Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

I listened to make sure she wasn’t coming up the stairs and had a poke through the underwear drawers but got nothing except a vague sense of being really unprofessional.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Revolution
  • Hurrah

• They terrify lest they should fear.

  

  Tacitus
  • Fear
  • Terrify

• Yes, and when the love of life disappears, no meaning can console us.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Meaning
  • Disappears
  • Love of Life

• One of the failures of technology companies is that they build technologies thinking everything else will work out.

  

  Steve Jobs
  • Failures
  • Technology companies

• One of the dangers in prayer is to try to find words that will be somehow on the level of God. Unfortunately, as none of us are on a level with God, we fall short and waste a great deal of time in trying to find the right words.

  

  Anthony of Sourozh
  • Words
  • Prayer
  • Find

• They're sort of ancillary anyway, friends. I mean, they're important -- everybody knows that; the TV tells you so -- but they come and go. You lose one friend, you pick up another.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Important
  • Friend
  • Mean

• The challenging thing from a work perspective is just the range of things on any given day that you're dealing with and making sure you have the head space to really be giving them the thought and consideration you'd like, too.

  

  Jacinda Ardern
  • Perspective
  • Consideration
  • Dealing

• She told me that every other step was just for me.' But that's only half of the dance,' I said. Yeah,' my father said. 'She was keeping the rest for herself. Nobody can give everything away. It ain't healthy.

  

  Sherman Alexie
  • Father
  • Said
  • Healthy

• Before, I guess, mum and dad were everything, but now, in my case, I had two new girls and all of a sudden they're completely dependent on you and there's a third generation. It's a funny shift all of a sudden. You have the babies, you have yourself and then you have your parents.

  

  Roger Federer
  • Baby
  • Parent
  • Generation

• Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

  

  Spider Robinson
  • World
  • Secret
  • Information

• The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Up
  • Vision
  • Step

• I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Stories
  • Writer
  • Magazines

• I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Praise
  • Listened
  • Echo

• Beautiful quality that women have, which is we like to get together and gab. It's time to elevate that aspect of being a woman.

  

  Elizabeth Lesser
  • Quality
  • Woman
  • Gab

• I will keep playing as long as my body lets me, and as long as I'm wanted by my listeners. Because music is the only thing that keeps me going.

  

  Ravi Shankar
  • Music
  • Wanted
  • Because

• If the minority, and a small one too, is suffered to dictate to the majority, after measures have undergone the most solemn discussions by the representatives of the people, and their will through this medium is enacted into a law, there can be no security for life, liberty, or property; nor, if the laws are not to govern, can any man know how to conduct himself in safety.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Men
  • Liberty

• I listened to make sure she wasn’t coming up the stairs and had a poke through the underwear drawers but got nothing except a vague sense of being really unprofessional.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Listened
  • Stairs
  • Drawers