#positions

I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn. ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes

#adding #always #chief #damn #end

There were periods when I sometimes made fires in a large, open fireplace that lasted about two weeks, which was how long it took to burn my compositions. So there has been an awful lot that I have destroyed. ↗

— Alan Hovhaness

#awful #been #burn #compositions #destroyed

A lot of the greatest compositions were made famous by Sinatra. ↗

— Michael Bolton

#famous #greatest #lot #made #sinatra

We have, for whatever the reason, disturbed people... who sometimes do terrible, violent things, and sometimes those of us who serve in elected positions are the target. ↗

— Jan Brewer

#elected #people #positions #reason #serve

Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#book #contain #course #describe #earth

The Communists were interested in getting into key positions as union officers, statisticians, economists, etc., in order to utilize the apparatus of the unions to promote the cause of revolution. ↗

— John T. Flynn

#cause #communists #economists #etc #getting

I don't have clear-cut positions. I get baffled by things. I have viewpoints. Sometimes they change. ↗

— Annie Lennox

#change #clear-cut #get #i #positions

Chart positions aren't the be all and end all. ↗

— Chris Lowe

#end #positions

Masood Ahmed brings to the position of director of external relations extensive experience gained in a range of senior positions in international finance and development. ↗

— Rodrigo Rato

#development #director #experience #extensive #external

Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#fine #meet #out #over #particularly