Precious things Quote by Douglas Coupland Download Open image ““We'll go to a place that's quiet and dry and talk about precious things.”” — Douglas Coupland ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Precious things
“It is an excellent plan to have some place where we can go to be quiet, when things vex or grieve us.” — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
“I believe there is something be said for exploring beautiful places. It's good for the spirit.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Some people are too precious. Their presence brings peace and tranquility into our lives.” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
“... see how everything now is precious, how someday I'll know I was lucky to be here.” — Jennifer Egan Copy Share Image
“Wherever you go, madam, it will matter little what you carry. You will always carry your goodness.” — Henry James Copy Share Image
“And jewels and words are no less and no more necessary than cotton and silence.” — Charles Williams Copy Share Image
“...The Things we do not want to speak abot are the very things we need to speak about most” — Don Calame 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. and see maybe ten thousand square miles of shopping malls, and you don't have maybe just the weentsiest inkling that something, somewhere has gone very very cuckoo? — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
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 or malignant to their smiles, for the way they keep their outer lips propped up seems a bit, not false, but protective. A minor realization hits me as I sit with the two of them. It… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share
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
How can I set free anyone who doesn't have the guts to stand up alone and declare his own freedom? I think it's a lie - people claim they want to be free - everybody insists that freedom is what they want the most, the most sacred and precious thing a man can possess. But that's bullshit! People are terrified… — Jim Morrison Copy Share
You think if you work hard enough, you can fix the precious things you've broken - rather than being careful with them in the… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
The most precious thing in the world: me, because if there was no me, nothing could work out in this world — Kim Heechul Copy Share Image
Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to… — Edward Jay Epstein Copy Share Image
Love - true love - is a precious thing. It is painful, uncomfortable, makes fools of us all, but it is what breathes meaning… — Kate Mosse Copy Share Image
I have neither silver nor gold, but I bring with me the most precious thing given to me: Jesus Christ. — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
Fearlessness may be a gift but perhaps more precious is the courage acquired through endeavour, courage that comes from cultivating the habit of refusing… — Aung San Suu Kyi Copy Share Image
The vulnerability of precious things is beautiful because vulnerability is a mark of existence. The destruction of Troy. The fall of the petals from… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Health is a precious thing, and the only one, in truth, meriting that a man should lay out not only his time, sweat, labor… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
“I have three precious things which I hold fast and prize. The first is gentleness; the second is frugality; the third is humility, which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It set him free,” said Lee. “It gave him the right to be a man, separate from every other man.” “That’s lonely.” “All great… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The most precious things of life are near at hand, without money and without price. Each of you has the whole wealth of the… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
