Quotes About Position

There is a certain responsibility that accrued to me when I got to this unexpected position.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

Around the table reigned that noisy hilarity which usually prevails at such a time among people sufficiently free from the demands of social position not to feel the trammels of etiquette.

Really, Emmanuel,' said Julie, 'wouldn't you think that all these rich people, so happy only a short while ago, had built their fortunes, their happiness and their social position, while forgetting to allow for the wicked genie; and that this genie, like the wicked fairy in Perrault's stories1 who is not invited to some wedding or christening, had suddenly appeared to take revenge for that fatal omission?

Je suis un de ces êtres exceptionnels, oui, monsieur, et je crois que, jusqu'à ce jour, aucun homme ne s'est trouvé dans une position semblable à la mienne. Les royaumes des rois sont limités, soit par des montagnes, soit par des rivières, soit par un changement de mÅ"urs, soit par une mutation de langage. Mon royaume, à moi, est grand comme le monde, car je ne suis ni Italien, ni Français, ni Indou, ni Américain, ni Espagnol: je suis cosmopolite.

The Americans of the United States stand in precisely the same position with regard to the peoples of South America as their fathers, the English, occupy with regard to the Italians, the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and all those nations of Europe which receive their articles of daily consumption from England, because they are less advanced in civilization and trade.

Each man was born to his degree, and a happy man was one who did not question his place in life.

DO NOT put infants in a recovery position. They are not able to support themselves in this position. Instead, take the infant with you to call 9-1-1.

Because you have honored God, He will put you in a position you never could have attained on your own. It's not just your education, not just your talent, or the family you come from. It's the hand of God shifting you to a new level of your destiny.

When you have a society with huge gaps in income and status, Richard told me, it creates the sense that "some people seem supremely important, and others seem of no importance at all." This doesn't affect only people at the bottom. In a highly unequal society, everyone has to think about their status a lot. Am I maintaining my position? Who's threatening me? How far can I fall?

I am amazed to see how deliberately I have entangled myself step by step. To have seen my position so clearly, and yet to have acted so like a child!

We are not at the same place we were in 1973. This country today is drifting, moving steadily towards the pro-life position because the data is with us.

I happen to be pro-life.

He neither serves nor rules, he transmits. His position is humble and the beauty at the crown is not his own. He is merely a channel.

There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.

I don't care tuppence whether I'm forced into a leadership position or not. I'd much sooner not.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

For many of those who are privileged enough to be in a position to try to analyse the important matters of big politics, the ordinary man's feeling of smallness and the rage it engenders are inaccessible, and so it is equally hard for them to comprehend how that smallness might desperately crave to be part of a we that promises greatness.

you could, if you wanted to, spend your entire life in a sitting position. When you weren't lying down.

When you come to analyze the love of money which was the general impulse to effort in your day, you find that the dread of want and desire of luxury was but one of several motives which the pursuit of money represented; the others, and with many the more influential, being desire of power, of social position, and reputation for ability and success.

Ah!" he exclaimed, "how right you were to tell me to marry respectably; to have a solid position; to live in decorous fear of the world and one's wife; and to command the envy of the poor, the good opinion of the rich. You have practised what you preach.

I have no ambition in this world but one, and that is to be a fireman. The position may, in the eyes of some, appear to be a lowly one; but we who know the work which the fireman has to do believe that his is a noble calling. Our proudest moment is to save lives.

Many that are first shall be last; and the last shall be first.