Disadvantageous Position Quotes & Sayings

Since I also act, sometimes I get over my resentment and commit to the pitch as an acting job. — Christopher Durang

well-meaning Christians almost killed the faith eight hundred years ago — Jon M. Sweeney

I cannot stop the world from moving. All I can do is be prepared for when it does. — Danielle L. Jensen

If I were, to pick out the most valuable personal traits of a fighter pilot, aggressiveness would rate high on the list. Time and again, I have seen aggressive action, even from a disadvantageous position, completely rout a powerful Nip formation. — Charles H. MacDonald

Recess and lunch are the best. — Ty Simpkins

Whether in an advantageous position or a disadvantageous one, the opposite state should be always present to your mind. — Sun Tzu

I'm a very heady person; I'm in my head a lot. — Emma Watson

who can dare claim to believe in God when they slaughter civilians merely to gain a slight advantage? — Christopher G. Nuttall

To play well, you need good players, but a good player almost always has the problem of a lack of efficiency. He always wants to do things prettier than strictly necessary. — Johan Cruijff

I had the feeling that to get into a schoolhouse and study in this way would be about the same as getting into paradise. — Booker T. Washington

You believe no one is watching because it helps you sleep at night, but someone is always watching. — Shaun David Hutchinson

Anyone living, especially your peers, is a threat. You're judging them, they're judging you. This sort of criticism is as close to human nature as you can get. That can be a good thing sometimes. Jealously, rancor, competition, those can be good things in art. But it mostly puts you in a dangerous and disadvantageous position, and one that just takes away from you so much. — Raymond Pettibon

The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest
it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [ ... ] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something
for a greater gain in knowledge, in understanding, in intensified living? I sometimes wonder. — Aldous Huxley

Yesterday is another world. I want to go back there. — David Levithan

Not only did I manage to accidentally meet the man I'm investigating, I managed to accidentally have sex with him. — J.L. Langley

So sanity is not a requisite of soldiering,' Wellesley said quietly. — Bernard Cornwell