Position Quotes

In the case of the armies at Fredericksburg it would have been, to say the least, very hazardous to give counter-attack, the Federal position being about as strong as ours from which we had driven them back.

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.

It is not the position, but the disposition.

Prostration is our natural position. A worm-like movement from a spot of sunlight to a spot of shade, and back, is the type of movement that is natural to men.

At first, it was hard to sit down and read the things that people were saying. A lot of people would've worked their way up to this position and would've gotten a thick skin over a few years' time. For me, though, all this happened in a few months.

Governor is not the position to have in Oklahoma. It is the head coach of Oklahoma or Oklahoma State or Tulsa.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

In giving us children, God places us in a position of both leadership and service. He calls us to give up our lives for someone else's sake - to abandon our own desires and put our child's interests first. Yet, according to His perfect design, it is through this selflessness that we can become truly fulfilled.

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.

Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.

Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

I think I'm drawn to more villain-type characters, because it's so cool to get to say all the things you want to say. In Hollywood, you get to this position where you have to bite your tongue so much. You take all your experiences of not being able to say what you really want to say, and channel that through your character.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

When I finally got a management position, I found out how hard it is to lead and manage people.

I work here at the Raiders. My position is basically what I make it.

First would be the literary side, then the spiritual and philosophical. The political side is required principally because of the necessity of the current Russian position.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

It seems to me that socialists today can preserve their position in academic economics merely by the pretense that the differences are entirely moral questions about which science cannot decide.

And then when they picked me as premiere, I don't think I feel, you know, different. For me, the position mean responsibility, but that's all.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

I have not taken a position on that nuclear option. My view is I'm not going to do anything until I come to that bridge. I'm not going to jump off the bridge until I come to it.