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

• According to my definition of God, I'm not an atheist. Because I think God is everything. Whenever I open my eyes, I'm looking at God. Whenever I'm listening to something, I'm listening to God.

  

  Pete Seeger
  • God
  • Eyes
  • Listening

• 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

• My prospects for life, though in a measure shaded with uncertainty, hardship and danger, are very animating and bright. My prospects for another life, blessed be God, are still brighter.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • Life
  • God
  • Blessed

• Believe it or not, but even when I’m sleeping, I’m dreaming about meeting fans.

  

  Liam James
  • Believe
  • Fans
  • Dreaming

• I have always done my sketches, as people would say, for the fun of it... I have worked to amuse myself, and if it has amused the public as well, so much the better for me.

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • People
  • Done
  • Fun

• I've always known my own mind, and I'm not shy about speaking it.

  

  Kathleen Anne Brien
  • Mind

• My first biography was 'Our Golda: The Life of Golda Meir.' To research that book, I bought a 1905 set of encyclopedias. Those books told me what each of the places Golda Meir lived in were like when she lived there.

  

  David A. Adler
  • Life
  • She
  • Book

• 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