Position Quotes - Page 9

Humor and seriousness are not in opposition to each other.

If you can't outplay the opposition, you must outnumber them.

I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

Nothing in human nature is so God-like as the disposition to do good to our fellow-creatures.

I don’t think Ed Reed has to take a back seat to anybody who ever played the position. ANYBODY.

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it.

It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.

Satan hasn't a single salaried helper; the Opposition employs a million.

You are not responsible for the disposition you are born with, but you are responsible for the one you die with.

How gracious are the gods in bestowing high positions; and how reluctant are they to insure them when given.

He who finds not opposition from sin, and who sets not himself in every particular to its mortification, is at peace with it, not dying to it.

Never was I power thirsty, or trying to control everyone. I believed in educating everyone, so they could all get to the position I was at.

And how can poetry stand up against its new conditions? Its position is perfectly precarious.

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

Prisons are the universities of the opposition.

We are each of an unsocial, taciturn disposition, unwilling to speak, unless we expect to say something that will amaze the whole room, and be handed down to posterity with all the eclat of a proverb.

Paying good wages is not in opposition to good productivity.

For the Rays, to speak properly, have no Colour. In them there is nothing else than a certain power and disposition to stir up a sensation of this Colour or that.

For the victor peace means the preservation of the position of power which he has secured. For the vanquished it means resigning himself to the position left to him.

Opposition always inflames the enthusiast, never converts him.

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy, except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

General Reynolds immediately found himself engaged with a force which greatly outnumbered his own, and had scarcely made his dispositions for the action when he fell, mortally wounded, at the head of his advance.

Even in front of nature one must compose.

I'm in a position that allows me to do what I want to do, and I do it.

Losing a position is aggravating, whereas losing your nerve is devastating.