Quotes About Position

some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.3

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The mob was only a means to strengthen their position, to give their voices a greater resonance. Obviously they neither could nor wanted to organize the mob, and would dismiss it once their aim was achieved. But they discovered that antisemitic slogans were highly effective in mobilizing large strata of the population.

It might just be me, but it's tough when you get drivers that don't stay where they should be.

We're so humbled and lucky to be in a position where we've been a four-piece for over 15 years. We're signed to a major label. We're on our fourth record on a major label. We've won a Grammy. We've toured the world.

But in a tournament, you can be said in for all your money at any point so you can't make any mistakes so you have to, it's all about where you're sitting at the table.

I have played up front for England, been away to tournaments, and scored goals there, so I know once I get into those positions I will put the chances away.

So at a time in which the media give the public everything it wants and desires, maybe art should adopt a much more aggressive attitude towards the public. I myself am very much inclined to take this position.

Now I'm in a position where I can invest in startups and take up challenges. Some things do well and some don't, but I think my track record has been interesting.

I would not trade America's position in the world - our ledger, our debts and assets - for any country in the world. There isn't a country in the world even close to America.

Not money, or success, or position or travel or love makes happiness,--service is the secret.

I don't trust politicians. I think that by the time they've made it, with the concessions they've had to make in that position, I don't believe they still have the beliefs they had at the root.

When we put ourselves in a position to feel the Spirit and receive repeated confirmations from heaven, we also put ourselves in a position to counteract deception, distortion, and untruths.

He wants your search to be complete and thorough, because you are discerning and will not settle for second best. If you are in a hurry, he'll think: "She's insecure and needs to fill a void. She cannot be alone." "I'm just filling a position. She needs me to write checks for her dreams.

Friendship is untenable for people in our position.

Nature's Compensation: Entropy The [second] law that entropy always increases, holds, I think, the supreme position among the laws of Nature. … if your theory is found to be against the second law of thermodynamics I can give you no hope; there is nothing for it but to collapse in deepest humiliation.

You've got to love your people more than your position.

As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated.

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.

It was our love of foreign cloth that ousted the wheel from its position of dignity.

The forces that oppose wise reforms typically present their own distorted view of the "facts." When their positions become untenable and maintaining the status quo is impossible, these groups simply change their position and deny their past connection to claims that they now acknowledge, in the face of overwhelming evidence, to be clearly false.

Sebastian looked alarmed at her stiffness, but Eric took it in and chuckled. Riding astride would have been easier, he said. You put twice the strain on yourself with that unnatural position. Oh, I know, she replied with a grimace. Every muscle told me about it this morning, and I actually DID have a hot soak before I went to bed. Sebastian looked blankly at the two of them for a moment, then blinked and looked relieved. Oh, you're saddle sore! I'm sorry--

Every person is endowed with God-given abilities, and we must cultivate every ounce of talent we have in order to maintain our pinnacle position in the world.