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

• Moving
• Memories
• Distance
• Nightmares
• Lighting

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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 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

• If you don't have the right people around you and you're moving at a million miles an hour you can lose yourself.

  

  Dave Chappelle
  • People
  • Moving

• Local law enforcement agencies, national police authorities, and other state-operated surveillance has created a hostile environment for communities at the margins.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Law
  • Environment
  • Police

• Love advice is like life advice, so there are so many elements of that. I think humor, patience, admiration are really important love elements. Love and respect. You have to respect the person that you're going to love, and you have to be confident in yourself and love yourself.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Important

• The Philippines are ours forever. We will not repudiate our duty in the archipelago. We will not abandon our opportunity in the Orient. We will not renounce our part in the mission of our race, trustee, under God, of the civilization of the world. He has marked the American people as His chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America.

  

  Albert J. Beveridge
  • America
  • Mission
  • Philippines

• 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