Best position & order Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“No one listens willingly to someone who speaks to them from a position of self-righteousness and judgment. Again and again in the Gospels, Jesus reserves his harshest words for those who ignore their own weakness in order to lord it over others.”

Self Order Jesus Speak Lord Position Listening Judgment Weakness Righteousness Reserves Again And Again Self Righteousness

Author:Pope Francis

“Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position.”

Men Inspirational Trying Law Religion Order Belief Position Development Constant Consistent Racist Dogma Metaphysics Laws Of Life

Book:All Men Are Brothers

Source: All Men Are Brothers

“Chess, which exists predominantly in two dimensions, is one of the world's most difficult games. Three-dimensional chess is an invitation to insanity. But human relationships, even of the simplest order, are like a kind of four-dimensional chess, a game whose pieces and positions change subtly and inexorably between moves, whose players stare dumbly while their powerful positions deteriorate into hopeless predicaments and while improbable combinations suddenly become inevitable. To make matters worse, some games are open to any number of players, and all sides are expected to win.”

Source: Time and the Art of Living

“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.”

World Writing Littles Has Beens I Can Book Sometimes Done Order Imagination My Own Doors Position Leaving Closing Ambiguity Articulation Reinterpretation

Author:Toni Morrison

“The American system demands success, and in order to succeed we must first believe that we can. Yet our society, with its intolerance of failure and poverty, traps millions of people in positions where any kind of success seems impossible to contemplate, and in which failure itself is a kind of passive rebellion against their own misery and the social system which created it in the first place. To succeed it is necessary to accept the world as it is and rise above it.”

“My temperament and habit had always kept me rather in the middle of the road; in politics as well as in social reform I had been for "the best possible." But now I was pushed far toward the left on the subject of the war and I became gradually convinced that in order to make the position of the pacifist clear it was perhaps necessary that at least a small number of us should be forced into an unequivocal position.”

Should Wells War Order Left Social Numbers Clear Middle Subjects Position Habit Convinced Reform Temperament Social Reform Pacifist Small Numbers Middle Of The Road Unequivocal

Book:The Jane Addams Reader

Source: The Jane Addams Reader

“The circumstance that any man could suppose that Matthew when he said, 'Jacob begat Joseph,' or Luke, when he said, 'Joseph was the son of Heli' could refer to the wife of the one, or the daughter-in-law of the other, shows to what desperate stratagems polemical orthodoxy will resort in order to defend an untenable position.”

Source: The creed of Christendom: its foundations and superstructure

“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

“Being an adult child was an awkward, inevitable position. You went about your business in the world: tooling around, giving orders, being taken seriously, but there were still these two people lurking somewhere who in a split second could reduce you to nothing. In their presence, you were a big-headed baby again, crawling instead of walking.”

People World Giving Children Stills Two Bigs Order Taken Position Baby Walking Adults Inevitable Awkward Splits Crawling Lurking Adult Children

Author:Meg Wolitzer

“Feminism, like Boston, is a state of mind. It is the state of mind of women who realize that their whole position in the social order is antiquated, as a woman cooking over an open fire with heavy iron pots would know that her entire housekeeping was out of date.”

Knows Mind States Whole Order Social Realizing Fire Feminism Position Cooking Heavy Iron Pot State Of Mind Boston Social Order Housekeeping

Book:A woman of fifty

Source: A woman of fifty

“Your position never gives you the right to command. It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others can receive your orders without being humiliated.”

Life Giving Order Leadership Position Duty Command Live Your Life Humiliation Humiliated

Author:Dag Hammarskjold

“If we are the younger, we may envy the older. If we are the older, we may feel that the younger is always being indulged. In otherwords, no matter what position we hold in family order of birth, we can prove beyond a doubt that we're being gypped.”

Ifs Feels May Matter Order Doubt Position Birth Prove No Matter What Envy

Author:Judith Viorst

“The construction of temples of the Ionic order to Juno, Diana, Father Bacchus, and the other gods of that kind, will be in keeping with the middle position which they hold; for the building of such will be an appropriate combination of the severity of the Doric and the delicacy of the Corinthian.”

