Quotes about Position

one of the chief characteristics of a servant is that he serves downward — that is, to those who by the world's standards are beneath him in position or station in life.

The sixth man, the position, I don't have a problem with, but the award - it's not that it's not important, but being singled out, it's like affirmative action or something like that to me. So, it's like, whatever.

The scary thing is a dramatic erosion of American position in the world - its economic, military position, as well as America's influence. Obama is not the man at the wheel desperately trying to conserve American power, influence and wealth. For ideological reasons, he wants the slipping to continue. He's actually the architect of it.

We do not accost a physician as we do any mere nobody; nor a magistrate as we do a private individual. We try to get some advantage from the skill of the one and the position of the other. Walk in the sun, and your shadow will follow you, whether you will or not.

I am very, very proud to say that I am pro-life.

I felt like I was in a unique position, or I am in a unique position, to show the evangelical world in a way that I haven't seen on TV before. That's a world that I'm very familiar with.

The value of life does not depend upon the place we occupy. It depends upon the way we occupy that place.

It's a better view if you're standing up than if you're laying down.

I am against abortion; I think that life is sacred and we should take a position of being against abortion. I think it is wrong to take human life. I think that human life starts at conception.

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

Life is very sweet to me, and there is no position of power or wealth that could tempt me from the throne God has given me.

My duty to the army and to the republic whose battles we were waging forbade me assuming a position of seeming hostility to any portion of the brave men under my command.