Poses Quotes

#1. I'd much rather you assumed for yourself a higher rank than mere menial labourer for the duration of this great adventure.'
He paused. 'You wish me to strike heroic poses against the sunset, Lady Envy?'
'Indeed!

Steven Erikson

#2. What do you say to your sister who poses in the nude? It's not like you are really itching to see photographs of your sister naked. I mean, it's just something that is not too exciting.

Ron Reagan

#3. Oh, I'm neither. Optimism begins in a broad grin, and Pessimism ends with blue spectacles. Besides, they are both of them merely poses.

Oscar Wilde

#4. Don't worry. These poses have nothing to do with meditation or enlightenment.

Dharma Mittra

#5. Hardware is easy to protect: lock it in a room, chain it to a desk, or buy a spare. Information poses more of a problem. It can exist in more than one place; be transported halfway across the planet in seconds; and be stolen without your knowledge.

Bruce Schneier

#6. Mr. Jones's book is a cleareyed examination of the British class system, and it poses this brutal question: 'How has hatred of working-class people become so socially acceptable?' His timely answers combine wit, left-wing politics and outrage.

Dwight Garner

#7. We always had 'Vogue' in our house. But, when I was around 12, my Mom finally took me seriously about modeling and put a stack of magazines in front of me, then told me to study all the poses. The ones I loved the most were in 'Vogue.'

Chanel Iman

#8. What I do love is the traveling ... and getting paid for it! I like being in front of a camera ... It's an outlet. It's fun! If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.

Crystal Lowe

#9. There has been no case made - based on anything other than speculation - that Iraq poses a threat.

Scott Ritter

#10. I always imagined that I would learn something each time that I would take to a new project, then I realized that each new project poses a completely different challenge.

Freida Pinto

#11. The only factor that poses a genuine challenge to the current order is the willingness of human beings to reject the injustice and irrationality of this economy, and stand up for something better. Capitalism will not fall-rather, it must be pushed.

Jim Stanford

#12. Though of all poses a moral pose is the most offensive, still to have a pose at all is something.

Oscar Wilde

#13. Simplicity itself is the key. Education in ballet, dance, martial arts, etc., is done through poses, or to be more precise, through a countless series of poses. Perfection of movement is achieved through the flow of perfectly rehearsed poses.

Nicholas Romanov

#14. Camille Paglia is: 'the nipple-pierced person's Phyllis Schlafly who poses as a sexual renegade but is in fact the most dutiful of patriarchal daughters.

Naomi Wolf

#15. If there is a less likely sight on this earth than Clint Dempsey, the Texas trailer-park kid, doing downward-facing dog poses, or the stalwart Michael Bradley deep breathing through a tree pose, I have yet to see it.

Tim Howard

#16. The one who poses the most danger may not be a stranger, Sometimes it's those we hold dear that we really need to fear

Antonia Monacelli

#17. Each life experience poses this question: how do you want to be changed because of me?

Mollie Marti

#18. I remember wearing overcoats, hiding in the bushes outside of Abbey Road Studios, waiting for the traffic to clear. As it did, we would drop our overcoats and run out on to the cross walk and strike our poses.

Jack Irons

#19. Many of our patients are barely aware of their breath, so learning to focus on the in and out breath, to notice whether the breath was fast or slow, and to count breaths in some poses can be a significant accomplishment.13

Bessel A. Van Der Kolk

#20. Where the suspect poses no immediate threat to the officer and no threat to others, the harm resulting from the failing to apprehend him does not justify the use of deadly force to do so.

Byron White

#21. And since life poses an endless series of problems, life is always difficult and is full of pain as well as joy.

M. Scott Peck

#22. I tried to get back at her by adopting some seductive poses of my own to torment her with, but that just made her laugh hysterically, which sort of defeated the purpose. But

Elliott James

#23. Nothing is more hateful to me than photography coated with gimmicks, poses and false effects. Therefore let me speak the truth in all honesty about our age and the people of our age

August Sander

#24. Naturalness is the basis of effectiveness. If one poses to be something else, one loses the charm of naturalness. The result is that one accumulates stress.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

#25. I did hate those people ... those false artists whose work consists of the poses they strike: saying outrageous things, cultivating complicated tastes and appetites, being artificial, irritating, unbearable. People who, in fact, take from art only what is false and external ...

Mario De Sa-Carneiro

#26. When something poses as obstacle to you,surmount it and use it as a miracle to move on to greater height.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#27. I've worked out of a series of no's. No to exquisite light, no to apparent compositions, no to the seduction of poses or narrative. And all these no's force me to the yes. I have a white background. I have the person I'm interested in and the thing that happens between us.

Richard Avedon

#28. An experiment is a question which science poses to Nature and a measurement is the recording of Nature's answer.

Max Planck

#29. There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

David Chalmers

#30. We must make every effort to neutralize this threat peacefully, but be ever mindful of the growing danger Iran poses not just to a safe and free America, but to our allies abroad.

Dave Reichert

#31. Relax, Phyra. I'd be more concerned if he were in here with my son than with my daughter. The biggest threat he poses is he might want to borrow her shoes. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#32. The problem that religious moderation poses for all of us is that it does not permit anything very critical to be said about religious literalism.

