Mignon McLaughlin

STATUS QUOtes — 20240604

Jeff

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

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“If you gotta tell them to help carry the bricks, they ain’t the ones to build with.” — Carlos Dominguez

“Let us not speak of tolerance. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. Rather, let us speak of mutual understanding and mutual respect.” — Father Dominique Pire

“We take a handful of sand from the endless landscape of awareness around us and call that handful of sand the world.” — Robert M. Pirsig

“The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn’t even know they carried.” — Mignon McLaughlin

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20230411

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“I learned very early the difference between knowing the name of something and knowing something.” — Richard Feynman

“Once upon a time…there was the simple understanding that to sing at dawn and to sing at dusk was to heal the world through joy. The birds still remember what we have forgotten, that the world is meant to be celebrated.” — Terry Tempest Williams

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“I’m not an insomniac. It’s just that my mind is in the best position to catch the weight of all hovering possibilities the moment I lie down.” — Joyce Rachelle

 

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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 — 20211129

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Neither man or nation can exist without a sublime idea.” — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

“We may not know what lies a few years into the future… But for a few feet, our path is clear. So, GO.” ― Matthew Holland

“Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“They kept saying ‘It’s sushi-grade!’ And I’m like… ‘Put some soy sauce on this. Get me some rice. And cook it. And then get me out of here.'” — Jennifer Lawrence

 

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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 — 20210405

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“They muddy the water, to make it seem deep.” — Friedrich Nietzsche

“Unless someone truly has the power to say no, they never truly have the power to say yes.” — Dan Millman

“No horse gets anywhere until he is harnessed. No steam or gas ever drives anything until it is confined. No Niagara is ever turned into light and power until it is tunneled. No life ever grows great until it is focused, dedicated, disciplined.” — Henry Emerson Fosdick

“One day you are an apprentice, and everybody’s pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.” — Mignon McLaughlin

 

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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 — 20201230

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Whether they accept or refuse, they are glad to have been asked.[ed]” — Ovid

“In the advance of civilization, it is new knowledge which paves the way, and the pavement is eternal.” — W.R. Whitney

“People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“If I traveled to the end of the rainbow as Dame Fortune did intend, Murphy would be there to tell me the pot’s at the other end.” — Edward Koch

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20201012

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“We must master our good fortune, or it will master us.” — Publilius Syrus

“Flatter me, and I may not believe you. Criticize me, and I may not like you. Ignore me, and I may not forgive you. Encourage me, and I may not forget you.” — Sir William Arthur

“Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“I have been called too vague by you know who… but you know the old saying…” — Stewart Francis

 

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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 — 20200910

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“Always reserve the right to laugh the day after at your ideas of the day before.” — Napoleon Bonaparte

“On the Web we all become small-town visitors lost in the big city.” — Alison Gopnik

“Champions aren’t made in the ring, they are merely recognized there.” — Joe Frazier, professional boxer

“Most of us would rather risk catastrophe than read the directions.” — Mignon McLaughlin

 

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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 — 20200807

Jeff

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

 

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream; not only plan, but also believe.” — Anatole France

“My point is, there are a lot of people in the world. No one ever sees everything the same way you do; it just doesn’t happen. So when you find one person who gets a couple of things, especially if they’re important ones… you might as well hold on to them.” — Sarah Dessen

“I always wondered how I could tell when the right one came along – but it was easy. He was the only one that came along.” — Phyllis Diller

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20191223

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 
“It is not good to have an oar in everyone’s boat.” — Earl Camden

“For though my faith is not yours and your faith is not mine, if we each are free to light our own flame, together we can banish some of the darkness of the world.” — Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks

“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day.” — Adlai E. Stevenson

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190805

Jeff

Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.” — Mignon McLaughlin

“If most of us are ashamed of shabby clothes and shoddy furniture, let us be more ashamed of shabby ideas and shoddy philosophies.” — Albert Einstein

“The best things said come last. People will talk for hours saying nothing much and then linger at the door with words that come with a rush from the heart.” — Alan Alda

“One day there will be a telephone in every major city in the USA.” — Alexander Graham Bell

 

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