“Prada makes really nice bags and then somebody in China makes knockoffs. This is the knockoff version of the mutant world. You have Weapon X. you have government spending millions of dollars to make it, and then you have these guys who are making thugs out of people that they pull off the street, or who are damaged, or who have found themselves in terrible positions for some reason.” PeopleWorldReasonGovernmentGuyFoundMillionsNiceStreetsPositionTerribleWeaponsDollarsChinaSpendingVersionsBagsReally NiceThugGovernment SpendingMutantsPradaKnockoffs Author:Timothy Miller
“The Keck telescope, which is the largest in the world, had opened just before I began my faculty position at UCLA.” WorldPositionFacultyTelescopesUcla Author:Andrea M. Ghez
“If you're the biggest DJ in the world, you're in a position where you can play stuff that people don't know and blow people's minds. But if you just chose to play stuff they know just to get a reaction, that's just being lazy.” PeopleIfsKnowsWorldMindPlayStuffMusicPositionBlowReactionsLazyLazinessJust BeingMusic IndustryDjsMind BlowingElectronic MusicBeing Lazy Author:John Digweed
“I love acting; I love movie sets and movies, but, at the same time, there's something about the position of women in that world that frightens me a lot. I find it nearly inhuman to be an actress.” WorldActingPositionActressesInhumanMovie LoveMovie Sets Author:Lou Doillon
“People take pride in being Irish-American and Italian-American. They have a particular culture that infuses the whole culture and makes it richer and more interesting. I think if we can expand that attitude to embrace African-Americans and Latino-Americans and Asian-Americans, then we will be in a position where all our kids can feel comfortable with the worlds they are coming out of, knowing they are part of something larger.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldFeelsWholeKidsCultureInterestingAttitudeKnowingPositionParticularPrideComfortableEmbraceAfrican AmericanItalianComing OutAsianLatinoAsian AmericanBeing IrishItalian American Author:Barack Obama
“I don't have the illusion that there's any position or role in the world with as much potential for bringing about change as that of president of the United States.” WorldStatesPresidentUnitedRolesUnited StatesPositionIllusion Author:Al Gore
“In a world of increasing grey areas, we are becoming more and more entrenched in black and white positions.” WorldBlackWhitePositionBecomingAreasBlack And WhiteGreyBecoming MoreGrey Areas Author:Paul Bettany
“I feel like the world we live in seems to be full of an increasingly grey area, but the culture that we live in seems to be getting really entrenched in black and white positions, and I think it's urgent to talk about that because it's going to kill us all.” ThinkingWorldFeelsSeemsCultureBlackWhitePositionAreasBlack And WhiteGreyUrgentGrey Areas Author:Paul Bettany
“It is my responsibility to take advantage of my position to make the world a better place” WorldResponsibilityPositionAdvantageBetter Place Author:Al-Waleed bin Talal
“Demand for grain in the world today is a more stable trend than demand for energy. Russia is a major grain exporter and can consolidate its positions” WorldTodayEnergyPositionDemandMajorsRussiaTrendsStableGrainWorld Today Author:Dmitry Medvedev
“I'm really tired of Americans being the only ones asked to do all the heavy lifting when it comes to charity, and, quite frankly, my number one concern right now is taking care of the fact that Americans are taking it in the gut without jobs. Many of them working two and three part time jobs. And, if America wants to do something great, let's get our economy growing again, stabilize the dollar, and we'll be in a much better position to help people around the world.” PeopleIfsWorldWantTwoFactsHelpingCareJobsAmericaThreeNumbersEconomyGrowingPositionRight NowConcernTiredDollarsCharityHeavyAround The WorldGutsLiftingPart TimeHeavy LiftingPart Time Jobs Author:Mike Huckabee
“When we think of [John F. Kennedy], he is without a hat, standing in the wind and weather. He was impatient of topcoats and hats, preferring to be exposed, and he was young enough and tough enough to enjoy the cold and the wind of those times.... It can be said of him, as of few men in a like position, that he did not fear the weather, and did not trim his sails, but instead challenged the wind itself, to improve its direction and to cause it to blow more softly and more kindly over the world and its people.” PeopleThinkingMenWorldSaidEnoughYoungCausesEnjoyPositionWindColdToughStandingBlowWeatherHatsExposedSailImpatient Author:E. B. White
