James A. Michener

STATUS QUOtes — 20201216

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“The Superior Man is aware of righteousness, the inferior man is aware of advantage.” — Confucius

“You have to be eligible for luck to strike, and I think that’s a matter of education and preparation, and character and all the other solid attributes that sometimes people laugh at.” — James A. Michener

“Everyone is attempting to buy what no one can sell.” — Joshua Fields Millburn

“The question of commonsense is always ‘what is it good for?’ – a question which would abolish the rose and be answered triumphantly by the cabbage.” — James Russell Lowell

 

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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 — 20190809

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Not knowing you can’t do something, is sometimes all it takes to do it.” — Ally Carter

“For the birth of something new, there has to be a happening. Newton saw an apple fall; James Watt watched a kettle boil; Roentgen fogged some photographic plates. And these people knew enough to translate ordinary happenings into something new…” — Alexander Fleming

“An age is called Dark not because the light fails to shine, but because people refuse to see it.” — James A. Michener

“Why does life keep teaching me lessons I have no desire to learn?” — Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190806

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.” — Aristophanes

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a Ride!'” — Hunter S. Thompson

“No steam or gas drives anything until it is confined. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” — Harry Emerson Fosdick

“… so many tremendous decisions in life are made because it is five o’clock.” — Arthur Miller

 

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