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Other Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- You can't get mad at weather because weather's not about you. Apply that lesson to most other aspects of life.
- The person who needs the other person the least in a relationship is the stronger member.
- If you look at life as a whole, we have to admit life's good where we live. But in an evil Twilight Zone kind of…
- People are pretty forgiving when it comes to other people's families. The only family that ever horrifies you is your own.
- Nature is one great big wood-chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones and hair.
- Trevor realized that the odd thing about English is that no matter how much you screw sequences word up up, you understood, still, like Yoda,…
- It's weird when people start sentences with 'frankly' - as if their other sentences don't count.
- Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people…
- At least there's nothing scary about him and hopefully he doesn't see anything scary in me. We go way back, to summer camp. We KNOW…
- It's starts out young- you try not be different just to survive- you try to be just like everyone else- anonymity becomes reflexive- and then…
- I think of how people can betray me simply by not caring enough to hide the fact of how little they care.I think of how…
- You know, I really think that when God puts together families, he sticks his finger into the white pages and selects a group of people…
- I used to care about how other people thought I led my life. But lately I've realized that most people are too preoccupied with their…
- After a while you understand the way that things can go wrong in people's lives; you learn all the patterns and the temptations; you recognize…
More Other Quotes
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- The most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- In poverty and other misfortunes of life, true friends are a sure refuge. The young they keep out of mischief; to the… — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. — Aristotle
- It is Homer who has chiefly taught other poets the art of telling lies skillfully. — Aristotle
- Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other… — Aristotle
- Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision. — Dick Armey
- Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they demand so… — Richard Armour