Lois McMaster Bujold

STATUS QUOtes — 20230807

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

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“No sane person is as confident as they seem. We all carry baggage.” — Jim VandeHei

“There comes a point where we need to stop just pulling people out of the river. We need to go upstream and find out why they’re falling in.” — Bishop Desmond Tutu

“What seems natural to us is probably just something familiar in a long tradition that has forgotten the unfamiliar source from which it arose. And yet this unfamiliar source once struck man as strange and caused him to think and to wonder.” — Martin Heidegger

“A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230112

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

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“Everyone has to feel like they matter.” — Elizabeth Strout

“Reputation is what other people know about you. Honor is what you know about yourself.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.” — John Boynton Priestley

“Venice is like eating an entire box of chocolate liqueurs in one go.” — Truman Capote

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20200106

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“An honor is not diminished for being shared.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“The most accurate term for happiness…is the one Aristotle used: eudaimonia, which translates not directly to ‘happiness’ but to ‘human flourishing.'” — Shawn Achor

“There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.” — Rebecca Solnit

“Acting is not important in the scheme of things. Plumbing is.” — Spencer Tracy

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190523

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“Glory is like a circle in the water, which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, till by broad spreading, it disperses to naught.” — William Shakespeare

“You don’t pay back your parents. You can’t. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It’s a sort of entailment. Or if you don’t have children of the body, it’s left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.” — Amy Tan

“My generation, faced as it grew with a choice between religious belief and existential despair, chose marijuana. Now we are in our Cabernet stage.” — Peggy Noonan

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181205

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“You have to be careful who you let define your good.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“One saves oneself much pain, by taking pains; much trouble, by taking trouble.” — A .W. Hare & J. C. Hare

“You may not be responsible for being down, but you are responsible for getting up.” — Jesse Jackson

“I do not know how to kiss, or I would kiss you. Where do the noses go?” — Ingrid Bergman

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180630

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“To define is to limit.” — Oscar Wilde

“Since no one is perfect, it follows that all great deeds have been accomplished out of imperfection. Yet they were accomplished, somehow, all the same.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“Anytime you see a turtle up on top of a fence post, you know he had some help.” — Alex Haley

“I used to dream of a week-long beach vacation with white sand under my toes… right now, I’d settle for 48 hours at a Motel 6 with some Lysol and a UV lamp.” — Ingrid Weir

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20180530

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“The longer the explanation, the bigger the lie.” — Chinese Proverb

“A guide, on finding a man who has lost his way, brings him back to the right path — he does not mock and jeer at him.” — Epictetus

“It’s important that someone celebrate our existence… People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“The closest I’ve been to a diet this year is erasing food searches from my browser history.” — Pauly Peligroso

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170815

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“The dream is free. The hustle is sold separately!” — Unknown

“If the truth doesn’t save us, what does that say about us?” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“Maybe some people just aren’t meant to be in our lives forever. Maybe some people are just passing through. It’s like some people just come through our lives to bring us something: a gift, a blessing, a lesson we need to learn. And that’s why they’re here. You’ll have that gift forever.” — Danielle Steel, The Gift

“I’m English, but I want to let you know that even though I’m English, I’m not here to solve a murder mystery.” — Sherry Davey

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161219

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“Life is half spent before one knows what life is.” — French Proverb

“If you want to catch something, running after it isn’t always the best way.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“People don’t notice whether it’s winter or summer when they’re happy.” — Anton Chekhov

“I am a deeply superficial person.” — Andy Warhol

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20151123

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“Don’t look for your dreams to come true; look to become true to your dreams.” — Michael Beckwith

“His mother had often said, When you choose an action, you choose the consequences of that action. She had emphasized the corollary of this axiom even more vehemently: when you desired a consequence you had damned well better take the action that would create it.” — Lois McMaster Bujold

“Explain your anger, don’t express it and you will immediately open the door to solutions instead of arguments.” — Unknown

“Don’t knock the weather. If it didn’t change once in a while, nine out of ten people couldn’t start a conversation.” — Kim Hubbard [corrected attribution 11/24/15 ]

 

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