Sam Harris

#33. The visa lottery system poses a national security threat. Under the program, each successful applicant is chosen at random and given the status of permanent resident based on pure luck.

Bob Goodlatte

#34. When I'm with my kids, I definitely try and be in the moment and wait till the end unless the mess poses a real danger, like slipping. But when I am cooking by myself, I definitely clean as I go to simplify.

Sarah Michelle Gellar

#35. Indeed, that the Second Amendment poses no barrier to strong gun laws is perhaps the most well-settled proposition in American constitutional law.

Erwin Griswold

#36. RBGH poses an even greater risk to human health than ever considered. The FDA and Monsanto have a lot to answer for. Given the cancer risks, and other health concerns, why is rBGH milk still on the market?

Samuel Epstein

#37. Above Constance's desk were nude photographs of women in 1930s France, draped in provocative poses. She had put them there for Bob's viewing pleasure and in return he had placed African art of naked men above his desk for her.

Cecelia Ahern

#38. It's a morality film, and it poses the question 'What would you do?' I took it very seriously, just as the director did in terms of atmosphere and lighting, and I was just trying to help that vision along.

Kevin Williamson

#39. Nothing often poses in men as wisdom.

David Mitchell

#40. As we stand on the precipice of a life of ministry, we will have to answer the question that Jesus poses to each one of us: Are you willing to count the cost?

Erica Mbasan

#41. The current lack of a national standard for operators of medical imaging and radiation therapy equipment poses a hazard to American patients and jeopardizes quality health care.

Charles W. Pickering

#42. Science, its imperfections notwithstanding, is the sword in the stone that humanity finally pulled. The question it poses, of universal and orderly materialism, is the most important that can be asked in philosophy and religion.

Edward O. Wilson

#43. Iran has long sponsored terrorists who carry out homicide bombings in Israeli cities. However, it is a mistake to believe the danger Iran poses is directed at Israel alone.

John Doolittle

#44. The real reason Cuba poses a threat has nothing to do with my being here or anyone else being here. It's because Cuba is an example of a country that is actively fighting against imperialist domination and insists on its own right to self-determination and sovereignty.

Assata Shakur

#45. Even overweight cats instinctively know the cardinal rule: when fat, arrange yourself in slim poses.

John Weitz

#46. Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

Frank Herbert

#47. I learned early on that most yoga poses are about showing off. You find something amazing you can do, and suddenly, Shazam - you're a guru, ready for your groupies.

Edward Vilga

#48. The prescription for endless war poses a far greater danger to Americans than perceived enemies do, for reasons the terrorist organisations understand very well.

Noam Chomsky

#49. We call on the Senate to reject any judicial nominee who does not affirm fundamental civil rights, including a woman's right [to obtain an abortion on demand]. The threat an [pro-life] judiciary poses to women's lives demands nothing less.

Susana Martinez

#50. 'Apocalypse Now' poses questions without any attempt to provide definitive answers, and the film's profound ambiguities are integral to its enduring magic.

James Gray

#51. Not for us the difficult poses, not for us the no-pain-no-gain, OK? Because to be truly happy you do not need to be a pretzel, you just need to walk without creaking.

Sarah-Kate Lynch

#52. When you see such photos, you can't help but wonder at just how sweet and sad and innocent all moments of life are rendered by the tripping of a camera's shutter, for at that point the future is still unknown and has yet to hurt us, and also for that brief moment, our poses are accepted as honest.

Douglas Coupland

#53. The financial system in its current condition poses an existential threat to Western democracy far exceeding any terrorist threat.

John Lanchester

#54. A.I. poses a potential threat more dangerous than nuclear weapons.

Judy Woodruff

#55. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

#56. He who poses as a fool is not a fool.

Robert Greene

#57. The extreme weakness of quantum gravitational effects now poses some philosophical problems; maybe nature is trying to tell us something new here: maybe we should not try to quantize gravity.

Richard P. Feynman

#58. Consciousness poses the most baffling problems in the science of the mind. There is nothing that we know more intimately than conscious experience, but there is nothing that is harder to explain.

David Chalmers

#59. Wind and other clean, renewable energy will help end our reliance on fossil fuels and combat the severe threat that climate change poses to humans and wildlife alike.

Frances Beinecke

#60. We need not renounce the use of conventional force. We will be ready to repel any clear and present danger that poses a genuine threat to our national security and survival.

Theodore C. Sorensen

#61. The Constitution poses no threat to our current form of government.

Joseph Sobran

#62. When all the objectives of government include the achievement of equality - other than equality before the law - that government poses a threat to liberty.

Margaret Thatcher

#63. If tolerance poses as a middle road between rejection on the one side and assimilation on the other, this road, as already suggested, is paved by necessity rather than virtue; tolerance, as Nietzsche would say, becomes a virtue only retroactively and retrospectively.

Wendy Brown

#64. I am standing on my own altar; The poses are my prayers.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#65. Relativism poses as freedom but it is just another form of tyranny: You must believe that all religions are equal because we say they are. You must agree with us that everything is relative, or we will punish you.

