Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

The storm was fierce. But I wasn’t afraid. I knew my father’s love was fiercer than any storm.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• It is often said by religious people that without its framework, there is no sense of right or wrong. My view is that religion comes after ethics.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Religious
  • Religion

• My tastes are aristocratic, my actions democratic.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Actions
  • Democratic
  • Tastes

• For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Question
  • Woman
  • Financial

• I'm really nearsighted, which has served me well.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Me
  • Really
  • Well

• We must form our minds by reading deep rather than wide.

  

  Quintilian
  • Reading
  • Deep
  • Minds

• The word 'leukemia' is a very frightening word. In many instances, it's a killer and it's something that you have to deal with in a very serious and determined way if you're going to beat it.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Serious
  • Determined

• I was frequently told at drama school that I was thinking too much. And I still have to suppress that part of me because it can sometimes be a hindrance.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Thinking
  • School
  • Me

• From 1997 through 1999, I had gained so much. People don't realize how something like weight gain can make you sad. Losing weight has changed my life. If you can take control of your life, you can lose weight.

  

  La India
  • People
  • Life
  • Control

• I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Time
  • Sick
  • Roles

• I'm exceptionally email un-savvy, so to reply to my emails is like a torture. It's like literally, half of all my emails, I get my secretary to type out for me. And the personal ones, I avoid and just pick up the phone and call them.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Phone
  • Torture
  • E-mail

• We have a positive vision of the future founded on the belief that the gap between the promise and reality of America can one day be finally closed. We believe that.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • Believe
  • America
  • Future

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• We disapprove of parental hovering not because it won’t pay off later-it might; it does!-but because it’s obnoxious now.

  

  Adam Gopnik

• For too long, the system has been biased in favor of oil and gas developers: sweetheart lease deals, generous subsidies and a regulatory process so slanted in favor of Big Oil that often permit reviews are simply waived.

  

  Chellie Pingree
  • Long

• Advantages of freedom do not have to be proved by something outside freedom itself. It is its own underwriter.

  

  Alija Izetbegovic
  • Freedom

• Sometimes I write about things that never happened to me that wind up happening to me. When you put things out in the universe, sometimes they wind up coming true.

  

  Chad Kroeger Nickelback
  • Up
  • True
  • Universe

• I haven't really rebelled. I just think my parents were right. I never disagreed with anything that I was brought up with, in terms of their values or politics.

  

  Ariel Levy
  • Up
  • Parents

• You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

  

  Maurice Greene
  • People
  • Great
  • Attitude

• I can't decide if this movie is so spectacularly, breathtakingly dumb as to induce stupidity in anyone who watches, or so brutally brilliant that it disarms all reason. What's the difference?

  

  Anthony Oliver "A. O." Scott
  • Movie
  • Differences
  • Dumb

• I'm the greatest fighter in the entire world, how can I be afraid? I love people and people love me.

  

  Muhammad Ali
  • World
  • Love
  • Afraid

• People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. It was a scandal that a breed of fearless and sinister people ran around freely, so they attached a nickname and a myth to these people to get even with them, to make up for the many times they had felt afraid.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • People
  • Character
  • Courage

• The storm ate up September’s cry of despair, delighted at its mischief, as all storms are.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Storm
  • Cry
  • Despair

• I was about to say, 'Avoid fame like the plague,' but you know, they can cure the plague with penicillin these days.

  

  Larry Wall

• The storm was fierce. But I wasn’t afraid. I knew my father’s love was fiercer than any storm.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Afraid
  • Storm
  • Father's Love