Alain de Botton Quotes

Parents don't reveal how often they have bitten their tongue, fought back the tears, or been too tired to take off their clothes after a day of childcare. The parent loves, but they do not expect the favour to be returned in any significant way.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

DayTiredParentsTearsParentBack

The way that I am now, I don't want to accept mediocrity. I don't want to accept the easy road.

Joe Nichols

I AmRoadMediocrityEasyWantWay

I call my parents twice a day when I'm away.

Ann Jillian

DayParentsTwiceCallAway

Trump lays bare a lot of things already wrong with our society. But he also accelerates the process of it becoming worse, when it could be getting better.

Jeff Vandermeer

SocietyProcessBetterGetting Better

The government is also looking at further benefits including enhanced capital allowances; the use of Tax Incremental Finance; and extra help from UK Trade and Investment on inward investment and trade opportunities.

Andy Sawford

FinanceGovernmentOpportunitiesHelp

We are really battling, today in the U.S., keeping science education in the forefront at the elementary level, and that's where the research shows that kids get interested.

Steve Spangler

EducationTodayScienceResearchGet

Humans live through their myths and only endure their realities.

Robert Anton Wilson

LiveEndureThroughOnlyMyths

NATO and the EU have also agreed on permanent arrangements on consultation and cooperation between themselves.

Lord Robertson

CooperationPermanentNATOBetween

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one.

Julia Stiles

ThinkLoseMove OnNextInterest

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.

Jason Calacanis

PowerDayEvery DayUnderestimateUs

Over my desk hangs a poster from The Railway Children that my husband had framed for me. It is so lovely to see the children smiling as they run down the railway track.

Dinah Sheridan

ChildrenMeHusbandSmilingDown

Michael Jackson was my friend before he was anything else. I saw him, and I would say, 'Oh my God, I know him...' And I would think, 'I'm so flipping lucky.'

Debbie Rowe

FriendGodThinkKnowSayLucky

I don't write punch lines.

Bonnie Hunt

WritePunchLines

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