Position Quotes

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Children are not in a position to assess risk and safety; it must be done for them, and it must be done carefully. — Siri Hustvedt
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. — Roxane Gay
My first job was to run a concessions cart. Later, I found a position at the Pacific Film Archive. Thus began a long series of… — Mona Simpson
During my undergraduate training at UCLA, I was studying finance and securities; my particular interest was with mutual funds. Wanting to get into a high… — Robert Shapiro
Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. — Booker T. Washington
A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position. — Jean de la Bruyere
Avoid having your ego so close to your position that when your position falls, your ego goes with it. — Colin Powell
The position of the artist if humble. He is essentially a channel. — Piet Mondrian
One of the most difficult things everyone has to learn is that for your entire life you must keep fighting and adjusting if you hope… — George Allen, Sr.
I will listen to Mr Bush but my position is very clear and very firm. The occupation is a fiasco. There have been almost more… — Jose Luis Rodriguez Zapatero
Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality. — Mathieu Kerekou
I venture to allude to the impression which seemed generally to prevail among their brethren across the seas, that the Old Country must wake up… — King George V
Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help. — Betty Ford
The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an… — Kazuo Ishiguro
Therefore, let us not despair, but instead, survey the position, consider carefully the action we must take, and then address ourselves to our common task… — Arthur Henderson
Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a… — George Phillips Bond
But my question is, am I compromising by adapting my words for the audience and where is the line beyond which I am not adapting… — Joichi Ito
A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are. — Robert Cray
I position everything else in my life around making movies. — Richard King
Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer… — John Redwood

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