Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

Somehow, miraculously, they forced themselves, told themselves they were going to live. They wrote themselves new lives. Fictions, perhaps, but what did it matter? They had kept the chaos at bay. They had managed to stop cursing the darkness. They’d lit a torch.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

• Darkness
• Chaos
• Fictions

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• A pitcher is only as good as his legs.

  

  Early Wynn
  • Good
  • Legs
  • Pitcher

• Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.

  

  Hafez
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Happiness

• The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Never
  • Critics

• The Palestinian economy is, and will likely continue to be, highly reliant on trade. And yet, trade between the Palestinian Authority and the Arab states is extremely limited.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Economy
  • Authority
  • Trade

• I am convinced that military action will not prevent further acts of international terrorism against the United States.

  

  Barbara Lee
  • Action
  • Military
  • Terrorism

• I write novels and other things.

  

  Jack L. Chalker
  • Things
  • Write
  • Novels

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• America is addicted to wars of distraction.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • America
  • Wars
  • Distraction

• Of course education becomes very very important and that's for our human resource development.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Important
  • Education
  • Human

• 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

• I know who my dad is, I've met him a few times, but I don't even call him dad. I know it sounds horrible, but I don't even see him as part of my family, to be honest. If you want the truth, it doesn't bother me because I don't know any different. I just know that me and my mum, that was my family.

  

  Sally Pearson
  • Different
  • Family
  • Truth

• I wear glasses because I need them; I don't wear them to be the fashion victim, I have to have them because I have a stigma in one eye and I'm blind in another. But I make it fun, I make it acceptable to fit in society; I've always worn crazy, goofy glasses, it's just what I do. This is who I am. Love me or leave me.

  

  Anastacia
  • Fun
  • Society
  • Fashion

• The very best Labor governments in our nation's history distinguished themselves by thinking big and, wherever possible, resisting the temptation to overemphasise short-term political considerations.

  

  Anthony Albanese
  • Thinking
  • History
  • Political

• Europe is difficult to coordinate, and our main deficit may not even lie in this area of finance and economics, but in foreign and security policy. We have a leadership problem because we are still 27 different members who have still not decided on how to work with each other based on what we used to call a European constitution.

  

  Peer Steinbruck
  • Work
  • Different
  • May

• When you sit on something for so long you can't see beyond it. It's all you can see, so you become locked in it.

  

  Anthony Hemingway
  • Long

• Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

  

  Ben Shahn
  • People
  • Time
  • Done

• The best thing about being a writer is it gives you readers who understand your deepest feelings and fears.

  

  Katherine Paterson

• Great trouble breeds great art, I think.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • Great
  • Art

• There's no question that we have great value on the sanctity of the family, and there are a lot of competing visions about exactly how we teach a set of values and we teach skills to our children, especially in the early years when they're really forming their personalities, their personas, really.

  

  James Heckman
  • Great
  • Children
  • Family

• Scientifically speaking, the existence of God is an untenable hypothesis. It's not well-defined, it's completely unnecessary to fit the data, and it adds unhelpful layers of complexity without any corresponding increase in understanding.

  

  Sean M. Carroll
  • Understanding
  • Existence
  • Fit

• Though I bequeath you no estate, I leave you in the enjoyment of liberty.

  

  William Bradford
  • Liberty
  • Enjoyment
  • Estates

• I don't believe there's any inherent darkness at the center of religion at all. I think religion actually is a morally neutral force.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Darkness

• The man that is dominated by Anger Doth not know what is seemly and seeth not the Law; That man whom Hate doth accompany, Becometh like unto murky darkness.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Law
  • Darkness
  • Anger

• Somehow, miraculously, they forced themselves, told themselves they were going to live. They wrote themselves new lives. Fictions, perhaps, but what did it matter? They had kept the chaos at bay. They had managed to stop cursing the darkness. They’d lit a torch.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Darkness
  • Chaos
  • Fictions