#position

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

Many legitimate forms of ownership, mainly cooperative and communal, had not been used to any effective extent mainly because of the imposition of Stalinist restrictions. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

#because #been #communal #cooperative #effective

I kind of like the position of being the fair-haired savior of my mother. ↗

— Patty Duke

#i #kind #like #mother #position

Our policy for the last many years has been to deter the Chinese government in Beijing from ever coming into the position where they thought they had enough leverage over the U.S. to cross the Straits of Taiwan. ↗

— Bob Filner

#beijing #chinese #chinese government #coming #cross

In whatever position you find yourself determine first your objective. ↗

— Ferdinand Foch

#find #first #objective #position #whatever

Not my power, but the power of the position, a power which could be used to help. ↗

— Betty Ford

#help #position #power #used #which

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity. ↗

— Sigmund Freud

#made #merely #misused #necessarily #occasion

We will fight against any pro-nuclear power plan. And we will remind people that a change in the German nuclear consensus would stifle the development of sustainable energy and it would cost jobs. The SPD is the strongest among the opposition parties and we must take on this role with vigour. ↗

— Sigmar Gabriel

#among #any #change #consensus #cost

After all, from the Muslim Brotherhood's inception in Egypt in 1928, it has been a revolutionary organization committed to the imposition worldwide of a totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine they call shariah. ↗

— Frank Gaffney

#been #brotherhood #call #committed #doctrine

Back then, my idol was Bugs Bunny, because I saw a cartoon of him playing ball - you know, the one where he plays every position himself with nobody else on the field but him? Now that I think of it, Bugs is still my idol. You have to love a ballplayer like that. ↗

— Nomar Garciaparra

#ball #ballplayer #because #bugs #bunny