Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes
Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.Benjamin Alire Saenz
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I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of 'not trying.' I tried with all my heart.
Louise Brooks -
It is as if my heart and my brain did not belong to the same person. Feelings come quicker than lightning and fill my soul, but they bring me no illumination; they burn me and dazzle me.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
I believed that I was approaching the end of my days without having tasted to the full any of the pleasures for which my heart thirsted...without having ever tasted that passion which, through lack of an object, was always suppressed. ...The impossibility of attaining the real persons precipitated me into the land of chimeras; and seeing nothing that existed worthy of my exalted feelings, I fostered them in an ideal world which my creative imagination soon peopled with beings after my own heart.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau -
Back on its golden hinges The gate of Memory swings, And my heart goes into the garden And walks with the olden things.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox -
My heart belongs to daddy.
Marilyn Monroe -
Where's my heart at? Aw. Um, in my chest. I think it's in there - on the right hand side. Sometimes it's in my mouth and sometimes I can feel it in my stomach, when I get really nervous. So it's pretty physical.
Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
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I'm singing from my heart now more than ever. I've gotten a lot braver with my writing.
Amy Lee Evanescence -
I will give my whole heart and soul to my Maker if I can,' I answered, 'and not one atom more of it to you than He allows. What are you, sir, that you should set yourself up as a god, and presume to dispute possession of my heart with Him to whom I owe all I have and all I am, every blessing I ever did or ever can enjoy - and yourself among the rest - if you are a blessing, which I am half inclined to doubt.
Anne Bronte -
When my heart became constricted and my paths became narrow I took my hope in Your pardon and forgiveness as an opening and an escape My sins seemed very great to me but when I compared them to Your forgiveness I found Your forgiveness to be greater
Al-Shafi‘i -
If my heart is overwhelmed and I cannot hear your voice, I hold on to what is true. I will believe.
Kari Jobe -
Oh no! This is bad. I think my heart was just stolen a little.
Atsushi -
It is often said that my heart is too open for my own good.
Henri Rousseau
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I've closed my heart down, so many seasons. I didn't want to hurt again, I didn't want to try, so I turned myself to ice and stone, said I don't need anyone, and nobody else would ever make me cry.
Beth Nielsen Chapman -
I told Victria that love is a choice, and I told myself that I didn't have to choose Elder, but I can't forget the way my heart stopped when his did.
Beth Revis -
I finally crashed. I drove like an idiot all day.
Kasey Kahne -
The music that I make is pretty sincere; it's from my heart and I love it, and what just happened is more people have started to connect with my heart, and I haven't followed some kind of marketing scheme.
Esperanza Spalding -
Sometimes I think I've got this hard kernel in my heart, and nothing much can get inside it. I doubt if I can really love anybody.
Haruki Murakami -
My goal is to make all my paintings clear and realistic, even more understandable than a photograph.
E. J. Hughes
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The old woman was the kind who would not cut down a large old tree because it was a large old tree.
Flannery O'Connor -
I think it had to do with the people because some of our guys aren't used to this. It had to do with the crowd. When we got in a huddle, we had to settle down and realize it was just us and them.
Paul Williams The Temptations -
Listening well is an exercise of attention and by necessity hard work. It is because they do not realize this or because they are not willing to do the work that most people do not listen well.
M. Scott Peck -
I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.
Ansel Adams -
Something happened inside me. A huge and uncontrollable wave ran through me and crashed on the shore that was my heart.
Benjamin Alire Saenz