Ben Zobrist Quotes

We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.

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• I was very surprised when I heard that I had been chosen to receive the James Cardinal Gibbons Award.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Surprised
  • Award
  • Cardinal

• It's not enough to train today's workforce. We also have to prepare tomorrow's workforce by guaranteeing every child access to a world-class education.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Today
  • Education

• One of the things I like best about Netflix is that they make projects like 'Beasts of No Nation.' It's a film about a reality in an African country where kids were being used to be soldiers in a war. And it made so much sense to me as a citizen of the world.

  

  Wagner Moura
  • World
  • Country
  • Kids

• Art is the window to man's soul. Without it, he would never be able to see beyond his immediate world; nor could the world see the man within.

  

  Lady Bird Johnson
  • World
  • Art
  • Soul

• Some people are instantly brilliant. The Kenneth Branaghs of this world are ready-formed actors at 23 - he has used his success in lots of different ways - but there are people out there for whom acting is: 'Ooh, I can get on the telly and be famous.'

  

  Harriet Walter
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• White Americans today don't know what in the world to do because when they put us behind them, that's where they made their mistake... they put us behind them, and we watched every move they made.

  

  Fannie Lou Hamer
  • World
  • Today
  • Mistake

• Don't ever forget that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world, it's the only thing that ever has.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • World
  • Small

• From the sons of Ith, the first of the Gael to get his death in Ireland, there came in the after time Fathadh Canaan, that got the sway over the whole world from the rising to the setting sun, and that took hostages of the streams and the birds and the languages.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Time
  • World
  • Death

• I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Life
  • World
  • School

• Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is beauty in the character. When there is beauty in the character, there is harmony in the home. When there is harmony in the home, there is order in the nation. When there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • World
  • Heart
  • Home

• I was very shy, but when I performed, I felt like I was in my own little world. I became more confident. Dancing taught me discipline and to feel comfortable in my own skin.

  

  Olga Fonda
  • World
  • Discipline
  • Comfortable

• I always wanted the films to play in malls, and I wanted as many people as possible to see them. I never want them to be marginalized in the kind of rarefied, elitist world. I always have hopes that the films will permeate culture in a big way. A lot of times, I'm wrong, but it's always the hope.

  

  Harmony Korine
  • People
  • World
  • Hope

• I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • World
  • Events
  • Three

• Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • World
  • Book
  • Remember

• It's a strange world, as David Lynch would say.

  

  Laura Dern
  • World
  • Say
  • Strange

• Flowers... are a proud assertion that a ray of beauty outvalues all the utilities of the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Proud
  • Beauty

• As a champion and one of the best fighters in the world, guys should always step up to the plate and want to fight Jon Jones.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Up
  • World
  • Best

• Being bombastic for the sake of being bombastic has just never been my take on the world.

  

  Dan Malloy
  • World
  • Never
  • Take

• There's a lot to do in space. I want to learn more about the greenhouse effect on Venus, about whether there was life on Mars, about the environment in which Earth and the Sun is immersed, the behavior of the Sun.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Space

• There is a book into which some of us are happily led to look, and to look again, and never tire of looking. It is the Book of Man. You may open that book whenever and wherever you find another human voice to answer yours, and another human hand to take in your own.

  

  Walter Besant
  • Hand
  • Human Voice
  • Book Of Man

• Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.

  

  Peter L. Berger
  • Society

• I have a slightly bourgeois upbringing, I guess. My parents paid for me to go to school, which is nice, but I haven't gotten a dime since then. I have no trust fund. I wish I did.

  

  Dean Wareham
  • School
  • Parents
  • Nice

• What finally is beauty? Certainly nothing that can be calculated or measured. It is always something imponderable, something that lies between things.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Lies
  • Beauty
  • Imponderable

• We've got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.

  

  Ben Zobrist
  • World
  • Chicago