Kind Order Father Middle Position Building Combination Appropriate Temples Construction Delicacy Diana Severity Bacchus Corinthians

Author:Marcus Vitruvius Pollio

“There is nothing that strengthens the ego more than being right. Being right is identification with a mental position - a perspective, an opinion, a judgement, a story. For you to be right, of course, you need someone else to be wrong, as so the ego loves to make wrong in order to be right.”

Needs Stories Order Courses Opinion Position Perspective Ego Judgement Identification

Book:A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“My position is that you do not have to practice a religion in order to have a religion.”

Order Practice Position

Author:Noa Ben Artzi-Pelossof

“The Lord wants us to love one another. Here is freedom: in love for God and neighbor. In this freedom, there is equality. In earthly orders, there may not be equality, but this is not important for the soul. Not everyone can be a king, not everyone a patriarch or a boss. But in any position it is possible to love God and to please Him, and only this is important. And whoever loves God more on earth will be in greater glory in His Kingdom.”

“The simplicity of the law by which the celestial bodies move, and the relations of their masses and distances, permit analysis to follow their motions up to a certain point; and in order to determine the state of the system of these great bodies in past or future centuries, it suffices for the mathematician that their position and their velocity be given by observation for any moment in time.”

“I'm trying mostly to ask questions. And not just trying to stake out a position on something, but also trying to define the stuff we agree on. I'm having battles with comment posters trying to insert a little sense of order so it's not just a long pissing match between the edges, which is what I think a lot of the blogosphere is tending to do.”

Thinking Trying Littles Long Order Asks Stuff Position Battle Agree Edges Comment Stakes Posters Insert

Author:Andrew Revkin

“The essence of positioning is sacrifice. You must be willing to give up something in order to establish that unique position.”

Giving Order Sacrifice Position Willing Giving Up Unique Essence

Book:Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

Source: Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind

“My analysis is that most faith based systems depend upon an absolute moral order. The declaration of things as absolutely evil or absolutely good, as sin or virtue, puts liberalism into a horrible position because it's founded on no judgment on anything. As a result, any faith that is seriously practiced or understood is a challenge to the politics that depend on constituencies that would rather not be told that their choices are bad and their lives are not virtuous.”

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Author:Hugh Hewitt

“To enact a vision of human flourishing based on the qualities of life that Jesus modeled will invariably challenge the given structures of the social order. In this light, there is no true leadership without putting at risk one's time, wealth, reputation, and position.”

Source: To Change the World: The Irony, Tragedy, and Possibility of Christianity in the Late Modern World

“If someone's carrying a gun or a knife it's not a nice thing. They aren't going to feel that comfortable with it. It's a scary position to put yourself in. You don't choose to do that unless you feel there's absolutely no other option and you're forced to carry a weapon in order to protect yourself.”

Ifs Feels Order Nice Position Protect Comfortable Weapons Gun Scary Knives Nice Things Protect Yourself

Author:Scarlett Alice Johnson

“Israel is the American watchdog in the Middle East, and that's why the Palestinians remain victims of one of the longest military occupations. They don't have oil. If they were the Saudis, they wouldn't be in the position they are now. But they have the power of being able to upset the imperial order in the Middle East.”

Ifs Able Order Middle Military Position Victim Israel Oil East Upset Occupation Middle East Palestinian Saudis

Author:John Pilger

“I have no idea why she quieted down on the subject. Maybe she was told to. I can imagine that it wasn't a very popular position in the Administration, with her own husband having ordered by executive order the internment. Maybe she was just told: "Look, we're in a war now. Turn off your social conscience."”

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Author:William A. Rusher

“If a bunch of Republicans are too stiff- necked, too proud, or in some cases too committed to the old order, after the election, I think they're going to be very sobered by their position.”

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Author:Newt Gingrich

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