Search
Authors
Tags
Quotes
- Visit Dr. Mardy's iWise Blog
|
Anti Terrorism Day Quotes
.
View
.
View
.
Tweet :
Yes
|
No
View
.
Tweet :
Yes
|
No
CATEGORIES
#
Resignation
#
Mind
#
Intelligence and Intellectuals
#
Love
#
Age and Aging
#
Work
#
Ideas
#
Action
#
Wisdom
#
War
Douglas Coupland
: I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -- sproing!-- with brains and everything and begin wrecking the planet. You'd think we'd give the issue a little more thought than we do.
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Douglas Coupland quote-I mean five thousand years ago people emerge out of nowhere -- sproing!--...
Wisdom feed seeded by this
quote
Be First To
Anne Frank :
"
I don't believe that the big men, the politicians and the capitalists alone are guilty of the war. Oh, no, the little man is just as keen, otherwise the people of the world would have risen in revolt long ago! There is an urge and rage in people to destroy, to kill, to murder, and until all mankind, without exception, undergoes a great change, wars will be waged, everything that has been built up, cultivated and grown, will be destroyed and disfigured, after which mankind will have to begin all over again.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Alfred A Montapert :
"
In Texas, years ago, almost all of the oil came from surface operations. Then someone got the idea that there were greater sources of supply deeper down. A well was drilled five thousand feet deep. The result? A gusher. Too many of us operate on the surface. We never go deep enough to find supernatural resources. The result is, we never operate at our best. More time and investment is involved to go deep but a gusher will pay off.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
the Queen Mother Elizabeth :
"
"We'd have to go self-service."
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
6
tweets
Cecil Day Lewis :
"
We'd like to fight but we fear defeat, we'd like to work but we're feeling too weak, we'd like to be sick but we'd get the sack, we'd like to behave, we'd like to believe, we'd like to love, but we've lost the knack.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Paul Mccartney :
"
We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
1
tweets
A A Milne :
"
"When you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Paul Mccartney :
"
We did it this way because both John and I had a number of songs which were great as they were but which we'd never finished.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
18
tweets
Mitch Albom :
"
Lines formed at Ruby Pier - just as a line formed someplace else: Five people, waiting, in five chosen memories, for a little girl named Amy or Annie to grow and to love and to age and to die, and to finally have her questions answered - why she lived and what she lived for. And in that line now was a whiskered old man, with a linen cap and a crooked nose, who waited in a place called the Stardust Band Shell to share his part of the secret of heaven: That each affects the other and the other affects the next, and the world is full of stories, but the stories are all one.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
32
tweets
Jacob Bronowski :
"
To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Thomas Henry Huxley :
"
The papers are printed and circulated among the members, and begin to form a little volume. Among the contributors have been Archbishop Huxley and Professor Manning.
"
# Resignation
# Love
# Mind
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
·
·
Bookmark
·
Source
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Douglas Coupland Wisdom feed
4
tweets
Douglas Coupland:
"
“You feel chilled because you have no character. You’re a depressing assemblage of pop culture influences and cancelled emotions, driven by the sputtering engine of only the most banal form of capitalism. You spend your life feeling as if you’re perpetually on the brink of being obsolete — whether it’s labour market obsolescence or cultural unhipness. And it’s all catching up with you. You live and die by the development cycle. You’re glamorized drosophila flies, with the company regulating your life cycles at whim. If it isn’t a budget-driven eighteen-month game production schedule, it’s a five-year hardware obsolescence schedule. Every five years you have to throw away everything you know and learn a whole new set of hardware and software specs, relegating what was once critical to our lives to the cosmic slag heap.”
"
# Home
# Love
# Character
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
1
tweets
Douglas Coupland:
"
If you want to get close to somebody, you have to tell him or her something intimate about yourself. They'll tell you something intimate in return, and if you keep this going, maybe you'll end up in love.
"
# Love
# Books - Reading
# Friends and Friendship
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
"You see, when you're middle class, you have to live with the fact that history will ignore you. You have to live with the fact that history can never champion your causes and that history will never feel sorry for you. It is the price that is paid for day-to-day comfort and silence. And because of this price, all happinesses are sterile; all sadnesses go unpitied."
"
# Happiness
# Love
# Life and Living
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
McJob : A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low-benefit, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one.
"
# Choice
# Service
# Business
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
Starved for affection, terrified of abandonment, I began to wonder if sex was really just an excuse to look deeply into another human being's eyes.
"
# Sex
# Love
# Death and Dying
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
All events became omens; I lost the ability to take anything literally.
"
# Cancer
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
... after you're dead and buried and floating around whatever place we go to, what's going to be your best memory of Earth ? ... What moment for you defines what it's like to be alive on this planet ?
"
# Memory
# Death and Dying
# Love
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
Fake yuppie experiences that you had to spend money on, like white water rafting or elephant rides in Thailand don't count. I want to hear some small moment from your life that proves you're really alive.
"
# Politicians and Politics
# Money
# Love
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
I don't want dainty little moments of insight ...
"
# Leaders and Leadership
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper
Be First To
Douglas Coupland:
"
We live small lives on the periphery; we are marginalized and there's a great deal in which we choose not to participate. We wanted silence and we have that silence now. We arrived here speckled in sores and zits, our colons so tied in knots that we never thogught we'd have a bowel movement again. Our systems had stopped working, jammed with the odor of copy machines, Wite-Out, the smell of bond paper, and the endless stress of pointless jobs done grudgingly to little applause. We had compulsions that made us confuse shopping with creativity, to take downers and assume that merely renting a video on a Saturday night was enough. But now that we live here in the desert, things are much, much better.
"
# Stress
# Silence
# Love
Gift it
.
Facebook
·
Email
·
Download
.
·
Bookmark
·
Source
·
Powerpoint
Wallpaper