Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

I can prove there are madmen—but I can't prove the monster exists. Who was it that whispered the warning? Listen close, the sky is falling.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• I'd work with soccer coordinators at Game Changing Films and have one or two combat training sessions with my stunt double, who's a wushu master.

  

  Gabriel Luna
  • Work
  • Game
  • Training

• You must not fear death, my lads; defy him, and you drive him into the enemy's ranks.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Death
  • Fear
  • Enemy

• I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • People
  • Live
  • Write

• Anger is the enemy of non-violence and pride is a monster that swallows it up.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Up
  • Violence
  • Enemy

• With my pictures, what I hope is that it encourages the reader to imagine more pictures of his own.

  

  Quentin Blake
  • Hope
  • Own
  • Pictures

• There's really no age limit when you out there in those streets.

  

  Young Buck
  • Age
  • You
  • Limit

• I think it's very helpful having Twitter and all that. I mainly talk about work on Twitter. I keep my personal life separate from my work life, but I think it helps because everybody's on the Internet now - everybody has Facebook; everybody has Twitter.

  

  Taylor Spreitler
  • Life
  • Work
  • Think

• The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.

  

  Harold Taylor
  • True
  • Best
  • Achievement

• It is fast becoming an article of political faith that financing America's public schools by way of the local property tax is a shame and a civic scandal.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • America
  • Political
  • Faith

• Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Children
  • You
  • Insanity

• If you look at one of the basic underlying tenets of liberty, it's freedom of speech, freedom of expression, freedom to access of information. If we start sequestering that and blocking it off, you're going to have pockets around the world that are going to become more and more isolated.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Start

• He always asked, why thus? why this way, not another way? I answered: Because in what we do daily and in the way we do it, we enact the gods. He said: Then the gods are only what we do. I said: In what we do rightly, the gods are.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Why
  • Daily

• Since the form is only an expression of the content and the content is different with different artists, it is then clear that there can be many different forms at the same time which are equally good. Necessity creates the form. Fish which live at great depths have no eyes. The elephant has a trunk. The chameleon changes its color, and so forth.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • Time
  • Good
  • Great

• Choosing a name for a band is always a difficult thing, and I don't think people should read too much into a name because, after all, it's just a handle. It doesn't mean anything.

  

  Bernard Sumner Bad Lieutenant
  • People
  • Band

• All Moroccans are justifiably proud of the development of democratic institutions in Morocco.

  

  Donald Evans
  • Proud

• The first time I ever saw a black audience at our concert, we were in Zimbabwe.

  

  Clarence Clemons
  • Time
  • Black

• Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

  

  Jill Tarter

• I need to give affection and love, because without that, I wither. I need to give that love to someone. Without that, I'm rudderless.

  

  Les Dawson

• If you want to have a more pleasant, cooperative teenager, be a more understanding, empathic, consistent, loving parent. If you want to have more freedom, more latitude in your job, be a more responsible, a more helpful, a more contributing employee.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Understanding
  • Parent
  • Teenager

• The good news is people are watching more video than ever before; they're just watching in places that often aren't rated and aren't monetized.

  

  Steve Burke
  • Watching
  • Video
  • Monetize

• Successful givers secure their oxygen masks before coming to the assistance of others. Although their motives may be less purely altruistic, their actions prove more altruistic, because they give more.

  

  Adam Grant
  • May
  • Successful
  • Prove

• If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help... Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system that we have that allowed you to thrive. Somebody invested in roads and bridges. If you've got a business - you didn't build that. Somebody else made that happen.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Business
  • American
  • Help

• I can prove there are madmen—but I can't prove the monster exists. Who was it that whispered the warning? Listen close, the sky is falling.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Prove
  • Monster
  • Exists