“I have always said that if Great Britain were defeated in war I hoped we should find a Hitler to lead us back to our rightful position among the nations. I am sorry, however, that he has not been mellowed by the great success that has attended him. The whole world would rejoice to see the Hitler of peace and tolerance, and nothing would adorn his name in world history so much as acts of magnanimity and of mercy and of pity to the forlorn and friendless, to the weak and poor.... Let this great man search his own heart and conscience before he accuses anyone of being a warmonger.” IfsMenWorldShouldHeartSaidWarWholeNamesNationsPoorPositionConscienceWeakMercySorryToleranceWhole WorldPityBritainGreat MenRejoiceDefeatedWorld HistoryGreat SuccessGreat BritainI Am SorryAm SorryForlornMagnanimityFriendlessWarmongersPeace And Tolerance Author:Winston Churchill
“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.” WorldWayFirstsMeanTwoWarEndsTodayLawEvilBeliefNationsDarknessPositionConflictMajorsOvercomingHarmonyDuesOfficialsJustifyOur WorldWorld TodayOpposingDisintegrationEnds Justify The Means Author:Peace Pilgrim
“The essence of spirit ... was to choose the thing which did not better one's position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.” WorldMadeSpiritPoorPositionMoralityEssenceMade ItCautionIdentical Book:Existential Errands Source: Existential Errands
“Everybody wants to play his natural position and play every day, but in the world of professional sports that's not always possible.” WorldWantPlaySportsNaturalPositionProfessional Sports Author:Brian Roberts
“Had we adopted non-violence as the weapon of the strong, because we realised that it was more effective than any other weapon, in fact the mightiest force in the world, we would have made use of its full potency and not have discarded it as soon as the fight against the British was over or we were in a position to wield conventional weapons. But as I have already said, we adopted it out of our helplessness. If we had the atom bomb, we would have used it against the British.” IfsWorldMadeSaidFactsUseUsedFightingStrongForceViolencePositionWeaponsBritishBombsAtomsConventionalAdoptedRealisedHelplessnessNon ViolenceDiscardedPotencyAtom Bomb Author:Mahatma Gandhi
“One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.” WorldWritingBookPositionDiscoveryFairsInvention Author:E. L. Doctorow
“In death, you once more challenge people from every strata, religion, and position to think about how their own actions do and can change the world for better or worse.” PeopleThinkingWorldActionChallengesPositionChanging The World Author:Ahmed Kathrada
“You're in a terrible spot. It's too late for you to retreat but too soon to act. All you can do is witness. You're in the miserable position of an infant who cannot return to the mother's womb, but neither can he run around and act. All an infant can do is witness and listen to the stupendous tales of action being told to him. You are at that precise point now. You cannot go back to the womb of your old world, but you cannot act with power either. For you there is only witnessing acts of power and listening to tales of power.” WorldRunningActionMotherCan DoPositionListeningReturnTerribleLateTalesSpotsWitnessMiserableToo LatePreciseRetreatInfantWombOld World Author:Carlos Castaneda
“One of the many disservices done to young people by our schools and colleges is giving them the puffed up notion that they are in a position to pass sweeping judgments on a world that they have barely begun to experience.” PeopleWorldGivingDoneSchoolYoungPositionCollegeJudgmentNotionSweepingDisservice Author:Thomas Sowell
“We're much closer together in the world today than we ever were in the psot. Given that it is a much smaller world, we are in a stronger position to shape that world. As we enter the new century, and anew millennium, let us create a world in which there is no longer any war or any conflict.” WorldWarTodayTogetherGivenCenturyPositionShapesConflictStrongerWorld TodayMillennium Author:John Hume
“The world we experience with our unaided senses is fluid and animate, shifting and transforming in response to our own shifts of position and of mood.” WorldPositionResponseMoodSensesShiftingTransformingFluid Author:David Abram
“If a person realises his position and stays in his own self, things that are to happen will happen. Things that are not to happen will not happen. The shakti that is in the world, is only one. All these troubles arise if we think that we are separate from that shakti.” IfsThinkingWorldPersonsSelfHappensTroublePositionAriseRealisingShakti Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Leadership is not about executive position or title. It is about connection and influence. At its highest, leadership is all about adding value to the world and blessing lives through the work you do.” WorldValuesInfluencePositionBlessingHighestConnectionsTitlesExecutivesAdding Value Author:Robin Sharma
