Best position & years Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There was the situation in Nicaragua where the Sandinistas had taken over a couple of years earlier. There was a civil war going on in El Salvador and there was a similar situation in Guatemala. So Honduras was in a rather precarious geographic position indeed.”

Years War Situation Taken Position Couple Civil War Precarious Nicaragua Guatemala El Salvador Honduras

Author:John Negroponte

“I feel like every five to seven years I really need to put myself in this position of discomfort and exploration, just to survive. Otherwise I feel like I'm falling asleep, like I'll go crazy if I don't do it.”

Ifs Needs Feels Years Fall Five Crazy Position Seven Exploration Seven Years Discomfort Falling Asleep

Author:Karen O

“Not that that's my goal, but when you're very wealthy and very famous, you can have a lot more decisions in what you do. You have a lot more opportunity. You can maybe even not work for a few years. It puts you in a great position to make some decisions. You're not always taking every job that comes and that kind of thing.”

Years Kind Jobs Opportunity Goal Decision Position Wealthy Very Famous

Author:Jen Kirkman

“When a company is able to establish a dominant market position, consumers lose meaningful choices. You might not like that Facebook shares your political opinions with Politico, but are you really going to delete all the photos, all the posts, all the connections - the presence you’ve spent years establishing on the world’s dominant social network?”

World Years Might Able Political Choices Social Loses Company Opinion Share Position Connections Meaningful Posts Consumers Dominant Social Network Political Opinions

Author:Al Franken

“In spite of rising competition, Chr Hansen continues to play a key role in the majority of dairy products which can be found on the shelves in supermarkets. From a marketing point of view, we have moved ahead of the competition over the past couple of years, and we intend to do everything to keep that position.”

Years Play Past Found Views Roles Position Products Keys Couple Majority Moved Competition Marketing Point Of View Rising Spite Shelves Over The Past Supermarkets Dairy Dairy Products

Author:Lars Frederiksen

“One has to work for years and decades, to conduct negotiations, to stand for positions and points of view, to jointly develop a civilized view on the administrative and state organization of Chechnya.”

Years States Views Position Organization Point Of View Decades Civilized Negotiation Administrative Chechnya

Author:Akhmad Kadyrov

“I think only a person who's studied WITH someone for many years is in a position to voice a true opinion about a particular teacher.”

Thinking Years Persons Voice Opinion Teacher Position Particular Enlightened

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.”

Thinking Years Sometimes Fate Position Mines Protection Supreme Parallels Supreme Being

Author:George S. Patton

“It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even his personal services to the defence of it, and consequently that the Citizens of America (with a few legal and official exceptions) from 18 to 50 Years of Age should be borne on the Militia Rolls, provided with uniform Arms, and so far accustomed to the use of them, that the Total strength of the Country might be called forth at a Short Notice on any very interesting Emergency.”

“The Tyranni rule fifty worlds; they are outnumbered hundreds to one. In such a position, simple force is insufficient. Devious methods, intrigue, assassination are their specialties. The net they weave across space is a wide one, and close-meshed. I can well believe that it extends across five hundred light-years to Earth.”

World Years Believe Wells I Can Light Earth Force Simple Space Five Position Hundred Method Wide Fifty Intrigue Assassination Insufficient Specialty Devious Light Years

Book:The Stars, Like Dust

Source: The Stars, Like Dust

“Such was the end of Philip (II, king of Macedonia) ...He had ruled 24 years. He is known to fame as one who with but the slenderest resources to support his claim to a throne won for himself the greatest empire among the Hellenes (Greeks), while the growth of his position was not due so much to his prowess in arms as to his adroitness and cordiality in diplomacy.”

Years Ends Growth Known Support Position Arms Kings Fame Resources Claims Dues Greek Empires Thrones Diplomacy Philip Prowess Macedonia Cordiality

Author:Diodorus Siculus

“Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever.”

Years Age Lord Forever Tree Events Position Flower All Things Add Endure Believer Rings Grass Testimony Hope And Faith

Book:The Way to Life: Sermons

Source: The Way to Life: Sermons

“Hitler can't walk over me as he might have done a year ago; I've seen to that. Don't forget that I have three million men, with every key position in the hands of my own people, Hitler knows that I have friends in the Reichswehr, you know! If Hitler is reasonable I shall settle the matter quietly; if he isn't I must be prepared to use force - not for my sake but for the sake of our revolution.”

