Alain de Botton Quotes

The Arab-Israeli conflict is also in many ways a conflict about status: it's a war between two peoples who feel deeply humiliated by the other, who want the other to respect them. Battles over status can be even more intractable than those over land or water or oil.

Alain de Botton

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

RespectWaterWarConflictFeelOil

If you don't have trouble paying the rent, you have trouble doing something else; one needs just a certain amount of trouble.

Robert Rauschenberg

DoingYouTroubleRentSomething

People think of black English as ungrammatical, but it bears the same relationship to standard English as contemporary Hebrew does to ancient Hebrew.

John McWhorter

RelationshipPeopleBlackThinkSame

One of the things that really bothers me is that Americans don't have any sense of history. The majority of Americans don't have any idea of where we've come from, so they naturally succumb to the kind of cliche version that Ronald Reagan represented.

Robert K. Massie

HistoryMeKindThingsWhereSense

While the U.S. government is unlikely to ever limit the number of football games, plenty of parents are refusing to let their children play the sport due to the risk of head injuries.

Mary Pilon

ChildrenFootballGovernmentParents

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

Michel de Montaigne

FamilyGovernmentStateThanMuch

Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending expansion of perverse incentives and lobbying.

Mo Ibrahim

PositiveExpansionUpAgainstMarket

If life is a video game, then most of us have no chance of winning, if by winning you mean succeeding in a quest or saving a princess.

Douglas Lain

LifeWinningGameChanceYouMean

Well I've also kind of noticed that, whatever energy that you put out, is kind of the energy that you receive. And so people are just really lovely and kind and soft spoken with me.

Dianna Agron

PeopleMeEnergyYouKindLovely

If I'm president, there are going to be government vans that drive around and pick up people who shouldn't be wearing certain clothing. Talk about lack of civil rights - I'm sorry, I'm pulling you right off the street, and we're giving you clothes that you're going to be O.K. in.

Denis Leary

GovernmentPeopleDriveSorryGiving

I think sharing recipes is such an important part of baking and the baking world.

Christina Tosi

WorldThinkBakingImportantSharing

Success can be obviously a two way street.

Chris Noth

SuccessStreetWayTwoObviously

I want to go back home and make movies in Australia. There's so many stories that we haven't captured yet. In Australia, we cling on to whatever culture we have. We're such a multicultural country.

Brenton Thwaites

HomeCultureBackCountryAustralia

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