position quotes

• People of great position are servants times three, servants of their country, servants of fame, and servants of business. (Francis Bacon) [people/position/fame/business]
• To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them. (Georges Bataille) [position/god/being/god]
• Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do. (Sarah Caldwell) [position/more]
• The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure. (Elias Canetti) [position/think/more]
• We were wise indeed, could we discern truly the signs of our own time; and by knowledge of its wants and advantages, wisely adjust our own position in it. Let us, instead of gazing idly into the obscure distance, look calmly around us, for a little, on the perplexed scene where we stand. Perhaps, on a more serious inspection, something of its perplexity will disappear, some of its distinctive characters and deeper tendencies more clearly reveal themselves; whereby our own relations to it, our own true aims and endeavors in it, may also become clearer. (Thomas Carlyle) [time/knowledge/position/look]
• Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. ( Confucius) [worry/high/position/worry]
• The following general definition of an animal: a system of different organic molecules that have combined with one another, under the impulsion of a sensation similar to an obtuse and muffled sense of touch given to them by the creator of matter as a whole, until each one of them has found the most suitable position for its shape and comfort. (Denis Diderot) [system/matter/position]
• To be candid, in Middlemarch phraseology, meant, to use an early opportunity of letting your friends know that you did not take a cheerful view of their capacity, their conduct, or their position; and a robust candor never waited to be asked for its opinion. (George Eliot) [take/position/opinion]
• All conservatives are such from personal defects. They have been effeminated by position or nature, born halt and blind, through luxury of their parents, and can only, like invalids, act on the defensive. (Ralph Waldo Emerson) [position/nature/luxury/parents]
• In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective. (Ferdinand Foch) [position/find]
• Heaven gives its glimpses only to those not in position to look too close. (Robert Frost) [position/look]
• People who are in a fortunate position always attribute virtue to what makes them so happy. (John Kenneth Galbraith) [people/position/virtue]
• Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [position]
• It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills. (Francois De La Rochefoucauld) [position/office]
• We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [position/position]
• To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious. (Ernest Renan) [age/position/goodwill]
• Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. (George Bernard Shaw) [power/men/position/power]
• Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping. (Jonathan Swift) [men/position]
• I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. (Mark Twain) [position]
• I repeat, sir, that in whatever position you place a woman she is an ornament to society and a treasure to the world. As a sweetheart, she has few equals and no superiors; as a cousin, she is convenient; as a wealthy grandmother with an incurable distemper, she is precious; as a wet-nurse, she has no equal among men. What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce. (Mark Twain) [position/society/treasure/men]
• Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which one has overcome while trying to succeed. (Booker T. Washington) [position/life]
• This was President Kennedy's favorite position. (Jude Law) [president/position]
• We worked hard all season to get ourselves into this position, ... I was very happy to be part of this team and get them going. I knew when the guys lost the first set of doubles I had to step up and get us a lead. (Martina Hingis) [position/team]
• He has to find that answer. I can deal with somebody who's not in that kind of position and try to talk, and I do the best I can. (Al Lewis) [find/position]
• I was a banquet waiter at the Beverly Hilton hotel. You learn a lot when you're in the service industry-the jerks of the world really come to the fore. It's a valuable learning experience to be in the position where you're of service to someone who sometimes doesn't even know you're there. (Andy Garcia) [service/experience/position/service]
• I kinda see my current position like this: 'Here's your five minutes in the toy store, so you gotta do all the good movies you can before Chuck Woolery rings the bell. (Ben Affleck) [position]
• To me there's only one position you can take as an actor. That's to get into such a financial position you can afford to say no. Integrity is one thing, but you have to be able to afford good taste. (Bill Bixby) [position/take/position/integrity]
• We're not a team that's concerned about trying to sneak into the fourth position for the playoffs. We want to be in there, be first, and have home-field advantage. Those are goals of ours. The concern is not really who's behind us, or who we are tied with, but who's ahead of us. (Chris Klein) [team/position/advantage]
• [He said U.S. opinion polls showed 70 percent of Americans supported stem-cell research for medical reasons.] My message to the president would be to rethink his position in light of the fact that there is overwhelming popular support [for it], ... I think he really needs to look again at his position and to re-evaluate it. (Christopher Reeve) [opinion/president/position/light]
• My message to the president would be to rethink his position in light of the fact that there is overwhelming popular support [for it]. I think he really needs to look again at his position and to re-evaluate it. (Christopher Reeve) [president/position/light/think]
• You know, Hong Kong moviemaking is the ultimate kung fu of filmmaking-the way we position the camera, the way we shoot, the way we edit. (Donnie Yen) [position]

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