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World Quotes by Douglas Coupland
- 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…
- 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…
- Forget about being world famous, it's hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence.
- 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…
- In the end, I think the relationships that survive in this world are the ones where two people can finish each other's sentences. Forget drama…
- 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…
- Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?
- The new world lies before her eyes like an opened chest of treasure, a flock of birds over Africa, a thousand TVs all playing at…
- 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…
- Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.
- The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the…
- We're rapidly approaching a world comprised entirely of jail and shopping.
- When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would…
- Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.
- Nobody believes the identities we've made for ourselves. I feel like everybody in the world is fake now - as though people had true cores…
- You fear that if you lower your guard for even one second your whole world will disintegrate into chaos
- Compromise is said to be the way of the world and yet I find myself feeling sick trying to accept what it has done to…
- I am aware that there is a world out there that functions without regard to me. There are wars and budgets and bombings and vast…
- As I'm never going to be old, I'm glad that I never lost my sense of wonder about the world, although I have a hunch…
- I think that every reader on earth has a list of cherished books as unique as their fingerprints....I think that, as you age, you tend…
- And in his heart, I think, he's now learned what I came to believe, which is, as I've said all along, that the sun may…
- The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.
- Give parents the tiniest of confidences and they'll use them as crowbars to jimmy you open and rearrange your life with no perspective. Sometimes I'd…
- Truth be told, John said, the one thing in this world I want more than anything else is a great big crowbar, to jimmy myself…
- Inasmuch as I am a spiritual man, I do believe in God - I think that He created an order for the world; I believe…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach