Quotes & Phrases Flashcards
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sui generis
(Latin)
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in a class or group of its own; not like anything else;
one of a kind
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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
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German Proverb
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Prodesse Quam Conspici
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To accomplish rather than to be conspicuous
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tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse
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Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.
French
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When you’re damned if you and damned if you don’t, always do.
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Popular aphorism
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casus belli
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a Latin expression meaning the justification for acts of war. Casus means “incident”, “rupture” or indeed “case”, while belli means bellic (“of war”). It is usually distinguished from casus foederis, where casus belli refers to offenses or threats directly against a nation, and casus foederis refers to offenses or threats to a fellow allied nation with which the justifying nation is engaged in a mutual defense treaty, such as NATO.
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dolce far niente
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pleasant idleness
(literally: sweet doing nothing in Italian)
the sweetness of doing nothing
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specialité de la maison
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house specialty
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C’est une autre histoire
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That is another story
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in loco parentis
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on behalf of the parents
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Occam’s razor
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The simplest explanation is usually the best one.
The principle that the simplest explanation is often the right one.
Explanations which require fewer unjustified assumptions are more likely to be correct; avoid unnecessary or improbable assumptions.
The problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements. It is also known as the principle of parsimony or the law of parsimony. Attributed to William of Ockham, a 14th-century English philosopher and theologian, it is frequently cited as Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem, which translates as “Entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity”, although Occam never used these exact words.
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Rome
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the eternal city
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status quo ante
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the way things were before
the state of affairs that existed previously
Latin, state in which previously
First Known Use: 1877
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cri de couer
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cry of the heart
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in absentia
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in the absence
while absent
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Laus Deo
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Praise be to God
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stay true to your you
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being true to oneself
to thine own self be true
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Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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George Bernard Shaw
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volte-face
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about face; a total change of position, as in policy or opinion; an about-face. The expression comes through French, from Italian voltafaccia and Portuguese volte face, composed of volta (turn) and faccia (face).
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cognoscenti
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people who are considered to be especially well informed about a particular subject.
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a priori
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prior to existence
relating to or denoting reasoning or knowledge that proceeds from theoretical deduction rather than from observation or experience.
“a priori assumptions about human nature”
synonyms: theoretical, deduced, deductive, inferred, postulated, suppositional
“a priori reasoning”
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a priori knowledge
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A priori knowledge or justification is independent of experience, as with mathematics (3+2=5), tautologies (“All bachelors are unmarried”), and deduction from pure reason (e.g., ontological proofs
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a posteriori
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derived from experience
A posteriori knowledge or justification is dependent on experience or empirical evidence, as with most aspects of science and personal knowledge.
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Discipline is the servant of inspiration
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Bebe Moore Campbell
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roofers hate gravity
sometimes things are what they are and disliking a thing does not make it untrue
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inter alia
among other things
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ipso facto
by the fact itself (Latin)
word for word
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en passant
by the way; incidentally.
in passing
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If greatness can't stand the searchlight of truth and justice, then it is but smallness.
Sir Alan Laschelles
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I am determined to travel through life first class
Noel Coward
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My sense of my importance to the world is relatively small. On the other hand, my sense of my own importance to myself is tremendous
Noel Coward
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any sexual activities when over-advertised are tasteless
Noel Coward
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History only predicts the future until it doesn't anymore
Old saying
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grand geste
showy gesture
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blue pill
Taking the easy way out, choosing to ignore the harsh reality and live in blissful ignorance.
"You take the blue pill -- the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe." Morpheus, The Matrix
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Lapsang souchong
a black tea (Camellia sinensis) originally from the Wuyi region of the Chinese province of Fujian
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red pill
the truth, no matter how gritty and painful it may be
"This is your last chance. After this there is no turning back. You take the blue pill: the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill: you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes." - Morpheus, The Matrix
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pyrrhic victory
a victory that inflicts such a devastating toll on the victor that it is tantamount to defeat
a victory won at too great a cost to have been worthwhile for the victor.
