witty

STATUS QUOtes — 20150212

Jeff

“Only the guy who isn’t rowing has time to rock the boat.” — Jean-Paul Sartre

“We need people in our lives with whom we can be as open as possible. To have real conversation with people may seem like such a simple, obvious suggestion, but it involves courage and risk.” — Thomas Moore

“The best way to have a good idea is to have a lot of ideas.” — Linus Pauling

“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to our society. The optimist invents the airplane and the pessimist the parachute.” — Gil Stern

STATUS QUOtes — 20150211

Jeff

“We adore chaos because we love to produce order.” — M.C. Escher

“Love the people who saw you when you were invisible to everyone else.” — Unknown

“The most important things are the hardest to say, because words diminish them.” — Stephen King

“Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.” — Mark Twain

STATUS QUOtes — 20150210

Jeff

“To heal a wound you need to stop touching it.” — Unknown

“Certainly there are good and bad times, but our mood changes more often than our fortune.” — Jules Renard

“Hold fast to your dreams, for without them life is a broken winged bird that cannot fly.” — Langston Hughes

“He is no lawyer who cannot take two sides.” — Charles Lamb

STATUS QUOtes — 20150209

Jeff

“No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.” — Alice Walker

“We are shaped and fashioned by what we love.” — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Never take a mean advantage of anyone in any transaction, and never be hard upon people who are in your power.” — Charles Dickens

“Success is a great deodorant.” — Elizabeth Taylor

STATUS QUOtes — 20150208

Jeff

“And the heart that is soonest awake to the flowers is always the first to be touch’d by the thorns.” — Thomas Moore

“Too many people undervalue what they are and overvalue what they’re not.” — Malcolm Forbes

“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.” — Ludwig Börne

“Knowing when to play stupid is pretty smart.” — Unknown

STATUS QUOtes — 20150207

Jeff

“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and whosoever loves much performs much, and can accomplish much, and what is done in love is well done.” — Vincent van Gogh, Dutch artist

“If you must err, do so on the side of audacity.” — Sue Monk Kidd, The Invention of Wings

“Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There’s no better rule.” — Charles Dickens

“Extra blankets will be placed in all your rooms and there’ll be no additional cover charge.” — Groucho Marx

STATUS QUOtes — 20150206

Jeff

“We often repent of our first thoughts, and scarce ever of our second.” — Horace Walpole, British historian

“To be able to look back upon ones life in satisfaction is to live twice.” — Khalil Gibran

“Nobody got where they are today by living for tomorrow.” — Tom Wilson

“When you throw dirt, you lose ground.” — Texas Proverb

STATUS QUOtes — 20150205

Jeff

“The successful revolutionary is a statesman, the unsuccessful one a criminal.” — Erich Fromm

“A desk is a terrible place from which to view the world.” — John le Carré

“The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.” — James Baldwin

“I never feel so accomplished as when I open a tough jar.” — Emma Watson

STATUS QUOtes — 20150204

Jeff

“We are each other’s destiny.” — Jacqueline Novogratz

“Don’t be upset by the results you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do.” — Unknown

“Leadership is a sacred trust like priesthood in civilized, humane religions. No one gets into it lightly or unadvisedly because it demands qualities of mind and discipline, of body and will, far beyond the need of the ordinary citizens.” — Chinua Achebe

“The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce – instantly.” — Demetri Martin

STATUS QUOtes — 20150203

Jeff

“Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.” — Honore de Balzac

“For the strength of the Pack is the Wolf, and the strength of the Wolf is the Pack.” — Rudyard Kipling

“Don’t forget you are human. It’s OK to have a meltdown, just don’t unpack and live there.” — Unknown

“When you pass the buck, don’t ask for change.” — Solomon Short