Position Quotes - Page 26

• If I were a German today, I would be proud, proud but also worried. I would be proud of the magnificent achievement of rebuilding my country, entrenching democracy and assuming the undoubtedly preponderant position in Europe. But a united Germany can't and won't subordinate its national interests in economic or in foreign policy to those of the Community indefinitely. Germany's new pre-eminence is a fact - and its power is a problem - as much for Germans as for the rest of Europe.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Europe, Achievement

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• Silly gardeners! We buy pretty, comfortable benches and position them oh so carefully. But does the gardener ever sit? No! We perch momentarily and then jump up to do that next thing we see.

  Janet Macunovich

  Silly, Doe, Benches

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• Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Sweet, Position Of Power, Thrones

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• A leader is only able to lead others because he disciplines himself. The person who does not know how to bow to discipline imposed from without, who does not know how to obey, will not make a good leader-nor will the one who has not learned to impose discipline within his own life. Those who scorn scripturally or legally constituted authority, or rebel against it, rarely qualify for high leadership positions.

  J. Oswald Sanders

  Discipline, Leader, Rebel

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• You know better than I that in a Republic talent is always suspect. A man attains an elevated position only when his mediocrity prevents him from being a threat to others. And for this reason a democracy is never governed by the most competent, but rather by those whose insignificance will not jeopardize anyone else's self-esteem.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Self Esteem, Men, Democracy

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• So many of us, myself included, need to keep our sense of personal outrage in check. Each human beings position on the planet is one of intense humility.

  Ani DiFranco

  Humility, Needs, Intense

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• I am not ashamed to admit that in the games against Barcelona I spent a lot of the time just hoping he would take up positions as far away from me as possible. Elusive is the word that immediately springs to mind when I think about Messi's style of play. You think you have an eye on him and then - blink - he has gone, only to reappear somewhere else in space, with the ball.

  Paul Scholes

  Spring, Eye, Thinking

  "Lionel Messi Is a Genius and It Only Takes a Second for Him to Trick You Into Doing Something Daft – I Should Know!". Paul Scholes Column, www.independent.co.uk. February 19, 2015.

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• People love to judge, as long as they have somebody else to judge they don't give in and answer with hate would drag me down, it would simply put me into the same position they are, I don't believe that their position is an enviable one!

  Marilyn Manson

  Hate, Believe, Long

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• We have resorted to every means to win back the position that Adam lost. We have tried through education, through philosophy, through religion, through governments to throw off our yoke of depravity and sin. All our knowledge, all our inventions, all our developments and ambitious plans move us ahead only a very little before we drop back again to the point from which we started. For we are still making the same mistake that Adam made - - we are still trying to be king in our own right, and with our own power, instead of obeying God's law.

  Billy Graham

  Kings, Philosophy, Mistake

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• An idol is something that we look to for things that only God can give. Idolatry functions widely inside religious communities when doctrinal truth is elevated to the position of a false god. This occurs when people rely on the rightness of their doctrine for their standing with God rather than on God himself and his grace. It is a subtly but deadly mistake. The sign that you have slipped into this form of self-justification is that you become what the book of Proverbs calls a 'scoffer'.

  Timothy Keller

  Religious, Mistake, Book

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• Humans are wired to feel uncomfortable with uncertainty and contingency, and so we gravitate to a position after a short time even if we have no new information.

  Charles Hugh Smith

  Information, Uncomfortable, Feels

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• When commercial capital occupies a position of unquestioned ascendancy, it everywhere constitutes a system of plunder.

  Karl Marx

  Plunder, Ascendancy

  Karl Marx (1932). “Capital: The Communist Manifesto and Other Writings”

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• There's no doubt in my mind that we'll have a mania in gold. And because the gold and especially silver markets are so tiny, the rush into them will be like trying to push the contents of Hoover Dam through a garden hose. Our positions will go absolutely ballistic.

  Doug Casey

  Garden, Doubt, Mind

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• Politicians and bureaucrats clearly have no idea how complicated markets are. Every day people make countless tradeoffs, in all areas of life, based on subjective value judgements and personal information as they delicately balance their interests, needs and wants. Who is in a better position than they to tailor those choices to best serve their purposes? Yet the politicians believe they can plan the medical market the way you plan a birthday party.

  John Stossel

  Party, Believe, Ideas

  "Arrogant Politicians" by John Stossel, abcnews.go.com. July 21, 2009.

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• Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.

  Robin Sharma

  Blessing, Adding Value, Titles

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• ...I think that ideally that is how a company works. It becomes a place of ideas, not a place of position.

  Jack Welch

  Thinking, Ideas, Working It

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• For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is interesting, romantic, moral, self-flattering, and public-spirited all at once. It satisfies a great number of human weaknesses at once. To go on and plan what a whole class of people ought to do is to feel one's self a power on earth, to win a public position, to clothe one's self in dignity. Hence we have an unlimited supply of reformers, philanthropists, humanitarians, and would-be managers-in-general of society.

  William Graham Sumner

  Thinking, Winning, Class

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.97, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The government is now in a position to do what Franklin D. Roosevelt did during the Great Depression of the 1930s - use a crisis of the times to create new institutions that will last for generations. To this day, we are still subsidizing millionaires in agriculture because farmers were having a tough time in the 1930s.

  Thomas Sowell

  Agriculture, Government, Tough Times

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• By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.

  Pope Benedict XVI

  Essence, Reform, Matter

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• I believe in maximum flexibility, so I reserve the right to change my position on any subject when the external environment relating to any topic changes too.

  Henry Earl Singleton

  Believe, Topics, Environment

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• I believe in freedom for women to have equal rights - the right to work, the right to hold high positions, the right to take custody of their children after divorcing.

  Farah Diba

  Children, Believe, Rights

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I'm in a position to work on good things. I've worked on shitty projects, in the past. But, it is what it is. I'm just taking it as it comes.

  Jeremy Luke

  Past, Good Things, Projects

  Source: collider.com

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• I'm not exactly in a position where I get to be super-picky about the roles I get. But I would also never want to be a part of something that I think is poor in taste or doesn't align with what I believe in.

  Tavi Gevinson

  Believe, Thinking, Roles

  Interview with Claire Boucher, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 11, 2014.

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• Every movie that I do, I always try and better myself in the next one and try and find a part which is more challenging. It's a little vulnerable to do that, to always push the envelope. You position yourself for a lot more flack or a lot more critique because you're trying to do something different. Sometimes you're good at it and sometimes you're not, but it's a chance you have to take to make life exciting.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Challenges, Trying, Different

  "Priyanka Chopra Talks Disney’s PLANES, Playing the Character Ishani, Hoping to Inspire Children with Her Confidence, Her Love of Flying & Her Competitive Spirit". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. August 13, 2013.

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• I feel like with every character, you try to put yourself in that person's position and just completely use your imagination. That's what I do, at least. Everything is just pretend.

  Elle Fanning

  Character, Imagination, Trying

  "Elle Fanning on LOW DOWN, Jazz Music, Kissing Peter Dinklage, Ben Affleck’s LIVE BY NIGHT, TRUMBO, and More". Interview by Christina Radish, collider.com. October 24, 2014.

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