Jeffrey Burton Russell

#66. Manet nonetheless seems to have been captivated by her appearance, or at least by the visual possibilities of dressing her in exotic costumes and placing her in beguiling poses.

Ross King

#67. In the waiting room, ladies in a picturesque group surrounded a table with magazines. They stood, sat, or half reclined in the poses they saw in the pictures and, studying the models, discussed styles.

Boris Pasternak

#68. The event, in its emergence, poses its own premises, determining that they were the conditions for its realization. This transition is always the result of a salto mortale, which is a creative act in the sense that it gives the preceding links in the chain of events their meaning.

Stathis Kouvelakis

#69. Our next Cold War ought to be with ourselves ... After all, who poses the biggest danger to the American environment? We do.

Bill Hicks

#70. I'd spent seven years in an all-boys school: 2,000 adolescents in the same khaki uniforms striking hunting poses, stalking lunchrooms, classrooms, changing rooms, looking for boys who didn't fit in.

Marlon James

#71. The state always poses a greater threat to society than whatever problem it purports to solve.

Llewellyn Rockwell

#72. I wish to change there minds, not kill them for weaknesses we all poses.

Mahatma Gandhi

#73. Disagreement based on LEGITIMATE IJTIHAD which does not create DISCORD or DISUNITY is a BLESSING for the UMMAH and an enrichment of ISLAMIC JURISPRUDENCE. Objective disagreement in itself poses no threat if it is coupled with TOLERANCE and is free of FANATICISM, ACCUSATIONS, and NARROW-MINDEDNESS.

Yusuf Al-Qaradawi

#74. The more you put out there, the more you have to resolve. 'Air' is the most literary comic I've written so far, and that poses problems.

G. Willow Wilson

#75. Messi scores a goal and celebrates. Cristiano scores a goal and poses like he's in a shampoo commercial.

Diego Maradona

#76. As nice as the Apple iPhone is, it poses a real challenge to its users. Try typing a web key on a touchscreen on an Apple iPhone, that's a real challenge. You cannot see what you type.

Jim Balsillie

#77. seen something in their poses, for, 'Spoony!

Sarah Waters

#78. I can't recall a story that played out exactly as I'd expected it to. That's one of the thrills of journalism - being surprised, and learning new stuff, but it also poses the biggest challenge to a writer's character.

Dave Barry

#79. I never have a problem with finding material. I wait for it to turn up, and it always turns up. It's dealing with the material I'm inundated with that poses the problem.

Alice Munro

#80. I've always loved scuba diving and the cell-tickling feel of being underwater, though it poses unique frustrations. Alone, but with others, you may share the same sights and feelings, but you can't communicate well.

Diane Ackerman

#81. Art is how a culture records its life, how it poses questions for the next generation and how it will be remembered.

Marsha Norman

#82. My favorite's toxophilia, arousal from archery. You wouldn't believe the poses people get into. Remember: one overnight bag, that's it.

David Weber

#83. He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband has wronged her. She was overly trained in the teapot school of acting, striking expressive poses and attitudes as the mood of the story demanded.

Stephen Harrigan

#84. Isil poses a threat to the people of Iraq and Syria, and the broader Middle East - including American citizens, personnel and facilities. If left unchecked, these terrorists could pose a growing threat beyond that region, including to the United States.

Barack Obama

#85. (Sophie did a few yoga poses to stretch until she saw Tedros gawking and decided yoga was best done in private.) It

Soman Chainani

#86. The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Claude Levi-Strauss

#87. I definitely consider 'Poses' - the whole album in fact - to be kind of a miracle. Like the last breath of that moment when decadence is healthy, 'Poses' encapsulates that feeling. It's a kind of song and a kind of album that I'll never be able to repeat.

Rufus Wainwright

#88. As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources.

Greg Walden

#89. Old photograph: amid the set poses of her family, a young girl smiles and raises her hand a little.

Mason Cooley

#90. It's not the circumstances that we should feel threatened by, it's the fear of the circumstances that poses the real threat.

Richie Norton

#91. No terror state poses a greater or more immediate threat to the security of our people and the stability of the world than the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld

#92. The net poses a fundamental threat not only to the authority of the government, but to all authority, because it permits people to organize, think, and influence one another without any institutional supervision whatsoever.

John Seabrook

#93. Make portraits of people in typical, familiar poses, being sure above all to give their faces the same kind of expression as their bodies.

Edgar Degas

#94. Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

August Sander

#95. Mexican immigration poses challenges to our policies and to our identity in a way nothing else has in the past.

Samuel P. Huntington

#96. ...it feels as if mountain pose is the most challenging of all yoga poses. To be still. To be grounded. To claim one's place in the world.

Dani Shapiro

#97. We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It poses only a limited range of possibilities.

Haruki Murakami

#98. The lack of substantial resources and staffing along the Northern U.S. border poses a real security threat.

Mark Kennedy

#99. For someone like me, who loves to sweat and push herself, it's a challenge to slow down, to sit, to breathe and hold poses.

Ellen DeGeneres

#100. As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

Majora Carter