#position

The book was at a reasonably high position on the New York Times... before I was in the country. I thought it would be an interesting experiment to see if my presence here would push it up or down. ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#book #country #down #experiment #here

I am not predicting here that Obama will fail like Jimmy Carter. What I am predicting is the Republican Party is not extinct and will after a period of time become a strong opposition party. ↗

— Ed Rollins

#am #become #carter #extinct #fail

Washington has to become an ally of business, not the opposition of business. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#become #business #opposition #washington

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

I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense. ↗

— Geddy Lee

#bass #comfortable #compositional #feel #i

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

If you've ever been in a position in your life where you just can't take any more, you just have to get through the next second, and the next second after that. ↗

— Michael Novak

#any #been #ever #get #just

Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. ↗

— Annie Besant

#believe #denial #experience #given #limited

A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. ↗

— Margaret Cavendish

#better #brute #celestial #civil #creatures

Dull would be the man who should merely tolerate this plan of social industry. Weak would be the position of him who should take an apologetic tone in defending it, or present its claims in a merely negative way, by exposing the evils and perils of the socialistic plan. ↗

— John Bates Clark

#claims #defending #dull #evils #exposing