Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything—everything—because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I had a bad conscience until I discovered that having a bad conscience about something so gravely serious as leaving your children is an affectation, a way of achieving a little suffering that can't for a moment be equal to the suffering you've caused.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Suffering

• I don't have a place that I call home at the moment because there's no point. I mean, I'm a traveling circus for a while. It's weird. Like, if I wanted to go home, there's nowhere to go. I just go to a hotel. But I've kind of gotten used to it.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Home
  • Weird
  • Moment

• There came a moment in my life when I realized that I had stepped into another part of my life. I used to walk into a room full of people and think, do they like me? And one day I walk in and I thought, do I like them?

  

  Victoria Principal
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• At times, our circumstances call for us to make critical choices to keep our covenants or to compromise them. Covenants should never be compromised, even when at the moment some circumstances might seem to justify it.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Never
  • Choices
  • Moment

• I've worked with very few that I considered unpleasant. Dennis the Menace was a joy to work on.

  

  Gale Gordon
  • Work
  • Joy
  • Very

• Most movies are lucky to have one moment, one shot that you look at and you always remember that moment and that scene.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Remember
  • Movies
  • Moment

• Sometimes you feel you have the truth of a moment in your hand, then it slips through your fingers and is lost.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • Truth
  • Lost
  • Hand

• Nothing can really prepare you for you the sheer overwhelming experience of what it means to become a mother. It is full of complex emotions of joy, exhaustion, love, and worry, all mixed together.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Love
  • Experience
  • Mother

• We're never so vulnerable than when we trust someone - but paradoxically, if we cannot trust, neither can we find love or joy.

  

  Walter Anderson
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Trust

• Raising kids is part joy and part guerrilla warfare.

  

  Ed Asner
  • Kids
  • Joy
  • Warfare

• I am racing to the studio the moment that God affords me the opportunity to hear again.

  

  Foxy Brown
  • God
  • Opportunity
  • Moment

• When I do a horror or a fantasy film it all boils down to something in the script that surprises me. It could be a big thing or a small moment. If it's there I'll do it.

  

  Lance Henriksen
  • Film
  • Moment
  • Fantasy

• Beauty is the only thing that time cannot harm. Philosophies fall away like sand, creeds follow one another, but what is beautiful is a joy for all seasons, a possession for all eternity.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Beautiful
  • Joy
  • Eternity

• In the history of photography, we have many masterpieces in terms of black and white books. You have Bresson's 'Decisive Moment,' Frank's 'The Americans'... many masterpieces. But there is nothing to this caliber in color. Well, I think I'll waltz with my muse and hope that I might be able to produce something on this order in color.

  

  Ralph Gibson
  • History
  • Hope
  • Black

• I say 'here's the thing' a lot, both to alert people that I'm about to say something important and to give myself a moment to figure out what that important thing might be, because my head is so often completely empty.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Important
  • Myself

• When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Peace
  • Practice
  • Moment

• The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

  

  Kate Capshaw
  • Moment
  • Attractive
  • Risky

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• Cassandra's grandmother smiled then, only it wasn't a happy smile. Cassandra thought she knew how it felt to smile like that. She often did so herself when her mother promised her something she really wanted but knew might not happen.

  

  Kate Morton
  • Grandmother
  • Smiled
  • Cassandra

• No one of this nation ever begs, for the houses of all are common to all; and they consider liberality and hospitality amongst the first virtues.

  

  Gerald of Wales
  • House
  • Common
  • Hospitality

• Ambition drove many men to become false; to have one thought locked in the breast, another ready on the tongue.

  

  Sallust
  • Men
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• We are trying to remake Vietnamese society, a task which certainly cannot be accomplished by force and which probably cannot be accomplished by any means available to outsiders.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Trying
  • Society
  • Task

• The World Wide Web was precisely what we were trying to PREVENT- ever-breaking links, links going outward only, quotes you can't follow to their origins, no version management, no rights management.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • World
  • Trying
  • Management

• Then he smiled at me and for that moment, and just that moment, I forgave him everything—everything—because now I knew what joy looked like and I was part of it.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Joy
  • Moment
  • Smiled