Best position & mean Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Our position in Europe is not negotiable. The Greek people will defend it by all means. But participation in the euro involves rules and obligations, which we must consistently meet. Greece belongs to Europe and Europe cannot be envisaged without Greece.”

People Mean Position Europe Obligation Greek Consistently Participation Greece Euro

Author:Lucas Papademos

“A writer who takes political, social or literary positions must act only with the means that are his. These means are the written words.”

Mean Political Social Written Position Written Word

Author:Jean-Paul Sartre

“We've said from the beginning when we traded Richie (Sexson), we're trading home runs for doubles and the ability to manufacture runs... Doubles are almost better. I mean, home runs are great, but when you've got guys who smack those doubles, you're in good shape, you've got a lot of guys in scoring position.”

Mean Said Home Running Guy Ability Position Shapes Trading Home Run Smack

Author:Ned Yost

“We are not in a position to criticize anyone. The existence of enemies means for us that our friendliness has not been sufficient enough.”

Mean Enough Existence Enemy Position Sufficient Criticize Friendliness

Author:Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

“The man who is fond of complaining likes to remain amid the objects of his vexation. He will most strongly revolt against every means proposed for his deliverance. This is what suits him. He asks nothing better than to sigh over his position and to remain in it.”

Men Mean Asks Responsibility Position Objects He Man Complaining Likes Suits Sigh Revolt Deliverance Very Mean Vexation

Author:Francois Guizot

“In the 20th century, the position of the monarch as head of the Church of England was given a meaning which it never had before. You took the fact that the monarch was head of the Church of England to mean that the British monarchy was itself a religious or moral institution and the monarchy became a symbol of national public morality.”

Mean Facts Given Church Religious Moral Century Position Morality England Institutions British Symbols 20th Century Monarchy Monarchs Church Of England British Monarchy

Author:David Starkey

“To-day a democrat of the old school would demand, not freedom for the press, but freedom from the press; but mean-time the leaders have changed themselves into parvenus who have to secure their position vis-a-vis the masses.”

Mean School Leader Position Changed Demand Mass Presses Democrat Secure Old School

Author:Oswald Spengler

“The sea erupted. Often the sea and land changed places. The immobility of contours of continents and seas, a dogma in geology, has no basis in fact. And immediately there is the problem of the climate. There were ancient climates that were very different from what they are today. If those corals grew where they were found, certainly the Earth was not travelling with the same elements of rotation and revolution which means not in the same orbit, not with the axis directed in the same position as it is today. If you don't believe it, try to conservate corals on the North Pole.”

“Nonviolent action involves opposing the opponent's power, including his police and military capacity, not with the weapons chosen by him but by quite different means. Repression by the opponent is used against his own power position in a kind of political "ju-jitsu" and the very sources of his power thus reduced or removed, with the result that his political and military position is seriously weakened or destroyed.”

Kind Mean Different Action Political Used Results Power Military Position Source Weapons Capacity Police Including Chosen Destroyed Opponents Repression Opposing

Author:Gene Sharp

“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean "neither affirming nor denying a belief in God."”

Source: An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism

“If somebody has a monopoly position, and wants to keep that monopoly position, it means that you are effectively shutting out competition from other sources.”

Ifs Want Mean Position Source Competition Monopoly

Author:Alexander Stille

“Those old adages - you attract more with honey; do unto others - are true. You can get attention by being acerbic or mean or making a bizarre comment. But by being nice, being empathetic, building relationships and listening, people begin to recognize that you're thoughtful and respectful of their position.”

People Mean Attention Nice Position Building Listening Thoughtful Comment Honey Being Nice Bizarre Respectful Adages True You Empathetic Do Unto Others Building Relationships

Author:Shelley Moore Capito

“I don't really get involved in it, the whole thing. I understand how important this city is and what I mean to this city and what our team means to the city... but I don't get caught up into it. I just go out and play my game. I try to lead the best way I can, and if I can put my team and this franchise in a position to win the title, I'm grateful for that.”

