“The difficulty in life is the choice.” — George A. Moore
“In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time’s continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute present.” — Diane Ackerman
“People give one another things that can’t be gift wrapped.” — Nadine Gordimer
“My mother was the worst cook ever; in school, when we traded lunches, I had to throw in an article of clothing.” — Rita Rudner
“Use soft words and hard arguments.” — English Proverb
“You cannot move away from something without moving toward something else.” — Andy Stanley
“The fishermen knows that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.” — Vincent Van Gogh
“When a man tells me he’s going to put all his cards on the table, I always look up his sleeve.” — Leslie Hore-Belisha
“A golden cage is still a cage.” — Anita Krizzan
“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” — Mignon McLaughlin
“An advocate who has been well paid in advance will find the cause he is pleading all the more just.” — Blaise Pascal
“When your mind stops working, don’t forget to turn off the sound.” — Vikrant Parsai
“If a patient dies, the doctor killed him, but if he gets well, the saints have saved him.” — Italian proverb
“If you want to touch the past, touch a rock. If you want to touch the present, touch a flower. If you want to touch the future, touch a life.” — Unknown
“In the age of information, ignorance is a choice.” — Donny Miller
“Luck is everything… My good luck in life was to be a really frightened person. I’m fortunate to be a coward, to have a low threshold of fear, because a hero couldn’t make a good suspense film.” — Alfred Hitchcock
“Don’t cling to a mistake just because you spent a lot of time making it.” — Unknown
“I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.” — Winston Churchill
“You cannot create experience. You must undergo it.” — Albert Camus
“Trust him not with your secrets, who, when left alone in your room, turns over your papers.” — Johann Kaspar Lavater
NOTE: NO STATUS QUOtes (SQ) tomorrow; SQ will return on Monday!
“Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.” — Scandinavian Proverb
“Attempt easy tasks as if they were difficult, and difficult as if they were easy; in the one case that confidence may not fall asleep, in the other that it may not be dismayed.” — Baltasar Gracian
“Do not the most moving moments of our lives find us all without words?” — Marcel Marceau
“You can’t put off being young until you retire.” — Philip Larkin
“Sometimes the fool who rushes in gets the job done.” — Al Bernstein
“You will not find poetry anywhere unless you bring some of it with you.” — Joseph Joubert
“Being reproached for giving to an unworthy person, Aristotle said, ‘I did not give it to the man, but to humanity.'” — Lyndon Johnson
“My parents were English; we were too poor to be British.” — Bob Hope
“Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.” — Peter Drucker
“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.” — Charles Spurgeon
“If I had my life to live over… I’d dare to make more mistakes next time.” — Nadine Stair
“We could certainly slow the aging process down if it had to work its way through Congress.” — Will Rogers
“It is not greed that drives the world, but envy.” — Warren Buffett
“The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with someone who matters to you.” — Ritu Ghatourey
“You don’t have to be good at something to be liked.” — Stephen Richards
“We should go metric every inch of the way.” — Anonymous
“The art of living is more like wrestling than dancing.” — Marcus Aurelius
“The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have given his life.” — Ernest Renan
“Every man has in himself a continent of undiscovered character. Happy is he who acts as the Columbus to his own soul.” — Sir J. Stephen
“When you are younger you get blamed for crimes you never committed and when you’re older you begin to get credit for virtues you never possessed. It evens itself out.” — Casey Stengel