Short Position

Famous quotes containing the words short and/or position:

“Young man—Young man—Your arm’s too short to box with God.”
—James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

“The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one’s position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)