Top 37 Position Held Quotes
#1. If moral values amount to nothing but subjective phenomena of the human mind without independent meaning and existence - a position held by a variety of naturalist, positivist, and pragmatist philosophers - one never can be found lacking in light of an objective standard of moral values.
Reinhard Hutter
#2. Every position must be held to the last man. There must be no retirement. With our backs to the wall, and believing in the justice of our cause, each one of us must fight to the end.
Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
#3. I'm convinced women actually think they can read minds. Like when a woman goes, "I can tell you don't want to hang out with me today." And you're like, "What are you talking about? I actually do!"
Steve Zahn
#4. Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.
Don McLean
#5. To pick a modern image we once heard, but can't remember where: life is like driving a car with its front window opaque. All you have to go by are your rearview mirrors.
Amos Oz
#6. So, what do you do, Ellie? he asked. Well, previously, I held a position on death row, but lately I've been a vampire's plaything. Soon I'll be sacrificed so the Soul Reaper and the Enemy of Old can make babies.
Kresley Cole
#7. What if I never see it again?
What if nobody ever finds it?
My poor hat.
I miss it so much.
Jon Klassen
#8. At 19, I basically held the position that if you were intellectually honest and really wanted to get in touch with political reality then you had to smell tear-gas.
Thomas Metzinger
#9. In Tybalt's case, it means bloody control of the local Court of Cats. He became their king by right of blood; he's held the position by beating the crap out of anyone who tries to take it away. The Cait Sidhe take a more direct and bloody approach to succession than most of Faerie.
Seanan McGuire
#10. I was approaching the age of 40 with a substantial publication record, but had not yet held any position in a chemistry department.
John Pople
#11. The real problem has to do with the inability by people to admit that a position they've held a long time might be wrong. That's all. Not that it is. Just that it might be. I don't know why it is, but we tend to fall in love with things we believe, Threaten them, and you threaten us.
Jack McDevitt
#12. Good-faith re-examination of a position you've held in the past should be seen as a virtue, not a vice.
Mark Udall
#13. You have fought a hard battle, in hard conditions, and held a position until help came. Think of it like that.
Elizabeth Moon
#14. He was always intending to go to Mexico, but some way never got there. Meanwhile he held on to his modest position in a mercantile house in New Orleans, where an equal familiarity with English, French and Spanish gave him no small value as a clerk and correspondent.
Kate Chopin
#15. As a leader, you have to not only do the right thing, but be perceived to be doing the right thing. A consequence of seeking a leadership position is being put under intense public scrutiny, being held to high standards, and enhancing a reputation that is constantly under threat.
Jeffrey Sonnenfeld
#16. I love to write what I see and what I do and what I experience, and I like to see if people can relate to that. I don't know if I am as good at making up a story in my head that has no truth to it, so that is a challenge for me.
Nikki Reed
#17. Ya'll know what you need to do? Get together, make a We Are The World record.
Curtis Jackson
#18. Pikey Thomas dreamed of plums and caramel apples the night the faery-with-the-peeling-face stole his right eye.
Stefan Bachmann
#19. The position of modern science, as far as an ignorant man of letters can understand it, seems not a step in advance of that held by Huxley and Romanes in the last century.
Albert J. Nock
#20. Create and nurture an environment in your organization where curiosity is encouraged, and creative thinking is rewarded.
Pearl Zhu
#21. I can't tell you how it came to take me so many years to learn that instead of placing piking bets on what the next few quotations were going to be, my game was to anticipate what was going to happen in a big way.
Anonymous
#23. It's not polite to watch someone's first kiss.
Wendy Mass
#24. I believe the writer ... should always be the final judge. I have always held to that position and have sometimes seen books hurt thereby, but at least as often helped. The book belongs to the author.
Maxwell Perkins
#25. I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Randy Pausch
#26. This position I've held ... it pays may way and it corrodes my soul.
Morrissey
#27. Mercy's eyes held equal parts shock, and delight. "Riley."
He felt his lips stretch even wider. "I think we need to celebrate with some brand-new etchings."
His cat's laugh was surprised and warm and the sound of home. "It's your etchings that got us into this position.
Nalini Singh
#28. It's really easy with makeup to look like you're trying too hard, like a clown. That's not what you want!
Becky G
#29. Contemplation + action = breakthrough
Lada Ray
#30. The visual information of art history is going to students seamlessly, without the enormous trouble those of us who are older had when we studied art history many years ago.
Robert Nelson
#31. This view [of the infinite], which I consider to be the sole correct one, is held by only a few. While possibly I am the very first in history to take this position so explicitly, with all of its logical consequences, I know for sure that I shall not be the last!
Georg Cantor
#32. All society is held together by nonviolence even as the earth is held in her position by gravitation.
Mahatma Gandhi
#33. I am deeply honored to have been nominated for a position on the Supreme Court. And I an humbled to have been nominated for the seat that is now held by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.
Samuel Alito
#34. From the time I took office as Chancellor of the Exchequer, I began to learn that the State held, in the face of the Bank and the City, an essentially false position as to finance. The Government itself was not to be a substantive power, but was to leave the Money Power supreme and unquestioned.
William E. Gladstone
#35. I started this whole endeavor really. And at the beginning we had the selection in Italy. And that was pretty much among people that had held previous experience in that particular satellite. So, I was in that, in a good position then.
Umberto Guidoni
#37. Her left hand hanging out the window held no ring but we imagined she had a man somewhere, a man she could get rid of when she had the mind to because she would never put herself in the position to be left.
Brit Bennett
