Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• Why am I so famous? What am I doing right? What are the others doing wrong?

  

  Barbra Streisand
  • Why
  • Famous
  • Doing

• When I work a game as an analyst, all I do is look at the game like a coach. Why was something successful? What makes it work? I just try to use my expertise and whatever insight I have to the game.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Why

• No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • Science

• It is not alone that justice is wounded by denying women a part in the making of the civilized world - a more immediate wrong is the way the movement for a fuller, freer life for all human beings is hampered.

  

  Ida Tarbell
  • Women
  • Justice
  • Denying

• Catch several hares and you won't catch one.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Catch
  • Hares

• The message of this band [All Time Low] is go out and do what you want to do and believe in yourself and that it's okay to do that. It's okay to be who you are.

  

  Alex Gaskarth All Time Low
  • Time
  • Believe

• I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where Im going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.

  

  Gregory Phillip Grunberg Band from TV
  • Important
  • Audience
  • Charity

• The thing is, when you put a button in someone's hand and give them the power of yes or no, no is a shorter word. People just say no. The power lies in who can say no the most. But, real power, though, lies in the opportunity to say yes. I think people ultimately realize that, but not when they're in the spotlight.

  

  Adrian Pasdar Band from TV
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Real

• Why are you scared to dream of god when it's salvation that you want?

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Want
  • Dream
  • Scared

• Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

  

  Anne Hathaway
  • Laugh
  • Truths
  • Irony

• “It was a number of years of crashing and burning before I made the discovery that I was not God. Finally I realized that though I was not God, I was of God”

  

  Nevada Barr
  • God
  • Years
  • Discovery

• If you are discouraged it is a sign of pride, because it shows you trust in your own powers. Never bother about other people's opinions. Be humble and you will never be disturbed. Remember St. Aloysius, who said he would continue to play billiards even if he knew he was going to die. Do you play well? Sleep well? Eat well? These are duties. Nothing is small for God.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • Sleep
  • Opinion
  • inspirational

• Some days I fancy him, others I want to flush hid head down the toilet.

  

  Edith Bowman
  • Fancy
  • Toilet
  • Flush

• The Philadelphia Feds manufacturers report for September revealed that despite a sharp slowdown, its prices paid index surged 257 points.

  

  Peter Schiff
  • September
  • Despite
  • Philadelphia

• MUCH AS I love the Jag, it’s too conspicuous for everyday police work. So that day I was driving a battered silver ex–Metropolitan Police Ford Asbo that, despite my best efforts, smelled vaguely of old stakeouts and wet dog.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Dog
  • Despite
  • Smelled

• The outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life, or, in Jungian terms, the Self.

  

  Gary Lachman Blondie
  • Philosopher
  • Opposites
  • Outcome

• You know there's always things in life that you have to do despite the fact that you know for certain the outcome is going to be messy, painful, humiliating, or all three.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Outcome
  • Despite
  • Humiliating