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“Children are rarely in the position to lend one a truly interesting sum of money. There are, however, exceptions, and such children are an excellent addition to any party.”

Children Interesting Party Position Excellent Exception

Book:The Fran Lebowitz Reader

Source: The Fran Lebowitz Reader

“If I believe in something, I will fight for it with all I have. But I do not demand all or nothing. I would rather get something than nothing. Professional liberals want the fiery debate. They glory in defeat. The hardest job for a politician today is to have the courage to be a moderate. It's easy to take an extreme position.”

Ifs Want Believe Today Jobs Fighting I Believe Easy Position Politician Demand Glory Defeat Extremes I Believe In Debate Hardest Moderates Fiery Hardest Job

Author:Hubert H. Humphrey

“A nap is not to be confused with sleeping. We sleep to recharge our bodies. We nap to care for our souls. When we nap, we are resting our eyes while our imaginations soar. Getting ready for the next round. Sorting, sifting, separating the profound from the profane, the possible from the improbable. Rehearsing our acceptance speech for the Nobel Prize, our surprise on receiving the MacArthur genius award. This requires a prone position. If we're lucky, we might drift off, but we won't drift far. Just far enough to ransom our creativity from chaos.”

“Whatever our place allotted to us by Providence that for us is the post of honor and duty. God estimates us, not by the position we are in, but by the way in which we fill it.”

Way Position Duty Honor Posts Providence

Book:The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Source: The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

“As a state we are so uniquely positioned in so many ways. Our geography, our placement in the country, and our history positions us to be the state that propels energy efficiency as an industry.”

Way Country States Energy Position Industry Efficiency Geography Placement Energy Efficiency Geography And History

Author:Jennifer Granholm

“As the networks evolve, so do my opinions toward them, and my divergent feelings bring out conflicting points of view. In advance, I apologize to those who expect a consistent position from me.”

Feelings Views Opinion Position Point Of View Evolve Consistent Apologizing Divergent I Apologize

Author:Clifford Stoll

“I would like to extend to you our deep appreciation and thanks for the position the United States has taken in support of the democratization process that has taken place in Tunisia, in Egypt, and what is attempting to take place in Libya.”

States Process United United States Support Taken Position Appreciation Thanks Egypt Attempting Libya Democratization Tunisia

Author:Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani

“When the United Nations was born it was believed to be a positive instrument for peace. From this exalted position it became an organization in which nations would at least keep talking instead of shooting. Soon it was discovered ... that words were as deadly as any weapon, and when these words had a number of interpretations they could and did lead to conflict.”

Nations Born United Numbers Talking Position Conflict Weapons Organization Instruments Shooting Interpretation United Nations Exalted Keep Talking

Author:Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

“The only kind of sublimity which a painter or sculptor should aim at is to express by certain proportions and positions of limbs and features that strength and dignity of mind, and vigor and activity of body, which enables men to conceive and execute great actions.”

Men Should Mind Kind Art Body Action Certain Position Activity Dignity Aim Painter Features Proportion Limbs Vigor Sculptors Sublimity

Author:Edmund Burke

“Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.”

Seems Political Courses Party Position Republican Concerned Profit Political Parties Holding On Respectability

Book:More in Anger

Source: More in Anger

“Once any group in society stands in a relatively deprived position in relation to other groups, it is genuinely deprived.”

Poverty Groups Position Relation Discrimination Oppression Deprived

Book:Twentieth century faith: hope and survival

Source: Twentieth century faith: hope and survival

“Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.”

People Years Moving Joy Names Position Habit Sorrow Ancient Careful Extremes Sat Fifty Customs Routine Old People Furniture Rite Family Name

Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“It is not for us to hold ourselves above the position of grateful people. We have to be able to accept. Anything else shows an unwillingness to grant someone else the superior place.”

People Shows Able Accepting Position Grateful Superiors Grants

Book:A Family and a Fortune

Source: A Family and a Fortune

“Men who marry wives very much superior to themselves are not so truly husbands to their wives as they are unawares made slaves to their position.”

Men Made Wife Position Husband Slave Superiors Wedlock

Author:Plutarch

“America has invested her religion as well as her morality in sound income-paying securities. She has adopted the unassailable position of a nation blessed because it deserves to be blessed; and her sons, whatever other theologies they may affect or disregard, subscribe unreservedly to this national creed.”

Wells May America Nations Sound United States Security Position Son Morality Deserve Blessed Income Theology Creeds Adopted Disregard Being Blessed

Author:Agnes Repplier

“Men are merely on a lower or higher stage of an eminence, whose summit is God's throne infinitely above all; and there is just as much reason for the wisest as for the simplest man being discontent with his position, as respects the real quantity of knowledge he possesses.”

Men Real Reason Stage Position Higher Quantity Thrones Simplest Summit Discontent Wisest Eminence

Book:The fall

Source: The fall

“This modern craze for putting the young in positions of authority - headmasters in their thirties, bishops without a gray hair on their heads, generals who scarcely need to use a razor - ever since it took hold the world's gone steadily downhill.”

