Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I'm trying not to be ashamed...

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I am not ashamed of anything - not my past, not my affairs, not my body, and most definitely not my desire.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Past
  • Desire
  • Body

• I am ashamed of confessing that I have nothing to confess.

  

  Fanny Burney
  • Ashamed
  • Confess

• We turn our backs on nature; we are ashamed of beauty. Our wretched tragedies have a smell of the office clinging to them, and the blood that trickles from them is the color of printer's ink.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Nature
  • Ashamed
  • Clinging

• The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Author
  • Writer
  • Become

• Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • President
  • Texas
  • Ashamed

• I'm not judging myself; I'm not dissing what I do. I'm proud of what I've done and I'm proud of what I'm working on. I've accomplished something and I'm not going to be ashamed to be happy about what I've done.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Proud

• I've never even been to bed with a man. Never. That's how pure I am; I have nothing to be ashamed of. My gods made me the way I am.

  

  Isabel Vargas Lizano
  • Men
  • Made
  • Bed

• "Immigrant" has become a dirty word. It is not a bad word. It's not a curse or a swear word. It's not a dirty word and it's nothing to be ashamed about. I am proud to be a second generation immigrant. I am proud of my heritage. We are all immigrants and we need to start owning the concept.

  

  Nadine Shah
  • Bad
  • Proud
  • Dirty

• Innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Ashamed
  • Innocence

• I laughed from the time I arrived at the studio until I left at night. I was almost ashamed to take a paycheck.

  

  Patsy Kelly
  • Night
  • Ashamed
  • Left

• Aren't you ashamed to be concerned so much about making all the money you can and advancing your reputation and prestige, while for truth and wisdom and the improvement of your souls you have no thought or car?

  

  Socrates
  • Money
  • Reputation
  • Concerned

• If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Ideas
  • Ashamed
  • Philosophies

• And as long as you are in any way ashamed before yourself, you do not yet belong with us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Long
  • Way
  • Ashamed

• In a country well governed, poverty is something to be ashamed of. In a country badly governed, wealth is something to be ashamed of.

  

  Confucius
  • Country
  • Ashamed
  • Governed

• She was heartily ashamed of her ignorance - a misplaced shame. Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant. To come with a well−informed mind is to come with an inability of administering to the vanity of others, which a sensible person would always wish to avoid. A woman especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Ignorance
  • Ashamed
  • Heartily

• We would be ashamed of our best behavior if the people knew the motives of our behaving so.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Behavior
  • Ashamed
  • Motives

• We should not be ashamed to acknowledge truth from whatever source it comes to us, even if it is brought to us by former generations and foreign peoples. For him who seeks the truth there is nothing of higher value than truth itself.

  

  Al-Kindi
  • Values
  • Generations
  • Ashamed

• I have preached God's truth, so far as I know it, and I have not been ashamed of its peculiarities. That I might not stultify my testimony, I have cut myself clear of those who error from the faith, and even from those who associate with them.

  

  Charles Haddon
  • Cutting
  • Clear
  • Errors

• I have a Creator who knew all things, even before they were made - even me, his poor little child.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • Me
  • Child
  • Poor

• Who would not have been laughed at if he had said in 1800 that metals could be extracted from their ores by electricity or that portraits could be drawn by chemistry.

  

  Michael Faraday
  • Chemistry
  • Electricity
  • Portraits

• The daily disappearance and the subsequent rise of the sun appeared to many of the ancients as a true resurrection; thus, while the east came to be regarded as the source of light and warmth, happiness and glory, the west was associated with darkness and chill, decay and death. This led to the custom of burying the dead so as to face the east when they rose again, and of building temples and shrines with an opening toward the east. To effect this, Vitruvius, two thousand years ago, gave precise rules, which are still followed by Christian architects.

  

  Isaac Newton
  • Sun
  • Rise
  • Disappearance

• There is no intolerance in the world so great as the intolerance of tolerance, and no bigotry so excessive as the bigotry of the image breaker. To praise the devil is second nature. To praise God is an education.

  

  Elisabeth Marbury
  • Education
  • God Is
  • Intolerance

• The difference between a policy and a crusade is that a policy is judged by its results, while a crusade is judged by how good it makes its crusaders feel.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • War
  • Politics
  • Drug

• I'm trying not to be ashamed...

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Ashamed