Alain's Quotes
Collection of top 100 famous quotes about Alain's
Alain's Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Alain's quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
Love is an incurable disease. In love, there is permanent suffering. Those who love and those who are happy are not the same.
— Alain De Botton
The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.
— Alain De Botton
Our greatest furies spring from events which violate our sense of the ground of our existence.
— Alain De Botton
It's a great feeling to know that 100 cops want to stop you doing something and they can't.
— Alain Robert
Alain-Fournier is
— David Mitchell
My love for you isn't just my affair, it's yours too. My love says something about you that maybe you yourself don't know.
— Jacques-Alain Miller
Though debts are condemned in the financial world, the world of friendship and love may perversely depend on well-managed debts.
— Alain De Botton
It's hard loving those who don't much like themselves: If you're so great, why would you think I'm so great.
— Alain De Botton
One of love's greatest drawbacks is that, for a while at least, it is in danger of making us happy.
— Alain De Botton
There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.
— Alain De Botton
It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.
— Alain De Botton
There is a devilishly direct relationship between the significance of an idea and how nervous we become at the prospect of having to think about it.
— Alain De Botton
When I drove for British teams ... they called me The Tadpole because I was too small to be a frog.
— Alain Prost
I don't want to follow the herd.
— Alain Robert
With cooking, there's always the tangible and the intangible: that which is in the domain of sentiment, of the individual.
— Alain Ducasse
Insomnia is his mind's revenge for all the tricky thoughts he has carefully avoided during the daylight hours.
— Alain De Botton
The real evolution is to learn something new every day - it's very important for chefs to share what they have discovered.
— Alain Ducasse
You can't control the opposition, but you can control how you play, your energy level, your intensity on the ice. That's what we're going to do.
— Alain Vigneault
It's like when people talk about driving F1 cars in the rain. I have absolutely no problem with it.
— Alain Prost
A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
— Alain Prost
It is easy to get upset about the deteriorating state of one's body, but there are other ways to excel and impress than via one's legs.
— Alain De Botton
After 40 (old age for most of man's history), one should strive to be more or less packed and ready to go were the end call to come.
— Alain De Botton
Dreams reveal we never quite get 'over' anything: it's all still in there somewhere.
— Alain De Botton
We don't wait for the future to come to us. We give birth to the future.
— Alain Yaovi M. Dagba
Writing isn't a career choice. It's self-medication that over time precipitates the madness it was meant to ward off.
— Alain De Botton
I have restaurants, bookshops ... but it's not an empire, more ... a puzzle. If it were an empire, all my restaurants would be the same.
— Alain Ducasse
To one's enemies: I hate myself more than you ever could.
— Alain De Botton
Many moments in religion seem attractive to me even though I can't believe in any of it.
— Alain De Botton
Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.
— Alain De Botton
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.
— Alain-Rene Lesage
We never envy another's achievement more than when we know very little about how it was attained.
— Alain De Botton
People don't understand that it was maybe my biggest pleasure to drive an F1 car when it's wet.
— Alain Prost
I'm nothing, I'm everything,' he declared. 'The street is my mother. The sun is my father. What more should I ask of life?
— Alain Mabanckou
One's doing well if age improves even slightly one's capacity to hold on to that vital truism: This too shall pass.
— Alain De Botton
The promotion of 'average' individual causes a general levelling down.
— Alain De Benoist
It is surely significant that the adults who feature in children's books are rarely, if ever, Regional Sales Managers or Building Services Engineers.
— Alain De Botton
Envy: a confused, tangled guide to one's own ambitions.
— Alain De Botton
In order to improve democracy, then, it's necessary to change the people, as Brecht ironically proposed.
— Alain Badiou
Nature's kind trick is to make everything happen so slowly that we don't get as scared as we should.
— Alain De Botton
Like many other outstanding examples of the genre, Ingres's portrait teaches us that appearance can be a bearer of authentic meaning.
