Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

The thing is I love my dad. My mom too. And I keep wondering what they're going to say when I tell them that someday I want to marry a boy. I wonder how that's going to go over? i'm the only son. What's going to happen with the grandchildren thing? I hat that I'm going to disappoint them, Ari. I know I've disappointed you too.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• If you have forest, if you have green forest, the water table goes up. What happens with deforestation is the water level goes down and we all know how much importance drinking water has.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Up
  • Water
  • Green

• Our children and grandchildren are not going to have the same standard of living unless we educate that workforce.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Children
  • Grandchildren

• I love and adore being a mother. It's the greatest gift I've ever been given.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Love
  • Mother
  • Gift

• I would never share my daughter's wardrobe. Every five years you have to go through your wardrobe and say, 'This is possible, this is not possible.' But you have to be happy with yourself.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Happy
  • Daughter
  • Yourself

• My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.

  

  Carice van Houten
  • Theatre
  • Grandparents
  • Uncle

• I don't understand why there aren't more powerful female directors. I don't have the answers, but I hope that things may start to shift and that studios will employ more women to handle strong and interesting material.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Women
  • Why
  • May

• The difference between the Bush I war against Iraq and the Bush II war against Iraq is that in the first one, we appealed to the sentiments and interests of the different groupings in the region and had them with us. In the second one, we did it on our own, on the basis of false premises, with extremely brutality and lack of political skill.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Different
  • War
  • Political

• If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • People
  • Good
  • You

• You must work very hard to become a natural golfer.

  

  Gary Player
  • Work
  • You
  • Natural

• I cannot consent to be led three or four hundred leagues out of my route, without its being by force of arms.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Force
  • Three
  • Without

• I'd rather sing a good lyric written by someone else than one of my own that is terrible.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Good
  • Someone
  • Lyric

• Enlightenment must come little by little - otherwise it would overwhelm.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Little
  • Come
  • Enlightenment

• I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • World
  • Know
  • Die

• The one thing you don't want is that stale sound when you've done a line so much you can't find a fresh approach to it. Drop it.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Done
  • Want
  • Find

• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Change
  • Strength

• For sportsmen or women who want to be champions, the mind can be as important, if not more important, than any other part of the body.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Important
  • Women
  • Mind

• Yes, I think especially the Pentecostal churches, you know, that there's been such a growth in Pentecostalism. And it's a rejection of the much more dour and barren kind of Calvinist worship and also, the very formal Catholic forms of worship.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Know
  • Growth
  • Catholic

• And as I said last night, my number one priority in the coming two months is to try to facilitate a transition that ensures our president-elect is successful.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Night
  • Priority

• My favorite playwright is probably Samuel Beckett, and he was always laughing at the abyss.

  

  John Cameron Mitchell

• I thought of all the times we'd been together, how I kept coming closer, then retreating, while he stayed right where he was. A constant in a world where few, if any, really existed.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • World
  • Together
  • Constant

• I know more world leaders on the stage today than anyone running, with perhaps the exception of Hillary Clinton.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Today
  • Know

• For me, because I've been working out since I graduated college, I have to mix it up. But it's not just working out for health's sake; it's also a whole mindset for me. Yoga is really important for that.

  

  Kim Raver
  • Up
  • Important
  • College

• We talk about honesty, but the reality is we have lots of human values, and they are not all compatible. We don't always tell the truth about everything, no matter what the consequences.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Truth
  • Reality
  • Honesty

• The thing is I love my dad. My mom too. And I keep wondering what they're going to say when I tell them that someday I want to marry a boy. I wonder how that's going to go over? i'm the only son. What's going to happen with the grandchildren thing? I hat that I'm going to disappoint them, Ari. I know I've disappointed you too.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Son
  • I Love
  • Grandchildren