Position Quotes

My m.o. as far as choosing projects is I really try not to work. I try to not do the scripts that are offered me. I'm in this wonderful position to be able to do that. The reason I do that is because I know what it takes once I engage, what that means for me personally and for my wife.
Jeff Bridges

Work, Wife, Try

While the form of treachery varies slightly from case to case, liberals always manage to take the position that most undermines American security.
Ann Coulter

American, While, Security

Look, I don't have a Facebook page because I have little interest in hearing myself talk about myself any further than I already do in interviews or putting any more about myself online than there already is. But if I wasn't in this position, I'm sure I would use it every day.
Jesse Eisenberg

Talk, Sure, Interest

There is no off position on the genius switch.
David Letterman

Off, Genius, Switch

Monopolists who fear competition and who distrust democracy because it stands for equal opportunity would like to secure their position against small and energetic enterprise.
Henry A. Wallace

Fear, Democracy, Small

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.
Fred Durst

Best, Yourself, Mind

In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant. One motto on the show is, 'Keep your facts, I'm going with the truth.'
Stephen Colbert

Truth, Motto, Keep

I don't think I'm in any position to call myself a martial artist. I'm a student of the martial arts.
Lou Reed

Artist, Student, Call

I neither will aspire to nor will I accept, the position of president of the council of state and commander in chief.
Fidel Castro

Accept, State, President

You don't have to hold a position in order to be a leader.
Anthony J. D'Angelo

Leader, Order, Hold

If I go to a party I don't feel like I have to be in the centre. But I do find myself quite often being placed in that position. Even when I was younger at school, I would be asked to make a speech. I don't remember putting up my hand and all that often but I'd just find myself there.
Hugh Jackman

School, Remember, Find

Prince Charles is definitely my hero; he uses his position to do only good in this world.
Vivienne Westwood

Good, Hero, Definitely

As a celebrity, you get a certain number of free passes. You're actually in a better position if you're a celebrity because people care.
Joyce Brothers

Care, Free, Actually

Musicians now find themselves in the unlikely position of being legitimate. At least the IRS thinks so.
Billy Joel

Find, Themselves, Musicians

It's never over. You don't want to be in the position to be down four runs in the ninth inning, but it's not over until the last out.
Derek Jeter

Down, Last, Until

It is not the position, but the disposition.
Susan Sontag

But of course, now we're told we're in recovery but this sure doesn't feel like a recovery to more than 9 percent of the Americans out there who are unemployed, or the 16 percent of the African-Americans, 11 percent of Hispanics in the same position, or the millions who can only find part-time work or those who have even stopped looking for a job.
Rick Perry

Work, Job, Find

I shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.
Annie Leibovitz

Change, Two, Working

America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.
Joni Mitchell

America, Ill, Mentally

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home.
Dennis Prager

Home, Abstract, Hits

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees; maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.
Lewis Thomas

Time, Best, Sun

When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize that I have some responsibility to keep the music alive, and it's a pretty honorable position to be in.
Eric Clapton

Music, Someone, Pretty

The way to put oneself in a position to take the harder, more honorable political path is to argue for one's virtues in a vigorous way.
Jon Meacham

Political, Path, Put

We say that someone occupies an official position, whereas it is the official position that occupies him.
Georg C. Lichtenberg

Someone, Him, Official

Activate yourself to duty by remembering your position, who you are, and what you have obliged yourself to be.
Thomas a Kempis

Yourself, Duty, Obliged

I didn't want to make a game unless I felt in the position to make something new and different.
Shaun White

Game, Different, Felt

I'd like to date, but I'm not really in a position to meet girls.
Shaun White

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon.
Maria Montessori

Teacher, Lie, Understand

It is very difficult for us to know we love somebody because it is an insecure position to be in. But in the end, it is important to be honest about your love because life is not that long.
Yoko Ono

Life, Love, End

I was supposed to be authoritative, but at the same time had to be likeable, a quality that is a bonus, not a requirement, for men in the same position.
Dee Dee Myers

Time, Men, Same

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