Top 100 Quotes About Alain
#1. There is no ethics in general. There are only-eventually-ethics of processes by which we treat the possibilities of a situation.
Alain Badiou
#2. The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away - to go, as he concluded, 'anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!
Alain De Botton
#4. Some Italians are geniuses, but you have to find a balance.
Alain Prost
#5. We've also been forced to learn something rather more surprising: no one is particularly interested.
Alain De Botton
#6. The people have spoken. Their decision is sovereign. We all respect it ... I wish good luck to those who will now govern France.
Alain Juppe
#8. The possibility of a musical modernity that was not characterized by sensationalism
Alain Frogley
#9. The ease with which we can connect the psychological world with the outer, visual and sensory one seeds our language with metaphors.
Alain De Botton
#10. It was no longer her absence that wounded me, but my growing indifference to it. Forgetting, however calming, was also a reminder of infidelity to what I had at one time held so dear.
Alain De Botton
#11. The Asian airlines have the best wine programs.
Alain Ducasse
#12. The average citizen now has near-instantaneous access to information about events in every nation on earth.
Alain De Botton
#13. People know that I have a great love for cinema. Not just for commercial cinema, but for the 'cinema d'auteur.' But to me, two of the great 'auteurs' are actually actors and they both happen to be French. One is Alain Delon and the other is Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Harvey Weinstein
#14. Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process, on the same terms as invention.
Alain Robbe-Grillet
#15. In each restaurant, I develop a different culinary sensibility. In Paris, I'm more classic, because that's what customers like. In Monaco, it's classic Mediterranean haute cuisine. In London, it's a contemporary French restaurant that I've developed with a U.K. influence and my French know-how.
Alain Ducasse
#16. The restaurants express the spirit of the chef, the spirit of the city, the country.
Alain Ducasse
#17. The ethic of truth is the complete opposite of an 'ethics of communication'. It is an ethic of the Real The ethic of truth is absolutely opposed to opinion, and to ethics in general.
Alain Badiou
#18. One of the better guarantors of ending up in a good relationship: an advanced capacity to be alone.
Alain De Botton
#19. The soul is that which denies the body. For example, that which refuses to run when the body trembles, to strike when the body is angry, to drink when the body is thirsty.
Alain-Rene Lesage
#20. There is a kind of serenity in love which is almost a paradise.
Alain Badiou
#21. When I was 12 I made some little films with my friends. I tried to make gangster films, like Fantomas, but I remember being very disappointed with them. They weren't frightening at all. I'm sure they'd be very funny now.
Alain Resnais
#22. But is shame really the most useful tool to be employed in the reformation of mankind? Do people grow better through being belittled? Does fear educate?
Alain De Botton
#23. Most of us still caged within careers chosen for us by our not entirely worldly 18-22 year old selves.
Alain De Botton
#24. I like the mentality of the Americans. It's like when you talk about money.
Alain Prost
#26. Mothers, do you wonder of an evening,
About the tears, the sadness, the passions of your children?
- Tale of the Sun and the Road
Alain-Fournier
#27. True love is a lack of desire to check one's smartphone in another's presence.
Alain De Botton
#28. But I could I tell her so in a way that would suggest the distinctive nature of my attraction? Words like "love" or "devotion" or "infatuation" we're exhausted by the weight of successive love stories, but the layers imposed on them through the uses of others.
Alain De Botton
#29. TV is a deformed vision, an excessive caricature. A chef has to stay an artisan, not become a star.
Alain Ducasse
#30. In the spirit of Julian Barnes's Flaubert's Parrot and Alain de Botton's How Proust Can Change Your Life, Mr. Dyer's Out of Sheer Rage keeps circling its subject in widening loops and then darting at it when you least expect it ... a wild book.
Christopher Lehmann-Haupt
#31. Pronounce a lover 'perfect' can only be a sign that we have failed to understand them. We can claim to have begun to know someone only when they have substantially disappointed us.
Alain De Botton
#32. You want to have fun but you also want to work well. Sometimes I was quite happy at Ferrari, because we would have fun, but then they could not stop having fun and go back to the real work.
