Quotes of Position - somelinesforyou

“ The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants. ”

- Isaac Newton

“ Its going to be a squeeze, but we have got to put our men and women in uniform ahead of everything else. We've got to be treating our reservists fairly before we move on to other procurements. ”

- Mark Dayton

“ The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind. ”

- William James

“ Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all. ”

- Edmund Burke

“ Do all the good you can, By all the means you can, In all the ways you can, In all the places you can, At all the times you can, To all the people you can, As long as ever you can. ”

- John Wesley

“ Let the world know you as you are, not as you think you should be, because sooner or later, if you are posing, you will forget the pose, and then where are you? ”

- Fanny Brice

“ The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath. It is twice blest: It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. 'T is mightiest in the mightiest: it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God's, When mercy seasons justice… ”

- William Shakespeare

“ There are a lot of empty seats that are about to be filled with corporatists surrounded by corporate hospitality suites funded by $13 million of taxpayers money. That's a pretty sickly witches' brew for a private convention where corporations have poured $100 million into it… ”

- Ralph Nader

“ We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ”

- Abraham Maslow

“ This website is not your usual read-some-copy, look-at-some-pictures travel site. ”

- Robert Burns

“ Through zeal knowledge is gotten, through lack of zeal knowledge is lost; let a man who knows this double path of gain and loss thus place himself that knowledge may grow. ”

- Bible

“ Why comes temptation, but for man to meet and master and crouch beneath his foot, and so be pedestaled in triumph? ”

- Robert Browning

“ Leadership is action, not position. ”

- Donald H. McGannon

“ Do not worry about holding high position; worry rather about playing your proper role. ”

- Confucius

“ I put a lot of emphasis on children's issues. Children are many times ignored because they don't vote, and they don't have lobby groups. ”

- Mike DeWine

“ Luck can often mean simple taking advantage of a situation at the right moment, It is possible to "make" your luck by being always prepared. ”

- Michael Korda

“ I've been very involved with the creation of the site. I think it's going to be very exciting, very up-to-date. ”

- Alex Rodriguez

“ The safest way to double your money is to fold over once and put it in your pocket. ”

- Kin Hubbard

“ Get place and wealth, if possible with grace; If not, by any means get wealth and place. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself. ”

- George Bernard Shaw

“ War is not a life: it is a situation, one which may neither be ignored nor accepted. ”

- T. S. Eliot

“ If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ I have not loved the world, nor the world me; I have not flatter'd its rank breath, nor bow'd To its idolatries a patient knee. ”

- Lord Byron

“ You're in a much better position to talk with people when they approach you than when you approach them. ”

- Peace Pilgrim

“ Flowers are the sweetest things that God ever made, and forgot to put a soul into. ”

- Henry Ward Beecher

“ Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in where nature may heal and cheer and give strength to the body and soul. ”

- John Muir

“ And the king of Israel answered and said, Tell him, Let not him that girdeth on his harness boast himself as he that putteth it off. ”

- Bible

“ By union the smallest states thrive. By discord the greatest are destroyed. ”

- Sallust

“ Put your trust in God and keep your powder dry. ”

- Oliver Cromwell
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