World Needs Use Young Gone Generations Modern Position Hair Authority Gray Bishops Razors Gray Hair Craze Headmasters

Author:Elizabeth Goudge

“my love of water ... is mingled with and almost indistinguishable from a fear of water (I can float in a vertical position - I enter a fugue state - but I cannot bear to bury my face in water).”

I Can States Faces Water Position Bears Floats Vertical Fugue

Book:The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

Source: The Islands of Italy: Sicily, Sardinia, and the Aeolian Islands

“There are some elements in life - above all, sexual pleasure - about which it isn't necessary to have a position.”

Pleasure Position Elements

Author:Susan Sontag

“Baron Grimm declared that, as a rule, it was easy for little minds to attain splendid positions, because they devoted all their ability to the one object.”

Mind Littles Easy Ability Position Objects Devoted Splendid Little Minds Grimm

Author:Wendell Phillips

“The test of liberty is the position and security of minorities.”

Liberty Security Position Tests Minorities

Author:Lord Acton

“It cannot be too strongly asserted that the insistence on blind, unreasoning faith is due mainly to the maintenance of a subject-matter upon which there was no knowledge, namely the 'other world'; and that this basis was assumed because of early man's preoccupation with death. It is, unfortunately, quite possible to believe a thing which is contradicted by facts, especially if the facts are not generally known; but if the whole position on which we rested our religions had been visibly opposed by what we did know, even the unthinking masses would, in time, have noticed it.”

Source: His Religion and Hers: A Study of the Faith of Our Fathers and the Work of Our Mothers

“I think a lot about Big Mind-Small Mind, expansive, wide-lens consciousness and contracted, introverted consciousness. I have moments-we all do-when just being alive is a pleasure and a miracle. They feel like moments when the shutters of the mind are open so I can look out. It also feels as if those same shutters have no hooks to fix them in an open position. One small wind and bang-they slam shut.”

Source: Pay Attention, for Goodness' Sake: Practicing the Perfections of the Heart--The Buddhist Path of Kindness

“If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'”

Ifs Needs Mind Has Beens Use Body Inspiration Given Emotion Position Shapes Messages Photographer Available Rationality Engaging Exposure Availability Configuration

Author:Paul Caponigro

“It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.”

People Believe Position Easier Debate Nsa

Author:Glenn Greenwald

“What is portrayed as high-minded positions on issues sometimes is just designed to carve out some of their commercial interests.”

Sometimes Interest Issues Position Nsa

Author:Barack Obama

“Sometimes, being a feminist artist, there are times where I'm in a position where I just want to feel like I'm saying all the right things politically, or I feel like I have to mention my own project over other people's projects.”

People Want Feels Sometimes Artist My Own Position Projects Feminist Right Thing

Author:Kathleen Hanna

“You gotta be the right size, height, speed - all those are a big factor in what position you play. If you love the game, play the position you love. Some positions get paid more, but at the end of the day you gotta play the game you love.”

Ifs Ends Play Bigs Games Position Paid Size Speed Factors Height The End Of The Day

Author:LeSean McCoy

“I work out every day just to keep in shape. I feel like I never want to get stuck in a position where when you need somebody with great arms, you call Anthony Mackie. That hasn't been the calling card for my career, and nor do I want it to be.”

Want Needs Feels Careers Position Arms Calling Shapes Work Out Stuck Cards

Author:Anthony Mackie

“Happiness doesn't necessarily lie in material things. You just have to put yourself in a position to be happy. If you can do what you love for a living, that's a good start.”

Ifs Lying Can Do Position Materials What You Love Material Things

Author:Joan Jett

“I love women. I'm crazy about them. I have a beautiful wife, who's the greatest thing that's ever happened to me, and I teach my son to respect women and other people's position in the world, whatever it is.”

People World Beautiful Teach Wife Happened Crazy Position Son My Son Respect Women Beautiful Wife

Author:Ned Luke

“[In Eritrea] in key positions - president, government, police - everybody's the same [color]. It's a country run by its people. No racial class, everybody feels a part of it.”

People Feels Country Government Running President Class Position Color Keys Police Eritrea

Author:Nipsey Hussle

“I want to be a compassionate soul, finding worth and beauty in the worlds around me and within me, attempting to sing a transcendent tune with my temporal position in this life.”

World Want Soul Position Findings This Life Tunes Compassionate Attempting Transcendent

Author:Jon Foreman

“If communist unions ever gain a position to exercise influence in the transport lanes of the world, the free world will have suffered a staggering blow.”

Ifs World Influence Position Exercise Gains Unions Blow Communist Lanes Transport Staggering Free World

Author:Robert Kennedy

“What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.”

