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Perhaps Quotes by Alain de Botton
- It's perhaps easier now than ever before to make a good living; it's perhaps harder than ever before to stay calm, to be free of…
- It is the most ambitious and driven among us who are the most sorely in need of having our reckless hopes dampened through immersive dousings…
- If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a…
- If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in…
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad...
- It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is…
- Perhaps the easiest people to fall in love with are those about whom we know nothing. Romances are never as pure as those we imagine…
- Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.
- Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to see us existing, we cannot properly speak until there…
- 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…
- Perhaps because the origins of a certain kind of love lie in an impulse to escape ourselves and out weaknesses by an alliance with the…
- The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
- It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
- Life seems to be a process of replacing one anxiety with another and substituting one desire for another--which is not to say that we should…
More Perhaps Quotes
- When it comes to the point where you occasionally look forward to being in prison on the basis that you might be… — Julian Assange
- In fact, I thought that Christianity was very a good and a very valuable thing for us. But after a while, I… — Chinua Achebe
- Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- 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
- Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers. — Marcus Aurelius
- It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as… — Francis Bacon
- Hungry people cannot be good at learning or producing anything, except perhaps violence. — Pearl Bailey
- I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul,… — Ansel Adams
- Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact. — Honore de Balzac
- Ideas devour the ages as men are devoured by their passions. When man is cured, human nature will cure itself perhaps. — Honore de Balzac
- I raced supremely well. I felt I was as well fitted to do it as I had ever been, and as perhaps… — Roger Bannister
- Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in… — Jacques Barzun