#position

You can get assent to almost any proposition so long as you are not going to do anything about it. ↗

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

#almost #any #anything #assent #get

If someone were to put a proposition before men bidding them choose, after examination, the best customs in the world, each nation would certainly select its own. ↗

— Herodotus

#before #best #bidding #certainly #choose

Obama's position on marriage is brazenly cynical. ↗

— David Limbaugh

#marriage #obama #position

A lot of them are afraid to sit down and break their position. You should be able to make it so natural that you can just get out, and sit down and walk away from it, and there's nothing wrong with that. ↗

— Nancy Johnson

#afraid #away #break #down #get

I also meet with city officials, representatives from governors' offices, really anyone in that sort of position who has shown an interest in youth fitness, to let them know why this sort of program is so important. I give the same message when I speak at conferences. ↗

— Rafer Johnson

#anyone #city #conferences #fitness #give

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#changing #disposition #efforts #fruitless #happiness

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fine #meet #out #over #particularly

In the political world, the only position I have is voter. I'm not a spokesman for anything. ↗

— Tommy Lee Jones

#i #only #political #political world #position

This position is untenable, and there can be no pause in the agitation for full political power and responsibility until these are granted to all the women of the nation. ↗

— Florence Kelley

#full #granted #nation #pause #political

I'm in a position to look back at my life, and I realized there were a number of experiences that needed to be documented. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#documented #experiences #i #life #look