Position Quotes

Israel always has to be in a position to defend itself against any adversary and against any threat of any kind.

I spent a lot of time with my teams, especially in the East Coast teams, talking about dealing with the elements a lot of time, and a lot of instruction about field position and those kind of things. I like that variable.

War is never economically beneficial except for those in position to profit from war expenditures.

At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It's really your essence and your values that are important.

It's a perfectly valid position to not like Shakespeare.

In the United Nations, when China entered, we voted on the same position, and since then we have maintained the same position, that position has not changed.

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development.

It is easier to appear worthy of a position one does not hold, than of the office which one fills.

When you're a dancer, you start with the basics. You don't all of a sudden do a grand jete and pirouette. You start with first position, second, third.

Running back was always my favorite position.

I'm an incredibly negative person, so any form of success is only ever going to be a relief to me and set my default position back to neutral.

So writing is a very, very difficult position to obtain... and retain.

Well, our position, and our chairman has talked about this extensively, is that we had a lot of intelligence prior to 9/11. We knew that two al Qaeda operatives who ultimately participated in the 9/11 disaster were in the United States. We didn't find them.

Being married gives one one's position like nothing else can.

Now if this electron is displaced from its equilibrium position, a force that is directly proportional to the displacement restores it like a pendulum to its position of rest.

I'm in a privileged position and I'm going to do my utmost to use that privileged position on behalf of the U.K., its citizens, its businesses and people.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

When I entered the market, I was rejected because the elite say that you have to sell things at a certain price point. My position was that the consumer is smarter than that. Who cares if it's $200, not $2,000?

Georgia is in an enviable position today, but we can't rest on our laurels.

I don't profess to be an expert on anything, or have the memory for who ran in 1952. I am an informed American citizen, that's my position.

Actors are a lot like professors on dissertation committees - it's a lot of ego, a lot of rallying for position, there is a lot at stake in every single interaction.

Kids look up to me, and it's really incredible to be in that position.

Until very recently, the heavenly bodies have been investigated only with reference to their position and their laws of motion, and a quarter of a century ago astronomy was little more than celestial topography.

To me, it's like we're already in the playoffs. Every game is important for our position. We can't relax at all.

It's OK, I guess, if you really need the money, but luckily, I'm not in that position.

In politics, merit is rewarded by the possessor being raised, like a target, to a position to be fired at.

Meanwhile, my residence within the Federal lines, and my acquaintance with so many of the officers, the origin of which I have already mentioned, enabled me to gain much important information as to the position and designs of the enemy.

I play a complicated position in an intensely team-oriented game.

I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.

The remarkable position in which we find ourselves is that we don't actually know what we actually know.

Wynton told us that Miles sold out, just wanted to make more money, just wanted to sell more records. I don't believe that Miles sold out but I'm not in a position to say.

I think that every sexual position is fundamentally comic.

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.

My position has always been, along with many other people, that any differences be resolved in a nonviolent way.

Every day Catholics prove that you can be a good Catholic and a good Democrat and have a different position from the Church on abortion.

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much. I think I'm recognized enough by the industry.

I'm in a great position now where I've got recognition. I'm not recognized too much.

The way the people around you position themselves around you to get in your pockets and in your mind is infuriating to me.

I can think of a lot of words to describe Senator Kerry's position on Iraq; 'consistent' is not one of them.

You're saying 'will it become politically unpopular to have the position I'm having.' If it does, so be it.

I am joining the government not from the academic position but from St. Petersburg city council.

I'm pleased the administration is endorsing the need for legislation dealing with the chemical sector. In the past, the administration's position has been ambiguous.

Saturn Return is just the return of your planets to their original position.

I won't put myself in a position where I'm vulnerable.

It is much harder to retain your position at the top than to get to the top.

A lot of bands would be aching to be in the position we are.

Memphis is in a very lucky position on the map. Everything just gravitated to Memphis for years.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position.

A person in my position has to restrain himself.

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother.

It would have shown people that I was prepared to do that kind of work, although I find myself in a position now where I don't really need to and I could pick and choose the kind of characters I'd like to do.

If you've experienced having control, you don't want to be moved to a subordinate position, if you have your druthers.

The Europeans must now honor their commitments. That is the position that France is defending.

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective.

As long as gas is cheaper than bottled water, we can't be in a position of dictating to the consumer what to buy.

First, speaking for myself, I don't want to ever be in a position where I'm telling other directors how to make movies, because I don't think it's any of my business.

The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.

I think when judges are in the position of authority, they really get bent out of shape when someone tells them they acted inappropriately.

We need to make is to strengthen the position of the director of the CIA.

I am in the interesting position of being sometimes skimmed by the critics and called literature and sometimes called historical fiction.

In particular, this arm has 7 degrees-of-freedom that makes the overall motion of the arm very complex so that, before you start driving the arm, you should be very familiar with all the position it can get.

Canada is in budgetary deficit now only because of the recession, only because of stimulus measures, and we will come out of it. We will go back into surplus position when the economy recovers. So there is no need in Canada to raise taxes.

But I've been very clear in this campaign - I don't believe the party should have a position on abortion.

From my subjective position, there was no honeymoon.

What position didn't I play last season?

I'm in the lucky position financially where I don't have to do things I don't want to do.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.

I have a lot of disrespect for people who cheat. I feel like if you're in a position in a relationship where you want to see other people, and the opportunity to cheat comes up, don't.

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything.

The NAACP was even considering earlier this summer reassessing their position on school integration.

Buying an aggregator and calling it a content play is a little like a company's announcing plans to improve its cash position by hiring a counterfeiter.

In any restaurant of this caliber, the chefs are in the same position, building relationships.

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.

Poverty should not be viewed by us as a humiliation and even less so as a position of honour or a fatality.

Bureaucracies are inherently antidemocratic. Bureaucrats derive their power from their position in the structure, not from their relations with the people they are supposed to serve. The people are not masters of the bureaucracy, but its clients.