Alain de Botton Quotes
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.
-
I believe that if you eat well, you work even better.
-
There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.
-
I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.
-
I remember 'Def Comedy Jam' being a big deal and kids talking about it in school, but it was never, 'I want to do that.'
-
Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
-
We firmly believe the environmental issues cannot be addressed without extensive public participation, but people need to be informed before they can get involved.
-
Imagine if I'd said, 'I have to be the best actress - I want that and nothing else.' I never would have directed. I never would have produced. I never would have done a beauty line. I would have just worried about getting a job or been frustrated that I wasn't getting the job that I wanted. I was ready to be a businesswoman.
-
The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.
-
I don't program or code or anything like that.
-
I guess what I like is mostly country & western or else stuff that has a real blues feel to it.
-
Trying on pants is one of the most humiliating things a man can suffer that doesn't involve a woman.
-
Are we disheartened by the breakup of the family? Nobody who ever met my family is.
-
It just gripes me hollow, the way God always sneaks in to take the credit.
-
No government functions without the grease of corruption.
-
I walked into a gunfight with a knife to kill you, and cut you so fast when your blood spilled it was still blue.
-
In the inescapable flux, there is something that abides; in the overwhelming permanence, there is an element that escapes into flux. Permanence can be snatched only out of flux; and the passing moment can find its adequate intensity only by its submission to permanence.
-
At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.
-
I am honest enough with myself to admit it. I rarely offer strong opinions, I have a backbone like a pair of bifold doors, and I am terrified of not being approved of.
-
It's not in their interest to continue this standoff. They have nothing to gain.
-
It is disturbing to discover in oneself these curious revelations of the validity of the Darwinian theory. If it is true that we have sprung from the ape, there are occasions when my own spring appears not to have been very far.
-
Hope sleeps in our bones like a bear waiting for spring to rise and walk.
-
In spring more mortal singers than belong To any one place cover us with song. Thrush, bluebird, blackbird, sparrow, and robin throng....
-
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
