Quotes About Position

A man, to hold his position, must have a dignified manner, a clean record, a respectable home anchorage.

We may have suffered a lot because of our attachment to those things, but we don't have the courage to release them; it doesn't feel safe to do so. But it may be that we continue to suffer because of our attachment to those things. It may be a person, a material object, or a position in society, anything. We think that without that person or thing we will not be safe, and that is why we're caught by it.

Knowing when and where to sit is something every young executive should learn. A junior person who comes barging into a room and takes any seat he wants catches the disapproving eye of senior management.

When you're young it's boring to be a keeper.

I try and play as clean as possible and not commit fouls. But in my position it is not easy to play without giving away free kicks.

Because of the demands of court politics and the public position in which they lived, George I, George II and their children ended up doing bizarre and horrible things to each other, such as kidnapping a baby.

A lot of people want to donate a kidney, but they're not in a position to because they have health issues of their own, and a lot of people need them. That's why the list is long and it takes a long time.

The libertarian position I once propended now seems to me seriously inadequate, in part because it did not fully knit the humane considerations and joint cooperative activities it left room for more closely into its fabric.

People know where I stand in the Labour party and what I believe in.

the heart is a vessel not large enough to sustain love. Kneeling is the proper position for discovering love again.

Come and take your seat, Lady Dorina.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I guess it's not the place I want to escape. It's my place in this place.

I've loved learning about the position," I said. "It sounds incredibly exciting, and I know I could take the magazine exactly where you want to go.

If a job opens up that she could "sell" you for, tell her, "You've been such a valuable resource for me. I would really appreciate having your help on something. There's a terrific position open at Company A, and I'm hoping you would be able to advocate on my behalf." Don't be shy about also asking a sponsor, "Do you know anyone I could talk to?

Even a pure mathematician may find his appreciation of this geometry [applied geometry] quickened, since there is no mathematician so pure that he feels no interest at all in the physical world; but, in so far as he succumbs to this temptation, he will be abandoning his purely mathematical position.

Now everything that you do is written in red or black in Angel Gabriel's book. Not for everyone is this record kept, but only for those who have taken a position of responsibility. There is a Law of Sins, and if you do not fulfil all your obligations, you will pay.

Pesimismul nu este o viziune asupra lumii, ci ocuparea unei pozi?ii strategice în fa?a imprevizibilului.

We are where we are.

the user puts his feet together and the legs up making the form assume a butterfly-wing shape; thus the name, butterfly guard.

is uncertain' or that 'anything goes'. In fact, it is a clear mathematical statement. It reflects the way that different aspects of the physical world are intimately connected at the quantum level. Its best-known formulation is that the more accurately you know the position of a quantum particle, the less accurately you know its momentum.†† It is impossible to know both perfectly at the same time.

All good research scientists understand that] no position is unassailable. There are no absolute truth in science. Authority counts for nothing when contradicted by nature.

it only ever makes sense to speak of motion relative to something else.

It's none of your nobility impelled me on my way. It's guilt and hate, and love and fear; these roused me forth each day. Nor had I any righteousness, no heaven-sent commission; A man's the sum of circumstance, of training, times, position.