Ben Aaronovitch Quotes
She was staring at us over the top of a pair of completely pointless sunglasses and her phone was playing what I now recognised as The Day the World Turned Day-Glo by X-Ray Specs.Ben Aaronovitch
Quotes to Explore
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The cure for admiring the House of Lords is to go and look at it.
Walter Bagehot -
Affection reproaches, but does not denounce.
Mason Cooley -
No one has debates on Twitter.
Alexandra Petri -
I want to have fun. Life ain't no dress rehearsal. I want to have fun. I'm a comedian; I ain't no politician. So everything I do is with humor, with love.
Bernie Mac -
If you're running around with a negative attitude all the time, you're going to feel down; you're going to have negative results.
Craig Sager -
I think there are ways that perhaps organic partnerships can occur in local geographies with groups that are extremely focused on their communities. That's really how Techstars began, as a grassroots movement in Boulder, Colo., that happened to catch fire and expand around the world.
David Cohen
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Whenever Congress was in session, we were in Washington. So four months out of the year we were in Tennessee and the rest of the time in Arlington, which is where my mom grew up. Then, of course, in 1992 we moved into the vice president's house in D.C. I was 15 then.
Kristin Gore -
Songs are not better just because they're emotionally honest. To write a song well, you have to put some work into it and grind it out.
Jakob Dylan -
We want to ascribe a kind of tragic grimness to people, but people are funny.
Luis Alberto Urrea -
Chemistry itself knows altogether too well that - given the real fear that the scarcity of global resources and energy might threaten the unity of mankind - chemistry is in a position to make a contribution towards securing a true peace on earth.
Kenichi Fukui -
The Body of an American, **1919* 1932
John Dos Passos -
I do think that if the Church can see its way to greater tolerance, Church members will have greater exposure to gay people, and the lives of those gay people will be better.
Andrew Solomon
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If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
Oscar Wilde -
In a large congregation, while there is a wide diversification of interest, it is also true that there are only a few basic human problems. It must also be taken into consideration that people are people regardless of who they are or what their backgrounds may be. There are certain deep universal appeals to human interest and to these human nature always responds.
Norman Vincent Peale -
Large credit guarantees also impede optimal allocation of financial resources and increase moral hazard.
Urjit Patel -
Love, like truth and beauty, is concrete. Love is not fundamentally a sweet feeling; not, at heart, a matter of sentiment, attachment, or being "drawn toward." Love is active, effective, a matter of making reciprocal and mutually beneficial relation with one's friends and enemies.
Carter Heyward -
Someone who bears a grudge while he prays is like a person who sows in the sea and expects to reap a harvest.
Isaac of Nineveh -
He was such a bad writer, they revoked his poetic license.
Milton Berle
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As soon as I go into a Starbucks I take off my sunglasses. I want to be recognised and I want free coffee.
Gerard Way My Chemical Romance -
It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.
Evonne Goolagong Cawley -
She was staring at us over the top of a pair of completely pointless sunglasses and her phone was playing what I now recognised as The Day the World Turned Day-Glo by X-Ray Specs.
Ben Aaronovitch