“Imagine a senator running for president whose positions included halving the military budget, socializing the medical system, re-regulating the communications and electrical industries, establishing a guaranteed minimum income for all Americans, and equalizing funding for all schools regardless of property valuations - and who promised to fire Alan Greenspan, counseled withdrawal from the World Trade Organization, and, for good measure, spoke warmly of adolescent sexual experimentation. That was Barry Goldwater, conservative.” WorldRunningSchoolPresidentFireImagineMilitaryPositionCommunicationIndustryOrganizationTradePropertyConservativeMedicalIncomeBudgetsSpokesMinimumSenatorsFundingElectricalExperimentationWithdrawalWorld TradeSocializingValuationMilitary BudgetWorld Trade Organization Author:Rick Perlstein
“In the new world every position of power evacuated by an arrested and beheaded pedophile or bankster will be filled with a grandmother who has pledged to create heaven on earth for all children, animal and humans with the stolen money we have recovered.” WorldHumansChildrenEarthHeavenAnimalPositionFilledGrandmotherNew WorldStolenArrestedHeaven On EarthHumans And AnimalsPosition Of Power Author:Roseanne Barr
“We are now in a position to understand the anti-Semite. He is a man who is afraid. Not of the Jews, to be sure, but of himself, of his own consciousness, of his liberty, of his instincts, of his responsibilities, of solitariness, of change, of society, and of the world of everything except the Jews.” MenWorldConsciousnessResponsibilityLibertyPositionInstinctJew Author:Jean-Paul Sartre
“Foreign aid is a method by which the United States maintains a position of influence and control around the world” WorldStatesUnitedUnited StatesInfluencePositionMethodAidsAround The WorldForeign Aid Author:John F. Kennedy
“Britain kept its position as the dominant world power well into the 20th century despite steady decline. By the end of World War II, dominance had shifted decisively into the hands of the upstart across the sea, the United States, by far the most powerful and wealthy society in world history.” WorldWellsWarEndsStatesHandsUnitedPowerfulUnited StatesSeaCenturyPositionDespiteWar Of The WorldsBritainMost PowerfulWealthySteadyWorld War IiDeclineWorld War IDominant20th CenturyWorld HistoryDominanceWorld PowerUpstart Author:Noam Chomsky
“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.” IfsWorldKindMeanWholeRealityBeliefViewsStepsTakenPositionOrdinaryEvidenceResponseAppearanceDespiteGrantedAlternativesAbstractContrastJustificationShedPretensionConceiving Author:Thomas Nagel
“There is in the world no rock or tower of such a height that it cannot be scaled by any man (provided he lack not feet) if ladders are placed in the proper position or steps are cut in the rock, made in the right place, and furnished with railings against the danger of falling over. If we examine ourselves, we see that our faculties grow in such a manner that what goes before paves the way for what comes after.” IfsMenWorldWayMadeFallGrowsStepsCuttingFeetRocksDangerPositionHeightFacultyTowersLaddersRight Place Author:John Amos Comenius
“A love revolution is forming far out to sea like a series of waves that build on one another until the whole earth is consumed. The first set of waves releases a quickening anointing. The second set of waves, a love revolution. The third set of waves will sweep across the world and release a worldwide revival. I believe that we can position ourselves to catch this incoming set of waves that will release to you a "quickening spirit" or "quickening anointing." It is being released - now. Catch the wave!” WorldFirstsBelieveWholeEarthSpiritI BelieveSeaPositionRevolutionThirdsSeriesWaveReleaseConsumedRevivalAnointingQuickening Author:Julia Loren
“I absolutely am an environmentalist. I am probably more of an environmentalist than most people who live in the world, but I think that comes from my position in the world and that doesn't make me a better person.” PeopleThinkingWorldPersonsPositionBetter PersonEnvironmentalist Author:Ian Bremmer
“So if we announce we're going to have a no-fly zone, and others have said this. Hillary Clinton is also for it. It is a recipe for disaster. It's a recipe for World War III. We need to confront Russia from a position of strength, but we don't need to confront Russia from a point of recklessness that would lead to war.” IfsWorldNeedsSaidWarPositionClintonDisasterRussiaWar Of The WorldsZoneWorld War IiWorld War IRecipesRecklessness Author:Rand Paul
“Cuban artists had, for a while, a privileged position within Cuba that is probably going to become slightly less restricted to them. I think they'll continue to join the international art world, so those people who are extremely successful will become even more so and those who are struggling will continue to struggle.” PeopleThinkingWorldArtArtistStruggleSuccessfulPositionInternationalPrivilegedCubaCubanArt World Author:Rachael Price
“I've done a great job at being universal in my stand-up, which is why, for 'Let Me Explain,' I toured all over the world. These movies I have coming out - 'Ride Along,' 'Grudge Match,' 'About Last Night,' 'Think Like a Man Too' - are putting me in a position to become universal on an even bigger scale.” ThinkingMenWorldDoneJobsLastsNightPositionUniversalLet MeBiggerScalesComing OutLast NightGrudgeGreat Job Author:Kevin Hart
