Position Quotes

There is nothing small about our God, and when we understand God we will find out that there ought not to be anything small about us. We must have an enlargement of our conception of God, then we will know that we have come to a place where all things are possible, for our God is an omnipotent God for impossible positions.

Our position was: If you don't attack us, there won't be any violence; if you bring violence to us, we will defend ourselves.

If you have no opposition in the place you serve, you're serving in the wrong place.

Knowledge humanizes mankind, and reason inclines to mildness; but prejudices eradicate every tender disposition.

Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going.

I am not, and never have been, a man of the right. My position was on the left and is now in the centre of politics.

Words are not pebbles in alien juxtaposition.

If someone comes to you and asks for help, and you can help them, you're supposed to help them. Why wouldn't you? You have been put in the position somehow to be able to help this person.

Extreme positions are not succeeded by moderate ones but by extreme positions of the opposite kind.

Caring comes from being able to put yourself in the position of the other person.

Anyone who ain't family is opposition

The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

When you were built to be tall, you will endanger your position if you lower your perspective

Meaning is produced not only by the relationship between the signifier and the signified but also, crucially, by the position of the signifiers in relation to other signifiers.

I have suffered a great deal from writers who have quoted this or that sentence of mine either out of its context or in juxtaposition to some incongruous matter which quite distorted my meaning, or destroyed it altogether.

There is no point in being confident and having a small position.

I spend my day trying to make myself as happy and relaxed as I can be. If I have positions going against me, I get right out; if they are going for me, I keep them.

To begin with, we put the proposition: pure phenomenology is the science of pure consciousness.

Which do I prefer? Sex or chess? It depends on the position.

It's the decomposition that gets me. You spend your whole life looking after your body. And then you rot away.

Leadership is a choice, not a position

Among the believers who show most perfect faith are those who have best disposition and are kindest to their families.

What arouses the indignation of the honest satirist is not, unless the man is a prig, the fact that people in positions of power or influence behave idiotically, or even that they behave wickedly. It is that they conspire successfully to impose upon the public a picture of themselves as so very sagacious, honest and well-intentioned.

True hustlers are prepared to get hustled and know when to change positions and move to something different and aren't afraid.