Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Memories
• Distance
• Lighting
• Nightmares

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• If life is a checker game, someone else is moving the pieces. It isn't us. Don't be surprised by amazing coincidences. There are no accidents. Consider, as I learned to do, the incredible interconnectedness of all of life.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Amazing

• A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Work
  • Book
  • Myself

• A thing is mighty big when time and distance cannot shrink it.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Time
  • Distance
  • Big

• The comfort zone is the great enemy to creativity; moving beyond it necessitates intuition, which in turn configures new perspectives and conquers fears.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Great
  • Moving
  • Enemy

• It's not so much the dressing up, but I love the idea of moving and existing in a different time.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Time
  • Moving
  • Idea

• Growing up in Poland, I didn't have the experience of going to Disneyland as a child, so I don't have any childhood memories connected to it, good or bad.

  

  Abel Korzeniowski
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• Over a year's time, I felt like I squeezed in five years of touring experience, which was a really huge help moving forward.

  

  Washed Out
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Help

• In general, any form of exercise, if pursued continuously, will help train us in perseverance. Long-distance running is particularly good training in perseverance.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Good
  • Long
  • Help

• I'm having this disbelief and dissatisfaction with an establishment that feels like it's moving backward, and I think there's a similar feeling with everyone of my age and in the world of music and artistic stuff. Art is an important way those feelings get expressed and help people process their feelings and opinions.

  

  K. Flay
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• One of my favorite memories from growing up in Brazil is being in the kitchen with my family and watching everyone bake and cook.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Distance

• Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • World
  • Food
  • City

• Moving to the U.S. was an adjustment. I noticed that the kids played in groups. Back in Kakuma, everyone played together.

  

  Halima Aden
  • Kids
  • Together
  • Moving

• Vastness! and Age! and Memories of Eld!Silence! and Desolation! and dim Night!I feel ye now - I feel ye in your strength.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Age
  • Night
  • Memories

• He knew her too well to see her from the distance that pity requires. He loved her because he admired her. For bearing without complaint the burden the queen put on her. For still being gentle and loving when she had ample reason to be bitter.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Distance
  • Bitter

• Not a single leaf moves in this country if I'm not the one moving it. I want that to be clear!

  

  Augusto Pinochet
  • Country
  • Single
  • Moving

• Opinion is like a pendulum and obeys the same law. If it goes past the centre of gravity on one side, it must go a like distance on the other; and it is only after a certain time that it finds the true point at which it can remain at rest.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • True
  • Past

• My message is - keep moving. If you do, you'll keep arthritis at bay.

  

  Donna Mills
  • Moving

• We've got people, our friends and neighbors, who are losing their jobs, factories being closed. We have to get America moving again.

  

  James Douglas
  • People
  • Friends
  • America

• I could have probably raised them in L.A. and they would have been great and had so many things at their fingertips and been exposed to so many things. But we travel a lot, so I don't think that moving out of town is sheltering the girls at all. Maybe protecting them a little bit more, trying to prolong their youth.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Moving

• Studying organisms at a molecular level was totally compelling because it was moving from being a naturalist, which was the 19th-century kind of science, to being very focused and really getting to the heart of these molecules.

  

  Elizabeth Blackburn
  • Heart
  • Science
  • Moving

• I always make my dreams into goals.

  

  DJ Khaled
  • Goals

• Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Long
  • Care

• In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon moving towards me. I wait and I wait and I wait for the storm. And then it comes, and the rains wash away the nightmares and the memories. And I'm not afraid.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Moving
  • Memories
  • Distance