Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

And the hurt was so deep that it was way beyond tears and so their faces were dry.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I spend all my time right now trying to combat music retail and copyright.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Trying

• A cat can maintain a position of curled up somnolence on your knee until you are nearly upright. To the last minute she hopes your conscience will get the better of you and you will settle down again.

  

  Pam Brown
  • Up
  • She
  • You

• Some artists are working to buy the mansion or whatever the element of fame must bear, but I spend all my money on my show.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Money
  • Fame
  • Bear

• The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Improvement

• I liked 'Star Wars' as a kid. I liked science fiction.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Science
  • Star
  • Fiction

• I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • New
  • Media
  • Very

• God made the world, My Lord, and looked at it, and saw that it was good. Yes. But what if the world had looked back at him, to see whether he was good or not?

  

  Karen Blixen
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• 'It was an old passion,' he said. 'I haven’t touched a violin for months. I didn’t know what that would be like.''What is it like?' she asked.He began to walk so that she almost missed his answer. 'An amputation,' he whispered.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • She
  • Passion

• And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • Great
  • Done

• When the lambs is lost in the mountain, he said. They is cry. Sometime come the mother. Sometime the wolf.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Mother
  • Lost
  • Mountain

• A change came o'er my Vision - it was night: We clove a pathway through a frantic throng: The steeds, wild-plunging, filled us with affright: The chariots whirled along.Within a marble hall a river ran - A living tide, half muslin and half cloth: And here one mourned a broken wreath or fan, Yet swallowed down her wrath

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Night
  • Vision
  • Broken

• Economic integration is the path to riches and peace.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • Peace
  • Path

• As soon as people see my face on a movie screen, they knew two things: first, I'm not going to get the girl, and second, I'll get a cheap funeral before the picture is over.

  

  Lee Marvin
  • People
  • Movie
  • Girl

• For we can affirm with a good conscience that we have, after reading the Holy Scripture, applied ourselves and yet daily apply ourselves to the extent that the grace of the Lord permits to inquiry into and investigation of the consensus of the true and purer antiquity.

  

  Martin Chemnitz
  • Good
  • True
  • Reading

• Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.

  

  Marcus Samuelsson
  • Good

• Men are hung up on breasts. They're looking at the titty dinner. It's pathetic.

  

  Betty Dodson
  • Up
  • Men

• While 'Visitation Street' has the markings of a traditional whodunnit mystery - starting with a missing girl, intrigue and many suspicious characters - Pochoda shows her hand early on by fingering a culprit. The book turns, then, into a 'whydunnit.'

  

  Claire Cameron
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Hand

• The country of Iraq is somewhat of an artificial creation going back to colonial days. And so you have the Kurds and then the Sunnis in the north predominantly and Shias in the south.

  

  James R. Clapper
  • Country

• When I wrote 'Your Republic Is Calling You,' it was Franz Kafka's writing that I had most in mind, and James Joyce's 'Ulysses.' Entirely out of the blue, Kafka's characters receive an order to go somewhere, and when they try to comply, they never quite manage it. Ki-yong in 'Your Republic Is Calling You' is precisely that sort of character.

  

  Kim Young-ha
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Character

• The family is the association established by nature for the supply of men's everyday wants.

  

  Aristotle
  • Family
  • Nature
  • Association

• Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

  

  William Hazlitt
  • World
  • Long
  • May

• Heartsick, heartbroken – To know love is to know pain. What could be more common? Even so, each broken heart is so singular That with it we probe the divine.

  

  Rumi
  • Love
  • Know
  • Pain

• Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world and thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.

  

  Clarence Day
  • World
  • Done
  • Tears

• And the hurt was so deep that it was way beyond tears and so their faces were dry.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Hurt
  • Tears
  • Faces