Joe Posnanski Quotes

Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.

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• A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Man
  • Single

• Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • Help
  • Running
  • City

• Atheism is really nothing but a sorry litany of non-sequiturs, e.g., if God existed, why do we have all the evil and horrors in the world? But this presupposes that God is all-good, an obvious non-sequitur.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• The role model approach to social change is no substitute for challenging unjust employment practices, educational policies and housing.

  

  Patricia Hill Collins
  • Change
  • Model
  • Social

• We need to find a way to empower citizens to make governments take notice.

  

  Ian Goldin
  • Find
  • Need
  • Empower

• Necessity has no law.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Law
  • Necessity

• All this is applicable to the intellectual faculties of man. There is a considerable difference between one person and another as regards these faculties, as is well known to philosophers.

  

  Maimonides
  • Man
  • Person
  • Intellectual

• The first wealth is health.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Health
  • First
  • Wealth

• I was really blessed with parents who never said I couldn't do anything. And now I reflect as an adult on that, 'Wow, they never told me no!'

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Parents
  • Blessed
  • Reflect

• These our great natural rights we keep to ourselves; we will not have them tampered with; respecting them we give to you no commission whatsoever.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Great
  • You
  • Rights

• I routinely oscillate between exultation and despair. Maybe at the end of the day I feel pretty good about what I've written, but the next morning I see that it's crap. Then I start again - make a new outline, do some more research, try to rethink the whole question.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Question

• I think my purpose was just to get out and sing. I love to sing. I wasn't even in it for the - you know, the prize. I was, like, 'Hey, man, I'm going to sing.'

  

  Fantasia Barrino
  • Man
  • Purpose
  • Like

• I never grew up thinking, 'One day I will play so and so' because I wasn't expecting to be an actor at all.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Day

• My race and sex had a great deal more to do with what people believed I could do than with what I actually could do.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • People
  • Great
  • Sex

• I've been very focused on my career outside of tennis.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Career
  • Tennis
  • Outside

• You should set goals beyond your reach so you always have something to live for.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Live
  • Goals
  • Reach

• One of the nicest compliments I would get very often on the street is people would say, 'I love you on 'The Good Wife.' I just can't tell whether I should like you or hate you!'

  

  Nathan Lane
  • People
  • Hate
  • Like

• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God

• Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• I had never been able to truly hate anyone who’d suffered, no matter what evils they’d done in the aftermath.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Done
  • Hate

• Part of it is living in Tennessee. I'm so out of the loop. And as a person, I'm out of the loop. I'm oblivious by nature.

  

  Ann Patchett
  • Nature

• Mirth, admit me of thy crew,To live with her, and live with thee,In unreprovèd pleasures free.

  

  John Milton
  • Live
  • Free

• You got overdraft at the mythology bank.

  

  Charles Stross

• Every day I make predictions that don't come anywhere close to the mark.

  

  Joe Posnanski