Alain Prost
#33. 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 is someone who can understand what we are saying in essence, we are not wholly alive until we are loved.
Alain De Botton
#34. Our capacity to draw happiness from aesthetic objects or material goods in fact seems critically dependent on our first satisfying a more important range of emotional or psychological needs, among them the need for understanding, for love, expression and respect.
Alain De Botton
#35. We are sensitized by the books we read. And the more books we read, and the deeper their lessons sink into us, the more pairs of glasses we have. And those glasses enable us to see things we would have otherwise missed.
Alain De Botton
#36. Hence Proust's assertion that the greatness of works of art has nothing to do with the apparent quality of their subject matter, and everything to do with the subsequent treatment of that matter.
Alain De Botton
#37. These inventors were elevating the formulation of entrepreneurial ideas to the status of a visionary activity. Though forced to justify their efforts in the pragmatic language of venture capital, they were at heart utopian thinkers intent on transforming the world.
Alain De Botton
#38. Failure is enriching. It's also important to accept that you'll make mistakes - it's how you build your expertise. The trick is to learn a positive lesson from all of life's negative moments.
Alain Ducasse
#39. The company of certain people may excite our generosity and sensitivity, while that of others awakens our competitiveness and envy.
Alain De Botton
#40. Every man needs to find a peak, a mountain top or a remote island of his own choosing that he reaches under his own power alone in his own good time.
Alain Gerbault
#41. In fact, it will be very easy to climb the building because of its shape and architecture.
Alain Robert
#42. I can't see any reason why a film shouldn't be stylized and visually beautiful. I don't think a beautiful set is pretentious.
Alain Resnais
#43. I don't do the same food in Tokyo that I do in Vegas and vice versa. If I did that, two weeks later I would have no customers.
Alain Ducasse
#44. For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
Alain Resnais
#45. Being put in our place by something larger, older, greater than ourselves is not a humiliation; it should be accepted as a relief from our insanely hopeful ambitions for our lives.
Alain De Botton
#46. Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction.
Alain Juppe
#47. Living is something of an emergency anyway, but our struggles must usually be strenuously concealed. Our anxieties churn away within us, yet on the outside we must smile and deliver upbeat answers to enquiries about how we're doing.
Alain De Botton
#48. Without sex, we would be dangerously invulnerable. We might believe we were not ridiculous. We wouldn't know rejection and humiliation so intimately.
Alain De Botton
#49. It is perhaps when our lives are at their most problematic that we are likely to be most receptive to beautiful things.
Alain De Botton
#50. 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
#51. I was relying on youth be loyal to the specific variety of compromise and unhappiness, which our hard-won marriage represents.
Alain De Botton
#52. With no attempt there can be no failure; with no failure no humiliation. So our self-esteem in this world depends entirely on what we back ourselves to be and do. It is determined by the ratio of our actualities to our supposed potentialities.
Alain De Botton
#53. I suffer, therefore I am special. I am not understood, but for precisely that reason, I am worthy of greater understanding. 13.
Alain De Botton
#54. I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel.
Alain De Botton
#55. You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets and uneventful nice days.
Alain De Botton
#56. Pegging your contentment to the overall state of the world rather than of your own life: the basis of morality, or a sort of madness?
Alain De Botton
#57. For a politics of emancipation, the enemy that is to be feared most is not repression at the hands of the established order. It is the interiority of nihilism, and the unbounded cruelty that can come with its emptiness.
Alain Badiou
#58. I knew everything and received everything. But real happiness, is giving.
Alain Delon
#61. The beginning of revolutions is psychologically strikingly akin to that of certain relationships: the stress on unity, the sense of omnipotence, the desire to eliminate secrets (with the fear of the opposite soon leading to lover's paranoia and the creation of a secret police).
Alain De Botton
#62. I discovered early in my career as an entrepreneur that I'm not good at many things, and I said 'I need help.'
Alain Bouchard
#63. The more people you have to ask for permission, the more dangerous a project gets.
Alain De Botton
#64. There is always the option of being emotionally lazy, that is, of quoting.
