I hated being volunteered. The problem with my life was that it was someone else's idea.


Benjamin Alire Sáenz

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

My problem with being an actor was that I was far too shy to actually do it.
BRUCE ROBINSON
He hated being filled with terror. It was embarrassing.
RICK RIORDAN
I was born in Fayette County, over in Lexington, Kentucky, but I was raised most of my life in Paint...
CHRIS STAPLETON
I was really bored, pretty antisocial, and not much of a joiner, and people thought that was a probl...
DEBORAH ELLIS
My own life was filled with so much love and joy that when depression struck, it was like a prison d...
SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ
I went to a psychoanalyst. He explained things about my love life that I found very impressive... al...
BRITNEY SPEARS
But that was the problem with New York: No matter how succesful you thought you were, there was alwa...
CANDACE BUSHNELL
I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.
JACKIE WALORSKI
I was both loved and hated for being upfront. But I was just being myself.
SUNNY DEOL
Never do today that which will become someone elses responsibility tomorrow.
DAVID BRENT
At a Boston signing, someone from the audience asked why I was so obsessed with furniture in my book...
JONATHAN CARROLL
I was so upset with what was going on in the world. I just couldn't stand the idea of being peop...
VIVIENNE WESTWOOD
I've walked away in the middle of a conversation and had no idea that was wrong until someone to...
HANNAH GADSBY
The rules only applied to
people who couldn’t afford different rules.
CAMERON STRACHER
I understood that if ever one wanted to live with someone you cooked for them and they came running....
NIGEL SLATER
I developed a problem with authority. Any time that authority was what I interpreted as being unjust...
TOM PETTY
I had never been this mad at her before. It was one thing to be attacked by someone you hated, but t...
KAMI GARCIA
I dug the idea that I was being perceived as the black sheep of my family, but for me, it was like, ...
LARRY BISHOP
I thought about cricket a lot. I needed to get out of this bubble of mine. I found it in books and c...
RAHUL DRAVID
I hated all my life. I hated everybody. When I first grew up and I can remember, I was dressed as a ...
HENRY LEE LUCAS
The first rumor that I heard was probably a month and a half ago. I heard it more than once that som...
DAVE LANE
To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I renamed myself Ari.

If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

I thought it ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming som...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I don't always have to understand the people I love.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Everyone was always becoming someone else.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Bec...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the m...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
We all fight our own private wars.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted t...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The cleare...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughte...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Ad we interviewing each other?
Something like that.
What position am I applying for?
...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all th...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a dam...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Words were different when they lived inside of you.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people yo...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I don't like remembering.
Remembering makes me feel things.
I don't like to feel things. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He t...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I was fifteen.
I was bored.
I was miserable.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying ha...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't kn...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to retu...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I had learned to hide what I felt. No, that's not true. There was no learning involved. I had been b...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the r...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.

'Smiles are like that. They come and go.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That'...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - jus...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
What is it with you and that book?"
Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never k...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world throug...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."
"No," he said.
"Kiss me."
"No," And then he smiled....
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
You belong everywhere you go. That’s just how you are.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
There are worst things in life than kissing boys.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wished it was raining," he said.
"I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just te...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Maybe dogs were one of the secrets of the universe.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?” “I’m an educated woman. That doesn’t ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I love swimming"
"I know," I said.
"I love swimming," he said again. He was quiet for a li...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to l...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
My dad picked me up and rocked me in the chair. I felt small and weak and I wanted to hold him back ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Do you think it will always be this way?”
“What?”
“I mean, when do we start feelin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wanted to buy a T-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWABLE.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Words were not things you could control. Not always.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really s...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I jus...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mys...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon movin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If yo...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ

More Benjamin Alire Sáenz

To be careful with people and with words was a rare and beautiful thing.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I renamed myself Ari.

