Unenviable Position Quotes

#1. If I were in the unenviable position of having to study my work my points of departure would be the "Naught is more real ... " and the "Ubi nihil vales ... " both already in Murphy and neither very rational.

Samuel Beckett

#2. After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its own: namely, the assumption that what, after long effort, could not be proved to take place today had, in truth, taken place in the primeval past.

Loren Eiseley

#3. What is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right.

Albert Einstein

#4. I did my undergrad at Florida State, got a Bachelor's, and then I got my Masters in Acting at NYU. So I've spent a lot of time in the classroom.

Andre Holland

#5. They knew each other most deeply through body-warmed sheets and the tangle of half dreams.

Megan Abbott

#6. To conquer with arms is to make only a temporary conquest; to conquer the world by earning its esteem is to make a permanent conquest.

Woodrow Wilson

#7. Americans wouldn't do that [cashing out the same day]. Then they would be in the great old thing we used to call the marketplace. You know, we have hundreds of millions of stock shares floating every day. People buy them and sell them and trade them.

Lamar Alexander

#8. Life is all about the journey.

P.M. Terrell

#9. Conviviencia - living alongside each other in harmony, whatever their beliefs. For the enemy is not another person who believes in a god. The enemy is ignorance, and people who believe in nothing and care for nothing.

Philippa Gregory

#10. They consider me to have sharp and penetrating vision because I see them through the mesh of a sieve.

Khalil Gibran

#11. I want to talk to you," she said, "for hours and days and forever, but we can't right now. Not here, and not while we're still in danger.

Dan Wells

#12. I like 'Futurama.' That's kind of the only thing that's my sci-fi thing, although I was big into zombies for a time.

Tatiana Maslany

#13. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. If you are appalled, he said, then it was a devil who had visited you. If you feel lightened, it was an angel.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#14. Newt spun, making her robe unfurl. "He's my familiar, bought and paid for. I can claim anything of his. Even his life." Al cleared his throat nervously. "That's good to know," he said lightly. "Important safety tip. Rachel, write that down somewhere as lesson number one.

Kim Harrison