Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
A sudden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it’s like a normal midlife crisis, only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.Ben Aaronovitch
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Every single experience, every single thing that's happened in my life, struggle, obstacle, trials and tribulations, I think they've all molded me to become the character and the person who I am.
Apolo Ohno -
Our lives are fed by kind words and gracious behavior. We are nourished by expressions like 'excuse me', and other such simple courtesies.
Bill Vaughan -
Looks like that's the character of what we have right now.
Phil Jackson -
God made a whole beautiful earth and decided to put you in it, to experience all of this beauty. You can't do that watching television all the time.
Donald Miller -
Rogues are prone to find things before they are lost.
Douglas Jerrold -
For he who gives no fuel to fire puts it out, and likewise he who does not in the beginning nurse his wrath and does not puff himself up with anger takes precautions against it and destroys it.
Plutarch
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O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.
William Shakespeare -
I want to be part of the human race I want to live, breathe.
Thomas Edward Yorke Atoms for Peace -
Alas, I have studied philosophy, the law as well as medicine, and to my sorrow, theology; studied them well with ardent zeal, yet here I am, a wretched fool, no wiser than I was before.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -
Every person, on coming to the knowledge of himself, is not only urged to seek God, but is also led as by the hand to find Him.
John Calvin -
Much of our waking experience is but a dream in the daylight.
George Eliot -
It's not an experiment if you know it's going to work.
Jeff Bezos
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The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham -
I really love what Donald Trump is doing. He is doing a great job of exposing the republicans for what they really are.
Tommy Chong -
Since that first showing of Foolish Wives I have seemed to walk through vast crowds of people, their white American faces turned towards me in stern reproof.
Erich von Stroheim -
If you're sad, add more lipstick and attack.
Coco Chanel -
The aliens of 'The 5th Wave' are not the aliens we've imagined. Not the aliens we'd like to attack us.
Rick Yancey -
A sudden attack of culture snobbery is a common affliction among policemen of a certain rank and age; it’s like a normal midlife crisis, only with more chandeliers and foreign languages.
Ben Aaronovitch