If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

I thought it ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I bet you could sometimes find all the mysteries of the universe in someone's hand.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I have always felt terrible inside. The reasons for this keep changing.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
It was good to laugh. I wanted to laugh and laugh and laugh until I laughed myself into becoming som...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I don't always have to understand the people I love.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Everyone was always becoming someone else.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I had a rule that it was better to be bored by yourself than to be bored with someone else. I pretty...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Sometimes, you do things and you do them not because you're thinking but because you're feeling. Bec...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the m...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I had a feeling there was something wrong with me. I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
And it seemed to me that Dante's face was a map of the world. A world without any darkness.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
But love was always something heavy for me. Something I had to carry.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
We all fight our own private wars.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wanted to tell them that I'd never had a friend, not ever, not a real one. Until Dante. I wanted t...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Maybe we just lived between hurting and healing.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The summer sun was not meant for boys like me. Boys like me belonged to the rain.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The cleare...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Daughters. They were sometimes as familiar and intimate as honeysuckles in bloom, but mostly daughte...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
What is this thing you call substance abuse?
All I wanna do is forget and get loose.
Drin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Ad we interviewing each other?
Something like that.
What position am I applying for?
...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I want to live in the calmness of the morning light.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Summer was here again. Summer, summer, summer. I loved and hated summers. Summers had a logic all th...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The only class that I was having a hard time with was my art elective. I couldn’t draw worth a dam...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Words were different when they lived inside of you.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people yo...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Scars. A sign that you had been hurt. A sign that you had healed.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The heart can get really cold if all you've known is winter.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered if my smile was as big as hers. Maybe as big. But not as beautiful.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I don't like remembering.
Remembering makes me feel things.
I don't like to feel things. BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Water was something he loved, something he respected. He understood its beauty and its dangers. He t...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I was fifteen.
I was bored.
I was miserable.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I guess I did miss Dante-even though I tried hard to not think about him. The problem with trying ha...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I have this idea that the reason we have dreams is that we're thinking about things that we don't kn...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to retu...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I had learned to hide what I felt. No, that's not true. There was no learning involved. I had been b...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Senior year. And then life. Maybe that's the way it worked. High school was just a prologue to the r...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Sometimes, all you have to do is tell people the truth. They won't believe you. After that, they'll ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Why do we smile? Why do we laugh? Why do we feel alone? Why are we sad and confused? Why do we read ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Your smile is back.' That's what Dante said.