Thinking Years Important Levels Careers Achieve Position Important Things Relate Titles Just Being Ceo Serendipity

Author:Paul Polman

“This world is changing enormously. In any position in a company you need to work very hard on learning new skills every day, but you also need to unlearn some of the old skills from the past.”

World Needs Hard Past Company Position This World Skills Unlearn Learning New New Skills Learning New Skills

Author:Paul Polman

“Incident at Vichy, one of my favorite Arthur Miller plays, is a play in which you look at all of the different perspectives of this moral question. And it isn't so easy to decide which position is correct.”

Looks Different Play Easy Moral Position Perspective My Favorite Incidents Arthur Different Perspective

Author:David Bezmozgis

“My anti-liberal position should not be mistaken for conservatism.”

Should Position Mistaken Conservatism Anti Liberal

Book:Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

Source: Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays

“The Government should take a firm, bold line. This delay - this uncertainty, by which, abroad, we are losing our prestige and our position, while Russia is advancing and will be before Constantinople in no time! Then the Government will be fearfully blamed and the Queen so humiliated that she thinks she would abdicate at once.”

Thinking Should Government Lines Risk Position Losing Russia Uncertainty Firm Queens Delay Royalty Advancing Prestige Humiliated Constantinople

Author:Queen Victoria

“Anatomize the character of a successful hostess and the knife will lay bare the fact that she owes her position to one of three things: either she is liked, or she is feared, or she is important.”

Important Character Facts Three Successful Position Lays Knives Three Things Hostesses

Author:Elsa Maxwell

“Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government, and when combined with a position of power even more so.”

Thinking Mind Government Strong Power Position Prejudice Ill Position Of Power

Book:The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

Source: The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam

“the last decade has seen a powerful counterassault on women's rights, a backlash, an attempt to retract the handful of small and hard-won victories that the feminist movement did manage to win for women. This counterassault is largely insidious: in a kind of pop-culture version of the Big Lie, it stands the truth boldly on its head and proclaims that the very steps that have elevated women's position have actually led to their downfall.”

Source: Backlash: the undeclared war against American women

“When once a social order is well established, no matter what injustice it involves, those who occupy a position of advantage are not long in coming to believe that it is the only possible and reasonable order.”

Believe Wells Long Matter Order Social Position Advantage No Matter What Injustice Reasonable Social Order

Author:Suzanne La Follette

“Cows in India occupy the same position in society as women did in England before they got the vote. Woman was revered but not encouraged. Her life was one long obstacle race owing to the anxiety of man to put pedestals at her feet. While she was falling over the pedestals she was soothingly told that she must occupy a Place Apart - and indeed, so far Apart did her place prove to be that it was practically out of earshot. The cow in India finds her position equally lofty and tiresome. You practically never see a happy cow in India.”

Men Long Fall Race Feet Position Prove Anxiety Vote India England Obstacles Cows Lofty Pedestal Owing Tiresome

Author:Stella Benson

“Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.”

World Years States Certain Three Christianity Position Victory Hundred Appearance Socialism Empires Sixty

Book:K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

Source: K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

“No, there is nothing on the face of the earth that can, for a moment, bear a comparison with Christianity as a religion for man. Upon this the hope of the race hangs. From the very first, it took its position, as the pillar of fire, to lead the race onward. The intelligence and power of the race are with those who have embraced it; and now, if this, instead of proving indeed a pillar of fire from God, should be found but a delusive meteor, then nothing will be left to the race but to go back to a darkness that may be felt, and to a worse than Egyptian bondage.”

Source: Evidences of Christianity: Lectures Before the Lowell Institute, Revised as a Text Book, with a Supplementary Chapter Considering Some Attacks on the Critical School, the Corroborative Evidence of Recently Discovered Manuscripts, Etc., and the Testimony of Jesus on His Trial

“Love in modern times has been the tailor's best friend. Every suitor of the nineteenth century spends more than his spare cash on personal adornment. A faultless fit, a glistening hat, tight gloves, and tighter boots proclaim the imminent peril of his position.”

Has Beens Modern Century Position Fit Hats Cash Boots Spares Peril Gloves Nineteenth Century Tailors Modern Times Adornment Suitors

Author:George Augustus Henry Sala

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

Given Position Gracious Reluctant

Author:Lucian

“For it is precisely because certain groups have no representation in a number of recognized political structures that their position tends to be so stable, their oppression so continuous.”

Political Certain Politics Numbers Groups Position Structure Discrimination Oppression Stable Representation

Book:Sexual Politics

Source: Sexual Politics

“if I love something I do it, and if I don't, I don't. I think that this is the most important choice that any of us can make in life, in art, in history: to do the thing you love. If you love it, it is important. If you love it then while you are doing it, you are a true expression of yourself and your time and your story. You are authentic. If you don't love it you betray not only yourself but also your history, your culture, your position in your society.”

Ifs Thinking Art Important Stories Choices Culture Passion Position Expression Betray Things You Love Important Choices

Author:Lina Wertmuller