Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• Some people pray to a totem pole, some people pray to a sun, some people pray to a god. It all works for them. It all comes back to what you think.

  

  Barry Zito
  • People
  • God
  • Sun

• Atheists have as much conscience, possibly more, than people with deep religious conviction, and they still have the same problem of how they reconcile themselves to a bad deed in the past. It's a little easier if you've got a god to forgive you.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • God
  • Bad

• I have never said that there is no need for a guru. All depends on what you call guru. He need not be in a human form.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Never
  • Human
  • Said

• The impudence of the sinner displeases God as much as the modesty of the penitent gives him pleasure.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • God
  • Pleasure
  • Modesty

• In life, you have people that love to party. That's me. People that love God. That's me. People that love sex. That's me. People that love people. That's me. And people that make mistakes. That's me also.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• Beauty is being comfortable and confident in your own skin.

  

  Iman
  • Beauty
  • Confident
  • Skin

• God's hand is strange to us. He cares nothing for the moment, nothing for the feeble ambitions of men and women. He sees the road that flows onward forever.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• I would never dispute that I've been given a gift by God. That's something I've been raised to believe. I'm not an idiot: I know that I can sing, and I know that I can act.

  

  Lindsay Pearce
  • God
  • Believe

• In the beginning there was nothing and God said 'Let there be light', and there was still nothing but everybody could see it.

  

  Dave Thomas
  • God
  • Light
  • Beginning

• For me, writing stories is one way of feeling connected to the universe and God.

  

  Elif Safak
  • God
  • Writing
  • Feeling

• I am not a creationist as the term is usually understood. I believe that the earth is billions of years old and the universe even older. I do believe that God is the creator, but that's a completely different thing. I've written in defense of evolution and made arguments that are based on evolution.

  

  Dinesh D'Souza
  • God
  • Believe
  • Different

• God bless Chris Guest... and I mean it sincerely.

  

  Fred Willard
  • God

• So many people don't know that God loves them. They feel, 'Why would God love me? Why would He be interested in me?'

  

  Jan Karon
  • People
  • God
  • Why

• I had to learn that this whole God thing isn't just this big religion. It's really that He wants this relationship with us on a personal level.

  

  Joanna Gaines
  • God
  • Relationship

• Worshipping the Lord means giving Him the place that he must have; worshipping the Lord means stating, believing - not only by our words - that He alone truly guides our lives; worshipping the Lord means that we are convinced before Him that He is the only God, the God of our lives, the God of our history.

  

  Pope Francis
  • God
  • History
  • Giving

• Oh my God, I used to get heartburn and all sorts of indigestion and stuff because I didn't feel well. And you know, I sit a lot because I write, and I gained a whole bunch of weight. My vanity just got to me, and I was like, 'I've got to do something!'

  

  Kristin Cast
  • God

• If enough people openly engage in conduct once considered reprehensible, we rewrite the rule book and assume that God, as a good democrat, will go along.

  

  James L. Buckley
  • People
  • Good
  • God

• Love not pleasure; love God. This is the Everlasting Yea, wherein all contradiction is solved.

  

  Thomas Carlyle
  • God
  • Love
  • Pleasure

• I am afraid of privilege, of ease, of entitlement.

  

  Tan Le
  • Afraid
  • Privilege
  • Ease

• The 24 Hour Plays is a quite brilliant, exhilarating event for everyone concerned.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Play
  • Hours
  • Events

• Life took over 4 billion years to evolve into you, and you've about 70 more years to enjoy it. Don't just pursue happiness, catch it.

  

  Eric Idle
  • Life

• I believe that the Europeans, first and foremost, the Germans, will also understand me. Let me remind you that in the course of political consultations on the unification of East and West Germany... some nations that were then and are now Germany's allies did not support the idea of unification. Our nation, however, unequivocally supported the sincere, unstoppable desire of the Germans for national unity. I am confident that you have not forgotten this, and I expect that the citizens of Germany will also support the aspiration of the Russians, of historical Russia, to restore unity.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Support

• God, tired, all he wanted to do was sleep, be in bed, dreaming of palo verdes in bloom, the yellow blossoms bursting in the blue sky like firecrackers. He wanted to dream soft hands rubbing his skin. He pictured himself melting beneath those hands, like butter or ice cream or anything else that wasn’t human.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • God
  • Human
  • Skin