#position

Being "contented" ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position. ↗

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

#attic #being #being content #content #contented

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography. ↗

— Helena Christensen

#care #cinematography #composed #composition #gone

I think that generally New Zealand is respected for the positions it takes because it thinks them through. ↗

— Helen Clark

#generally #i #i think #new #new zealand

In the relationship between man and religion, the state is firmly committed to a position of neutrality. ↗

— Tom C. Clark

#committed #firmly #man #neutrality #position

The work of the political activist inevitably involves a certain tension between the requirement that position be taken on current issues as they arise and the desire that one's contributions will somehow survive the ravages of time. ↗

— Angela Davis

#arise #between #certain #contributions #current

One could say that in case of need, every normal and healthy woman is able to hold a position. And there is no profession which cannot be practiced by a woman. ↗

— Edith Stein

#cannot #case #could #every #healthy

Well, first of all, no professor should be able to say, I refuse to defend my position. I refuse to debate my position. ↗

— Alan Dershowitz

#debate #defend #first #first of all #i

We have people working for us full-time because they were forced to retire at 65. I know that I never want to stop working, and I am glad that I can offer positions to others who feel the same way. ↗

— Carl Karcher

#because #feel #forced #full-time #glad

One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#find #had #i #learn #myself

I think the Sixties in some ways is a barrier to young people today. They think of it, you know, what we're doing is not that. But it's partly the myth of the Sixties. It always felt embattled and small. It always, almost always, was a small group of people relative to the opposition around. ↗

— Bernadine Dohrn

#always #around #barrier #doing #felt