Relative Position Quotes

If you're going to drop behind, you have to keep it there.

Well, I know, after all, it is only juxtaposition, Juxtaposition, in short; and what is juxtaposition?

You don't have to worry about being a number one, number two, or number three. Numbers don't have anything to do with placement. Numbers only have something to do with repetition.

Do remember that one line does nothing; it is only in relation to another that it creates a volume.

We're on the same radius from the Earth, and then we start to swing around to where we're ahead of them on the velocity vector, so we come in relative to the station from this forward velocity position and dock on to the forward end of the Lab.

When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.

Being first doesn’t mean anything unless there is a second.

Having two older brothers is a healthy reminder that you're always closer to the bottom than you are to the top.

[Reporting on America:] It's progressive growth ... before the century has elapsed will have changed the ... colonial system of the universe and the relative position of all civilized society.

There is no absolute up or down, as Aristotle taught; no absolute position in space; but the position of a body is relative to that of other bodies. Everywhere there is incessant relative change in position throughout the universe, and the observer is always at the center of things.

Now Manchester United are 2-1 down on aggregate, they are in a better position than when they started the game at 1-1.

If A were not allowed his better position, B would be even worse off than he is.

The divisions of Perspective are 3, as used in drawing; of these, the first includes the diminution in size of opaque objects; the second treats of the diminution and loss of outline in such opaque objects; the third, of the diminution and loss of colour at long distances.

Although wherever you are going is always in front of you, there is no such thing as straight ahead.

I was a little ahead of him but that didn't matter after awhile.

Somebody's got to be last. Somebody's going to be first.

It's always seductive to know where one stands in relation to the average.