Position Quotes
2906 quotes by 2264 authors
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Greatness is not found in possessions, power, position, or prestige. It is discovered in goodness, humility, service, and character.
— William Arthur Ward
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Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge.... Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate…
— Robertson Davies
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My political position springs from my being a novelist. In so far as I am concerned, politics and the novel are an indivisible case and…
— Ghassan Kanafani
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Maxim 20: If you’re not willing to shell your own position, you’re not willing to win. -The Seventy Maxims of Maximally Effective Mercenaries
— Howard Tayler
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Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation…
— Jacques Lacan
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I think that everything should be made available to everybody, and I mean LSD, cocaine, codeine, grass, opium, the works. Nothing on earth available to…
— Charles Bukowski
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One recipe for happiness is to have to sense of entitlement.' To this she added a star and noted at the bottom of the page:…
— Alan Bennett
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Do you want me to ride you like a rented mule, or do you prefer to be Mr. Missionary Position? I'm fine with wither, so…
— Katie MacAlister
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You are right,†he had said. “Love is not the word. No one can love his neighbor. Say, rather, ‘Know thy neighbor as thyself.†That…
— Pearl S. Buck
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I am a ridiculous man. They call me a madman now. That would be a distinct rise in my social position were it not that…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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Play interests me very much," said Hermann: "but I am not in the position to sacrifice the necessary in the hope of winning the superfluous.
— Alexander Pushkin
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Granny Weatherwax was not lost. She wasn't the kind of person who ever became lost. It was just that, at the moment, while she knew…
— Terry Pratchett
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The inner throne of man is both what the kingdom of Christ and the kingdom of Lucifer are after. And when this throne is yielded…
— Eric Ludy
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Look at the way the walls curve,' Macey said, her gaze panning around the strangely shaped room. 'it's almost like...' 'The library,' Liz said, and…
— Ally Carter
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Education, if it means anything, should not take people away from the land, but instill in them even more respect for it, because educated people…
— Wangari Maathai
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The distinction between meat and other animal products is total nonsense. Vegetarianism is a morally incoherent position. If you regard animals as members of the…
— Gary L. Francione
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Gilbert took from his desk a little pink candy heart with a gold motto on it, “You are sweet,†and slipped it under the curve…
— Lucy Maud Montgomery
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Leaders lead when they take positions, when they connect with their tribes, and when they help the tribe connect to itself.
— Seth Godin
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To give preference to the life of a being simply because that being is a member of our species would put us in the same…
— Peter Singer
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You see something you like?" I asked, echoing something I'd said to him ling ago, when he'd caught me in a compromising position at school.…
— Richelle Mead
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