#th

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

#also #battles #between #conflict #deeply

We are certainly influenced by role models, and if we are surrounded by images of beautiful rich people, we will start to think that to be beautiful and rich is very important - just as in the Middle Ages, people were surrounded by images of religious piety. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#beautiful #certainly #images #important #influenced

I was uncomfortable writing fiction. My love was the personal essay, rather than the novel. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#fiction #i #love #novel #personal

When people ask what were the qualities of Bobby Kennedy that they most admired, it was first that he was tough. Second, he told the truth and third, he stood up for the little guy. ↗

— Emilio Estevez

#ask #bobby #bobby kennedy #first #guy

Pick up any newspaper or magazine, open the TV, and you'll be bombarded with suggestions of how to have a successful life. Some of these suggestions are deeply unhelpful to our own projects and priorities - and we should take care. ↗

— Alain de Botton

#bombarded #care #deeply #how #life

It's the continuation of everyone's childhood to see these young children who grow up full of life, full of intelligence, full of a sense of wonder. And within an instant they're gone from this world. It's terrible. ↗

— Lucien Bouchard

#children #continuation #everyone #full #gone

The musicians are really on board, they're doing a great job together. There is some kind of a good chemistry, I would say affectionate chemistry and it's a huge promise of success. ↗

— Lucien Bouchard

#board #chemistry #doing #good #great

I said to Scott that the ascent seemed to be going slowly and that I was concerned descending climbers could possibly run out of oxygen before their return to camp IV. ↗

— Anatoli Boukreev

#before #camp #climbers #concerned #could

I think it's Jerry's masterful fiction writing. ↗

— Tim LaHaye

#fiction writing #i #i think #jerry #masterful

I now have great color sprinkled throughout my herd. ↗

— Janine Turner

#great #herd #i #now #sprinkled