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Follow the trend lines, not the headlines
Kasim Reed
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To handle yourself, use your head; to handle others, use your heart.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard
Tim Notke, a high school basketball coach
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one tequila, two tequila, three tequila, floor!
modern proverb about shots
http://www.mademan.com/guydes-suave-bar/
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avuncular
1. of or relating to an uncle
2. of or relating to the relationship between men and their siblings' children
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Populism is popular until it gets elected
Political saying
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I live in the world of "what have you done for me lately?"
Kasim Reed
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ex novo
means from the beginning, from the scratch, whereas anew means again, one more time.
Unadapted borrowing from Latin ex novō (literally “anew, from the beginning”). Adverb Edit. ex novo. from the beginning, from scratch.
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Why make one’s dreams come true when the best part of any project is just dreaming about it?
Sandro d’Urso, a friend of Marella Agnelli's
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je ne sais quoi
a quality that cannot be described or named easily.
"I do not know what"
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dutch courage
liquid courage
courage gained from intoxication with alcohol
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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice and moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.
Barry Goldwater- 1964
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concern trolling
a form of Internet trolling in which someone enters a discussion with claims that he or she supports the view of the discussion, but has concerns.
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bête noire (noun)
a person or thing that one particularly dislikes.
bugbear, pet peeve, anathema, thorn in one's side/flesh, bane of one's life, bugaboo, pain, pest
(Literally: black beast)
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If fear is cultivated, it will become stronger. If faith is cultivated, it will achieve mastery
John Paul Jones, American revolutionary and naval commander
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The best things in life happen when you get carried away
Michael Ruhlman
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give a wide berth
give someone or something a wide berth
to keep a reasonable distance from someone or something; to steer clear (of someone or something). (Originally referred to sailing ships.)
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éminence grise
(ˌemənəns ˈɡrēz)
a person who exercises power or influence in a certain sphere without holding an official position.
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adversity introduces us to ourselves
Anonymous
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Qui cum canibus concumbunt cum pulicibus surgent
If you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas
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The problem is not the problem. The problem is your attitude about the problem.
Captain Jack Sparrow
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Cogito ergo sum
I think, therefore I am
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A day without laughter is a day wasted.
Charlie Chaplin
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Corrupt always beats crazy
Michael Steele
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I tease because I love
Julie Mason
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Poking the bees nest
Political operative 2016 election
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getting ahead of your skis
out over your skis
get our entirely too far ahead of yourself
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spent force
if you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence ⇒ As a political leader he was something of a spent force.
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You must be either mad or bad
Tommy Lascelles to Peter Townsend
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fidei defensor
defender of the faith
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anything long-lasting or worthwhile takes time and complete surrender
Ryan Hidinger- Staplehouse
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Don't taunt the alligator until you cross the creek
old saying
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Dancing in the inzone before the game is over
old sports metaphor
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Gild the lily
embellish
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je ne sais quoi
a quality that cannot be described or named easily.
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je ne sais pas
I do not know
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fidus achates (fee-dus a-kay-tays)
true friend (bff)
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a fortiori
even more so
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reductio ad absurdum
reduction to absurdity
a method of proving the falsity of a premise by showing that its logical consequence is absurd or contradictory.
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ceteris paribus
other things being equal
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ad infinitum
again and again in the same way forever
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tout à fait
absolutely, exactly, completely
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en retard
late
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comme il faut
correct in behavior or etiquette
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Not everything that can be counted counts. And not everything that counts can be counted.
Albert Einstein
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The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.
Viktor Frankl
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
Albert Einstein
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moyen de vivre
way to live
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Truth to Tell: Tell It Early, Tell It All, Tell It Yourself
Lanny Davis
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They say that pretty boys don’t age well. That’s only because ugly guys don’t have that much to lose in the first place anyway.
Anti-Valentine
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Think much, speak little, write nothing
Isabella Stewart Gardner
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Wanderjahr
a year spent traveling abroad, typically immediately before or after a university or college course.
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Always be yourself, because not much left in this world is unique, but you are.
Shannon Harris, YouTube beauty blogger
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The person I am today more closely approximates the person I was created to be.