“When you are trying to understand the world, it is unwise to assume that you occupy a privileged position in it.” WorldTryingPositionAssumingPrivilegedUnwise Author:Jim Holt
“An increasing number of people are growing uncomfortable with the gulf between the world's rich and the poor. Ostentatiously splashing your money around simply draws attention to that disparity, and to your own position on the lucky higher ground. It suggests a callousness, an inhumanity, a let's-just-rub-their-noses-in-it arrogance.” PeopleWorldPoorNumbersAttentionRichGrowingPositionHigherLuckyDrawsNosesUncomfortableArroganceInhumanityDisparityCallousnessHigher GroundSplashing Author:Kalle Lasn
“We're going to have the best educated American people in the world. People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.” PeopleWorldPositionImpactEducatedSensitiveBushism Author:George W. Bush
“If I represent the world as it is as harmonious, that's a political position.” IfsWorldPoliticalPositionHarmonious Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.” WorldPoliticalPositionUnjustHarmonious Author:Aleksandar Hemon
“There's a whole slew of wonderful speculation of flying in a fanciful way. Gulliver is one of the central examples; Swift has the hum of Arabian Nights in his ear with Gulliver's Travels. The difference is in scale - Gulliver as a kind of Sinbad kind of figure, the way he is picked up and carried. Just to finish up with Scheherazade, I do think that The Arabian Nights could be considered as a great book on women's position in the world.” ThinkingWorldWayKindBookWholeNightDifferencesWonderfulFiguresExamplePositionEarsFlyingScalesSpeculationGreat BookArabianGulliverArabian NightsGulliver's Travels Author:Marina Warner
“On international relations, Eleanor Roosevelt really takes a great shocking leadership position on the World Court. In fact, it amuses me. The very first entry in her FBI file begins in 1924, when Eleanor Roosevelt supports American's entrance into the World Court. And the World Court comes up again and again - '33, '35. In 1935, Eleanor Roosevelt goes on the air; she writes columns; she broadcast three, four times to say the US must join the World Court.” WorldWritingFirstsFactsThreeSupportFourAirPositionGoes OnRelationCourtInternationalCome UpAgain And AgainShockingFilesFbiColumnsInternational RelationsEntryEntrancesEleanor Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“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.” PeopleThinkingWorldWellsMeanHappensAmericaResultsPositionRelationThreatTerroristPracticalsPollsMuslim Faith Author:John Kasich
“So you go to Brookings, or you go to Heritage or others, they know their position on any subject before they research it. If you go to an investment bank, they know what parts of the world they are going to cover and what parts of the world they are not going to cover depending on client interest. We cover the world without being skewed by that. And that makes it more valuable.” IfsKnowsWorldInterestSubjectsPositionResearchInvestmentValuableHeritageClients Author:George Friedman
“The fact that we have been able to develop a successful science, which issues in ever more accurate predictions and broader explanations, is the real ground for confidence that we are in a position to gain knowledge of the world around us. At the same time, one might ask how it is that the cognitive equipment we have came about, and here, no doubt, our evolutionary origins are relevant.” WorldHas BeensRealFactsMightAbleAsksIssuesSuccessfulDoubtPositionGainsExplanationNo DoubtRelevantAccuratePredictionsEquipmentCognitiveKnowledge Of The World Author:Hilary Kornblith
“It seems to be the heart of much of my work. I grew up seeing a lot of racism in the South, but I've seen it all over the world. Don't care for it at all. I was poor, so I'm used to the underdog position.” WorldHeartSeemsCareUsedPoorSeeingPositionGrewGrew UpRacismSouthDon't CareUnderdog Author:Joe R. Lansdale
“Millions of filmmakers would love to be in my position right now. If you are honest it makes the world a better place. I created the room with my passion and after all these years it finally worked out.” IfsWorldYearsPassionRoomsMillionsHonestPositionRight NowFilmmakerBetter PlaceMy Passion Author:Tommy Wiseau
“When that character and the X-Force appeared, they took the comic world by storm. You have to look at those numbers. And you see that that isn't Rob Liefeld's only creation. There's all these other things, like Cable and Domino. There's so many things that actually could be fascinating onscreen and unlike anything you've ever seen before onscreen. So I think Fox is in a really nice position where they've got something that feels as wide and different as the Marvel Universe.” ThinkingWorldFeelsLooksDifferentCharacterUniverseForceNumbersNiceCreationPositionStormWideComicFascinatingFoxesCablesReally Nice Author:Mark Millar