People Ifs Knows Men Years Matter Done Use Hands Might Three Force My Own Walks Forget Millions Position Revolution Keys Years Ago Prepared Sake Settling Reasonable Be Prepared

Author:Ernst Rohm

“I took the position of organizing 126 Democrats who voted against the Iraq war resolution. And I happen to think it was the right position. Today we're faced with over 500 casualties, a cost of over $200 billion, and it could rise the casualties could go into the thousands and the costs could go over a half trillion if we stay there for years, as a number of people on this stage intend to see happen.”

People Ifs Thinking Years War Happens Today Numbers Half Stage Position Cost Democrat Iraq Billions Resolution Iraq War Casualties Over 50

Author:Dennis Kucinich

“All the old clichés about women need to be undone. Enough already. We're in the other position now. We are desirable older, we can date younger guys and it's not this big taboo. Men have been doing this for years.”

Men Needs Years Has Beens Enough Bigs Guy Position Desirable Taboo Undone Enough Already

Author:Jennifer Lopez

“The most significant halachic authority of the last 100 years, whose positions helped fashion a balanced and moderate Judaism.”

Years Lasts Fashion Position Authority Significant Balanced Judaism Moderates

Author:Ovadia Yosef

“I've written so many things over the years that I don't want to go back to being just a scriptwriter. I'm in what I consider to be the enviable position of all I have to do is come up with the idea and write an outline that makes it seem like it's a viable idea that will interest people, and then other people write the scripts -- and I become the executive producer or the producer, depending on how much involvement I have, and I get a creative credit and then move on to the next project.”

People Want Writing Years Ideas Seems Moving Next Interest Creative Written Position Projects Scripts Come Up Credit Producers Executives Involvement Outlines

Author:Stan Lee

“In the last 14 years Jewry has achieved positions of influence which it has grossly misused morally, financially and politically in an unheard-of manner, with the result that the German people crumbled morally, financially, and politically.”

People Years Lasts Results Influence Position Unheard Misused

Author:Ernst Hanfstaengl

“My brother had just been appointed Secretary of Nevada Territory--an office of such majesty that it concentrated in itself the duties and dignities of Treasurer, Comptroller, Secretary of State, and Acting Governor in the Governor's absence. A salary of eighteen hundred dollars a year and the title of "Mr. Secretary," gave to the great position an air of wild and imposing grandeur. I was young and ignorant, and I envied my brother.”

Source: 10 Books in 1

“Everything was leveled, there were no extremes of joy or sorrow any more but only habit, routine, ancient family names and rites and customs, slow careful old people moving cautiously around furniture that had sat in the same positions for fifty years.”

People Years Moving Joy Names Position Habit Sorrow Ancient Careful Extremes Sat Fifty Customs Routine Old People Furniture Rite Family Name

Book:Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

Source: Anne Tyler: a new collection : three complete novels

“What is success? I think the most important thing is to achieve what you set out to achieve. Just being a CEO in itself is not success. I would not relate success to a title or a position. My career has had a level of serendipity all along. I've never planned anything out more than a few years.”

Thinking Years Important Levels Careers Achieve Position Important Things Relate Titles Just Being Ceo Serendipity

Author:Paul Polman

“Three hundred years after its appearance Christianity was the recognized state religion in the Roman World Empire, and in barely sixty years socialism has won itself a position which makes its victory absolutely certain.”

World Years States Certain Three Christianity Position Victory Hundred Appearance Socialism Empires Sixty

Book:K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

Source: K. Marx and F. Engels on religion

“Ah! the curse of slavery, as the common phrase goes, has fallen not merely on the black but perhaps at this moment still more upon the white, because it has warped his sense of truth and has degraded his moral nature. The position and the treatment of the blacks, however, really improve from year to year; while the whites do not seem to advance in enlightenment.”

Years Stills Moments Seems Black White Common Moral Position Enlightenment Slavery Curse Fallen Phrases Treatment

Book:America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

Source: America of the Fifties: Letters of Fredrika Bremer

“The principle of collective leadership is elementary for a proletarian party and for a party of the Lenin type. Nevertheless, we must emphasize this old truth, because for about 20 years we have had practically no collective leadership; there flourished the cult of the individual which was condemned first by Marx and then by Lenin. And this, of course, could not but reflect negatively on the position of the party and its work.”

