Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• I started making movies in the early '90s, a few years after I discovered 'the cinema' during a three month stay in Paris during which I watched 100s of films.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Movies
  • Paris
  • Cinema

• I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Mean
  • Dirt
  • Umpire

• Homosexuals reject the process of healing because it's too painful and time-consuming.

  

  Randall Terry
  • Time
  • Process
  • Healing

• I've always been fascinated by the concept of reincarnation. I learned that many brilliant people were interested in reincarnation, including Carl Jung. I'm a big Jungian. So I began writing novels involving theories integrating past and present, even if the past element in the novel took place 500 or 1,000 years ago.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Writing
  • Past

• I have some strategical vision, I could calculate some few moves ahead and I have an intellect that is badly missed in the country which is run by generals and colonels.

  Garry Kasparov
  • Country
  • Vision
  • Run

• We owe it to all our veterans to make sure they have a chance to achieve the American Dream, just like the rest of us.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • American
  • Dream
  • Rest

• I have to look at my career as 'it was what it was,' but I do wish there was more of it.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Career
  • Wish
  • Look

• The Chinese are good at repression and can be pretty ruthless about it.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Chinese

• I feel like I ask people who have been in the industry for a while a lot of questions.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • Feel
  • Questions

• Somebody finally has to get out an ad, often after hours. Somebody has to stare at a blank piece of paper. Probably nothing was ever more bleak. This is probably the very height of lonesomeness. He is one person and he is alone

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Alone
  • Hours
  • Somebody

• People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument... He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • People
  • God
  • Believe

• Imperfect substitutability of assets implies that changes in the supplies of various assets available to private investors may affect the prices and yields of those assets.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • May
  • Changes
  • Investors

• We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out of the water, but you can never, ever fully remove the feral nature from our psyches.

  

  Yasmine Galenorn
  • Up
  • Nature
  • Water

• If you lack technique you lose the freedom to create.

  

  Paco de Lucía
  • Freedom
  • Ifs
  • Loses

• Former President George W. Bush has hired a man to lead his presidential think tank in Dallas. The man was hired because he was the only candidate who could say the words, 'George W. Bush think tank' with a straight face.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • Words
  • Presidential
  • Candidate

• I was going to talk about Nicholas Parsons' ignorance, but 18 seconds would be a wholly insufficient time.

  

  Clement Freud
  • Time
  • Ignorance
  • Nicholas Parsons

• If you find that the reader of popular romances--however uneducated a reader, however bad the romances--goes back to his old favourites again and again, then you have pretty good evidence that they are to him a sort of poetry.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Pretty

• Oh, here's a clever one. Do you remember this question from the first test?It reads, 'What wrong with this statement?' And do you know what Constance wrote in reply? She wrote, 'What's wrong with you?

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Remember
  • Knows
  • Firsts

• European citizens expect that there will be also a fair system inside the European Union and in the euro, and that's why we have to have quite hard discipline.

  

  Tarja Halonen
  • Why
  • Discipline
  • Will

• You're a slave in your own country, White Man. Each year you get to keep less of the fruits of your labor; each year it gets more difficult to carry the burden the aliens have placed upon you; each year the cheap labor of aliens makes your future less secure; each year you retreat a few steps more into the world of slavery.

  

  George Lincoln Rockwell
  • Future
  • Slavery
  • Burden

• In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the killing of them before I eat them? You would have none but a fisherman by trade do it, and then you would have him utter a sigh, a prayer, and a pious ejaculation at each cod or haddock that he killed.

  

  William Cowper Prime
  • God
  • Prayer
  • Killing

• It’s a truism in policing that witnesses and statements are fine, but nothing beats empirical physical evidence. Actually it isn’t a truism because most policemen think the word ‘empirical’ is something to do with Darth Vader, but it damn well should be.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Evidence
  • Statements
  • Policing