Benjamin Alire Saenz Quotes

When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.

Benjamin Alire Saenz

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• Home is, I suppose just a child's idea. A house at night, and a lamp in the house. A place to feel safe.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • Home
  • House
  • Night

• Here in France, I've seen some very good young designers, but they don't have this ability to be good businessmen, too. I think America gives you this.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Good
  • America
  • Think

• Don't feel sorry for me. I've had a great life, great friends.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Life
  • Great
  • Friends

• I introduced legislation in the Senate to prohibit President Obama's amnesty. The House of Representatives stood up and led. It took the legislation I introduced and it passed it. But the Senate Democrats stood as one uniform block and said, 'No, we will do nothing to stop amnesty.'

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • House
  • Stop

• If the tongue had not been framed for articulation, man would still be a beast in the forest.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Forest
  • Tongue

• It feels good when you come to a place like Oklahoma to charge up the batteries. I need that.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Good
  • You

• I repeat the question, 'Can Louisiana be brought into proper practical relation with the Union sooner by sustaining or by discarding her new State Government?'

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Question

• And I have known the arms already, known them all - Arms that are braceleted and white and bare But in the lamplight, downed with light brown hair!It is perfume from a dress That makes me so digress?Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Light
  • Hair

• Men exist for the sake of one another. Teach them then or bear with them. (Long translation)

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Men
  • Long

• The exact sciences, which would be considered a priori as little adapted to women, for example mathematics, astronomy and physics, are exactly those in which thus far they have most distinguished themselves. This contains a warning against too precipitate conclusions about the intellectual life of woman.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Life
  • Women

• As I get more confident as a filmmaker, I don't need to prepare so much in advance. I can trust that I and my team can come up with a solution.

  

  David MacKenzie
  • Up
  • Team
  • Trust

• Guys are not good under pressure. They're just not good at multitasking, but on that note, we should be a bit less good at enabling them to, you know? That's a problem.

  

  Maria Cornejo
  • Good

• 'Cartel Land' seeks to give voice to the people of Mexico who suffer grievous harm from cartel violence and government corruption.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • People
  • Violence

• I can really stir up a conversation. Every time I go to a meeting or a casting, I try to make it as light and funny as I can. I'm always making really awkward jokes. You have to make life fun and not take it too seriously. I may look like I'm very serious and into my work, but if you knew me, I'm just a jokester.

  

  Charlotte McKinney
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

  

  Eric Bristow
  • Golf
  • Charity

• The police feel that most of the public are against them and that there is a lot of bad feeling.

  

  Peter James
  • Bad
  • Feeling
  • Police

• People need to treat animals like they would treat a kid. You have to take care of it, make sure they are happy and they have anything they need. If you don’t have the time, then you don’t need an animal. … I want people to be aware of what is around them. Just because they don’t want to deal with it, doesn’t mean they can shut it out.

  

  Marlen Esparza
  • People
  • Time
  • Happy

• I can assure you that every degree of mind and spirit that I possess will be devoted to the long-range interests of the United States and to the cause of freedom around the world.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • World
  • Long
  • Mind

• I always have a rough outline, but I'm shocked at how little I actually follow it. Those characters keep doing things that I never expected. I think if I crept up to my keyboard and peeked, they'd be talking about things behind my back. Okay, that's a little paranoid and delusional... but just a little.

  

  Eric Walters
  • Up

• The challenge is, well, there's a huge challenge, which is when you're improvising, you're meant to sort of clear your mind completely, just be open and funny, and paying, you know, paying attention.

  

  Brian Henson
  • Challenge
  • Improvising

• Bad language is a stage all children go through, and it dies with time when they learn they're not attracting attention with it, hotheadedness isn't.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Time
  • Children
  • Bad

• In every life, there have to be some shadows. Look at me. My life has been filled with sunshine. A beautiful and caring wife. Five healthy children. I got to do what I loved. How many people are that lucky?

  

  Joe Paterno
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• The great power of separating the watching mind from the thinking mind is that the watching mind is innately loving. Some call this part of the psyche the 'compassionate witness.' Sharing our difficult feelings with a compassionate witness is the crucial step that heals the infinite small wounds inflicted upon the soul by everyday life.

  

  Martha Beck
  • Life
  • Great
  • Thinking

• When I was a boy, I used to wake up thinking that the world was ending. I'd get up and look in the mirror and my eyes were sad.

  

  Benjamin Alire Saenz
  • Thinking
  • Mirror
  • Wake Up