Ifs Way Trying Mean I Can Important Play Whole Games Winning Cities Team Position Involved Grateful Caught Best Way Titles Nba Caught Up Get Involved Nba Finals

Author:LeBron James

“I mean, these good folks are revolutionizing how businesses conduct their business. And, like them, I am very optimistic about our position in the world and about its influence on the United States. We're concerned about the short-term economic news, but long-term I'm optimistic. And so, I hope investors, you know - secondly, I hope investors hold investments for periods of time - that I've always found the best investments are those that you salt away based on economics.”

“In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details. But in history the matter is far otherwise. Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.”

“Israel has legitimate concerns about its security relative to Iran. I mean, you have a large country with a significant military that has proclaimed that Israel shouldn't exist, that has denied the Holocaust, that has financed Hezbollah, and as a consequence, there are missiles that are pointed towards Tel Aviv. There are very good reasons why Israelis are nervous about Iran's position in the world generally.”

World Mean Country Reason Security Military Position Consequence Concern Very Good Israel Significant Nervous Reason Why Iran Relative Denied Holocaust Missiles Hezbollah

Author:Barack Obama

“America was not interventionist enough, which, of course, did mean a bit of a breach with old comrades on the left. I felt the international left in the countries concerned took the same position as I did. So, in my view, it's the left that's become reactionary and isolationist and parochial.”

Mean Country Enough America Courses Left Felt Bits Views Position Concerned International Comrade Reactionaries Breach

Author:Christopher Hitchens

“If, two people have good minds and they're looking at problems, if they agree all the time it means one of them is not thinking. If they disagree all the time, it means one of them is not thinking. They're just allowing their political position to dictate their position on an issue. And I think that's unhealthy. And the public knows better.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Mind Mean Two Problem Political Issues Position Agree Allowing Disagree Unhealthy Good Mind

Author:William J. Clinton

“He who is usually self-sufficient becomes exceptionally vain and keenly alive to fame and praise when he is physically ill. The more he loses himself the more he has to endeavor to regain his position by means of the opinion of others.”

Mean Self Loses Opinion Alive Position Fame Praise Ill Illness Vanity Vain Sufficient Endeavor Self Sufficient

Book:Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

Source: Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III

“Either criticism is no good at all (a very defensible position) or else criticism means saying about an author the very things that would have made him jump out of his boots.”

Mean Made Position Criticism Boots

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“There can be no truly moral choice unless that choice is made in freedom; similarly, there can be no really firmly grounded and consistent defense of freedom unless that defense is rooted in moral principle. In concentrating on the ends of choice, the conservative, by neglecting the conditions of choice, loses that very morality of conduct with which he is so concerned. And the libertarian, by concentrating only on the means, or conditions, of choice and ignoring the ends, throws away an essential moral defense of his own position.”

“Sanity consists in not being subdued by your means. Fancy prices are paid for position, and for the culture of talent, but to thegrand interests, superficial success is of no account.”

Mean Success Culture Interest Talent Position Accounts Paid Fancy Sanity Superficial

Book:The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

Source: The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations

“That Republicans now control the Senate means, of course, that they control the confirmation process. Their majority enables them to stop an unacceptable nomination at various points: They can deny the nominee a committee hearing; they can vote the person down in committee; they can refuse to schedule a vote on a nomination sent to the floor; and the full Senate can vote to reject the nomination. The Republicans' majority status also strengthens their negotiating position with the White House, making it more likely that a mutually acceptable candidate will be chosen for a given seat.”

“I see women going anywhere they want to. And I do mean want to. Because a lot of people measure success merely by position, title and salary. I think women feel comfortable enough in their own skin to put that secondary to what they want. They don't have to define success by the measure of society.”

People Thinking Want Feels Mean Enough Position Comfortable Skins Titles Salary Measure Of Success Define Success

Author:Charlene Li

“Politics means competition, especially in senior positions. If you don't know that, you're not especially suited to politics.”

Ifs Knows Mean Position Competition Senior

Author:Wolfgang Schauble

“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 wish that there was a unified Democratic position on the war in Iraq. I was that there was a unified American position and everybody agreed with me that we ought to be out of there yesterday. But they don't, and that's the fact. I mean, he's stating a fact about what's going on.”