Morgann Lyles
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There are four fearsome things: Earthquake, Thunder, Fire, and Father.
Japanese saying
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The problem Wasps have with the nouveau riche isn’t so much the nouveau as the riche.
Tad Friend- Cheerful Money
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Good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence if they lack understanding.
Albert Camus
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find true north
To find or proceed on the correct course or in the right direction
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true north
Non-negotiable, since the compass will show where it is, relative from your current position, and it will never change
what is the right path for us personally
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figure-toi + (que)
imagine + (that)
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vis-à-vis
In relation to; with regard to
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red pill
Knowledge, freedom and the sometimes painful truth of reality (from the Matrix)
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blue pill
falsehood, security and the blissful ignorance of illusion (from the Matrix)
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He doesn’t need an umbrella, he can walk in between the raindrops
Russian saying
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A brand is not what you say it is. It’s what they say it is.
Marty Neumeier, The Brand Gap
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uneasily tied knot of pain and hope
Richard Wright
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One truth of any moment in Washington is ...
Juan Williams
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It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was
Anne Sexton, the American poet
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Addicted to his own incumbency
Ben Sasse
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trivial vitality
Olivier Knox described this about the news
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All of my skinfolk ain't kinfolk
Zora Neale Hurston
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contemporaneous
existing or occurring in the same period of time
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wisenheimer
a person who behaves in an irritatingly smug or arrogant fashion, typically by making clever remarks and displaying their knowledge
Someone always making feeble wisecracks, who laughs at his/her own jokes and is generally deserving of severe and painful punishment
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unknown unknowns
something that we don't know that we don't know.- Donald Rumsfeld
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extemporaneous
spoken or done without preparation
Adlibing or performing something unprepared
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prima facie
based on the first impression; accepted as correct until proved otherwise
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Just because you stand in a sacred place doesn't mean you hear sacred truths
Serene Jones, President and Johnston Family Professor for Religion and Democracy at Union Theological Seminary in the City of New York.
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métier
a trade, profession, or occupation
an occupation or activity that one is good at.
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wedging a block of wood in the 2020 door
Keeping options open about running for president in 2020.
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infra dig *shortened version of" infra dignitatem
beneath dignity.
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History has a way of looking better than it was
Frank Underwood
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a bite to your tone
an unpleasant edge to your tone
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Autobiographies make lousy scripts because they have weak protagonists who are acted upon instead of driving action
Jeffrey Sweet, screenwriter
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distinction without a difference
doesn't make any difference. Anonymous
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j’accuse
"I accuse" used especially to condemn a major social injustice
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it's like he's taking a chisel to his own statue and slamming out a chunk of it, until the whole rotten structure comes crashing down.
Alan Nothnagle · University at Buffalo
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apocryphal
of doubtful authenticity, although widely circulated as being true.
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Americans only learn from catastrophe and not from experience
Theodore Roosevelt
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sleight-of-hand
manual dexterity, typically in performing tricks
refers to fine motor skills when used by performing artists in different art forms to entertain or manipulate. It is closely associated with close-up magic, card cheating, card flourishing and stealing
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“The best things in life are free. The second best things are very, very expensive.”
Coco Chanel
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crocodile smile
a false smile that is hiding evil thoughts and intentions.
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Certitude is not the test of certainty. We have been cocksure of many things that were not so.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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I think you are going to need a very strong blender to mix the Washington community with the Trump crowd, and I don’t think it’s going to end up being a smoothie.
Sally Quinn
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Education is the source of all we have and the spring of all of our future joys
William J Edwards, former U.S. Republican politician, represented Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives
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in contravention of
in a manner contrary and disobedient to (a law or other ruling)
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first class is there to remind you that you're not in first class
*Etrade advertisement
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I've been blessed to be a blessing to others
Brannigan Thompson
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writ large
similar to it but larger or more obvious
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Men socialize by insulting each other, but don't really mean it.
Women socialize by complementing each other, but don't really mean it.
Earl Dibbles Jr., American country music singer
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What you do speaks so loudly that I cannot hear what you say.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Chasing "out of the money" options
Tom Fanning, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President of Southern Company
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Life is a show. Be in character
Roger Stone
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No need to seize the last word, Lord Baelish. I’ll assume it was something clever.
Sansa Stark to LIttlefinger
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Every restaurant is a theater . . . even the modest restaurants offer the opportunity to become someone else, at least for a little while
Ruth Reichl
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Sunlight is the best disinfectant
Louis D. Brandeis
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Prodesse Quam Conspici
To accomplish rather than to be conspicuous
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specialité de la maison
house specialty
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Occam’s razor
the principle that the simplest explanation is often the right one
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C'est une autre histoire
That is another story
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dolce far niente
pleasant idleness
(literally: sweet doing nothing in Italian)
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Rome
the eternal city
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An old error is always more popular than a new truth.
German Proverb
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casus belli
a Latin expression meaning the justification for acts of war. Casus means "incident", "rupture" or indeed "case", while belli means bellic ("of war"). It is usually distinguished from casus foederis, where casus belli refers to offenses or threats directly against a nation, and casus foederis refers to offenses or threats to a fellow allied nation with which the justifying nation is engaged in a mutual defense treaty, such as NATO.
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in loco parentis
on behalf of the parents
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cri de couer
cry of the heart
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in absentia
in the absence
while absent
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Laus Deo
Praise be to God
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If you would understand virtue, observe the conduct of virtuous men.
Aristotle's Ethics
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When you're damned if you and damned if you don't, always do.
Popular aphorism
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Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
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status quo ante
the way things were before
the state of affairs that existed previously
Latin, state in which previously
First Known Use: 1877
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sui generis
(Latin)
in a class or group of its own : not like anything else
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tout passe, tout lasse, tout casse
Everything passes, everything wears out, everything breaks.
Friday
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sprezzatura
(Italian)
studied carelessness, especially as a characteristic quality or style of art or literature.
a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it
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“It's easy to be satisfied with the best."
Winston Churchill
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Write Yiddish, cast British
Old Hollywood adage
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anno domini
In the year of our lord
(Latin)
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mechant/mechante
wicked (French)
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droit de cité
Right of the city
City pass
Free of the city
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Image Sees, Image Feels, Image Acts
Lerone Bennett Jr
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candidissima animal
the whitest living thing; more freely, the purest, most unblemished, of souls.
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If you hate your parents, the man or the establishment, don't show them up by getting wasted and wrapping your car around a tree. If you really want to rebel against your parents, out-learn them, outlive them, and know more than they do.
Henry Rollins
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annus horribilis
horrible year
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annus mirabilis
wonderful year
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éminence grise
grey eminence
a powerful decision-maker or adviser who operates "behind the scenes" or in a non-public or unofficial capacity
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The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.
Abraham Lincoln
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Carpe diem quam minimum credula postero
Horace
Seize the day putting as little trust into the future
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The person who know how to laugh at himself will never cease to be amused.
Shirley MacClaine
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There is no reality- only perception.
Dr. Phil
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That man is richest whose pleasures are cheapest.
Henry David Thoreau
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If you desire happiness, you should seek the causes that give rise to it, and if you don’t desire suffering, then what you should do is to ensure that the causes and conditions that give rise to it no longer arise.
His Holiness, the Dali Lama
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We must be willing to get rid of the life we've planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
Joseph Campbell
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Follow your bliss.
Joseph Campbell
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People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves.
Aesop
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I haven’t failed, I’ve found 10,000 ways that don't work.
Thomas A. Edison
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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.”
George Bernard Shaw
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veritas magis amicitiae
literally: more truth is more friendship
"you are a friend, but truth is a better friend"
both are dear, yet 'tis my duty to prefer the truth
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sprezzatura
Seymour St. John, the longtime headmaster of Choate, termed this quality of attractiveness “the sheer restfulness of good breeding
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damn with faint praise
To criticize someone or something indirectly by giving a slight compliment.
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abiding
(abiding sense of...)
(of a feeling or a memory) lasting a long time; enduring
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pas devant les domestiques
not in front of the servants
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sotto voce
in a quiet voice, as if not to be overheard.
