Position Quotes

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.

A lot of guys who have never choked have never been in the position to do so.

The natural state of motherhood is unselfishness. When you become a mother, you are no longer the center of your own universe. You relinquish that position to your children.

I explained that we would like to adjust our position on the Syrian question to theirs, as, in our view, they are the decisive factor in our relations with our neighbors, and Syria is unimportant.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

I'm not the kind of guy who's taking advantage of my position.

On that Sunday morning the first thing that impressed the people who approached the tomb was the unusual position of the one and a half to two ton stone that had been lodged in front of the doorway.

In particular, I established a reasonably accurate energy threshold for permanent displacement of a nucleus from its regular lattice position, substantially smaller than had been previously presumed.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

Also, the commercial media in a superior position, really, to any other corporate lobby, because where would people hear about commercial media or corporate media criticism, where would they hear criticism of them other than in the commercial media?

For someone in my position, there's opportunities to be anything you want to be, even if you shouldn't be eligible, and I think that's left a bad taste in a lots of financers' and studios' mouths. Just cause someone's popular at one thing, letting them do the other isn't always the right thing.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

There are Anarchists in other parts of the world who are unable to, comprehend the position of the Spanish Anarchists. I do not pretend to censor these Anarchists.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

You know, 10 years ago I never thought I'd be in this position. It's a dream and I don't even know if I dreamed this big.

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented.

If you're fortunate enough, you get to a position where you can be a little pickier about your roles.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

As far as service goes, it can take the form of a million things. To do service, you don't have to be a doctor working in the slums for free, or become a social worker. Your position in life and what you do doesn't matter as much as how you do what you do.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.

Because power corrupts, society's demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

Me and my dad are the biggest promoters of an estate tax in the US. It's not a popular position.

The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.

Never let your ego get so close to your position that when your position goes, your ego goes with it.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.