STATUS QUOtes — 20240602

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

— Margaret Thatcher —

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“To a dog a bone has more value than a pearl.” — Filipino Proverb

“Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.” — George Orwell

“Don’t you know that we must always have a place where we never go but where we think we’d be happy if we did?” — Nicolas Chamfort

“Here’s how it goes: I’m up at the stroke of 10 or 10:30. I have breakfast and read the papers, and then it’s lunchtime. Then maybe a little nap after lunch and out to the gym, and before I know it, it’s time to have a drink.” — E.L. Doctorow

 

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— Marlene Dietrich —

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20211215

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

— Margaret Thatcher —

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“A boundary is not that at which something stops, but that from which something begins.” — Martin Heidegger

“Doing something you love on a schedule you can’t control can feel the same as doing something you hate.” — Morgan Housel

“These are my new shoes. They’re good shoes. They won’t make you rich like me, they won’t make you rebound like me, they definitely won’t make you handsome like me. They’ll only make you have shoes like me. That’s it.” — Charles Barkley, former professional basketball player

“Intelligent people make many mistakes because they cannot believe the world is really as foolish as it is.” — Nicolas Chamfort

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20191212

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“Life’s enchanted cup sparkles near the brim.” — Lord Byron

“That’s when the magic happens- when everyone else is asleep and you’re awake thinking about the world as it is, and the world as it could be. Make the most of those moments.” — Adam Braun

“One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Many men and women enjoy popular esteem, not because they are known, but because they are not known.” — Nicolas Chamfort

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20190421

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“How long should you try? Until.” — Jim Rohn

“I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is?” — Vincent van Gogh

“Every day I add to the list of things I refuse to discuss; the wiser the person, the longer the list. [ed]” — Nicolas Chamfort

“To learn that all I really need to know I learned in kindergarten, I needed to go to grad school.” — John Alejandro King

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20181031

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“Every luxury must be paid for, and everything is a luxury, starting with being in the world.” — Cesare Pavese

“I used to think I was poor. Then they told me I wasn’t poor, I was needy. They told me it was self-defeating to think of myself as needy, I was deprived. Then they told me underprivileged was overused. I was disadvantaged. I still don’t have a dime. But I have a great vocabulary.” — Jules Feiffer

“There are well-dressed foolish ideas, just as there are well-dressed fools.” — Nicolas Chamfort

“Anytime you have a 50-50 chance of getting something right, there’s a 90% probability you’ll get it wrong.” — Andy Rooney

 

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20180604

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“A thought is an idea in transit.” — Pythagoras

“All passions exaggerate; and they are passions only because they do exaggerate.” — Nicolas Chamfort

“I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.” — Abraham Lincoln

“I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm.” — Jay London

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20170227

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“You had dreams before you had memories.” — John Koenig

“Real worth requires no interpreter; its everyday deeds form its blazonry.” — Nicolas Chamfort

“A joyful life is an individual creation that cannot be copied from a recipe.” — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

“We have the power to bore people long after we are dead.” — Sinclair Lewis, American novelist

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20150920

“There are certain times when public opinion is the worst of all opinions.” — Nicolas Chamfort

“Sometimes you can’t see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.” — Ellen DeGeneres

“If you want to make an easy job seem mighty hard, just keep putting off doing it.” — Olin Miller

“In a house where there are small children the bathroom soon takes on the appearance of the Old Curiosity Shop.” — Robert Benchley

 

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