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441 Positions quotes by 389 unique authors

With respect to the situation in Al-Faw, the British told big lies. In Al-Faw, our forces' positions remained in place. — Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
There are few positions in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered. These difficulties are, however, our best instructors, as our mistakes often… — Edwin Paxton Hood
Perhaps bacteria may tentatively be regarded as biochemical experiments; owing to their relatively small size and rapid growth, variations must arise much more frequently than… — Marjory Stephenson
With crystals we are in a situation similar to an attempt to investigate an optical grating merely from the spectra it produces... But a knowledge… — Max von Laue
Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing… — Sun Tzu
Arrogance and fanaticism cause the hardening of positions taken and entrenchment can only lead to a dead end. — Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew I of Constantinople
I believe in clear-cut positions. I think that the most arrogant position is this apparent, multidisciplinary modesty of "what I am saying now is not… — Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek
The positions I played, every play, I was making contact, not like that Deion Sanders. He couldn't tackle my wife. He's back there dancing out… — Chuck Bednarik
Sometimes I do feel a little pressure, but not that much because we play different positions. — Willie Lanier
It's such a rarity to have women in senior powerful positions. We can name them all. Fact is, women can handle power and handle it… — Unknown Author
Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of end-games and other… — Max Euwe
You will already have noticed how often Capablanca repeated moves, often returning to positions which he had had before. This is not lack of deciciveness… — Alexander Kotov
They didn't change positions, they just moved the players around. — Terry Venables
Good positions don't win games, good moves do — Gerald Abrahams
Chess mastery essentially consists of analyzing Chess positions accurately — Mikhail Botvinnik
In complicated positions, Bobby Fischer hardly had to be afraid of anybody — Paul Keres
It was clear to me that the vulnerable point of the American Grandmaster (Bobby Fischer) was in double-edged, hanging, irrational positions, where he often failed… — Efim Geller
When people are placed in positions slightly above what they expect, they are apt to excel. — Richard Branson
Those of us in positions of responsibility, we'll need to be less concerned with the judgment of special interests and well-connected donors, and more concerned… — Barack Obama
Climate science has been targeted by a major political movement, environmentalism, as the focus of their efforts, wherein the natural disasters of the earth system,… — Richard Lindzen
It doesn't dawn on this depraved bourgeois world that this is positively a sin against all reason; that it is criminal lunacy to keep on… — Adolf Hitler
It is possible for the most obscure person in a church, with a heart right toward God, to exercise as much power for the evangelization… — John Mott
When right, I shall often be thought wrong by those whose positions will not command a view of the whole ground. — Thomas Jefferson
In the first book I shall describe all the positions of the spheres, along with the motions which I attribute to the Earth, so that… — Nicolaus Copernicus
People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history. — Dan Quayle

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