Ben Zobrist Quotes
I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm a big lipstick girl - I'm old school that way.
-
I have had issues with depression all my life, and it's probably true to say there was a tendency towards it even when I was very young, during my schooldays. There was often - and this is quite common with comics - a sense of not feeling as if I belonged anywhere.
-
From reinforcing beaches in the Rockaways to installing generators at the Coney Island Houses and sealing holes in the subway system, New York is fortifying our ability to withstand future storm surges.
-
There is nothing in the world, I venture to say, that would so effectively help one to survive even the worst conditions as the knowledge that there is a meaning in one's life.
-
It's not blaming the victim. It's not anybody's fault. They just did something that didn't work, that's all.
-
The idea that 'if you don't like how things are going, you can just leave' is so ingrained in Texas, the secession movement is no surprise.
-
Religion and philosophy, philosophy and religion - they're two words which are both... different. In spelling.
-
What I have said to people is that I've lived the American dream, because I have.
-
I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
-
The calling of the humanities is to make us truly human in the best sense of the word.
-
I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.
-
The question at the end of the day was, the courts having found there was no defense, a producer about to go to jail, should CBS in effect tell the producer go to jail even though there is no law at all that we can use to get you out of jail?
-
My blog is a celebration of the unexpected, settled, happy life I find myself living in Portland, Maine, at the ripe old age of fifty with someone I deeply love and am very happy with. That's part of why I started the blog.
-
Beauty set up distance between other people and me. It warped their behavior.
-
Let us do our thinking on these great questions, not with our eyes fixed on our bank account, but with a wise outlook on the fields of the future and with the consciousness that the spirit of the Eternal is seeking to distil from our lives, some essence of righteousness, before they pass away.
-
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story or tell a story about them.
-
Those who believe that... detailed rules originate in a certain cause, are as far from the truth as those who assume that the whole law is useless.
-
Helpless lust and unreasoning anxiety were just part of growing up.
-
Before the day begins, you are not yet engaged in any physical activities. And it is only physically that you are constrained by the limits of time and place; mentally, there are no such boundaries.
-
The DCU Constantine has to be the guy we know and love, with his same failings - otherwise what's the point of using him? But as I'm writing him, he's younger and has perhaps been through a bit less than the battered, aging old sod we meet in Vertigo.
-
I want to do films I can relate to emotionally.
-
Nobody can accept the truth while hiding from it. When a decision matters, we have to stare at the truth unflinchingly. Only then do we find peace in our choices.
-
I give myself the luxury of saying what I want.
-
I never even thought about playing professionally. I didn't think that was a possibility for a little kid from Illinois.
