#position

Just as the slave master required the slaves to imitate the image he had of them, so women, who live in a relatively powerless position, politically and economically, feel obliged by a kind of implicit force to live up to culture's image of what is female. ↗

— Susan Griffin

#economically #feel #female #force #had

I've been a teacher at the college level, in composition mostly, and I've been an editor on magazines. ↗

— Jane Haddam

#college #college level #composition #editor #i

As an actor, you ask yourself what you can do to put yourself in a position where you can play that role. ↗

— Jeremy Northam

#ask #play #position #put #role

The conservative movement was told to curl up in a fetal position and just stay there for the next eight years, thank you very much. Well, how things have changed. ↗

— Christine O'Donnell

#conservative #conservative movement #curl #eight #fetal

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#chemical #composition #compounds #conversely #experimental

How few, since the foundation of the world, have found themselves in a position environed with public perils so numerous, oppressed with responsibilities so high and solemn, as yourself! ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#found #foundation #high #how #numerous

Improvisation is a compositional method. ↗

— Evan Parker

#improvisation #method

I can have my goals, and I can have my dreams. My goal is to make the finals and improve my position. I want to run all decent races. I don't want to look back and say I ran a terrible race. ↗

— Oscar Pistorius

#decent #dreams #finals #goal #goals

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. ↗

— Plato

#burden #calm #disposition #equally #feel

It's always good to win a Test match and if you win it comfortably, it can leave a few psychological marks on opposition sides. ↗

— Ricky Ponting

#comfortably #few #good #leave #marks