Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

But why? Why don’t I want to fight when fight is all I’ve ever known and loved? I’ve fought for every inch of joy I’ve ever known.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Loved

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• I just keep it simple. Watch the ball and play it on merit.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Play
  • Simple
  • Watch

• Passivity is fatal to us. Our goal is to make the enemy passive.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Goal
  • Enemy
  • U.S.

• Gay activists claim that because I don't subscribe to their political agenda, I am a homophobe, meaning I have a mental disorder - because that is what phobias are.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Political
  • Gay
  • Agenda

• I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.

  

  Vijender Singh
  • Breakfast
  • Bread
  • Diet

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• You think you're looking at things all the time, but you're not looking at things, you're looking at what your brain is interpreting through light and color. And who knows what everybody else sees?

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Time
  • Light
  • Brain

• I could probably give you a list of a dozen pet peeves I have about my own physicality and why I couldn't get a second date.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Why
  • You
  • Own

• The teaching thing, the one where I have to impart my knowledge, is probably what comes the least naturally to me because I'm an absorber of things.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Knowledge
  • Thing
  • Teaching

• You shouldn't be ashamed of your pain. You have the right to have your pain treated.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • You
  • Pain
  • Right

• I think if a girl is easy to talk to then that's the first thing I look for. It's great when you meet a girl and three hours later you're like, 'Oh my gosh, we've been talking for three hours, what happened to the time?'

  

  Zac Efron
  • Time
  • Great
  • Girl

• The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.

  

  Gavin O'Connor
  • Up
  • Heart
  • Home

• When we find something new at Giza, we announce it to the world. The Sphinx and the Pyramids are world treasures. We are the guardian's of these treasures, but they belong to the world.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • World
  • Find
  • New

• You don't find out who you are unless you work at it.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Work
  • You
  • Find

• I think all tennis players have to struggle through the early stages of their career. We start off playing tournaments and really just get by. I always had a dream to play in the big tournaments and never have doubted if it was worth it. Having to battle a little early on in my career makes it all the more worthwhile now.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • Career
  • Dream
  • Struggle

• I make work a bit like how you mix cocktails - with ingredients like budget, history and location.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Work
  • History
  • Budget

• Simple logic dictates that if you cannot even conceive the possibility of leaving a negotiation, then it is preferable never to enter one.

  

  Yanis Varoufakis
  • Simple
  • Leaving
  • Logic

• Having one of the highest IQs ever measured is as much a curse as it is a blessing. My parents were great, though: they were always seeking the most difficult presents possible for me - Rubik's cubes and things like that.

  

  Walter O'Brien
  • Great
  • Parents
  • Blessing

• In Japan, I was immensely impressed by the politeness, industrious nature and conscientiousness of the Japanese people.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • People
  • Nature
  • Japanese

• What the world needs now is love, sweet love, It's the only thing that there's just too little of. What the world needs now is love, sweet love, No not just for some but for everyone.

  

  Hal David
  • World
  • Sweet

• If we examine a work of ordinary art, by means of a powerful microscope, all traces of resemblance to nature will disappear - but the closest scrutiny of the photogenic drawing discloses only a more absolute truth, a more perfect identity of aspect with the thing represented.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Work
  • Art
  • Examine

• How could I share with you how I felt when two towers that I loved, two pieces of steel and glass and concrete fell down, when actually they took with them thousands of human lives? That is the actual tragedy. But those towers were almost human for me. I was in love with them, and that's why I married them with a tight rope.

  

  Philippe Petit
  • Why

• I have lived in one house in Baltimore for nearly forty-five years. It has changed in that time, as I have - but somehow it still remains the same. No conceivable decorator's masterpiece could give me the same ease. It is as much a part of me as my two hands. If I had to leave it I'd be as certainly crippled as if I lost a leg.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Time
  • House
  • Lost

• The one thing that hinders God is our unbelief.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • God
  • One Thing
  • Unbelief

• But why? Why don’t I want to fight when fight is all I’ve ever known and loved? I’ve fought for every inch of joy I’ve ever known.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Joy
  • Fight
  • Loved