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Things Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people…
- There are three things we cry for in life: things that are lost, things that are found, and things that are magnificent.
- 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…
- Good looking people with strong, fluoridated teeth get things handed to them on platters.
- You can get a subjective and highly factual dossier on most anyone in the public realm almost instantly. It's why publishers don't worry about author…
- One of the cruelest things you can do to another person is pretend you care about them more than you really do.
- Only losers make decisions when things are bad. The time to rejig your life is the time when it's seemingly smooth.
- Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
- The future and eternity are two entirely different things.
- Here's my theory about meetings and life: the three things you can't fake are erections, competence and creativity.
- It was pivotal in making you but you don't remember it. Or do you? Do we understand the events that make us who we are?…
- just then a bee bumbled above us and stole our attention the way flying things can
- Lists only spell out the things that can be taken away from us by moths and rust and thieves. If something is valuable, don't put…
- When someone tells you they’ve just bought a house, they might as well tell you they no longer have a personality. You can immediately assume…
- We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then…
- ...you spend a much larger part of your life being old, not young. Rules change along the way. The first things to go are those…
- Life is boring. People are vengeful. Good things always end. We do so many things and we don’t know why, and if we do find…
- Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.
- Maybe the more emotions a person experiences in their daily lives, the longer time seems to feel to them. As you get older, you experience…
- I have always liked the idea of Superman because I have always liked the idea that there is one person in the world who doesn’t…
- 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…
- As you grow older, it becomes harder to feel 100 percent happy; you learn all the things that can go wrong, you become superstitious about…
- Self-delusion is one of the funniest things there is.
- The Internet has destroyed irony in the world, or at least wounded it considerably. What are we to do about an invention whose end result…
- The things worth writing about, and the things worth reading about, are the things that feel almost beyond description at the start and are, because…
More Things 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
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance. — Aristotle
- The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal. — Aristotle
- Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the one makes… — Aristotle
- Change in all things is sweet. — Aristotle
- In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently; but he… — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle