“A person can be big, because of spirit. A person can be big because of their position in the family, the hierarchy in the family. That role has been played by women who are quite thin.” PersonsHas BeensBigsSpiritRolesPositionHierarchy Author:Phylicia Rashad
“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.” IfsPersonsHas BeensHelpingAbleAsksPosition Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“Those placed in the position which I now occupy, commonly feel concern about their worthiness to receive the great honour which has been done them.” FeelsHas BeensDonePositionConcernHonourWorthiness Author:C. F. Powell
“It seems to me probably that any one who has a series of intolerable positions to put up with must have been responsible for them to some extent... they have contributed to it by impatience or intolerance, or brusqueness-or some provocation.” Has BeensSeemsPositionResponsibleSeriesIntoleranceImpatienceProvocation Author:Robert Hugh Benson
“All my life I have been haunted by the obsession that to desire a thing or to love a thing intensely is to place yourself in a vulnerable position, to be a possible, if not a probable, loser of what you most want. Let's leave it like that.” IfsWantHas BeensDesirePositionObsessionVulnerableVulnerabilityLoser Book:The Theatre of Tennessee Williams Source: The Theatre of Tennessee Williams
“I've never done any advertising because I feel I am in a position of trust, and that has been very liberating” FeelsHas BeensDonePositionTrustAdvertisingLiberating Author:Delia Smith
“Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.” WayFeelsHas BeensDifferentStagePositionSeekingDifferent WaysDragSecularMarginsPeripherySecular SocietyCenter Stage Author:Karen Armstrong
“In order to be as free as I possibly can, in my own imagination, I can't take positions that are closed. Everything I've ever done, in the writing world, has been to expand articulation, rather than to close it, to open doors, sometimes, not even closing the book -- leaving the endings open for reinterpretation, revisitation, a little ambiguity.” WorldWritingLittlesHas BeensI CanBookSometimesDoneOrderImaginationMy OwnDoorsPositionLeavingClosingAmbiguityArticulationReinterpretation Author:Toni Morrison