Happens Quote by Douglas Coupland Download Open image “HISTORICALOVERDOSING:To live in a period of time when too much seems to happen.” — Douglas Coupland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Happens Periods Seems Time Too much
“I lived through all these times, these great events, without caring very much, concerned with my own aging rather than the world's. Most of… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“Maybe what has to happen is that the individual must allow himself to be swept along, must find himself in the stream of no-choice,… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
History is an intricate web of of timing, people, circumstances, and serendipity. — Don Rittner Copy Share Image
“In the theater of the past that is constituted by memory, the stage setting maintains the characters in their dominant roles . . .… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The historic period in which we live is a period of reawakening to a commitment of higher values, a reawakening of individual purpose, and… — Robert Fritz Copy Share Image
“If you spend too much time living in the past, you never move forward” — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
History is a tangled skein that one may take up at any point, and break when one has unravelled enough. — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“Our limited data force a sense of historical fragility: even as I nurture interpretation, I continually run the risk of creating it in my… — Mark S. Smith Copy Share Image
When in our isolation we see our lives seeping away as a mere succession of moments, tossed meaninglessly about by accidents and overwhelming events;… — Karl Jaspers Copy Share Image
And in your new lives you'll have to live entirely for that one sensation-that of imminent truth. And you're going to have to holler… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
A man in a bookstore buys a book on loneliness and every woman in the store hits on him. A woman buys a book… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Do you remember how you felt at seventeen? I do and I don't (...) Imagine you came from outer space and someone showed you… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“But Dag, for all of his efforts, might as well have been talking to a cat. Our parents’ generation seems neither able nor interested… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Negative? Moi? I think realistic might be a better word. You mean to tell me we can drive all the way here from L.A.… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
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… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“I like to go beach-combing, and I like to find interestingly shaped rocks. When I really get into the groove I start finding beautiful… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“You know, Dag and Claire smile a lot, as do many people I know. But I always wondered if there is something either mechanical… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
I could not limit my values and pursuits to what makes others comfortable. Being possessed by a promise I live without options. I will… — Bill Johnson Copy Share Image
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's just enough for me to have the idea. I don't need to see it through to the end. When it actually happens,… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
I write about presidents. That means I write about guys - so far. I'm interested in the people closest to them, the people they… — Doris Kearns Goodwin Copy Share Image
I don't look at myself as a basketball coach. I look at myself as a leader who happens to coach basketball. — Mike Krzyzewski Copy Share Image
Quantum physics fluctuates all the time. But now the fluctuations are not just particles coming into and out of existence, which happens all the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Talented people can predict with great accuracy what's about to happen just a tiny bit ahead of their competitors. It might be two seconds… — Kevin Maney Copy Share Image
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to have a good career, so I made it happen. — Chord Overstreet Copy Share Image
The amazing thing is that we live our lives with the hope that things will go right, that things will happen. And all along… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
I had sort of had a 21st birthday when I was 17, 18 years old living in Japan. I had all of that stuff… — Sarah Wright Copy Share Image
I think the most miraculous thing is learning. I get out of the way and let the students learn. Then you get to watch… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
