“The man who sets out to live the life worthwhile-to follow his vision and speak his heart-need not look for position, honors, prosperity.” MenNeedsLooksHeartChristianSpeakVisionPositionHe ManHonorProsperityChristian InspirationalLive LifeWorthwhile Author:Vance Havner
“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.” SelfOrderJesusSpeakLordPositionListeningJudgmentWeaknessRighteousnessReservesAgain And AgainSelf Righteousness Author:Pope Francis
“It would be almost politically suicidal for members of Congress to espouse a balanced position between Israel and Palestine, to suggest that Israel comply with international law or to speak in defense of justice or human rights for Palestinians. If they did so, they couldn't be reelected.” IfsHumansWould BeLawSpeakJusticeRightsPositionMembersInternationalCongressHuman RightsIsraelDefenseBalancedPalestinianPalestineSuicidalInternational Law Author:Jimmy Carter
“Way down deep the American people are afraid of an entangling relationship between formal religions - or whole bodies of religious belief - and government. Apart from constitutional law and religious doctrine, there is a sense that tells us it's wrong to presume to speak for God or to claim God's sanction of our particular legislation and his rejection of all other positions. Most of us are offended when we see religion being trivialized by its appearance in political throw-away pamphlets.” PeopleWayWholeBodyGovernmentLawPoliticalBeliefSpeakReligiousAtheismPositionParticularClaimsAppearancePositive AtheismDoctrineRejectionFormalLegislationOffendedSanctionsReligious BeliefConstitutional Law Author:Mario Cuomo
“The Bush people have no right to speak for my father, particularly because of the position he's in now (Alzheimer's Syndrome). Yes, some of the current policies are an extension of the '80s. But the overall thrust of this administration is not my father's - these people are overly reaching, overly aggressive, overly secretive, and just plain corrupt. I don't trust these people.” PeopleFatherSpeakPolicyPositionCurrentsAdministrationReachingAggressiveExtensions80sThrustDon't TrustSyndromesAlzheimerAlzheimer'sSecretive Author:Ron Reagan
“Everything we did was done in form and with propriety, and the result of our proceedings is the document [the Quebec Resolutions] that has been submitted to the imperial government as well as to this house and which we speak of here as a treaty. And that there may be no doubt about our position in regard to that document we say, question it you may, reject it you may, or accept it you may, but alter it you may not.” WellsMayHas BeensDoneGovernmentFormHouseSpeakResultsAcceptingDoubtPositionRegardNo DoubtRejectsResolutionDocumentsTreatiesProceedingProprietyQuebec Author:Thomas D'Arcy McGee
“Women are afraid. It is unpopular to question the bible. They are creatures of tradition. They fear to question their position in the testament, as they feared to advocate suffrage fifty years ago. Now they are quarreling as to which were among the first to advocate it. You see they are not used to abuse as I am. In Albany, fifty years ago, when I went before the legislature to plead for a married woman's right to her own property, the women whom I met in society crossed the street rather than speak to me.” YearsFirstsUsedSpeakAtheismStreetsPositionMetsCreaturesMarriedYears AgoTraditionAbusePropertyPositive AtheismFiftyTestamentLegislatureSuffrageMarried WomenAlbany Author:Elizabeth Cady Stanton
“For many years, I did my best to report on the issues of the day in as objective a manner as possible. When I had my own strong opinions, as I often did, I tried not to communicate them to my audience. Now, however, my circumstances are different. I am in a position to speak my mind. And that is what I propose to do.” MindSpeakPositionPropose Author:Walter Cronkite
“For a novelist, it’s kind of an onerous burden to represent an entire culture. That said, I’m in a unique position to speak on behalf of Afghanistan on certain issues that I feel are important, particularly the issue of Afghan refugees.” FeelsKindSaidImportantCertainCultureSpeakIssuesPositionUniqueBurdenNovelistsAfghanistanRefugeeBehalfAfghan Author:Khaled Hosseini
“I do think that even with entertainment and telling stories, people in the entertainment industry have such a beautiful position in the world to speak about things that they're passionate about in a way that can grab people more than just sitting and telling someone about something, because you can show it visually.” PeopleThinkingWorldWayStoriesShowsBeautifulSpeakPositionIndustrySittingPassionateEntertainmentTelling StoriesEntertainment IndustryStory People Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt
“Scientists are scientists. They're not really in a position to speak clearly on the moral dimensions, and they're not really comfortable doing that.” SpeakMoralPositionComfortableScientistDimensions Author:Naomi Oreskes
“An officer should never speak ironically or sarcastically to an enlisted man, since the latter does not have a fair chance to answer back. The use of profanity and epithets comes under the same headings. The best argument for a man keeping his temper is that nobody else wants it; and when he voluntary throws it away, he loses a main prop to his own position.” MenWantShouldDoeUseSpeakLosesChanceAnswersPositionFairsArgumentLatterOfficersTemperHeadingsPropsProfanityEpithetEnlisted Author:Samuel Lyman Atwood Marshall
“By itself, the question of the liturgy's essence and the standards of the reform has brought us back to the question of music and its position in the liturgy. And as a matter of fact one cannot speak about worship at all without also speaking of the music of worship.” MatterFactsSpeakPositionWorshipStandardsEssenceReformMatter Of FactLiturgy Author:Pope Benedict XVI
“I have what I call an iron prescription that helps me keep sane when I naturally drift toward preferring one ideology over another and that is: I say that I'm not entitled to have an opinion on this subject unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who support it. I think only when I've reached that state am I qualified to speak. This business of not drifting into extreme ideology is a very, very important thing in life” PeopleThinkingI CanImportantStatesHelpingSpeakOpinionSupportSubjectsPositionArgumentImportant ThingsExtremesIdeologyHelp MeIronSaneThings In LifeEntitledQualifiedPrescriptionsDrifting Author:Charlie Munger
“He who is required by the necessity of his position to speak the highest things is compelled by the same necessity to exemplify the highest things.” SpeakPositionHighestCompelled Author:Pope Gregory I
“I never even dreamt that I'd be in a position to teach other people to speak better.” PeopleSpeakTeachPosition Author:Gareth Gates
“I know Vladimir Putin. He respects strength. He lied to our president's [Barack Obama] face; didn't both to tell him about warplanes and troops going into Syria. We need to speak to him from a position of strength.” KnowsNeedsFacesSpeakPresidentPositionBarackTroopsSyriaLiedPutinHe Lied Author:Carly Fiorina
“I think that the more people who speak out, and say things and take stands on positions that will better our community, the better off each and every other individual artist or otherwise, will be.” PeopleThinkingArtistIndividualSpeakCommunityPositionBetter OffOur CommunitySpeaks Out Author:Gil Scott-Heron
“I think that when you have any folks in our population who live under the threat of violence, who live under the threat of crime, who don't have the opportunity that others have because the schools in our urban areas are a dreaded failure, because of the positions that Hillary Clinton has taken and the people who support her, that I think any candidate should speak out to say that that type of thing is unacceptable.” PeopleThinkingShouldSchoolOpportunitySpeakSupportTakenViolenceCrimePositionTypeAreasThreatClintonFolksPopulationCandidatesUrbanSpeaks OutUrban Areas Author:Chris Christie