Position Quotes

I think everybody works from a defensive position, for the most part, in the film industry.

Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.

Beauty is about perception, not about make-up. I think the beginning of all beauty is knowing and liking oneself. You can't put on make-up, or dress yourself, or do you hair with any sort of fun or joy if you're doing it from a position of correction.

We respect opposition to any position or policy. But we believe that the opinion that should prevail and be respected is that of the majority.

Faced with this general consideration it will immediately be realized on inquiry into the particular position occupied within this general scheme by the scientific field of catalysis that it is in the first stages of its development.

The solicitor general is sometimes referred to as the 10th Supreme Court justice - a pretty important position.

When you are in a good position you are sure to drive well and to be very concentrated in each corner.

My view is that marriage is a relationship between a man and a woman. That's the position I've had for some time, and I don't intend to make any adjustments at this point... Or ever, by the way.

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.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

I consider Khomeini's position dangerous. He does not have the right to pass judgment-that is not the Islamic way.

Sex: the pleasure is momentary, the position ridiculous, and the expense damnable.

Even in today's opera world, the position of the black tenor is problematic.

My position is that since the non-secular status of my garden is not recognised by the law; by the world of the public, then the garden can only be private. So, I closed the garden to the public.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

Sometimes altering your position is the right thing. Sometimes it's not.

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.

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

Colombia is in a risky position. They've got a peace process that's going nowhere, and a drug production problem that's skyrocketing.

This was a report from a single source. It was an established and reliable line of reporting. It was quoted from a senior Iraqi military officer in a position to know this information.

Those youngsters go out there and set a record and clinch the pole position. But what do you do if you wreck your car. That record doesn't spend too well.

The message that President Obama delivered in his speech at Notre Dame was: morality is immoral. Pro-life is the extremist position, not a moral position. Yet we should compromise and work to reduce abortions. Where's the compromise between life and death - and why work to reduce the number of them occurring if there's nothing wrong with them?

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

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?

In the sense that you're not at the centre of power, like a president or prime minister of a major power, everyone is marginalised; my position doesn't isn't unique in that respect. I think there are different sorts of relevance in different contexts.

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

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

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality.

It's not painful to relive it. I'm comfortable with my position in American history.