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Failing Quotes by Alain de Botton
- The happiness that may emerge from taking a second look is central to Proust's therapeutic conception. It reveals the extent to which our dissatisfactions may…
- The desire for high status is never stronger than in situations where "ordinary" life fails to answer a median need for dignity and comfort.
- To be shown love is to feel ourselves the object of concern: our presence is noted, our name is registered, our views are listened to,…
- We don't really learn anything properly until there is a problem, until we are in pain, until something fails to go as we had hoped…
More Failing Quotes
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour
- Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders. — Karen Armstrong
- Whatever man uses without the fear of God, whatever he applies to the mere gratifying of his flesh, cannot fail to operate… — Johann Arndt
- War is what happens when language fails. — Margaret Atwood
- If I can procure three hundred good substantial names of persons, or bodies, or institutions, I cannot fail to do well for… — John James Audubon
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits… — Diane Ackerman
- It is here, my daughters, that love is to be found - not hidden away in corners but in the midst of… — Teresa of Avila
- I am convinced in my heart and in my mind that if the United States fails to stand with Israel, that is… — Michele Bachmann
- Corporations are social organizations, the theater in which men and women realize or fail to realize purposeful and productive lives. — Lester Bangs
- High-level, big-deal publicity has a way of getting old for me, but what never fails to thrill me is when I make… — Joseph Barbera
- We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it. — Robert Baden-Powell
- There is no error so monstrous that it fails to find defenders among the ablest men. — Lord Acton