Gabriel Garcia Marquez

STATUS QUOtes — 20211023

Jeff

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

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“Sometimes you find your path, sometimes it finds you.” — Max Brooks

“Agesilaus, the Spartan king, was once invited to hear a mimic imitate the nightingale, but declined with the comment that he had heard the nightingale itself.” — Plutarch

“Humanity, like armies in the field, advances at the speed of the slowest.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“I’m in a wonderful position: I’m unknown, I’m underrated, and there’s nowhere to go but up.” — Pierre S. DuPont IV

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20210628

Jeff

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

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“There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows.” — Ernest Hemingway

“We do not believe in ourselves until someone reveals that deep inside us something is valuable, worth listening to, worthy of our trust, sacred to our touch.” — E.E. Cummings

“Heavy. What is it?”
“The, uh, stuff that dreams are made of.”
— from the film The Maltese Falcon (1941) —

“Fiction was invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his wife that he was three days late because he had been swallowed by a whale.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20201219

Jeff

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

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“Inspiration gives no warnings.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“‘I wear the chain I forged in life,’ replied the Ghost. ‘I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it.'” — Charles Dickens

“No, you’re not a bad person…and I’m not a bad person. We’re just people, and people sometimes do stupid things.” — Francesca Zappia

“When a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.” — Alice Thomas Ellis

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181204

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“Do not tell a child not to touch a hot lamp, the lamp will tell him.” — African Proverb

“A good man does not spy around for the black spots in others, but presses unswervingly on towards his mark [ed].” — Marcus Aelius Aurelius

“This was when she asked him whether it was true that love conquered all, as the songs said. ‘It is true’, he replied, ‘but you would do well not to believe it.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If you stop eating donuts you will live three years longer; it’s just three more years that you want a donut.” — Lewis Black

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171116

Jeff

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“This city is what it is because our citizens are what they are.” — Plato

“Everyone has three lives. A public life, a private life and a secret life.” — Gabriel García Marquez

“To give thanks in solitude is enough. Thanksgiving has wings and goes where it must go. Your prayer knows much more about it than you do.” — Victor Hugo

“I’m not a politician and my other habits are good, also.” — Artemus Ward

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20171016

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“Necessity has the face of a dog.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“That’s life — whichever way you turn, fate sticks out its foot to trip you.” — Martin Goldsmith & Martin Mooney

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” — Matthew Broderick, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

“The one thing I do not want to be called is First Lady… it sounds like a saddle horse.” — Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20160107

Jeff

“Tears shed for others is a sign of strength.” — Billy Graham

“We are all full of weakness and errors; let us mutually pardon each other our follies – it is the first law of nature.” — Voltaire

“…reality taught them that tomorrow was not what they had dreamed, and they discovered nostalgia.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I’d type a little faster.” — Isaac Asimov

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150314

Jeff

“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.” — Mother Teresa

“It’s enough for me to be sure that you and I exist at this moment.” — Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude

“Never create based upon what you think other people will like. Create because you like it.” — Andre Supa

“Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.” — Mark Twain

STATUS QUOtes — 20150114

Jeff

“We are afraid of the enormity of the possible.” — Emile M. Cioran

“Justice… limps along, but it gets there all the same.” — Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“The world stands aside to let anyone pass who knows where he is going.” — David Starr Jordan

“The difference between playing the stock market and the horses is that one of the horses must win.” — Henry Adams