(translation: "under the voice"
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pas devant les enfantes
not in front of the kids
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shoddiness beneath the shimmer
English expression
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problem with the bottle
alcoholism euphemism
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People who end up as ‘first’ don’t actually set out to be first. They set out to do something they love.
Condoleezza Rice
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You're only as sick as your secrets
Jimmy Dior
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the principle is more important than the particulars
Julie Mason
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I can’t be held responsible for every dreadful remark that escapes my mouth.”
Greg Jackson- Prodigals
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The medium is the message
Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory
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“You need people well enough informed to understand just how enviable you are”
Greg Jackson- Prodigals
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Don't tell me how to stage the news and I won't tell you how to report the news
Larry Speakes, former White House press secretary
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We shape our tools and thereafter our tools shape us.
Marshall McLuhan, a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory
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A point of view can be a dangerous luxury when substituted for insight and understanding
Marshall McLuhan , a Canadian professor, philosopher, and public intellectual. His work is one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory
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These actors are such lightweights, it's doubtful they leave footprints on the beach
Tom Shales- The Washington Post about the Two Mrs. Grenvilles movie
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lex naturae est
it is the law of nature
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there is an arbitrage gap between how we're doing and how you think we're doing
Anthony Scaramucci
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a blindfolded woman holding a set of scales
justice
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from your lips to God's ears
old saying
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When something cannot go on, it won't
Richard Nixon
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Via Veneto
one of the most famous, elegant, and expensive streets of Rome, Italy
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The White House Chief of Staff should have a passion for anonymity.
Old saying
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no soap
used to convey that there is no chance of something happening or occurring
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It takes as much time to worry as it does to plan.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Noticing race is not racism any more than noticing fire makes you an arsonist
Touré, from the Daily Beast article
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Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face
Dolores del Río
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Populism is good at winning elections, but it's not necessarily good policy.
Jeff Flake, Senator from Arizona
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more heat than light
it doesn't provide answers, but does make people angry
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The best leaders know they can't succeed alone. "No one does," "When you look at most big things that get done in the world, they're not done by one person." They're done by well-constructed teams.
Mark Zuckerberg
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high speed, low drag
No extra fluff or "baggage" that is irrelevant to the person, product, or idea being described. Basically, "very efficient" or "lean and mean".
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not to put too fine a point on it
used before saying something in a very direct way that may seem rude
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Part of making good decisions in business is recognizing the poor decisions you’ve made and why they were poor.
Warren Buffett
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There are no ugly women, only lazy ones.
Helena Rubinstein
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The greatest wealth is health.
Virgil
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If wishes were fishes, the world would be an ocean.
Old saying
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Coincidence takes a lot of planning.
Malcolm Nance, an African-American author and media commentator on terrorism, intelligence, insurgency and torture
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Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product.
Eleanor Roosevelt
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Safety is never a permanent state of affairs
Ser Davos
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Nothing fucks you harder than time
Ser Davos
228
When you are going through hell, keep going.
Old saying
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Don’t get mad, get smart. Your brain is the most important thing you have.
Andrew Young
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Don't worry. You'll have friends. Hitler had friends. Mom has friends. You'll be fine.
CJG
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vox populi
the opinions or beliefs of the majority
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you are picking up what they are putting down
you get what they are talking about
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You're only young once, but you can be immature forever.
Germaine Greer
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Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.
Germaine Greer
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Women have very little idea of how much men hate them.
Germaine Greer
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Looking so cool and elegant that the sight of her almost pinches the optic nerves
Vincent Canby describing Faye Dunaway in the 1969 film, The Arrangement
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méchante
malicious, wicked
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Caveat on a classic
Awesome Etiquetre podcast
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Procedural justice
the idea of fairness in the processes that resolve disputes and allocate resources. It is a concept that, when embraced, promotes positive organizational change and bolsters better relationships
Awesome Etiquette podcast
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Communicate compromise commitment
Awesome Etiquette podcast
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Etiquette depends on consideration, respect, honesty
Awesome Etiquette podcast
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Clean bed, clean head
Messy bed, messy head
Old saying
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Bring your full self, your best self.
