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Humans Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- If human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween.
- Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
- I find it hard to believe that human beings are the crowning achievement of life on earth. Something better than us has to come along.
- Human beings are the only animal that thinks they change who they are simply by moving to a different place. Birds migrate, but it's not…
- Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes…
- Every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking up at least 70 percent of his or her…
- What exactly is it that humans do that is specifically human? There has to be something. How odd it is for billions of people to…
- Mom said that people are interested in birds only in as much as they exhibit human behavior - greed and stupidity and anger - and…
- I am going to give you a piece of advice... advice I wish I'd been told in guidance class back in high school, in between…
- I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what…
- I think if human beings had genuine courage, they'd wear their costumes every day of the year, not just on Halloween. Wouldn't life be more…
- If I've learned anything in twenty-nine years, it's that every human being you see in the course of a day has a problem that's sucking…
- Sometimes I think God is like weather - you may not like the weather, but it has nothing to do with you. You just happen…
- I ma trying to feel more well adjusted than I really am, which is, I guess, the human condition.
- What is human behavior, except trying to prove that we're not animals?
- Gore is nature's way of saying, "There are too many human beings on the planet, and I'm trying to rectify this any way I can.…
- Besides, animals don’t even have time. Only humans have time. It’s what makes us different.
More Humans Quotes
- The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
- Promises are the uniquely human way of ordering the future, making it predictable and reliable to the extent that this is humanly… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others. — Aristotle
- I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or science fiction. — J. J. Abrams
- Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to swallow them… — Paul Auster
- No one's really happy anyway, it's not human. — Billie Joe Armstrong
- The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what human beings… — Billie Joe Armstrong