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Place Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- If you don't have a spiritual practice in place when times are good, you can't expect to suddenly develop one during a moment of crisis.
- The world is a glorious place, and filled with so many unexpected moments that I'd get lumps in my throat, as though I were watching…
- There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less, and because numbness encourages laziness, you do fewer things, good…
- We want our idols to be dead because it makes death a much less scary place.
- 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…
- Florida isn't so much a place where one goes to reinvent oneself, as it is a place where one goes if one no longer wished…
- Could the situation be that we no longer believe in that particular place? Or maybe we were all promised Heaven in our lifetimes, and what…
- maybe memories are like karaoke-where you realize up on the stage, with all those lyrics scrawling across the screen's bottom, and with everybody clapping at…
- You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or…
- How can we be alive and not wonder about the stories we knit together this place we call the world? Without stories our universe is…
- After you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of earth? What one moment…
- The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.
- But I guess the nice thing about driving a car is that the physical act of driving itself occupies a good chunk of brain cells…
More Place Quotes
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- Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the… — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong
- Winning is about heart, not just legs. It's got to be in the right place. — Lance Armstrong
- It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much more pronounced… — Neil Armstrong
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think… — David Attenborough
- All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters… — Margaret Atwood
- That's why I began doing makeup in the first place: I was hoping that through helping people see the beauty in themselves,… — Kevyn Aucoin
- Murder is unique in that it abolishes the party it injures, so that society has to take the place of the victim… — Wystan Hugh Auden