Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Path
  • Genius
  • Beaten Path

• We all deal with being unfairly judged.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Being
  • Deal
  • Judged

• Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines and that before one can have any comprehension of the loyalty and trust of faith, one must first force one's mind to accept a host of incomprehensible doctrines. But this is to put the cart before the horse.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Today

• My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.

  

  Laura Dern
  • School
  • Band
  • Son

• It's kind of beating a dead horse if you're talking about going out and saying wrestling's fake, or this or that. People don't want to hear that. They want to hear, they wanted to find an inside story.

  

  Owen Hart
  • People
  • Horse
  • Fake

• Love isn't like money – the more you give away the more you get back, and the more you have to give.

  

  S. M. Stirling
  • Money
  • Love
  • For Her

• Beware of letting small faults pass unnoticed under the idea it is a little one. There are no little things in training children; all are important. Little weeds need plucking up as much as any. Leave them alone and they will soon be great.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Up
  • Great
  • Important

• After the love which we owe Jesus Christ, we must give the chief place in our heart to the love of His Mother Mary.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Jesus

• Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • God
  • Busy
  • Occupations

• But I'm here to say that when we do speak out, we're going to do so because the United States of America does believe, and will always stand for, a certain set of universal values.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America

• The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me, and a matter of bewilderment for my wife.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Wife
  • Politics
  • Littles

• All across the world, ...increasingly dangerous weather patterns and devastating storms are abruptly putting an end to the long-running debate over whether or not climate change is real. Not only is it real, it's here, and its effects are giving rise to a frighteningly new global phenomenon: the man-made natural disaster.

  

  Barack Obama
  • World
  • Long
  • Real

• The pyramids are one of those things that live up to the hype. They're elemental in ways that are hard to describe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Live

• I think daily that the country's future is being thrown to the wind.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Country
  • Future
  • Daily

• Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.

  

  H. P. Blavatsky
  • Earth

• As if paralyzed by the national fear of ideas, the democratic distrust of whatever strikes beneath the prevailing platitudes, it evades all resolute and honest dealing with what, after all, must be every healthy literature's elementary materials.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Fear
  • Ideas
  • Literature

• The best hope for Australia is the ballot box and good education.

  John Monash
  • Education
  • Learning
  • Australia

• I had studied history at Brown and didn't feel like doing anything with it. What does one do with a history degree besides become a historian? And the professors in school, it seemed like they were just writing books for other professors to comment on, and vice versa - it was the most self-referential, boring world you could ever imagine.

  

  Elizabeth Neel
  • School
  • History
  • Books

• Writing that sort of [songs like "Let is Roll"]made me try to almost sort of ingrain it in my own head every time I sing it live as well. It's like therapy. It's like "Move on, Pip! Come on. You can do this! You can do this."

  

  Ladyhawke
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Live

• I have finally mastered what to do with the second tennis ball. Having small hands, I was becoming terribly self-conscious about keeping it in a can in the car while I served the first one. I noted some women tucked the second ball just inside the elastic leg of their tennis panties. I tried, but found the space already occupied by a leg. Now, I simply drop the second ball down my cleavage, giving me a chest that often stuns my opponent throughout an entire set.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Giving
  • Car
  • Tennis

• You have to be involved in terms of what's happening in your local neighborhood and what issues are there.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Issues
  • Neighborhood
  • Terms

• He was from Yorkshire, or somewhere like that, and like many Northerners with issues, he'd moved to London as a cheap alternative to psychotherapy.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Issues
  • Psychotherapy
  • Yorkshire