Douglas Coupland Quotes
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In the first instance, therefore, global terrorism created a kind of global community sharing a common fate, something we had previously considered impossible.
Ulrich Beck -
I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
Larry Mullen, Jr. U2 -
If there's any business that instructs you in the strong hand of fate, it's show business. You can plan and plan, but it's what happens to you that really determines what your career will be like.
Sam Waterston -
To me, it was a sad fate to have been born into a period and a world where everything was in tip-top order, and the only real excitement was to be found in history books and occasionally also in the paper.
Hans Jonas -
Maybe I was born to be a merchant, maybe it was fate. I don't know about that. But I know this for sure: I loved retail from the very beginning.
Sam Walton -
My fate is in the hands of almighty Allah.
Yahya Jammeh
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Ambition drives you on, ability certainly helps, but the fickle finger of fate and luck are great things.
Fergus Henderson -
I'm not in control of my fate, and that's a good thing.
Sam Hunt -
'Lost' is driving toward an ending, and that ending is: Are these people getting off this island? What is the nature of this island? What is going to happen to them? What is their ultimate fate? What is their ultimate destiny? Those questions need to get answered.
Carlton Cuse -
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Otto Bauer -
Every great culture has cared a lot, one way or another, about the fate of its girls.
Caitlin Flanagan -
Even in political considerations, now-a-days, you have stronger motives to feel interested in the fate of Europe than in the fate of the Central or Southern parts of America.
Lajos Kossuth
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So I constantly play women who are damaged and out of touch, who are seeking without knowing, or knowing without the skills to transform their lives. But then, that's really the fate of many women today.
Olympia Dukakis -
Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.
e. e. cummings -
I've seen all types of women. Celebrity girls I've dated and regular 9 to 5 girls. I've had shows where married women have tried to follow me to my hotel. My perception of women isn't very ignorant because I've seen a lot.
Wale -
Here an attempt is made to explain suffering: the outcaste of traditional Hinduism is held to deserve his fetched fate; it is a punishment for the wrongs he did in a previous life.
Walter Kaufmann -
What could be more lonely than to be enveloped in silence, to be the last of your people to speak your native tongue, to have no way to pass on the wisdom of the elders, to anticipate the promise of the children. This tragic fate is indeed the plight of someone somewhere roughly every two weeks.
Wade Davis -
If Europe does not return to the path of common sense, it will find itself laid low in a battle for its fate.
Viktor Orban
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It was patent that this terrible man was no ignorant clod, such as one would inevitably suppose him to be from his exhibitions of brutality. At once he became an enigma.
Jack London -
I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. Only fear can defeat life.
Yann Martel -
The problem is that you cannot prove yourself against someone who is much weaker than yourself.
Martin Van Creveld -
The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.
T. B. Joshua -
Having been through breakups when you get back with the person thinking it's going to work the second time - it never does.
Jeff Baena -
Fate is for losers.
Douglas Coupland