Mean War Facts Wish Position Ought Democratic Iraq Yesterday Unified

Author:Howard Dean

“Auditioning is important, and I understand that. If there is somebody making a movie, if there is somebody manufacturing a movie, they want to look at the goods. I get it. I mean, I've been in that position.”

Ifs Want Looks Mean Important Position Goods Manufacturing

Author:Clint Howard

“Quite apart from our desire to avoid destroying the planet or economic meltdown, I offer another reason to position cooperation at the heart of our political economy: it will mean we are more likely to live sane, fruitful lives”

Heart Mean Reason Political Desire Vision Economy Economic Position Planets Future Offers Cooperation Destroying Sane Sustainable Development Political Economy Meltdowns Fruitful Life

Author:Oliver James

“Interest in religion is not necessarily interest in God. Religion in public life means a set of ideas, an ideology that has certain positions. Religion is then one more ideology among others. Religion is about God. Religion begins with a relationship to God, not a relationship to an idea. It is God who is an actor, not just individuals who have certain beliefs who are actors. God is an actor.”

Mean Ideas Certain Actors Individual Belief Interest Position Ideology Public Life Life Means

Author:Francis George

“If the poem is so moving that even if you have no experience in that particular setting be it 1920's Harlem let's say. You still are so moved that you can put yourself in that position. That means that the writer has managed to go beyond the personal and touch the humanity in all of us and it's really a blast to read it because I realize how that this does hold true for the truly great poems.”

Ifs Mean Doe Stills Moving Humanity Realizing Position Particular Moved Setting Settings Blast Harlem

Author:Rita Dove

“...and was disposed too often to idealize as a virtue that habit of mean subservience to wealth and social position which, after more than half a century of political democracy, is still the characteristic and odious vice of the Englishman.”

Mean Stills Political Social Wealth Half Virtue Democracy Century Position Habit Vices Characteristics Englishmen Half A Century Subservience

Book:Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

Source: Religion And The Rise Of Capitalism

“Relaxation, acceptance, and keeping open mind are key. First of all, peak performance isn't possible if one is not relaxed, and if one is going to stay relaxed they must simply accept problems when they arise and decide to solve them. If I can't do a move I merely accept that I haven't discovered the right sequence, instead of trying the same sequence over and over or just quitting. I will try to do it 20 or 30 different ways, making subtle changes in body position and fot placement, until I find something that does work. That's what I mean by keeping an open mind.”

“Censorship is always cause for celebration. It is always an opportunity because it reveals fear of reform. It means that the power position is so weak that you have got to care what people think.”

People Thinking Mean Care Opportunity Causes Position Weak Reform Celebration Censorship

Author:Julian Assange

“The Mysterious Pass, which opens beyond space and time, is inconceivable by means of discursive thought and has, by definition, no fixed position.”

Mean Space Position Definitions Mysterious Fixed Time And Space

Author:Monica Esposito

“During conflicts and tense situations, women often work in a more collaborative way, include a larger variety of viewpoints, and function more frequently outside traditional hierarchical means. Women leaders often take a consolidated and reconciliatory position in the society.”

Way Mean Situation Leader Position Conflict Function Traditional Variety Tense Viewpoints Woman Leader

Author:Dalia Grybauskaite

“The darkness that we see in our world today is due to the disintegration of things out of harmony with God's laws. The basic conflict is not between nations, it is between two opposing beliefs. The first is that evil can be overcome by more evil, that the end justifies the means. This belief is very prevalent in our world today. It is the war way. It is the official position of every major nation.”

“In its proper meaning equality before the law means the right to participate in the making of the laws by which one is governed, a constitution which guarantees democratic rights to all sections of the population, the right to approach the court for protection or relief in the case of the violation of rights guaranteed in the constitution, and the right to take part in the administration of justice as judges, magistrates, attorneys-general, law advisers and similar positions.”

Source: No Easy Walk to Freedom

“I've never been in the position where that conversation is a serious conversation before the movie even comes out. On one side of it, that's so great because you've got such great potential. The other side of that is that there's a level of pressure. Now, that clearly means that there's an expectation level, from the studio side, potentially from the audience's side, and from our side.”

