#position

The fallback position in politics is if you don't know what you want to be about, and if you don't know what your vision is, go at somebody else. ↗

— Karl Rove

#else #go #know #politics #position

All the time our union was progressing very nicely. There were lectures to make us understand what trades unionism is and our real position in the labor movement. ↗

— Rose Schneiderman

#labor movement #lectures #make #movement #nicely

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#does #fools #get #however #into

One of my favorite things - and I am sure everybody else's in this Chamber - is to give away money. You really don't get much opposition when you give away money. ↗

— Michael Enzi

#away #chamber #else #everybody #favorite

True nostalgia is an ephemeral composition of disjointed memories. ↗

— Florence King

#disjointed #ephemeral #memories #nostalgia #true

It is easier to take a position in the abstract than when it hits home. ↗

— Dennis Prager

#easier #hits #home #position #take

Up to now we have faced external problems in an isolated fashion. One of these problems is precisely the drug trade and what has been the result? A very weak and fragile position. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

#external #faced #fashion #fragile #isolated

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination. ↗

— Richard Hofstadter

#between #character #corruption #delicate #eternal

Religious leaders who continue mechanically to expound the Scriptures without regard to the current religious situation are no better than the scribes and lawyers of Jesus’ day who faithfully parroted the Law without the remotest notion of what was going on around them spiritually,” wrote Tozer. “They fed the same diet to all and seemed wholly unaware that there was such a thing as meat in due season. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#exposition #diet

Yes, there's sense in that. But the suddenly rich are on a level with any of us nowadays. Money buys position at once. I don't say that it isn't all right. The world generally knows what it's about, and knows how to drive a bargain. I dare say that it makes the new rich pay too much. But there's no doubt but money is to the fore now. It is the romance, the poetry of our age. It's the thing that chiefly strikes the imagination. The Englishmen who come here are more curious about the great new millionaires than about anyone else, and they respect them more. It's all very well. I don't complain of it. ↗

— William Dean Howells

#wealth #age