Alain De Botton
#65. A German team could be quite good. But maybe they are a little bit too convinced that they are the best.
Alain Prost
#66. I think maybe the English don't want to try something and look stupid, because they are a bit reserved.
Alain Prost
#67. Most business meetings involve one party elaborately suppressing a wish to shout at the other: 'just give us the money'.
Alain De Botton
#68. Though it may feel otherwise, enjoying life is no more dangerous than apprehending it with continuous anxiety and gloom.
Alain De Botton
#69. And I wondered, with mounting anxiety, What am I supposed to do here? What am I supposed to think?
Alain De Botton
#70. 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
#71. The media insists on taking what someone didn't mean to say as being far closer to the truth than what they did.
Alain De Botton
#72. Memory is ... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.
Alain De Botton
#73. The truth, in so far as a human being is able to attain such a thing, lies in a statement which it seems impossible to disprove. It is by finding out what something is not that one comes closest to understanding what it is.
Alain De Botton
#74. There are two ways to make a man richer, reasoned Rousseau: give him more money or curb his desires.
Alain De Botton
#75. The greatest works of art speak to us without knowing us.
Alain De Botton
#76. Forgiveness requires a sense that bad behaviour is a sign of suffering rather than malice.
Alain De Botton
#77. The most attractive are not those who allow us to kiss them at once [we soon feel ungrateful] or those who never allow us to kiss them [we soon forget them], but those who coyly lead us between the two extremes.
Alain De Botton
#79. A simple problem of arithmetic: there are far more ambitions than there are grand destinies available.
Alain De Botton
#80. One of the unexpectedly important things that art can do for us is to teach us how to suffer more successfully.
Alain De Botton
#81. It is striking how much more seriously we are likely to be taken after we have been dead a few centuries.
Alain De Botton
#82. We know we must address climate change. We may not have sorted out every detail, but we are willing to take a leadership position and embrace open dialogue ... that will get us all to our common goals of protecting our world for future generations,
Alain J. P. Belda
#84. The materialistic view of happiness of our age starkly revealed in our understanding of the word luxury.
Alain De Botton
#85. Reputation matters so much only because people so seldom think for themselves.
Alain De Botton
#86. The Younger Generation comes, bringing its gifts. They are the first fruits of the Negro Renaissance. Youth speaks, and the voice of the New Negro is heard.
Alain LeRoy Locke
#87. Nor is there any valid reason to reject the idea of God or the notion of the sacred just because of the sickly expression Christianity has given to them, any more than it is necessary to break with aristocratic principles on the pretext that they have been caricatured by the bourgeoisie.
Alain De Benoist
#88. What kills us isn't one big thing, but thousands of tiny obligations we can't turn down for fear of disappointing others.
Alain De Botton
#89. The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
Alain De Botton
#90. I live in Paris, yet Monaco, where I spend a lot of time, holds a very special place in my heart.
Alain Ducasse
#91. Getting to the top has an unfortunate tendency to persuade people that the system is OK after all.
Alain De Botton
#93. Do not hold everything as gold that shines like gold.
Alain De Lille
#94. Work finally begins when the fear of doing nothing exceeds the fear of doing it badly.
Alain De Botton
#95. Don't despair: despair suggests you are in total control and know what is coming. You don't - surrender to events with hope.
Alain De Botton
#96. I was not willing to give up because I was born to like taking risks and that is my way of life.
Alain Robert
#97. I learnt to stop fantasising about the perfect job or the perfect relationship because that can actually be an excuse for not living.
Alain De Botton
#98. There are few more effective ways to promote tolerance between suspicious neighbours than to force them to eat supper together.
Alain De Botton
#99. Some of the other students were out on the grass in front of Alain Locke Hall, in pink and green, chanting, singing, stomping, clapping, stepping.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
#100. Rejection hurts so much because we take it as a damning judgement passed not merely on our physical appeal but on our entire selves, and by extension (at this stage we're crying into our pillow, as something by Bach or Leonard Cohen plays on the stereo) on our very right to exist. 2.
Alain De Botton
