F. Scott Fitzgerald

STATUS QUOtes — 20230517

Jeff

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

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“Passion, though a bad regulator, is a powerful spring.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“On the other hand, it’s like we’re three years old. You don’t want that scruffy old teddy bear until your friend takes it and starts having a good time with it. Then suddenly it’s the cutest bear you’ve ever seen, and you want to get it away from her.” — E. Lockhart

“Once I make up my mind, I’m full of indecision.” — Oscar Levant

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20220828

Jeff

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

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“Take time to celebrate aspirations met.” — Jim VandeHei

“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Start a huge, foolish project, like Noah. It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.” — Rumi

“Daily, something new happens to remind me of my encroaching decrepitude. Today it was me explaining to a teenager what it was like to go door to door selling Encyclopædia Britannica books. Had no idea of what Encyclopedia Britannica was. Was also shocked to hear about books!” — Scott Bourne

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20211001

Jeff

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

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“Today’s two days. Handle one day at a time, but plan for two, as tomorrow will become yesterday.” — Joseph Cubby

“Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods, a man should himself lend a hand.” — Hippocrates

“We are told that talent creates its own opportunities. But it sometimes seems that intense desire creates not only its own opportunities, but its own talents.” — Eric Hoffer

“Everybody hates me because I’m so universally liked.” — Peter de Vries

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210913

Jeff

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

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“When you say whatever you want, be prepared to listen to what you don’t want.” — Ancient Greek Proverb

“Strength is not just the ability to persevere, but the ability to start again.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Technology made large populations possible, large populations now make technology indispensable.” — Joseph Wood Krutch

“A critic is a person who knows the way but can’t drive the car.” — Kenneth Tynan

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210202

Jeff

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

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“No one is born without faults. That person is best who has fewest [ed].” — Horace

“Piglet sidled up to Pooh from behind.’Pooh!’ he whispered. ‘Yes, Piglet?’ ‘Nothing,’ said Piglet, taking Pooh’s paw. ‘I just wanted to be sure of you.'” — A. A. Milne

“Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.” — Adam Grant

“In America we can say what we think, and even if we can’t think, we can say it anyhow.” — Charles Franklin Kettering

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20210201

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Things that have never happened before happen all the time.” — Morgan Housel

“The weakest link in the chain is also the strongest. It can break the chain.” — Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

“Everybody is identical in their secret unspoken belief that way deep down they are different from everyone else.” — David Foster Wallace

“Always willing to lend a helping hand to the one above him.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200516

Jeff

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“You and I knew strange corners of life.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

“With most people disbelief in a thing is founded on a blind belief in some other thing.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“I enjoy people who aren’t afraid to say what they mean. It makes life so much easier!” — Alex Flinn

“What a pity human beings can’t exchange problems; everyone knows exactly how to solve the other fellow’s. — Olin Miller

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181231

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“Henceforth I ask not good fortune. I myself am good fortune.” — Walt Whitman

“Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?” — Jane Austen

“We love to overlook the boundaries which we do not wish to pass.” — Samuel Johnson

“Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180217

Jeff

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“Don’t expect to get what you give. Not everyone has a heart like you.” — Unknown

“Anxiety might be contagious, but confidence is also contagious” — Henry Marsh, Do No Harm: Stories of Life, Death and Brain Surgery

“Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.” — Edward De Bono

“Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170926

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“Genius and craziness often share a fence line.” — Michael Finkel

“Most people think everybody feels about them much more strongly than they actually do; they think other people’s opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender Is the Night

“Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.” — Henry David Thoreau

“Frankly, I’m suspicious of anyone who has a strong opinion on a complicated issue.” — Scott Adams, Dilbert cartoon

 
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©Jeffrey B. Ross – 2017