Douglas Coupland Quotes
The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.Douglas Coupland
Quotes to Explore
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The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.
Oscar Wilde -
In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water.
Nancy Gibbs -
Liberty is a word which, according as it is used, comprehends the most good and the most evil of any in the world.
Oliver Ellsworth -
I think freedom for Palestine could be an incredible source of hope to people struggling all over the world. I think it could also be an incredible inspiration to Arab people in the Middle East, who are struggling under undemocratic regimes which the U.S. supports.
Rachel Corrie -
When you negotiate with terrorists, you get more terror.
Naftali Bennett -
The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
Bebe Rexha
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After I won the Newbery Medal for 'From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler,' children all over the world let me know that they liked books that take them to unusual places where they meet unusual people.
E. L. Konigsburg -
It devolves upon the United States to help to motorize the world.
Walter Chrysler -
Wasting time is something that people do or feel all over the world, not just in Italy.
Paolo Sorrentino -
The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.
Walter Bagehot -
Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
Orhan Pamuk -
There's no day when I don't think it would be great to be 25 years old and have the Olympics coming in less than 300 days - and be the best in the world. I can't think of anything so motivating.
Daley Thompson
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Let us remember: One book, one pen, one child, and one teacher can change the world.
Malala Yousafzai -
If someone offers you a breath mint, accept it.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
This is why cup finals are so special because on the day anyone can beat anyone. That's what it's all about and that's why for me the FA Cup and the Carling Cup are the best cups in the world. That's the beauty of the cup.
Ian Rush -
Violent means will give violent freedom. That would be a menace to the world and to India herself.
Mahatma Gandhi -
Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug -
I'm a little skeptical of foreign coaches in our league and in U.S. Soccer just because of how different our league is and our players are than other players around the world.
Landon Donovan
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My graffiti really comes more from a May '68, sort of Situationist vibe than the hip-hop world. I think a real graffiti artist would find me a poser.
Mike Mills -
It was inspiring to learn of the new Bachelor of Environmental Studies Program, and I congratulate you for it. Singapore is geographically in the right central position for an influence in Asia and Australia, and NUS has the reputation and academic strength to make it effective.
E. O. Wilson -
Helplessness is your best prayer. It calls from your heart to the heart of God with greater effect than all your uttered pleas.
Ole Hallesby -
Man Ray takes a lot of pressure off me. It's like having a third person in a conversation; one of you doesn't have to talk all the time.
William Wegman -
The thing about the end of the world is that not just the West collapses, the whole world does.
Douglas Coupland