Ben Aaronovitch Quotes

But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.

Ben Aaronovitch

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• He fashioned hell for the inquisitive.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Hell
  • He
  • Inquisitive

• The vast majority of Muslims living here are peaceful citizens. Unfortunately, however, we also see religious and political fanaticism among Muslim groups in Germany.

  

  Otto Schily
  • Political
  • Religious
  • See

• I wanted this, I wanted to do this, but my work is me, and it has to be right.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Work
  • Right
  • Wanted

• Now the idea about taking people abroad is that if they come over to Cyprus, which we have in mind, and bring their families and would have the possibility to defect after they would be ready to speak their mind, well I hope so.

  

  Hans Blix
  • People
  • Mind
  • Hope

• Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

  

  Beatrice Webb
  • Love
  • Religion
  • Logic

• My washing machine overwhelms me with its options and its sophistication.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Machine
  • Options
  • Sophistication

• Let me tell you, very frankly, when I went to the Harvard Business School I was more or less a committed socialist.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • School
  • Business
  • Committed

• Novels are political because in them, we try to identify with people who are not like us. And, in that sense, I like the first-person singular because I have to imitate accurately the voice of someone who is not like me. The third-person singular gives me an authority over a character.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Character
  • Political

• Books are such a great way to spend time with your children, open lines of communication with your children, and just build that strong foundation.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Time
  • Great
  • Children

• I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• The one without second is emptiness, the other one makes it true.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • True

• The happiest mortals on earth are ladies who have been bereaved by the loss of their husbands.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Earth

• We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Revolution

• They have made a grave mistake choosing that woman.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Mistake

• Most middle-class whites have no idea what it feels like to be subjected to police who are routinely suspicious, rude, belligerent, and brutal.

  

  Benjamin Spock
  • Police
  • Rude

• When combined, the small individual contributors of caring, friendship, forgiveness, and love, each of us different from our next-door neighbors, can form a phalanx, an army, with great capability.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Great
  • Different
  • Small

• Tenure actually delivers a doubly whammy to the organizations that endure this outmoded arrangement. The second-rate people who thrive in a tenured environment like nothing more than to surround themselves with more mediocrity and drive out those who might excel and reveal the shortcomings of the entrenched.

  

  Craig Venter
  • People
  • Environment

• It is too great comfort which turns a man against himself. Life is most readily renounced at the time and among the classes where it is least harsh.

  

  Emile Durkheim
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• I've always been fascinated and stared at maps for hours as a kid. I've especially been most intrigued by the uninhabited or lonelier places on the planet. Like Greenland, for instance, or just recently flying over Alaska and a chain of icy, mountainous islands, uninhabited.

  

  Andrew Bird
  • Flying

• The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Up
  • Night
  • Morning

• I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.

  

  Don Imus
  • People
  • Regret

• I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

  

  John Gutfreund
  • People
  • Sad
  • Regret

• I don't know how you can look back with regret if you're at a moment when everything seems fine.

  

  Norman Lear
  • Moment
  • Regret
  • Fine

• But as the wise man said, life’s too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Regret
  • Wine
  • Wise Man