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Past Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past…
- A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age ... pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from…
- A few years ago it dawned on me that everybody past a certain age - regardless of how they look on the outside - pretty…
- The past is a finite resource.
- I curled myself into a ball and cried quietly, doing that thing that only young people can do, namely, feeling sorry for myself. Once you're…
- The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull…
- I am a quiet man. I tend to think things through and try not to say too much. But here I am, saying perhaps too…
- A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're…
- I like being surrounded by good ideas. Every single time you walk past something you like, you get a blast of happy chemicals to the…
- Everybody past a certain age, regardless of how they look on the outside, pretty much constantly dreams of being able to escape from their lives.
More Past Quotes
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great… — Karen Armstrong
- Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank God that… — Brooks Atkinson
- I'm absolutely strict about it. When I land, I put my watch right, and I don't care what I feel like, I… — David Attenborough
- As soon as you have a language that has a past tense and a future tense you're going to say, 'Where did… — Margaret Atwood
- Look back over the past, with its changing empires that rose and fell, and you can foresee the future, too. — Marcus Aurelius
- What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and acts of… — Sai Baba
- I love the smell of shampoo on a girl's hair. You can walk past someone and be like, 'Wow, you took a… — Jensen Ackles
- Let love flow so that it cleanses the world. Then man can live in peace, instead of the state of turmoil he… — Sai Baba
- A society that does not correctly interpret and appreciate its past cannot understand its present fortunes and adversities and can be caught… — Ibrahim Babangida
- You realize yourself when you start reflecting - because I don't live in the past, although your past is so much a… — Lauren Bacall
- You are always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past. — Richard Bach