In spite of certain distressing but isolated occurrences in the last battle, I certainly hoped that the Army would be in a position to continue to hold out.
Paul von Hindenburg

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

A slave has but one master; an ambitious man has as many masters as there are people who may be useful in bettering his position.
Jean de la Bruyere

A position of eminence makes a great person greater and a small person less.
Jean de la Bruyere

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

Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.
Sarah Caldwell

And then ultimately what I tell the kids is: coaches can give you information, they can give you guidelines, and they can put you in a position. But the only person who can truly make you better is you.
Brandi Chastain

If you're in the position to help someone and you do it, it's very rewarding.
Tim Robbins

To place oneself in the position of God is painful: being God is equivalent to being tortured. For being God means that one is in harmony with all that is, including the worst. The existence of the worst evils is unimaginable unless God willed them.
Georges Bataille

Neither science, nor the politics in power, nor the mass media, nor business, nor the law nor even the military are in a position to define or control risks rationally.
Ulrich Beck

If you sit in a position where decisions that you take would have a serious effect on people, you can't ignore a lot of experience around the world which says this drug has these negative effects.
Thabo Mbeki

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.
Don Henley

I have no problem with battling for a position. I have no problem trying to beat somebody out. It's a sport, competition, so I'm used to it.
Chris Bell

We are rather in the position that used to exist at the BBC, where you feel that you can pick up the phone to people who are experts in their field and they will be very favourably disposed to you and share their knowledge.
Rory Bremner

I position everything else in my life around making movies.
Richard King

In my position you have to read when you want to write and to talk when you would like to read.
Catherine II

The position I took at the time was that we hadn't really examined any of the potential environmental consequences of introducing genetically modified organisms.
Jeremy Rifkin

What position didn't I play last season?
Aaron Hill

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

Only the change on the international scene, the crisis in the gulf, and the strong, firm position of the United States against aggression between two Arab countries created realities that led to the Madrid Peace Conference.
Yitzhak Rabin