“If you find your opponent in a strong position costly to force, you should leave him a line of retreat as the quickest way of loosening his resistance. It should, equally, be a principle of policy, especially in war, to provide your opponent with a ladder by which he can climb down.” IfsWayShouldWarStrongForceLinesPrinciplesMilitaryPolicyPositionResistanceOpponentsClimbsRetreatLadders Author:B. H. Liddell Hart
“I shall devote only a few lines to the expression of my belief in the importance of science it is by this daily striving after knowledge that man has raised himself to the unique position he occupies on earth, and that his power and well-being have continually increased.” MenWellsEarthScienceBeliefLinesKnowledgePositionExpressionUniqueImportanceRaisedStriveWell BeingImportance Of Science Author:Marie Curie
“Nowhere is woman treated according to the merit of her work, but rather as a sex. It is therefore almost inevitable that she should pay for her right to exist, to keep a position in whatever line, with sex favors. Thus it is merely a question of degree whether she sells herself to one man, in or out of marriage, or to many men!... The economic and social inferiority of woman is responsible for prostitution.” MenShouldSocialSexLinesPayEconomicPositionDegreesResponsibleSellsFavorsTreatedInevitableMeritOne ManProstitutionInferiority Book:Anarchism: Top Crime Collections Source: Anarchism: Top Crime Collections
“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.” IfsLinesBehindsPositionBallsAssumingGolfFlightOpponentsGolfersTeesErraticFoursomes Author:Eric Nicol
“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.” ThinkingShouldGovernmentLinesRiskPositionLosingRussiaUncertaintyFirmQueensDelayRoyaltyAdvancingPrestigeHumiliatedConstantinople Author:Queen Victoria
“most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of grass-roots leadership strikes us as too much of an oxymoron; confronted with apparent paradox, our imaginations fail. ... I believe that in the future, our ideas about the nature of leadership will undergo a radical transformation. As the instrumental use of knowledge continues to redefine the nature and purpose of organizations, we will begin to look at those on the front lines for leadership.” BelieveLooksIdeasUsePurposeI BelieveImaginationLeadershipLinesToo MuchFailingFrontsPositionRootsOrganizationTransformationNotionStrikesRadicalGrassParadoxPersistOxymoronUse Of Knowledge Author:Sally Helgesen
“I have very little interest in the bottom line or signing artists to help make the label profit. That's a lucky, unique position to be in, but it all comes out in the wash.” LittlesHelpingArtistInterestLinesPositionLuckyUniqueBottomProfitLabelsBottom LineSigning Author:Jack White
“Look, the hard-line Jewish position is based, to this day, on the idea that the Palestinian Arabs somehow or other will either accept third-class status, or they will pick up and go away. Now, this isn't happening.” LooksIdeasHardLinesAcceptingClassPositionHappeningsPicksThirdsGoing AwayThis DayPalestinianClass Status Author:Arthur Hertzberg
“But I'm here to serve people. I'm not here to wave my finger in people's faces and point out to them how terrible they are or what I hate about them or anything along those lines. That's not my place. I'm in no position to condemn anybody.” PeopleFacesHateLinesPositionTerribleI HateFingersWave Author:LeCrae
“Crossing the Finish Line is a must-read for anyone concerned with the disturbing fact that Americans can no longer count on each generation being better educated than the last. Focusing on public institutions that educate more than three-fourths of U.S. students, Bowen, Chingos, and McPherson provide compelling arguments that institutions and policymakers must find new ways to overcome deeply entrenched patterns if our country is to regain its position as the most educated.” IfsWayCountryFactsLastsThreeLinesGenerationsPositionStudentsConcernedArgumentOvercomingInstitutionsPatternsEducatedOur CountryEducateCompellingNew WaysDisturbingCrossingsFinish Line Author:Molly Corbett Broad
“He who is honest in his dealings simply because of the social prestige and position it secures will never develop his higher nature, but will always live along the lower lines.” SocialLinesHonestPositionHigherPrestigeDealings Book:The United States a Christian Nation Source: The United States a Christian Nation
“You can play hard. You can play aggressive. You can give 120% but if one guy is out of position then someone is running through the line of scrimmage and he is going to gain a bunch of yards.” IfsGivingHardPlayRunningGuyLinesPositionGainsBunchAggressiveYardsPlay Hard Author:Bill Belichick
“My work sanitizes it (emotion) but it is also symbolic of commercial art sanitizing human feelings. I think it can be read that way.... People mistake the character of line for the character of art. But it's really the position of line that's important, or the position of anything, any contrast, not the character of it.” PeopleThinkingWayHumansArtImportantCharacterFeelingsLinesEmotionMistakePositionContrastSymbolicCommercial Art Author:Roy Lichtenstein
“It's important to know that, unlike lawyers, land surveyors put the public interest first. That means we're not biased by our client - this means that the property line will be drawn in the most equitable position, regardless of which neighbor is paying the bill.” KnowsFirstsMeanImportantInterestLinesLandPositionBillsPropertyNeighborLawyerClientsBiasedPublic InterestEquitableSurveyorsLand Surveyor Author:Mark Mason
“When Saddam Hussein's Iraqi forces invaded Kuwait in 1990, I felt America's post-Cold War commitment to national principles and international leadership was on the line. I was dismayed by the wide opposition among my fellow Democrats. To me, their position was wrong.” WarAmericaForceFeltLinesPrinciplesPositionColdCommitmentFellowsDemocratInternationalWidePostsOppositionCold WarSaddamHusseinKuwaitDismayed Author:Joe Lieberman
“I don't know how anybody can say that who looks at what's happening to our young people and what's happening to our country, all because of guns. The NRA is putting themselves in a position where people will no longer trust them. They've been trusted in the past, but now their credibility is on the line.” PeopleKnowsLooksCountryPastYoungLinesKnow HowPositionHappeningsGunOur CountryTrustedCredibilityNra Author:Joycelyn Elders
“I just want people to remember me a hundred years from now. I don't care that they're not able to quote any single line that I've written. But just that they can say, "Oh, he was a writer." That's sufficiently an honored position for me.” PeopleWantYearsCareAbleRememberLinesWrittenPositionHundredDon't CareI Don't CareHonoredRemember MeSingle Line Author:Rod Serling
“I have been in situations where actors are treated like robots: say the lines, say it like this, we don't have time for conversations. That is a terrible position to be in as an artist. You feel used.” FeelsHas BeensUsedArtistActorsLinesSituationPositionTerribleConversationTreatedRobots Author:Nia Long
“A judicial standard means that a judicious decision can be entirely correct, even when the result does not line up with our preferred political positions or cater to certain political interests.” MeanDoePoliticalCertainInterestLinesDecisionResultsPositionStandardsJudicial Author:Orrin Hatch
“The perception that Donald Trump has softened on immigration or is about to soften on immigration has some on the right concerned that he could lose support among his most loyal base of supporters, though he`d been drawn to his hard-line positions on immigration early in the campaign.” HardLosesLinesSupportPositionTrumpPerceptionConcernedCampaignsImmigrationLoyalSupporter Author:Steve Kornacki
“One who knows not what his rights are can never know when they are taken and is unable to defend them. He is like a man who believes he owns a piece of ground which his neighbor also claims, but he doesn't know its boundaries. The neighbor continues to encroach further and further onto land he suspects is his, but since he is never certain where the boundary is, he cannot check the advance. Until he takes a firm position and says: "this far and no further," there is no line.” KnowsMenBelieveCertainLinesTakenPiecesRightsLandPositionClaimsNeighborBoundariesChecksFirmSuspects Author:H. Verlan Andersen