Old saying
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our realities may differ but our rights don't
TED talk
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The minimum requirement for a dream is a safe place to put your head
TED talk
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sword of Damocles
This expression alludes to the legend of Damocles, a servile courtier to King Dionysius I of Syracuse. The king, weary of Damocles' obsequious flattery, invited him to a banquet and seated him under a sword hung by a single hair, so as to point out to him the precariousness of his position.
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métier
a trade, profession, or occupation
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Do what you gotta do so you can do what you wanna do.
Denzel Washington
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buckle of the Bible Belt
saying about the South's cultural center
250
in the prime of his life, having the time of his life
Bob Guccione Jr. about Hugh Hefner in an obituary
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The things we hate about ourselves aren't more real than things we like about ourselves.
Ellen Goodman, American journalist
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When corporations cook for us, we’re not eating food, but “edible food-like substances” dreamed up by executives.
Michael Pollan
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Quod dixi, dixi.
What I’ve said, I’ve said.
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a town that doesn’t care where you come from but only what you become
Hollywood
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The best part of a party is getting dressed to go
Nan Kempner
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row with the team
Team player; One who stays in line
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The glittering structure of her cultivation sits on her novels like a rather showy icing that detracts from the cake beneath.
Louis Auchincloss about Edith Wharton
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Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life
Louis Auchincloss
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Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture … Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
Norman Vincent Peale
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I have succumbed to the reality of the permanent shit show.
KJG
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a bat in your cave
a bugger in your nose
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We may not have the power to create the world we want immediately, but we can all start working on the long term today.
Mark Zuckerberg
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The more you know, the more you know you don’t know
Aristotle's most famous musing
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History never repeats itself but it often rhymes
maybe Mark Twain
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She thought I was Jesus jumping off the cross
Liz Smith
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All politics is about motivation, and at this point, the Hispanic community here is extremely motivated against Trump
Anthony Suarez, a lawyer and local political elder
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un peu farouche
a little sullen; a bit shy
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un peu
a little; a bit
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farouche
shy
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Fear is a dead end but faith always has a future!
Joyce Meyer
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Memento mori
Remember that you have to die (Latin)
272
Via Dolorosa
way of grief; way of suffering; painful way; the path that Jesus walked on his way to his crucifixion
273
Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
Frank Zappa
274
Let me tell you what I wish I’d known
When I was young and dreamed of glory.
You have no control:
Who lives, who dies, who tells your story.
Hamilton, the musical
275
The presumption of innocence, while essential in the legal realm, does not mean the elimination of common sense outside it.
Ruth Marcus, an American political commentator and journalist for WaPo.
276
History is like therapy for the present. It makes us talk about its parents.
Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch
277
We forget how primed we are to believe or disbelieve a story depending on who is telling it
Marie Griffith, Religion professor
278
Of course I don’t have a Plan B. I never had a Plan A.
Woody Paige
woodypaige.com
279
When you get to be my age, you will either have lived one year 76 times or lived 76 years.
Marlon Brandy- a guy from Quora
280
verklempt
too emotional to speak
281
Bon chic, bon genre
(Good style, good attitude) is an expression used in France to refer to a subculture of stylish members of the Paris upper class. They are typically well-educated, well-connected, and descended from "old money" families, preferably with some aristocratic ancestry.
282
As long as you’re green, you’re growing, and as soon as you ripen, you start to rot.
Ray Kroc
283
When you’re explaining, you’re losing
Anonymous
284
When you hate your enemy more than you love your children, you lose your soul.
Dana Gould, comedy writer
285
gild the lily
try to improve what is already beautiful or excellent
286
numerical dyslexia
bad with numbers
287
You don't love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear
Oscar Wilde
288
The essence of art and culture is defined by those who dare to create
Art of Daring Cadillac (Vimeo) tweet
289
Elegance is refusal
Attribute to many- Coco Chanel, Diana Vreeland
290
beggar belief
to be too extraordinary to be believed or described.