Years Firsts Courses Individual Party Principles Position Type Truth Is Collectives Nevertheless Cult

Author:Anastas Mikoyan

“The main factor for Craig was that he was being asked to move to a new position in the last year of his contract. We had empathy for that and we wanted to show what he has meant to the Astros over the years.”

Years Shows Wanted Lasts Moving Position Empathy Factors Contracts Last Year New Position

Author:Gerry Hunsicker

“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.”

“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.”

“... women learned one important lesson--namely, that it is impossible for the best of men to understand women's feelings or the humiliation of their position. When they asked us to be silent on our question during the War, and labor for the emancipation of the slave, we did so, and gave five years to his emancipation and enfranchisement.... I was convinced, at the time, that it was the true policy. I am now equally sure that it was a blunder.”

“If there was to be equal manhood suffrage the whites would be swamped all over South Africa by the blacks and the whole position for which whites have striven for 200 years or more would be given up.”

Ifs Years Whole Would Be Given Position Equal South South Africa Manhood Given Up Suffrage

Author:Jan Smuts

“Mothers are likely to have more bad days on the job than most other professionals, considering the hours: round-the-clock, seven days a week, fifty-two weeks a year. . . . You go to work when you're sick, maybe even clinically depressed, because motherhood is perhaps the only unpaid position where failure to show up can result in arrest.”

Years Two Shows Jobs Mother Hours Results Week Position Sick Seven Rounds Motherhood Clock Fifty Considering Bad Day Two Weeks Seven Days

Book:American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

Source: American Mom: Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie

“New Year, the season for changes in positions and advances in salaries, approaches. If you have in your employ some who deserve more salary, do not compel them to go through the unpleasant ordeal of asking a raise, but, rather, voluntarily increase their remuneration. A raise that comes from the boss without asking is worth a lot more than one that has to be gouged out of him. Is it not true that a great many employers who would not dream of overcharging their customers have no qualms whatever about underpaying their employees if the latter will submit without protest?”

“It is with great disappointment and regret that after having the privilege of writing and performing the music of The Black Crowes over the last 24 years, I find myself in the position of saying that the band has broken up.”

Writing Years Lasts Black Music Position Regret Broken Band Privilege Disappointment Performing Broken Up

Author:Rich Robinson

“Steinberg occupies a position that is very dear to those of us who've held it over the years: sports columnist at The Post. If all he wants to do is be popular--and I think Dan is better than that--then the readers of The Washington Post sports section won't be very well served. Telling readers how great they are as sports fans was never one of my priorities. The only thing worse than people who can't stand to hear an unpopular or unflattering opinion is those that are too afraid to state one.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Years Wells States Sports Opinion Fans Position Reader Dear Priorities Posts Sections Columnists Sports Fan

Author:Michael Wilbon

“My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.”

Knows Needs Years Book Problem Position Marketing Genre Department Booksellers Hopping Marketing And Sales

Author:F. Paul Wilson

“I don't disagree with Senator Paul's position that we shouldn't be funding our enemies. But I absolutely believe that Israel is a priority to be able to fund and keep them strong and safe after eight years of this administration.”

Years Believe Able Strong Enemy Position Safe Israel Eight Priorities Administration Fund Disagree Senators Funding

Author:Chris Christie

“At 78 years old, I am not surprised at much anymore. Germany has taken divergent positions before, so has France, so has England, so has the US.”

Years Taken Position England France Germany Divergent

Author:Donald Rumsfeld

“I was a serious comic collector and fanboy as a kid. I wanted very badly to draw comic books for a lot of my childhood and early adolescence. So when you have an unfulfilled dream like that, when years later you find yourself in a position to make a graphic novel - hell yeah, I'm going to do that.”

“Here's a man who was twice elected to the most powerful position on Earth despite needing a TelePrompTer to correctly identify what year it was.”

Men Years Earth Funny Powerful Position Despite Most Powerful Reaganomics

Book:The World According to Dave Barry

Source: The World According to Dave Barry

“I was always writing scripts, and I had made several shorts, before and after film school. But I worked a variety of temp positions over the years.”

Writing Years Made School Film Position Scripts Variety Shorts Film School Before And After Writing Scripts

Author:Geoffrey S. Fletcher

“If you're 22 years old and you can't believe you're even in the position to have a career making music, the first thing you're going to think is: Maintain. Don't lose it. And that's precisely what causes you to lose everything.”

