Quotes About Position

Before he went downstairs, he pulled out his Sharpie and stuck a fresh sticky note on the bathroom mirror. Btw, THAT was my favorite sexual position. He almost added a happy face to it, but decided just in time that would be lame. It was a slippery slope that led nowhere but to dotting his i 's with hearts.

I wasn't in a position to defend myself. Sometimes it's a brutal profession. The first thing I thought of at the time was revenge. I have a more levelheaded take on the issue today.

When I make exciting plays, it's usually because I was in the right place at the right time.

I, not for the first time, would like to say that I never took a pro-Iraq position during the Gulf War.

One of the most surprising forms of nonverbal communication is the way we automatically adjust the amount of time we spend looking into another's eyes as a function of our relative social position.

I know that I am in no position to ask a favor of you. But I beg you to do one thing, not for me—I shall never ask anything more of you for myself.

The researchers concluded that during intercourse in the missionary position, the penis "has the shape of a boomerang.

Free will was not created for fun; there was a reason that evolution handed our ancestors the ability to take initiatives (...) eventually to be in a better position to reproduce and rear children than human beings who do not reproduce.

Years ago, a well-known political writer, Isabel Paterson, was talking to a businessman outraged by some government action. She urged him to speak up for his principles. "I agree with you totally," he said, "but I'm not in a position right now to do it." "The only position required," she replied, "is vertical.

How could anyone get a sensible bearing on life from the stage of an auditorium, or make any useful statements from that position?

Meg tried to squeeze past his long legs, but there wasn't room; she had to lower the toilet seat and lie across it in order to reach him, and part of her mind roared with slightly hysterical laughter at the absurdity of the position.

There they were, fanned out behind him like two points at the base of a moving scalene triangle.

Hirsch calls goods like these positional goods, because how likely anyone is to get them depends upon his position in society.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

leadership can eventually become a choice not a position

Where we stand depends on where we sit.

The fact that life arose early here gives us little confidence in the belief that life must be common elsewhere. It's important to emphasize the following point: the analysis doesn't show that life is rare. "Life is common" remains our best guess position; it's just that we can't be confident of the position.

From their position of weakness, Harari notes, what terrorists seek to accomplish is not damage but theater.

While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.

There is little more natural than culture. Dominance hierarchies are older than trees. The part of our brain that keeps track of our position in the dominance hierarchy is therefore exceptionally ancient and fundamental

We were struggling for position before we had skin, or hands, or lungs, or bones. There is little more natural than culture. Dominance hierarchies are older than trees.

Cuántos hay que parecen hombres y sólo valen por las posiciones alcanzadas en las piaras mediocráticas! Vistos de cerca, examinadas sus obras, son menos que nada, valores negativos. Sombras.

One must attempt to increase whatever weakness there may be in the opponent's position; or, if there is none, one or more must be created.

The post of honour is a private station.