Quotes

STATUS QUOtes — 20240110

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Rank and riches are chains of gold, but still chains.” — Giovanni Ruffini

“Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.” — Lord Acton

“Life is not a popularity contest. Take the hill, but first answer the question: What is my hill?” — Matthew McConaughey

“Thank you for the privilege of speaking to you in this magnificent auditorium. You know the meaning of the word auditorium, don’t you? It is derived from two Latin words, audio, ‘to hear,’ and Taurus, ‘the bull.'” — Larry Wilde

 

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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 — 20240108

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“The most important work you do in the world will be within the walls of your own home.” — Stephen Covey

“No one has it all figured out…just focus on pointing your compass in the right direction, embracing curiosity, and getting around great people. If you do that, good things will happen.” — Sahil Bloom

“Often I am struck in amazement about a word: I suddenly realize that the complete arbitrariness of our language is but a part of the arbitrariness of our own world in general.” — Christian Morgenstern

“After a fellow gets famous it doesn’t take long for someone to bob up that used to sit by him in school.” — Frank ‘Kin’ Hubbard

 

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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 — 20240106

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom.” — Hermann Hesse

“Unfortunately sometimes one can’t do what one thinks is right without making someone else unhappy.” — Somerset Maugham

“In order to understand the dance you must be still. And in order to truly understand stillness you must dance.” — Rumi

“What kind of person actually sits down and decides that no one should be allowed to end a sentence with a preposition? Not even decide what ideas you should or shouldn’t talk about, but to actually make rules about what order to put your words in … It’s such an amazing kind of petty tyranny.” — Jonathan Blum

 

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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 — 20240104

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“By asking for the impossible we obtain the best possible.” — Giovanni Niccolini

“Oh happy pessimists! What a joy it is to them to be able to prove again and again that there is no joy.” — Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

“The healthy being craves an occasional wildness, a jolt from normality, a sharpening of the edge of appetite, his own little festival of the Saturnalia, a brief excursion from his way of life.” — Robert Maclver

“If you can smile when things go wrong, you have someone in mind to blame.” — Ashleigh Brilliant

 

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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 — 20240102

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Doubt is one of the names of intelligence.” — Jorge Luis Borges

“You don’t concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.” — Chuck Yeager

“Like a plant that starts up in showers and sunshine and does not know which has best helped it to grow, it is difficult to say whether the hard things or the pleasant things did me the most good.” — Lucy Larcom

“No matter how thin you slice it, it’s still baloney.” — Alfred E. 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 — 20231229

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Wise is he who knows useful things, not he who knows many things.” — Aeschylus

“The ticking clock of the New Year is a call to embrace mindfulness, to reassess priorities, and to steer our course towards goals that add depth, fulfillment, and purpose to our existence.” — Aloo Denish Obiero

“Mystery creates wonder and wonder is the basis of man’s desire to understand.” — Neil Armstrong

“The thing restaurants always boast about now is home made cooking… I don’t want home made cooking, that’s why I’m here, because I don’t like the stuff at home [ed]!” — Lee Evans

 

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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 — 20231223

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“To live a life of virtue, you have to become consistent, even when it isn’t convenient, comfortable, or easy.” — Epictetus

“When we denigrate mediocrity, we discourage ourselves and others from trying new things. It would be great to be a great painter, but it’s also great just to paint. Or sing or throw pots or knit scarves or play chess.” — Will Schwalbe

“The way a question is asked limits and disposes the ways in which any answer to it — right or wrong — may be given.” — Susanne Langer

“In the game of life it’s a good idea to have a few early losses, which relieves you of the pressure of trying to maintain an undefeated season.” — Bill Vaughan

 

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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 — 20231221

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“If we have bikes to ride and people to love, now is the time.” — Elizabeth Kübler-Ross

“I have always been an admirer. I regard the gift of admiration as indispensable if one is to amount to something; I don’t know where I would be without it.” — Thomas Mann

“If we can’t alter the tide of events, at least we can be nearby with towels to mop up.” — Peter David

“Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?” — George Carlin

 

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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 — 20231219

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Efficiency is intelligent laziness.” — David Dunham

“To be running breathlessly, but not yet arrived, is itself delightful, a suspended ‘moment of living hope.'” — Anne Carson

“Nothing is large or small, heavy or light, except as to ourselves. Man is the measure of all things, as an ancient Greek philosopher asserted; and man has inferred, discovered, and named matter.” — Max Müller

“Back home everyone said I didn’t have any talent. They might be saying the same thing here but it sounds better in French.” — Alan Jay Lerner

 

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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 — 20231217

Jeff

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

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Today’s STATUS QUOtes

 

“Acorns were good till bread was found.” — Francis Bacon

“We are like books. Most people only see our cover, the minority read only the introduction, many people believe the critics. Few will know our content.” — Émile Zola

“There is no conversation more boring than the one where everybody agrees.” — Michel de Montaigne

“Future, n. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true, and our happiness is assured.” — Ambrose Bierce

 

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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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