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STATUS QUOtes — 20221001

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Pride is the direct appreciation of oneself.” — Arthur Schopenhauer

“True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.” — Robert Smith

“As I get older I seem to believe less and less and yet to believe what I do believe more and more.” — David Jenkins

“Dr. Seuss was seriously lucky to live in a day and age without autocorrect.” — via Shower Thoughts

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220929

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The eye likes novelty, but the ear craves familiarity.” — W.H. Auden

“We control fifty percent of a relationship. We influence one hundred percent of it.” — Barbara Colorose

“The first time it happens, it can be explained. Accident. Experiment. Fluke. Everything was confusing. The lines blurred. The second time is when it really happens for the first time.” — Leah Raeder

“I’m not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.” — Bill Watterson

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220927

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.” — Truman Capote

“You are master of what you say until you utter it, once you deliver it, you are its captive.” — Hazrat Ali Ibn Abi-Talib

“But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn’t feel?” — Lucia Berlin

“Think about when cell phones first started coming out. People said, ‘Why would I carry my phone around?’ And now you’ll drive back to your house thirty miles if you forget your cell phone.” — Biz Stone

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220925

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.” — Jonathan Swift

The poet Mallarmé listened to the painter Degas complaining about his inability to write poems even though he was full of ideas – “My dear Degas,” Mallarmé responded, “poems are not made out of ideas. They’re made out of words.” — Stéphane Mallarmé

“Know your limit and circle of influence; you are not called to meet the needs of everyone.” — Bernard Kelvin Clive

“In many states you can get a driver’s license when you’re sixteen years old, which made a lot of sense to me when I was sixteen years old, but now seems insane.” — Phyllis Diller

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220923

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A happy marriage is a long conversation that always seems too short.” — André Maurois

“People, like dogs, love repetition. Chasing a ball, lapping a course in a race car, sliding down a slide. Because as much as each incident is similar, so it is different.” — Garth Stein

“The change from trouble to comfort gives us more pleasure than uninterrupted comfort does.” — Maimonides

“I’m not anti-social; I’m pro-solitude.” — Beth Buelow

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220921

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Intuition isn’t the enemy, but the ally of reason.” — John Kord Lagemann

“Your work is not to drag the world kicking and screaming into a new awareness. Your job is to simply do your work… sacredly, secretly, silently … and those with ‘eyes to see and ears to hear’ will respond.” — The Arturians

“The gods do not visit you to remind you what you know already.” — Mary Stewart

“The Cocktail Party: A device for paying off obligations to people you don’t want to invite to dinner.” — Charles Merrill Smith

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220917

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The distance a goldfish swims is not controlled by the bowl.” — Les Coleman

“Ultimately, we all have to decide for ourselves what constitutes failure, but the world is quite eager to give you a set of criteria if you let it.” — J. K. Rowling

“People honor what lies within the sphere of their knowledge, but do not realize how dependent they are on what lies beyond it [ed].” — Zhuangzi

“What is algebra exactly; is it those three-cornered things?” — James Barrie

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220915

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“A new idea must not be judged by its immediate results.” — Nikola Tesla

“I don’t know what your future is, but if you’re willing to take the harder way, the more complicated one, the one with more failures at first than successes, the one that has ultimately proven to have more meaning, more victory, more glory—then you will not regret it.” — Chadwick Boseman

“A bend in the road is not the end of the road… Unless you fail to make the turn.” — Helen Keller

“Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.” — Bill Veeck

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220913

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“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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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20220911

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Let us not take ourselves too seriously. None of us has a monopoly on wisdom.” — Queen Elizabeth II

“You will change your mind; You will change your looks; You will change your smile, laugh, and ways but no matter what you change, you will always be you.” — Martin Luther King Jr.

“Forgive me if what has seemed little to you, to me is all.” — José Saramago

“All philosophies, if you ride them home, are nonsense; but some are greater nonsense than others.” — Samuel Butler

 

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“I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself.”
— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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