Ambrose Bierce

STATUS QUOtes — 20240124

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

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“Become comfortable with not knowing.” — Eckhart Tolle

“Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.” — Theodore Roosevelt

“Beneath this warm flesh beats the heart of a compassionate man, one who’s fought his whole life to fulfill his people’s dream. Just because you feel the need to lean on someone, to accept someone else’s strength for a little while doesn’t make you weak.” — Kylie Griffin

“Egotism: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.” — Ambrose Bierce

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20231217

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Acorns were good till bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” — Émile Zola

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.” — Ambrose Bierce

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20230622

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Imperfect action is better than perfect inaction.” — Harry Truman

“‘It’s a question of discipline,’ the little prince told me later on. ‘When you’ve finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet.'” — Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“A popular author is one who writes what the people think. Genius invites them to think something else.” — Ambrose Bierce

“Ever notice that Soup For One is eight aisles away from Party Mix?” — Elayne Boosler

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210727

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“To refrain from an act is no less an act than to commit one.” — Charles Sherrington

“You have to [learn to] walk before you can run. No, you have to have something you want to run toward.” — Paul Lockhart

“Indeed, one of the most gratifying things you can say to another person is: ‘I’ve been thinking about what you said.'” — Kate Murphy

“Confidante: One entrusted by A with the secrets of B confided to herself by C.” — Ambrose Bierce

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200821

Jeff

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

 

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“When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.” — Nigerian Proverb

“Anyone who has ever asked for directions knows you need two crucial pieces of information to get good results: a starting point and a destination.” — Mike Quigley

“If you would be accounted great by your contemporaries, be not too much greater than they.” — Ambrose Bierce

“There was one who thought he was above me, and he was above me until he had that thought.” — Elbert Hubbard

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20190703

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“What got you here won’t get you there.” — Marshall Goldsmith

“Periods of tranquillity are seldom prolific of creative achievement. Mankind has to be stirred up.” — Alfred North Whitehead

“If I were to say, ‘God, why me?’ about the bad things, then I should have said, ‘God, why me?’ about the good things that happened in my life.” — Arthur Ashe

“The covers of this book are too far apart.” — Ambrose Bierce

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190505

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“An ass is but an ass, though laden with gold.” — Romanian Proverb

“I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.” — Soseki Natsume

“Children are the living messages we send to a time we will not see.” — Neil Postman

“The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.” — Ambrose Bierce

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190131

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“One half of knowing what you want is knowing what you must give up before you get it.” — Sidney Howard

“Tomorrow I’ll think of some way . . . after all, tomorrow is another day.” — Scarlett O’Hara, Gone With the Wind

“As my mom has said, when one person is unhappy, it usually means two people are unhappy but that one has not come to terms with it yet.” — Mindy Kaling

“Status quo is, you know, Latin for ‘The mess we’re in.’” — Ronald Reagan

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190130

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“To the eye of failure success is an accident.” — Ambrose Bierce

“Every organization should tolerate rebels who tell the emperor he has no clothes.” — Colin Powell

“It seemed like forever ago, like we’d had this brief but still infinite forever. Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.” — John Green

“When your children are teenagers, it’s important to have a dog so that someone in the house is happy to see you.” — Nora Ephron

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20170901

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“It is good to rub and polish our brain against that of others.” — Michel de Montaigne

“We may pass violets looking for roses. We may pass contentment looking for victory.” — Bernard Williams

“Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.” — Ambrose Bierce

“When you are over the hill, you pick up speed.” — Baker’s Byroad

 
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