'Smiles are like that. They come and go.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
See, the thing about that word, Sharkey, the F-word, is that sometimes I make that word do too much ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
He was still experimenting with kissing girls even though he said he'd rather be kissing boys. That'...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
See, I think there are roads that lead us to each other. But in my family, there were no roads - jus...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
What is it with you and that book?"
Rafael laughed. "We have a personal relationship.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
People who have monsters recognize each other. They know each other without even saying a word.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wasn't big on family gatherings. Too many intimate strangers. I smiled a lot, but really I never k...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I guess I was a mystery even to myself.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
One summer night I fell asleep hoping the world would be different when I woke. In the morning, when...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered what it would be like, to love a girl, to know how a girl thinks, to see the world throug...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
It felt like there was a whole world living inside her. I didn't know anything about that world.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Try it again," I said. "Kiss me."
"No," he said.
"Kiss me."
"No," And then he smiled....
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
You belong everywhere you go. That’s just how you are.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I thought it might be a great thing to be the air. I could be something and nothing all at the same ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
There are worst things in life than kissing boys.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wished it was raining," he said.
"I don't need the rain," I said. "I need you.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
He tried not to laugh, but he wasn't good at controlling all the laughter that lived inside of him.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
People don't always have to do the right thing for the right reasons—so long as they do the right ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
One of my roommates, Rafael, he's an expert on monsters. Not that he talks about them. I can just te...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Maybe dogs were one of the secrets of the universe.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
In transition? What kind of a Mexican mother are you?” “I’m an educated woman. That doesn’t ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I love swimming"
"I know," I said.
"I love swimming," he said again. He was quiet for a li...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
The problem is not that I don't love my mother and father. The problem is that I don't know how to l...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wonder if he’d been as beautiful as Dante. And I wondered why I thought that.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
My dad picked me up and rocked me in the chair. I felt small and weak and I wanted to hold him back ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
There are worse things in the world than a boy who likes to kiss other boys.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Everyone expected something from me. Something I just couldn't give.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I didn't understand how you could live in a mean world and not have any of that meanness rub off on ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Do you think it will always be this way?”
“What?”
“I mean, when do we start feelin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wanted to buy a T-shirt that read: I AM UNKNOWABLE.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
One of the secrets of the universe was that our instincts were sometimes stronger than our minds.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Words were not things you could control. Not always.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
It was as if my eyes were a camera and I was photographing the moment, knowing that I would keep the...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really s...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
In order to be wildly popular you had to make people believe that you were fun and interesting I jus...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
You can’t expect to go both ways when you’re driving on a one-way street.
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
I wondered what that was like, to hold someone's hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mys...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
In the distance, I can see a storm coming in, the dark clouds and the lightning on the horizon movin...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
What did being connected to the world get you? It got you sadder. Look, the world is not sane. If yo...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
Talking just adds to the noise pollution in the world. If we were really serious about going green, ...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ
So I was the son of a man who had Vietnam living inside him. Yeah I had all kinds of reasons for fee...
BENJAMIN ALIRE SáENZ, ARISTOTLE AND DANTE DISCOVER THE SECRETS OF THE UNIVERSE
Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When and under what conditions is the black man to have a free ballot? When is he in fact to have th...
BENJAMIN HARRISON
Never retreat. Never explain. Get it done and let them howl.
BENJAMIN JOWETT
If all printers were determined not to print anything till they were sure it would offend nobody, th...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Every passion borders on the chaotic, but the collector's passion borders on the chaos of memori...
WALTER BENJAMIN
All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.
WALTER BENJAMIN
All disgust is originally disgust at touching.
WALTER BENJAMIN
Power has only one duty - to secure the social welfare of the People.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
My objection to Liberalism is this that it is the introduction into the practical business of life o...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no m...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When the well is dry, they know the worth of water.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In reality, there is, perhaps, no one of our natural passions so hard to subdue as pride.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reas...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never take a wife till thou hast a house (and a fire) to put her in.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
You can bear your own faults, and why not a fault in your wife?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A child thinks 20 shillings and 20 years can scarce ever be spent.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that composes himself is wiser than he that composes a book.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the laz...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When you're finished changing, you're finished.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
To succeed, jump as quickly at opportunities as you do at conclusions.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain - and most fools do.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
An egg today is better than a hen to-morrow.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When in doubt, don't.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one's self.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade?
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Lost time is never found again.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in...
BENJAMIN HARRISON
A life of leisure and a life of laziness are two things. There will be sleeping enough in the grave.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Being ignorant is not so much a shame, as being unwilling to learn.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If passion drives you, let reason hold the reins.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
