Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

You know, it was beautiful to be in that kitchen just then. I guess there are times of quiet beauty in life.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Myself
  • Understand
  • Talk

• I think change needs to be egoless. It's not about my leaving my fingerprints or a legacy. It's more important to be part of a process by rolling up your sleeves, being on the ground, initiating projects, starting campaigns - you know, building stuff.

  

  Queen Rania of Jordan
  • Up
  • Important
  • Change

• We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Violence

• Anytime there's a God, there has to be a devil. And anytime there's good, there has to be evil. And the evil sometimes is the best!

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Good
  • God
  • Best

• I have an enormous appetite to see life as I know it presented in front of my eyes.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Know
  • Eyes

• Basically, I think of fiction and non-fiction as different ways of engaging with the world. You reach a point where you feel you have said all you possibly can, in reportage or a review essay or a reflection on history, which 'From the Ruins of Empire' was.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • Different
  • History

• I pass, at length, to the third and perfectly absolute dominion, which we call democracy.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Democracy

• The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • May
  • History

• I feel that destiny is a mixture of preparation and luck. You can be very lucky, but it is useless if you're not prepared. You can be prepared, but it is useless if you're not lucky.1

  

  Luis Miguel
  • Destiny
  • Luck
  • Preparation

• The man responsible for keeping Americans safe from another terrorist attack on American soil for nearly seven years now will go down in history as one of America's greatest presidents.

  

  Ann Coulter
  • American
  • America
  • History

• I forever felt that I've fallen right between the crack of way too young for the first generation of classic rock 'n' roll and too old to be brand-new. It's hard.

  

  Paul Westerberg The Replacements
  • Rock
  • Forever

• I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.

  

  Richard Marx

• Previous presidents, including great ones like Roosevelt, have used the IRS against their enemies. But I don't think Barack Obama ever wanted to be on the same page as Richard Nixon.

  

  Joe Klein
  • Great

• I've never owned a cell phone and don't plan on ever having one. If anyone needs to talk to me, they know where I live.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • Live

• My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.

  

  Duncan Jones
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Dad

• There are probably only a certain number of people who can understand or tolerate how long a job will take and what demands it puts on you. And why should they? It breeds a strange kind of selfishness immersing yourself in a character for so long.

  

  Dominic Cooper
  • People
  • Long
  • Why

• Growing up, I was very much interested in jazz music.

  

  Jan Hammer
  • Up
  • Music
  • Growing

• My No. 1 responsibility when I'm not slaying zombies is being a parent.

  

  Andrew Lincoln
  • Responsibility

• I'm glad you can't talk on your cells while the plane is in the air. That would drive me crazy.

  

  Bob Newhart
  • Crazy
  • Air

• I think over any period of time, especially if you don't use leverage, it is difficult to continually beat the S&P 500.

  

  Eli Broad
  • Time
  • Period

• A primary goal of the spiritual life is to learn to quiet the mind through prayer and meditation, through spiritual practice, so that we can hear what in both Judaism and Christianity, is called the small, still voice within.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Small

• The gap is not between knowing it and living it, it's between knowing it and living it consistently. You know, we've all had moments when we got it right. Most of us have moments when we get it right every day. The trouble is getting it right when a curve-ball comes at us.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Moments
  • Consistently
  • Gap

• Here again, there is no tabulation; for us it is left to sacrifice literary charm, and even some accuracy, in order to bring out the one great point. The cause of human sectarianism is not lack of sympathy in thought, but in speech; and this it is our not unambitious design to remedy.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Great
  • Design
  • Sacrifice

• You know, it was beautiful to be in that kitchen just then. I guess there are times of quiet beauty in life.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Life
  • Beauty
  • Kitchen