— Alain De Botton
When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent's apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.
— Alain Robert
It's not easy to have success with restaurants in different cities, but I like the challenge.
— Alain Ducasse
Never, ever become a writer. It's a nightmare.
— Alain De Botton
The best cure for one's bad tendencies is to see them in action in another person.
— Alain De Botton
You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.
— Alain De Botton
In their different ways, art and philosophy help us, in Schopenhauer 's words, to turn pain into knowledge.
— Alain De Botton
I spoke to the 'Wine Spectator' because that's PR; that's how you sell wine.
— Alain Wertheimer
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 career anxiety.
— Alain De Botton
To look at the paper is to raise a seashell to one's ear and to be overwhelmed by the roar of humanity.
— Alain De Botton
Public life is debased because it's only the nice people who are worried about imposing their views on others.
— Alain De Botton
In Flaubert's eyes, that only entirely illiterate and uneducated Frenchmen now stood a chance of being able to think properly:
— Alain De Botton
Politics is so difficult, it's generally only people who aren't quite up to the task who feel convinced they are.
— Alain De Botton
Authorities arrest me, release me, and then invite me back to host public events. I think it's interesting.
— Alain Robert
A great writer picks up on those things that matter. It's almost like their radar is attuned to the most significant moments.
— Alain De Botton
Responsible for wrapping the iron fist of authority in its velvet glove is Jane Axtell, head of the accountancy firm's Human Resources department.
— Alain De Botton
Must being in love always mean being in pain?
— Alain De Botton
The feeling one has no time to get anything done provides the pressure that guarantees one does get some things done.
— Alain De Botton
The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country.
— Alain Ducasse
When two people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
— Alain De Botton
BOREDOM IS A new challenge and responsibility.
— Alain De Botton
One of my biggest problems this season was with the clutch at the start of the race. I hate to risk the car.
— Alain Prost
We've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested.
— Alain De Botton
...love is a skill, not just an enthusiasm.
— Alain De Botton
I am a very eco-friendly chef but a guilty air traveller.
— Alain Ducasse
A spouse who gets angry at having been betrayed is evading a basic, tragic truth: that no one can be everything to another person.
— Alain De Botton
In love, we have to dare everything if we really love.
— Alain Delon
Oh, yes, that never happened to me in my life before. It was a risky film, and I warned the producer.
— Alain Resnais
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
— Alain Resnais
Alain Prost is in a commanding second position
— Murray Walker
Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
— Alain De Botton
Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.
— Alain De Botton
Do you love me enough that I may be weak with you? Everyone loves strength, but do you love me for my weakness? That is the real test.
— Alain De Botton
Art was the very antithesis of crass moralism.
— Alain De Botton
Be my friends against the day I shall be on the brink of hell, as I was once before
— Alain-Fournier
You can tell a paragraph is slipping out of control when there's a runaway use of the word 'hence.
— Alain De Botton
The challenge of modern relationships: how to prove more interesting than the other's smartphone.
— Alain De Botton
Although I don't believe in God, Bach's music shows me what a love of God must feel like.
— Alain De Botton
I enjoy every climb - maybe it's because it's a literal dance between life and death.
— Alain Robert
To make my meal, I go to the market and to the garden, and then I decide what I'm going to do. That's a great pleasure.
— Alain Ducasse
In France, Christmas is a family holiday. You stay home. New Year's Eve is when you go out.
— Alain Ducasse
I'd even say it's a realistic film because that's the way it happens in our heads; that was the idea.
— Alain Resnais
To appreciate life's small moments, it helps to have a sense the whole can never be made perfect.
— Alain De Botton
I feel completely alone - it's like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.
— Alain Robert
We wanted to test each other's capacity for survival: only if we had tried in vain to destroy one another would we know we were safe.
— Alain De Botton
I was to look around me as though I had never been in this place before. And slowly, my travels began to bear fruit.
— Alain De Botton
There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires.
— Alain De Botton
