Alain de Botton Quotes

Fantasies can be great, but we shouldn't make the wedding a fantasy, because the wedding is the gateway to married life. It shouldn't be a moment of illusion; it should be a moment of preparation.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: December 20, 1969

Topics

LifeGreatMomentPreparationShould

I know something about how to build constituencies in an independent way.

Michael Bloomberg

KnowBuildIndependentWaySomething

If the past is an indication, when women are given a job to do in Congress, they get it done.

Amy Klobuchar

WomenJobPastCongressDoneGet

The idea that I'm going to have to sit down to write some fiction where I'm going to have to think of a plot would really scare me, because it would come out a mess.

Tracey Emin

MeThinkDownWriteMessOut

I'm scared by the enormous amount of bottled water being consumed today, instead of people drinking filtered tap water. Did you know that nearly 90 percent of those plastic bottles are not recycled and wind up in landfills where it takes thousands of years for the plastic to decompose?

Robert Englund

TodayWaterPeopleWindYouKnow

I just feel - specifically about that holiday - why is it just one day that you have to tell the person that you love how much you love them? I think that is a little silly. I am much more the girl that likes the spontaneous.

Michelle Trachtenberg

LoveGirlDayI AmThinkYou

The only real failure to me is if you don't finish something.

Josh Malerman

FailureMeYouRealFinishOnly

For only as we ourselves, as adults, actually move and have our being in the state of love, can we be appropriate models and guides for our children. What we are teaches the child far more than what we say, so we must be what we want our children to become.

Joseph Chilton Pearce

LoveChildrenChildSayWantBecome

People get bored very quickly.

Jonathan Anderson

PeopleBoredGetVeryQuickly

I don't feel old. I feel like a young man that has something wrong with him.

Dick Cavett

ManFeelWrongYoungYoung ManOld

I've always talked about my faith and my relationship with God, through my 'thank yous' on the records and giving the glory where I feel the glory is due.

Brian Littrell

GodFaithRelationshipFeelGiving

Two-thirds of all growth takes place in cities because, by simple fact of population density, our urban spaces are perfect innovation labs. The modern metropolis is jam-packed. People are living atop one another; their ideas are as well.

Peter Diamandis

GrowthInnovationSimpleIdeasPlace

I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead.

Marilyn vos Savant

ChildrenKnowLeadWhereMayWould

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