Mean Sides Levels Audience Position Serious Conversation Expectations Pressure Studios

Author:Will Packer

“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.”

“The movement of a single atom from one known position to another known position changes an experience from nothing to overwhelming. This means that mind and matter at the quantum mechanical level are all spun together.”

Mind Mean Matter Together Levels Known Movement Position Overwhelming Atoms Quantum Quantum Mechanics Spun Mind And Matter

Book:True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

Source: True Hallucinations: And, the Archaic Revival

“The man of genius is he whose ego has acquired consciousness. He is enabled by it to distinguish the fact that others are different, to perceive the "ego" of other men, even when it is not pronounced enough for them to be conscious of it themselves. But it is only he who feels that every other man is also an ego, a monad, an individual centre of the universe, with specific manner of feeling and thinking and a distinct past, he alone is in a position to avoid making use of his neighbours as means to an end.”

Thinking Men Feels Mean Different Ends Enough Facts Use Feelings Past Universe Individual Consciousness Position He Man Genius Ego Conscious Perceive Centre Neighbour Means To An End

Book:Sex & Character

Source: Sex & Character

“Once we have taken the backward step to an abstract view of our whole system of beliefs, evidence, and justification, and seen that it works only, despite its pretensions, by taking the world largely for granted, we are not in a position to contrast all these appearances with an alternative reality. We cannot shed our ordinary responses, and if we could it would leave us with no means of conceiving a reality of any kind.”

“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.”

Knows Firsts Mean Important Interest Lines Land Position Bills Property Neighbor Lawyer Clients Biased Public Interest Equitable Surveyors Land Surveyor

Author:Mark Mason

“Let our position be absolutely clear: An attempt by any outside force to gain control of the Persian Gulf region will be regarded as an assault on the vital interests of the United States of America, and such an assault will be repelled by any means necessary, including military force.”

Mean States America Force Interest United United States Clear Military Position Gains Including Regions United States Of America Assault Persian Military Force Persian Gulf

Book:Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

Source: Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President

“I do not understand this squeamishness about the use of gas. We have definitely adopted the position at the Peace Conference of arguing in favour of the retention of gas as a permanent method of warfare. It is sheer affectation to lacerate a man with the poisonous fragment of a bursting shell and to boggle at making his eyes water by means of lachrymatory gas.”

Men Mean Use Eye Water Position Method Arguing Permanent His Eyes Gas Shells Warfare Sheer Favour Adopted Conferences Fragments Poisonous Bursting Retention Poison Gas Chemical Warfare

Author:Winston Churchill

“The US is off the spectrum in religious commitment. It's been increasing since 1980 but it's a major part of the voting base of the Republican Party so that means committing to anti-abortion positions, opposing women's rights.”

Mean Religious Party Rights Position Republican Majors Commitment Abortion Voting Womens Rights Republican Party Spectrum Opposing Anti Abortion

Author:Noam Chomsky

“I've pretty much always used my positions as a bully pulpit. What that means is strongly advocating for the things I feel are really important. Gun violence, to me, is the highest-priority public-health issue, and I have to make sure Congress is aware of it, the American people are aware of it, the president is aware of it, and that we all begin together to develop policies to exterminate the disease - the epidemic, really - of gun violence.”

“Man is indeed lost, but that does not mean that he is nothing. We must resist humanism, but to make a man a zero is not the right way to resist it ... [The] Christian position is that man is made in the image of God and even though he is now a sinner, he can do things that are tremendous - he can influence history for this life and the life to come, for himself and for others...From the biblical viewpoint, man is lost, but great.”

Men Way Mean Doe Made Christian Lost Can Do Influence Position Humanism This Life Sinner Zero Biblical Right Way Viewpoints God Image

Author:Francis Schaeffer

“Well, it's not all Americans. But I understand those polls. But as a result of that, that's not going to change my position. I mean I don't think it is even practical and I don't think it's right. I mean just because somebody happens to be of the Muslim faith, doesn't make them a terrorist or make them a threat to America. And we've had relations with people all over the world of the Muslim faith.”

People Thinking World Wells Mean Happens America Results Position Relation Threat Terrorist Practicals Polls Muslim Faith

Author:John Kasich

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