Alexander Pope

STATUS QUOtes — 20220913

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“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“When hearts mingle, hands naturally join.” — Sadhguru

“The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.” — Thomas Carlyle

“You want to make it to the top? There is no top. However high you climb, there is always somebody above you. Mailer wanted to be Hemingway, Hemingway wanted to be Joyce, and Joyce was painfully aware he’d never be another Shakespeare.” — William Deresiewicz

“My idea of exercise is a good, brisk sit.” — Alexander Pope

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210330

Jeff

“Platitudes? Yes, there are platitudes.
Platitudes are there because they are true.”
— Margaret Thatcher —

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“And all who told it added something new, And all who heard it made enlargements too.” — Alexander Pope

“The cornucopia that greets you as you enter the supermarket dwarfs anything that Louis XIV ever experienced (and it is probably less likely to contain salmonella).” — Matt Ridley

“Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.” — John Stuart Mill

“Why is it that the universe hates me? I cut my finger. I grab a bandage. It turns out the bandage is packaged so that someone with a cut finger cannot open the bandage. It’s impossible! It’s like they want to protect nuclear materials with that wrapper!” — Scott Bourne

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210104

Jeff

“To be amused by what you read —
that is the great spring of happy quotations.”
— C. E. Montague —

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“We are the ones we have been waiting for.” — Alice Walker

“Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.” — Alexander Pope

“This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“If you have to say ‘no offense’ to someone, you have already offended them.” — Meg Cabot

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200703

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“Nobody who is somebody looks down on anybody.” — Margaret Deland

“I know its a kick in the pants to hear that the problem is you, but it’s also fantastic. You are, after all, the only person you can change [ed].” — Cheryl Strayed

“When you’re twenty-one, life is a roadmap. It’s only when you get to be twenty-five or so that you begin to suspect you’ve been looking at the map upside down, and not until you’re forty are you entirely sure. By the time you’re sixty, take it from me, you’re…lost.” — Stephen King

“A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.” — Alexander Pope

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190514

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“Act well your part, there all the honour lies.” — Alexander Pope

“No ray of sunlight is ever lost, but the green which it awakes into existence needs time to sprout, and it is not always granted to the sower to see the harvest. All work that is worth anything is done in faith.” — Albert Schweitzer

“You’ll turn out ordinary if you’re not careful.” — Ann Brashares

“Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It’s not until the second year that they learn the cures.” — A. J. Jacobs

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190310

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“Art is the flower… life the green leaf.” — Charles Rennie Mackintosh

“Teach me to feel another’s woe, to hide the fault I see, that mercy I to others show, that mercy show to me.” — Alexander Pope

“Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.” — Lin Yutang

“I don’t like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.“ — Larry David

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190105

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“Everything you add to the truth subtracts from the truth.” — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

“Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.” — E.F. Schumacher

“True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit.” — Alexander Pope

“Las Vegas is the oasis of outstretched palms.” — Reg Gutteridge

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170706

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“What is bought is cheaper than a gift.” — Portuguese Proverb

“The armored cars of dreams, contrived to let us do so many a dangerous thing.” — Elizabeth Bishop

“Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.” — Alexander Pope

“When I turned two I was really anxious, because I’d doubled my age in a year, and I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I’m six I’ll be ninety.” — Steven Wright

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170113

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“Those who have the privilege to know have the duty to act.” — Albert Einstein

“Sometimes we have the dream but we are not ourselves ready for the dream. We have to grow to meet it.” — Louis L’Amour

“A little learning is a dangerous thing; Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.” — Alexander Pope

“My ability to turn good news into anxiety is rivaled only by my ability to turn anxiety into chin acne.” — Tina Fey

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160830

Jeff

“Never find fault with the absent.” — Alexander Pope

“Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to make can sometimes be the most painful.” — Paulo Coelho

“No masterpiece was ever created by a lazy artist.” — Salvador Dali

“How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.” — Fred Brooks

 

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