Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• You look marvelous!

  

  Fernando Lamas
  • You
  • Look
  • Marvelous

• Beyond 2050 the world population may start to decrease if women across the world will have, on average, less than 2 children. But that decrease will be slow.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Women
  • Children

• I think there's a bit of the devil in everybody. There's a bit of a priest in everybody, too, but I enjoyed playing the devil more. He was more fun.

  

  Gabriel Byrne
  • Fun
  • Think
  • Devil

• I used to sneak into my mother's closet and try to wear her lingerie to school.

  

  Vanity
  • School
  • Mother
  • Try

• I try to get them to remember that they're not just athletes, but student-athletes.

  

  Earl Campbell
  • Remember
  • Try
  • Just

• Always take earplugs and an eye mask. It doesn't matter where you are. Even if you're in the best hotel, if there's road works outside, then you're screwed. So I take earplugs and an eye mask with me wherever I go.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Best
  • Road
  • Eye

• The advocates of retaliatory wars will continue to assume a much simpler reality with their hoary oppositions: Religious and secular, backward and enlightened, free and unfree. But if we are to admit how deeply and irrevocably interconnected our world is, then we must find new ways to break the cycle of counter-productive violence.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Free
  • Reality

• And I know, and you know too That a love, like ours Is terrible news But that wont stop me crying No, that wont stop me crying over you

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Stop
  • Crying

• The worst aspect of dating from the perspective of many men is how dating can feel to a man like robbery by social custom – the social custom of him taking money out of his pocket, giving it to her, and calling it a date. To a young man, the worst dates feel like being robbed and rejected. Boys risk death to avoid rejection (e.g., by joining the Army)

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Money
  • Death

• But patience can't be acquired overnight. It's just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it, to push its limits.

  

  Eknath Easwaran
  • Up
  • Work
  • Patience

• And so the arbitrary union of three incommensurate, mutually disconnected concepts became the basis of a bewildering theory... by which one of the lowest renderings of art, art for mere pleasure - against which all of the master teachers warned - was idealized as the ultimate in art.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Art

• Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mind
  • Water
  • Cold

• A grimy fly can soil the entire wall and a small, dirty little act can ruin the entire proceedings.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Small
  • Wall
  • Fly

• Of those to whom much is given, much is asked. I cannot say and no man could say that no more will be asked of us.

  

  Lyndon B. Johnson

• I don't feel special … I was just full of energy and loved to learn.

  

  Alicia Witt
  • Energy

• Much of the U.S. Midwest is already running on bitumen. Do we want to extend this addiction? And at what cost? Or should we set other goals and say one to two million barrels of oil a day from the tar sands is all we really need to make the transition?

  

  Andrew Nikiforuk
  • Running
  • Goals
  • Addiction

• Walter Cronkite had a golden rule for all wartime reporters: never self-aggrandize.

  

  Douglas Brinkley

• Patriotism is an ephemeral motive that scarcely ever outlasts the particular threat to society that aroused it.

  

  Denis Diderot
  • Society

• I shot 'Blue Valentine' on 16mm for the past, and for the present on the Red Camera. I feel that both formats are valid. The stories should dictate the format we shoot on. Filmmakers should have a choice.

  

  Derek Cianfrance
  • Past
  • Present
  • Red

• I really do believe some people are naturally novelists and some people are short story writers. For me, when I was in middle school or high school, I started with novels.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • People
  • Believe
  • School

• Even as a teenager, I felt that for whatever reason that we were living very close to the end of human history. And now at my age I believe that with almost an increasing certainty.

  

  Anne Graham Lotz
  • Believe
  • History
  • Age

• A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Truth
  • Energy
  • Artist

• But I definitely don't think this is the right time to discuss this. Gambling is a very, very divisive issue. And right now we need to spend all our time reaching consensus on how to rebuild our infrastructure, bring our people back home and offer incentives to businesses to get them up and running.

  

  Ed Murray
  • Issue
  • Businesses
  • Discuss

• Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll leave you alone.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Believe
  • Truth
  • Alone