All wars are follies, very expensive and very mischievous ones.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Distrust and caution are the parents of security.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have a ton of videos on MySpace and YouTube.
OWEN BENJAMIN
I was 6, and I was in the opera 'Carmen.' My dad sang opera and got me into the children'...
OWEN BENJAMIN
To be fair, I don't get mad when people laugh at me when I fall down.
OWEN BENJAMIN
Mediocrity can talk, but it is for genius to observe.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Hunger is the best pickle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The bud of victory is always in the truth.
BENJAMIN HARRISON
A Swedish minister having assembled the chiefs of the Susquehanna Indians, made a sermon to them, ac...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Composing is like driving down a foggy road toward a house. Slowly you see more details of the house...
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
When you go to work, you are a Christian at your workplace. You're not a broadcaster who happens...
BENJAMIN WATSON
I travel often, so my routine is always getting scrambled. But on a standard sort of day, I get up a...
BENJAMIN PERCY
Nowhere probably is there more true feeling, and nowhere worse taste, than in a churchyard.
BENJAMIN JOWETT
My dear child, you must believe in God despite what the clergy tells you.
BENJAMIN JOWETT
Research! A mere excuse for idleness; it has never achieved, and will never achieve any results of t...
BENJAMIN JOWETT
There is a serious defect in the thinking of someone who wants - more than anything else - to become...
BENJAMIN JOWETT
The achievements which society rewards are won at the cost of diminution of personality.
BENJAMIN JOWETT
We cannot seek or attain health, wealth, learning, justice or kindness in general. Action is always ...
BENJAMIN JOWETT
Young men make great mistakes in life; for one thing, they idealize love too much.
BENJAMIN JOWETT
You've got to be success minded. You've got to feel that things are coming your way when you...
BENJAMIN JOWETT
One man is as good as another until he has written a book.
BENJAMIN JOWETT
Mr. Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea, and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Membership in the bar is a privilege burdened with conditions.
BENJAMIN CARDOZO
The difference between a misfortune and a calamity is this: If Gladstone fell into the Thames, it wo...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I've found that in business opportunities will constantly emerge or situations develop that make...
BENJAMIN COHEN
Someone once asked me why women don't gamble as much as men do and I gave the commonsensical reply t...
BENJAMIN TILLETT
I think, over the time that you're in the league, you learn what your body needs: you learn the ...
BENJAMIN WATSON
Money never made a man happy yet, nor will it. There is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
One good husband is worth two good wives, for the scarcer things are, the more they are valued.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Where there is marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
He that displays too often his wife and his wallet is in danger of having both of them borrowed.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Like Aristotle, conservatives generally accept the world as it is; they distrust the politics of abs...
BENJAMIN WIKER
Worry -- a God, invisible but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from th...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Justice will not be served until those who are unaffected are as outraged as those who are.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such Thing as Wisdom; and no such Thing as publick Liber...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We assemble parliaments and councils, to have the benefit of their collected wisdom; but we necessar...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
God grant, that not only the Love of Liberty, but a thorough Knowledge of the Rights of Man, may per...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Whilst the last members were signing the Constitution, Doctor Franklin, looking towards the Presiden...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
In these sentiments, sir, I agree to this Constitution, with all its faults, if they are such; becau...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Has not the famous political Fable of the Snake, with two Heads and one Body, some useful Instructio...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
When I was a child of seven years old, my friends, on a holiday, filled my pocket with coppers. I we...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Rich widows are the only secondhand goods that sell at first-class prices.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Well, Doctor, what have we gota Republic or a Monarchy?A Republic, if you can keep it.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
We must not in the course of public life expect immediate approbation and immediate grateful acknowl...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs throug...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I am about courting a girl I have had but little acquaintance with. How shall I come to a knowledge ...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Who is wise? He that learns from every One. Who is powerful? He that governs his Passions. Who is ri...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
A plural Legislature is as necessary to good Government as a single Executive. It is not enough that...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. FRANKLIN mentioned the case of the Prince of Orange William V, during the late war. An arrangeme...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Dr. Franklin was for retaining the clause on impeachment, as favorable to the executive. History fur...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
That it is better 100 guilty Persons should escape than that one innocent Person should suffer, is a...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
The small progress we have made after four or five weeks close attendance and continual reasonings w...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I have lived, Sir, a long time, and the longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this trut...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Poetry itself is music. I'm just lucky that I can convert it into music. William Blake is my fav...
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
I didn't blend well with my classmates or my teachers.
BENJAMIN CLEMENTINE
The sleeping fox catches no poultry.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Words may show a man's wit but actions his meaning.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Never confuse motion with action.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I was told, continued Egremont, that an impassable gulf divided the Rich from the Poor; I was told t...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
You cannot choose between party government and Parliamentary government. I say you can have no Parli...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Then there was a maiden speech, so inaudible, that it was doubted whether, after all, the young orat...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I have always thought that every woman should marry, and no man.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Never complain and never explain.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Mr Kremlin himself was distinguished for ignorance, for he had only one idea,and that was wrong.
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
For nearly five years the present Ministers have harassed every trade, worried every profession, and...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
That we may live to see England once more possess a free Monarchy and a privileged and prosperous Pe...
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
I have climbed to the top of the greasy pole!
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.
BENJAMIN SPOCK
I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the mo...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
I condole with you, we have lost a most dear and valuable relation, but it is the will of God and Na...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN
Sir, I say that justice is truth in action
BENJAMIN DISRAELI
Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely...
BENJAMIN SPOCK