Asking Quote by Alain de Botton Download Open image “One kind of good book should leave you asking: how did the author know that about me?” — Alain de Botton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Asking Book Books Good book Kind Should
You know everything you need to know about a person from the answer to the question, What is your favorite book? — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I wrote the book not to prove people wrong but just to get the insight on who I am as a person. — Terrell Owens Copy Share Image
My book has a lot of parts of my life that people don't know about. — Maureen Forrester Copy Share Image
“There is nothing like discovering your own secrets in someone else’s story. Those thoughts and feelings you believed were too ugly or strange or idealistic or desperate or whimsical or hungry or sad they had to be just you because there could be no other place for them, anywhere. Books that make you realize you’re not alone, you never were.… — Courtney Summers Copy Share
Books have always been living things to me. Some of my encounters with new authors have changed my life a little. When I have… — Liv Ullmann Copy Share Image
To me a good book is like a quiet friend—a friend who’s happy to share thoughts and feelings with you, who’s always there when… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
When the book comes out it may hurt you - but in order for me to do it, it had to hurt me first.… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
“I knew all about reading a lot. About how it could take you to a world that was better than the real one. A… — Chelsea Sedoti Copy Share Image
Man, that's the only kind of book I like one that's so real you want to find out everything there is to know… — Adam Rapp Copy Share Image
“When she told me it was her favorite, it suggested to me strange and wonderful things about her character that I had not guessed,… — Gabrielle Zevin Copy Share Image
I decided to write a book primarily because people talked me into it. — Terry Bradshaw Copy Share Image
“Don't ask me about my book...read it. You will find what you need and what speaks to you in the depths or illusions of… — Ina Brink Copy Share Image
“To be mature is, we're told, to move beyond possessiveness. Jealousy is for babies. The mature person knows that no one owns anyone.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“He feared that by leaving her he would ruin her life - so he stayed, and did just that.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you're annoyed with them. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“The Anxiety of Sunday afternoon: your unlived lives and infinite possibility pressing upon the constraints of reality.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Those who divorce aren't necessarily the most unhappy, just those neatly able to believe their misery is caused by one other person. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We could not be fulfilled if we weren't inauthentic some of the time—inauthentic, that is, in relation to such things as our passing desires… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Insofar as we appreciate order, it is when we perceive it as being accompanied by complexity, when we feel that a variety of elements… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I like the values associated with a medical family - common sense, being practical but also thoughtful. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“Anyone who urgently needs us deserves, in the true book of love, to be our friend.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
“We can then recognize that we invented religions to serve two central needs which continue to this day and which secular society has not been able to solve with any particular skill: first, the need to live together in communities in harmony, despite our deeply rooted selfish and violent impulses. And second, the need to cope with terrifying degrees of… — Alain de Botton Copy Share
“Half the ingratitude and complacency in the world down to how slowly and imperceptibly most good and bad things unfold.” — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things. — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too.… — Roman Polanski Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Closing his eyes, he sent up a prayer to anyone who was listening, asking please, for God's sake, stop sending him signals that they were right for each other. He'd read that book, seen the movie, bought the soundtrack, the DVD, the T-shirt, the mug, the bobble-head, and the insider's guide. He knew every reason they could have been lock… — J.R. Ward Copy Share
People will identify with a persecuted minority without asking themselves what they are identifying with. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
If you're having a bad day already and everybody is just asking you petty questions, it drives people to the edge, or something really… — Jess Weixler Copy Share Image
You never give away your heart; you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers. — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
There were people asking 'Can women be funny?' People still ask that. It's like asking: 'Can women breathe in and out?' — Julie Walters Copy Share Image
Whether that's speaking up in your job or asking for a promotion or saying, 'I think I can do that.' Using your voice in… — Maria Shriver Copy Share Image
Love cannot be had for the asking; it comes only as a gift from the heart of another — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The Baseball Hall of Fame is something every player dreams about, but being a member of God's Hall of Fame is the greatest achievement of all. God offers each of us the gift of eternal life through Jesus Christ. When we accept God's gift of salvation, our name is written in the Book of Life, guaranteeing us a place in… — Gary Carter Copy Share
