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Day Quotes by Alain de Botton
- In Britain, because I live here, I can also run into problems of envy and competition. But all this is just in a day's work…
- No one is able to produce a great work of art without experience, nor achieve a worldly position immediately, nor be a great lover at…
- Most of our childhood is stored not in photos, but in certain biscuits, lights of day, smells, textures of carpet.
- Insomnia is a glamorous term for thoughts you forgot to have in the day.
- As victims of hurt, we frequently don't bring up what ails us, because so many wounds look absurd in the light of day.
- Sweetness is the opposite of machismo, which is everywhere-and I really don't get on with machismo. I'm interested in sensitivity, and weakness, and fear, and…
- The longing for a destiny is no nowhere stronger than in our romantic life. All too often forced to share our bed with those who…
- I am in general a very pessimistic person with an optimistic, day- to- day take on things. The bare facts of life are utterly terrifying.…
- There is psychological pleasure in this takeoff, too, for the swiftness of the plane’s ascent is an exemplary symbol of transformation. The display of power…
- It seems that most of us could benefit from a brush with a near-fatal disaster to help us recognise the important things that we are…
- We fall in love because we long to escape from ourselves with someone as beautiful, intelligent, and witty as we are ugly, stupid, and dull.…
- The assumption is that life doesn't need to be navigated with lessons. You can just do it intuitively. After all, you only need to achieve…
- I waste most of the day, then finally start to write around 3 P.M., totally disgusted with myself for my wasteful nature.
More Day Quotes
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short time, does… — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. — Karen Armstrong