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Makes Quotes by Alain de Botton
- It's very hard to respect people on holiday - everybody looks so silly at the beach, it makes you hate humanity - but when you…
- Good sex isn't just fun, it keeps us sane and happy. Having sex with someone makes us feel wanted, alive and potent.
- Taking architecture seriously therefore makes some singular and strenuous demands upon us...It means conceding that we are inconveniently vulnerable to the colour of our wallpaper…
- The dream of the news is that it makes us care about other people and situations. But we cannot identify with people to whom we…
- Because the rhythm of conversation makes no allowance for dead periods, because the presence of others calls for continuous responses, we are left to regret…
- Most of what makes a book 'good' is that we are reading it at the right moment for us.
- A notorious inability to express emotions makes human beings the only animals capable of suicide.
More Makes Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- School is practice for future life, practice makes perfect and nobody's perfect, so why practice? — Billie Joe Armstrong
- Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which… — Matthew Arnold
- A good goal is like a strenuous exercise - it makes you stretch. — Mary Kay Ash
- From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life. — Arthur Ashe
- Indeed, wretched the man whose fame makes his misfortunes famous. — Lucius Accius
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- It was pride that changed angels into devils; it is humility that makes men as angels. — Saint Augustine