Best position & assuming Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The death of God left the angels in a strange position. They were overtaken suddenly by a fundamental question. One can attempt to imagine the moment. How did they look at the instant the question invaded them, flooding the angelic consciousness, taking hold with terrifying force? The question was, "What are angels?" New to questioning, unaccustomed to terror, unskilled in aloneness, the angels (we assume) fell into despair.”

Looks Moments Left Force Consciousness Imagine Position Strange Despair Angel Fundamentals Assuming Terror Instant Questioning Angelic Flooding

Book:Sixty stories

Source: Sixty stories

“The conversation people need to have is no longer about women assuming positions of leadership within the existing power structure, it's about the power structures themselves, it's about how to go about assuming power, how to change the structures.”

People Needs Position Conversation Structure Assuming

Author:Elizabeth Lesser

“The hypothesis of molecular vortices is defined to be that which assumes - that each atom of matter consists of a nucleus or central point enveloped by an elastic atmosphere, which is retained in its position by attractive forces, and that the elasticity due to heat arises from the centrifugal force of those atmospheres revolving or oscillating about their nuclei or central points.According to this hypothesis, quantity of heat is the vis viva of the molecular revolutions or oscillations.”

Matter Force Position Revolution Assuming Dues Arise Defined Atmosphere Attractive Heat Atoms Quantity Hypothesis Nucleus Revolving Elasticity Oscillation Viva

Book:Miscellaneous Scientific Papers

Source: Miscellaneous Scientific Papers

“If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.”

Ifs Lines Behinds Position Balls Assuming Golf Flight Opponents Golfers Tees Erratic Foursomes

Author:Eric Nicol

“To undertake the direction of the economic life of people with widely divergent ideals and values is to assume responsibilities which commit one to the use of force; it is to assume a position where the best intentions cannot prevent one from being forced to act in a way which to some of those affected must appear highly immoral. This is true even if we assume the dominant power to be as idealistic and unselfish as we can possibly conceive. But how small is the likelihood that it will be unselfish, and how great are the temptations!”

“We compel the electron to assume a definite position. We ourselves produce the results of the measurement.”

Results Position Produce Assuming Definite Measurement Electrons

Book:Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities

Source: Supernormal: Science, Yoga, and the Evidence for Extraordinary Psychic Abilities

“What business needs now is exactly what women are able to provide, and at the very time when women are surging into the work force. But perhaps even more important than work force numbers is the fact that women - who began this sweeping entry in the mid-seventies - are just now beginning to assume positions of leadership, which give them the scope to create and reinforce the trends toward change. The confluence is fortunate, an alignment that gives women unique opportunities to assist in the continuing transformation of the workplace.”

Source: The Female Advantage: Women's Ways of Leadership

“In our culture, the Oedipal drama succeeds in making us assume either a male or female sexual position. Certainly this is an ancient construct that's rapidly coming apart.”

Culture Position Drama Succeed Female Assuming Males Ancient Constructs

Author:John Maus

“There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer, finally, Loretta Lynch will be able to assume the position she has trained her lifetime for.”

Play Able Law Politics Nations Leader Position Offers Assuming Lifetime Chiefs Officers Law Enforcement Enforcement Nominations

Author:Hillary Clinton

“If you tell most people what libertarians think, they immediately assume that you cannot mean it all the way, that you're really just taking a position for argument's sake.”

People Ifs Thinking Way Mean Position Argument Assuming Sake Libertarian

Author:Dave Barry

“I decided that I was ready to assume this position when I discovered that the chance to save the country was very meager. I was prepared to sacrifice myself for this country and its 90 million people. They want food, fuel and electricity and yearn for a decent life. Any president who does not pay attention to such details or is unable to provide the minimum level of stability should leave office.”

“I have always had extraordinarily good relations with very conservative colleagues. And that's not because I agree with any of them or fudge on my positions, but people feel I listen to them and give them the benefit of the doubt. I assume the best of people. And that, I think, is an attitude that is maybe rare in politics.”

People Thinking Giving Feels Attitude Doubt Position Benefits Relation Agree Assuming Conservative Colleagues Benefit Of The Doubt Fudge

Author:Barack Obama

“Plato assumes somehow that government is a way in which you put unselfish and ungreedy men in charge of selfish and greedy men. But government is an institution whereby the people who have the greatest drive to get power over their fellow men, get in a position of controlling them. Look at the record of government. Where are these philosopher kings that Plato supposedly was trying to develop?”

People Men Way Trying Looks Government Records Position Kings Fellows Institutions Assuming Philosopher Selfish Plato Greedy Fellow Man Unselfish

Author:Milton Friedman

“The prevailing wisdom is that markets are always right. I take the opposite position. I assume that markets are always wrong.”

Position Opposites Assuming Prevailing Always Wrong

Book:Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve

Source: Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve

“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.”

Source: As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations

“This is the key. If you get into deep water with these substances, this is true of psilocybin as well, you don't want to clench, you don't want to assume the fetal position and stop breathing. You want to sit up straight and breathe, and sing, and sing it back, and it will step back. You can take control of your situation ... most of the time.”

Ifs Want Wells Water Situation Steps Position Keys Assuming Breathe Breathing Substance Take Control Deep Water Psilocybin

Author:Terence McKenna

“They took 3-D digital photographs of my entire body. I had to pose stark naked, assuming a kind of Spider-Man position. After a minute, one of the technicians pointed to my genitals and said, Um, we're not getting enough data there ... It wasn't what you think. It turns out that the fancy digital camera doesn't pick up dark areas too well, and they were having trouble because of the hair down there. I actually had to spray on this highlighter stuff. (On having digital photos taken for the invisible man role in the film Hollow Man)”

“When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.”

World Trying Position Assuming Privileged Unwise

Author:Jim Holt

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