Mike Posner Quotes

I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.

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• The life ahead can only be glorious if you learn to live in total harmony with the Lord.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Life
  • Live
  • Learning

• Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Hate
  • Him
  • Communist

• The main thing I want to do is make people feel more connected and more active.

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Want
  • Feel

• I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Strong
  • Always
  • Body

• If you date one woman a year, times 10 years, and that's 10 women.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Women
  • Woman
  • Year

• I look at it this way: the WNBA is 13 years young. I think eventually women will get to that point, maybe in my daughter's generation, where their salaries will be similar to men's. But we're still starting off, like, where the NBA was back in the 1950s.

  

  Candace Parker
  • Men
  • Women
  • Daughter

• Christmas is, of course, the time to be home - in heart as well as body.

  

  Garry Moore
  • Time
  • Heart
  • Home

• If I get to a place early in the morning, I try to walk around by myself. I still try to find cool places to go to, like a record store in St. Louis or some restaurant in Chicago.

  

  Yuna
  • Morning
  • Myself
  • Cool

• But a city is more than a place in space, it is a drama in time.

  

  Patrick Geddes
  • Time
  • City
  • Space

• ISIS is at war with America, but America is not at war with ISIS - not the president, nor the Congress, and certainly not the American people.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • American
  • America

• I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.

  

  Patrick Kavanagh
  • Life
  • City
  • Simple

• We grew up as kids watching those movies and we were exposed to themes of civil rights, unfairness, bigotry and fathers struggling against the kind of mob of the town, so you remember how you felt as a kid being taken seriously, that you are part of the human drama.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Remember

• My family didn't have any money growing up. I'm just a girl from the ghetto; from Indio, California.

  

  Vanessa Marcil
  • Up
  • Family
  • Money

• My mother giving birth to me was just like Lady Sybil giving birth, except that there wasn't such a tragic ending.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Mother
  • Giving
  • Ending

• I don't write tracts, I write novels. I'm not a preacher, I'm a fiction writer.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Write
  • Writer
  • Fiction

• It's the good girls who keep diaries; the bad girls never have the time.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Time
  • Good
  • Bad

• However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Human
  • Rights
  • Human Rights

• I have lifestyle requirements. Photos, meetings, lunches, dinners, facial care, tooth care. It requires an exorbitant amount of money.

  

  Gary Coleman
  • Money
  • Care
  • Meetings

• And new Philosophy calls all in doubt, the element of fire is quite put out; the Sun is lost, and the earth, and no mans wit can well direct him where to look for it.

  

  John Donne
  • Earth
  • Lost
  • Doubt

• I have an idea that the only thing which makes it possible to regard this world we live in without disgust is the beauty which now and then men create out of the chaos.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Men
  • Live

• I've forgotten what it's like to remember. I've lost the mindless confidence that a moment, an idea, a thought will be there for me later, the bravado of breezing through experience in the certainty that it will become part of my self, part of my story.

  

  Floyd Skloot
  • Experience
  • Remember
  • Lost

• Will you stand by it now, or will you let the Shylocks come and have their way? It is for you to determine.

  

  Richard Parks Bland
  • Stand
  • Determine

• I realized that a lot of people in my family had sacrificed for me to have the opportunity to go to a place like Duke. I owed it to them to finish. I graduated with a 3.6.

  

  Mike Posner
  • People
  • Family
  • Opportunity