Position Quotes
2906 quotes by 2264 authors
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It really does no good to ask questions that reflect opposition to the will of God. Rather ask, What am I to do? What am…
— Richard G. Scott
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What had happened was this. When still young, I had gotten the idea from somewhere that I might be able to write... Maybe the deadly…
— Paul Di Filippo
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The Way of Mastery is to break all the rules—but you have to know them perfectly before you can do this; otherwise you are not…
— Aleister Crowley
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No it's not!" said Constable Visit. "Atheism is a denial of a god." "Therefore It Is A Religious Position," said Dorfl. "Indeed, A True Atheist…
— Terry Pratchett
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This wasn't a position she wanted to be in. And yet . . . yet she knew that she was going to do it anyway.
— Maureen Johnson
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I may be indigent in name, position, and in appearance, but in my own mind I am an unrivaled goddess -
— Muriel Barbery
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Sarah learnt a lot from Alex. Like the way men could say one thing, then another, then act in a way inconsistent with both positions…
— Emily Maguire
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Betrayal was a stone beneath a mattress of thr bed you shared, something you felt digging into you no matter how you shifted position. What…
— Jodi Picoult
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Reading was not a fallback position for her but an ideal state of being.
— Laura Lippman
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It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though-- and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger--…
— Lev Grossman
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In a public dialogue with Salman in London he [Edward Said] had once described the Palestinian plight as one where his people, expelled and dispossessed…
— Christopher Hitchens
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...he said firmly, "God can help you. All the men I’ve seen in your position turned to Him in their time of trouble." "Obviously," I…
— Albert Camus
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Imagine, [Kriezler] said, that you enter a large, somewhat crumbling hall that echoes with the sounds of people mumbling and talking repetitively to themselves. All…
— Caleb Carr
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Their position was perhaps the happiest of all positions in the social scale, being above the line at which neediness ends, and below the line…
— Thomas Hardy
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I am convinced that it is one of the most unjust wars that has ever been fought in the history of the world. Our involvement…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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I refuse to "look up." Optimism nauseates me. It is perverse. Since man's fall, his proper position in the universe has been one of misery.
— John Kennedy Toole
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The way you move — you orient yourself around him without even thinking about it. When he moves, even a little bit, you adjust your…
— Stephenie Meyer
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As usual, in every scheme that worsens the position of the poor, it is the poor who are invoked as beneficiaries.
— Vandana Shiva
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I am no longer anxious about anything, as I realize that He is able to carry out His will for me. It does not matter…
— Hudson Taylor
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A great leader's courage to fulfill his vision comes from passion, not position.
— John C. Maxwell
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