mind and be agnostic. At first sight that seems an unassailable position, at least in the weak… — Richard Dawkins
The idea of being strong for someone else having never entered their heads, I find myself in the position of having to console them. Since… — Suzanne Collins
History is important. If you don't know history it is as if you were born yesterday. And if you were born yesterday, anybody up there… — Howard Zinn
The three of them set out every morning on adventures of their own kind. Once, an elderly professor of literature, Mrs. Taggart's friend, saw them… — Ayn Rand
We need a better way to talk about eating animals. We need a way that brings meat to the center of public discussion in the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
Many people fear nothing more terribly than to take a position which stands out sharply and clearly from the prevailing opinion. The tendency of most… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
A young woman, newly wed, may find herself in the delightful position of wanting to do nothing without the company of her darling husband. She… — Anna Godbersen
The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death.… — Mary Midgley
Perhaps when we face our maker, we will not be asked, 'How many positions did you hold,' but rather, 'How many people did you help? — Thomas S. Monson
She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think… — J D Salinger
I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with inadequate or wrong answers to the questions of life. They seek position, marriage,… — Carl Jung
They have money and position and Ann has none.It's amazing how often you can be right as long as you have those two things working… — Libba Bray
Well, you missed out on some important protocol, Ella. You can't stand between a Texan and his power tools. We like them. Big ones that… — Lisa Kleypas
Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another. — John C. Maxwell
...the object of waging a war is always to be in a better position in which to wage another war. — George Orwell
Now here's somebody who wants to smoke a marijuana cigarette. If he's caught, he goes to jail. Now is that moral? Is that proper? I… — Milton Friedman
Which leaves us to the question, what is he up to?" Evanlyn said. Will shrugged. "I suppose we'll find out soon enough," he said, and… — John Flanagan
You like being vague, don't you? (Amanda) It was a choice of being a Dark-Hunter or a prophet. Personally I like the slash-and-kill stuff much… — Sherrilyn Kenyon
Stephen had spared no expense in making himself more unhappy, his own position as a rejected lover clearer. — Patrick O'Brian

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