Willa Cather

STATUS QUOtes — 20240126

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

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“The elegance of honesty needs no adornment.” — Merry Browne

“Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don’t always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.” — L. M. Montgomery

“There is only one big thing-desire. And before it, when it is big, all is little.” — Willa Cather

“If the director says you can do better, particularly in a love scene, then it is rather embarrassing.” — Julie Andrews

 

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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 — 20171208

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“It would be a very big book that contained all the maybes uttered in a day.” — French Proverb

“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.” — Willa Cather

“Those that think it permissible to tell white lies soon grow color blind.” — Austin O’Malley

“I would say the world’s in terrible shape, but I’m afraid the world would say, ‘Look who’s talking!'” — Cass Elliot, Mamas & Papas

 
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STATUS QUOtes — 20161209

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“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.” — Paulo Coelho

“We often succumb to the temptation of a tidy-minded approach when we would be better served by embracing a degree of mess.” — Tim Harford

“No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person.” — Willa Cather

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.” — J. R. R. Tolkien

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160727

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“You should become a connoisseur of your own mistakes.” — Daniel Dennet

“A project is complete when it starts working for you, rather than you working for it.” — Scott Allen

“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable past.” — Willa Cather, My Ántonia

“The one thing that doesn’t abide by majority rule is a person’s conscience.” — Harper Lee

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160715

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“The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.” — Vladimir Nabokov

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.” — Willa Cather

“Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn’t. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with a will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!” — John Irving

“Seven months ago I could give a single command and 541,000 people would immediately obey it; today I can’t get a plumber to come to my house.” — Norman Schwarzkopf

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160505

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“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.” — Goethe

“We cannot selectively numb emotions, when we numb the painful emotions, we also numb the positive emotions.” — Brené Brown

“Sometimes a neighbor whom we have disliked a lifetime for his arrogance and conceit lets fall a single commonplace remark that shows us another side, another man, really; a man uncertain, and puzzled, and in the dark like ourselves.” — Willa Cather

“You can’t have a million-dollar dream with a minimum-wage work ethic.” — Stephen C. Hogan

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20160331

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“Success is never so interesting as struggle.” — Willa Cather

“Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they are certainly no worse.” — Golda Meir

“To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.” — Marc Hack

“Sometimes the grass is greener on the other side because it is fake.” — Unknown

 

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STATUS QUOtes — 20151213

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“Worries go down better with soup.” — Jewish Proverb

“The sun will rise and set regardless. What we choose to do with the light while it’s here is up to us. Journey wisely.” — Alexandra Elle

“The heart of another is a dark forest, always, no matter how close it has been to one’s own.” — Willa Cather

“It’s the gossip columnist’s business to write about what is none of his business.” — Louis Kronenberger

 

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