#positions

This is just the sort of nonsense up with which I will not put. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#on-terminal-prepositions #grammar

If anything she was a shade too plump, but she knew the ninety-seven ways of making love that the Hindus are supposed to set much store by―though mind you, it is all nonsense, for the seventy-fourth position turns out to be the same as the seventy-third, but with your fingers crossed. ↗

— George MacDonald Fraser

#sex #love

In the case of Enron, we balance our positions all the time. ↗

— Kenneth Lay

#case #enron #our #positions #time

True science is never speculative; it employs hypotheses as suggesting points for inquiry, but it never adopts the hypotheses as though they were demonstrated propositions. ↗

— Cleveland Abbe

#employs #hypotheses #inquiry #never #points

These guys were the best. They were the best at their positions and made playing the game easier. And at the same time it made it so much more enjoyable. ↗

— Johnny Bench

#easier #enjoyable #game #guys #made

Liberalism is an attitude rather than a set of dogmas - an attitude that insists upon questioning all plausible and self-evident propositions, seeking not to reject them but to find out what evidence there is to support them rather than their possible alternatives. ↗

— Morris Raphael Cohen

#attitude #dogmas #evidence #find #insists

I think anyone about to leave one job not surprisingly would use their knowledge, their experience, their skills drawn from their previous positions to try and earn a living in the future. That's what happens in all interviews. ↗

— Geoff Hoon

#anyone #drawn #earn #experience #future

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#freedom #french #french fries #fries #government

A catcher must want to catch. He must make up his mind that it isn't the terrible job it is painted, and that he isn't going to say every day, 'Why, oh why with so many other positions in baseball did I take up this one.' ↗

— Bill Dickey

#catch #catcher #day #did #every

There is no right to work in a think tank, and these are very privileged positions. ↗

— David Frum

#privileged #right #tank #these #think