Ifs Thinking Years Firsts Believe Causes Loses Careers Position

Author:Danger Mouse

“Honestly, after doing a TV show for eight years and a cartoon for more than a decade, you are, financially speaking, in a very lucky position where you don’t have to work for the sake of working. And I decided to take advantage of that.”

Years Shows Position Tvs Lucky Advantage Decided Sake Eight Decades Honestly Tv Shows Cartoon

Author:Mila Kunis

“Any replacement to the current copyright position (life plus 70 years) needs to have an answer lined up for this, and similar, messy edge cases.”

Needs Years Answers Cases Position Edges Currents Plus Messy Copyright Replacements

Author:Charles Stross

“As we enter our centennial year we are still a young nation, very much in the formative stages. Our national condition is still flexible enough that we can make almost anything we wish of our nation. No other country is in a better position than Canada to go ahead with the evolution of a national purpose devoted to all that is good and noble and excellent in the human spirit.”

Years Humans Stills Country Enough Young Spirit Purpose Nations Wish Conditions Stage Position Evolution Noble Excellent Canada Devoted Other Countries Human Spirit Flexible Centennial

Author:Lester B. Pearson

“According to the legend an evil old doctor, who called himself God and us dogs, created the first boy in his adolescent image. The boy peopled the garden with male phantoms that rose from his ejaculations. This angered God, who was getting on in years. He decided it endangered his position as CREATOR. So he crept upon the boy and anaesthetized him and made Eve from his rib. Henceforth all creation of beings would process through female channels. But some of Adam's phantoms refused to let God near them under any pretext.”

Years Firsts Made Evil Process Boys Dog Creation Position Letting Go Female Garden Decided Doctors Rose Males Creator Legends Adam Doctor Who Phantoms Ribs Pretext Ejaculation

Author:William S. Burroughs

“I never wanted to accept the position of the observer who is not involved in the situation. The technique and the aesthetics do not matter to me. Only the essence of what is happening is important to me. Here, for example, blurred pictures, they have appeared because for years I was shooting while being drunk.”

Years Important Matter Wanted Situation Accepting Example Position Involved Happenings Essence Technique Drunk Shooting Observers Aesthetics Being Drunk

Author:Antoine D'Agata

“European Union partners never said European Union partners're going to renege on any promises, European Union partners said that European Union partners promises concern a four-year parliamentary term, european Union partners will be spaced out in an optimal way, in a way that is in tune with our bargaining stance in Europe and also with the fiscal position of the Greek state.”

Way Years Said States Term Four Position Promise Europe Concern Unions Partners Greek Tunes Four Years European Union Stance Bargaining Parliamentary Optimal

Author:Yanis Varoufakis

“At a certain point, you cannot handle everything yourself; having a team around you is very important. To have a strong team of people in which you can rely and people that you've been working with for years. I relate it to soccer - you have different positions and you have to bring in the right person at the right position.”

People Years Persons Important Different Certain Strong Team Position Handle Relate Soccer Rely Right Person

Author:Ricardo Guadalupe

“There are genuine questions to be asked about why we now have the highest level of employment in many decades, contrary to the position during the boom-bust years of the Conservatives.”

Years Levels Position Highest Decades Contrary Genuine Employment

Author:Douglas Alexander

“My mom didn't run for mayor until she was 65 years old - it was like a second and third career.... The way I've always thought about it is that I don't believe you run for office because you want a job. I believe if you run for office, it's because you have a vision for change. And if I ever came to that point, that's what would lead [me to run]. And right now I'm happily in a position where I believe I can work to deliver impact and work for change.”

Ifs Way Want Years Believe I Can Running Jobs I Believe Vision Careers Position Mom Right Now Office Thirds Impact Don't Believe My Mom Mayors Leading Me I Don't Believe You

Author:Sylvia Mathews Burwell

“The Arab countries in the Middle East have for decades demonized Israel, to Western leadership, which for reasons not entirely clear, listen to them politely. The Bush Administration, for example, was infiltrated by the Muslim Brotherhood years before Obama began mainstreaming them and allowing them to have positions of influence within the White House.”

Years Country Reason House White Clear Influence Middle Example Position Western Israel East Decades Administration White House Allowing Brotherhood Middle East Muslim Brotherhood

Author:Manfred Gerstenfeld

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