291
Nothing is good or bad, except by comparison
Old GOP saying
292
harbinger or One-off
A sign of things to come or an exception
293
A blind man with a blind fold can tell
Kasim Reed
294
infantilize
treat (someone) as a child or in a way that denies their maturity in age or experience.
295
how adroitly your weather vane spins
move with the flow unethically- The Crown
296
There is no possibility of my forgiving you. The only question is: how on earth can you forgive yourself?
Peter Morgan- line delivered by Claire Foy in "The Crown"
297
That's the thing about unhappiness. All it takes is for something worse to come along, and you realize it was actually happiness after all.
Peter Morgan- line delivered by Claire Foy in "The Crown"
298
Plus est en vous
There is more in you
299
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.
Winston Churchill
300
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
Winston Churchill
301
emotional quarter
safe place for emotional solace
302
quarterlife crisis
a crisis that may be experienced in one's twenties, involving anxiety over the direction and quality of one's life
303
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work
Bette Davis
304
Something is rotten in the state of Denmark
used to describe corruption or a situation in which something is wrong
305
testicular fortitude
balls, guts, intestinal fortitude
306
I'll leave the drawing of that inescapable conclusion to you
Tommy Lascelles, The Crown
307
screw the pooch
making a major mistake
doing something very much the wrong way
308
hold in abeyance
to temporarily set aside; to suspend
309
You can’t just curse the darkness. You have to light a candle.
Former CIA head
310
such hints assume precision in retrospect.
hindsight is 20-20
311
vacuity
lack of thought or intelligence; empty-headedness.
312
Politics is full of outcome-based morality
Victoria Grossack, Doux Reviews
313
meet cute
a scene in which a future romantic couple meets for the first time
314
to be very fluent with the language of victimization
Roy Moore is an example
315
fait accompli
a thing that has already happened or been decided before those affected hear about it, leaving them with no option but to accept
316
Washington is Hollywood for ugly people
Paul Begala
317
whirling dervish
A term of endearment for an energetic, bouncy person
A person whose behavior resembles a rapid, spinning object
318
Trying to squeeze good juice out of a very sour lemon
Michael Steele
319
B-side
the side the record that's not the hit
320
trying to name the funniest Supreme Court justice is like trying to name the tallest short person
Stephen Breyer
321
fever dream
particularly intense or confusing dream brought on by a fever
Dream someone has when falling asleep, but wakes up repeatedly due to how sickening the dream feels. Usually mundane, repeated imagery that leaves one feeling frustrated and feverish because it just won't change
322
it was a long week today
anonymous
323
It’s not what you put on the table, it’s who you put in the chairs
Betsy Bloomingdale
324
All failure is failure to adapt. All success is successful adaptation.
Max McKeown, Author and Strategic Adviser
325
memento mori
Remember that you have to die
326
the seduction of ease
anonymous
327
Is this the hill you want to die on?
anonymous
328
It's only when the tide goes out, you see who’s clothed and who’s naked.
Warren Buffett
329
fuckshittery
bullshit
330
Fear either causes you do to do things you wouldn’t normally do or prevent you from doing things you normally would do.
Alexandre O. Phillippe,
Swiss film director
331
Don’t trust a bald barber
old saying
332
It’s the micro that makes the macro.
Alyssa Milano
333
A life without memory is no life at all
Luis Bunuel
334
To be able to make a choice is such a privilege
Sarah Jessica Parker
335
Si vis pacem, para bellum
If you want peace, prepare for war
336
Stay Ready at all times, So You Ain’t Gotta Get Ready
Will Smith & Francis Polo (Fresh Pepper)
337
This is a bad year to have a bad year
Political saying
338
As we grow up, we aim to be “self-possessed”, not taken over by others
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
339
People have no chance to grow up. A lifetime is not long enough.
Ivy Compton Burnett, English novelist
340
mater dolorosa
1. (Art Terms) the Virgin Mary sorrowing for the dead Christ, esp as depicted in art
2. (Ecclesiastical Terms) the Virgin Mary sorrowing for the dead Christ, esp as depicted in art
341
As every fortune-teller knows, such hints assume precision in retrospect
Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall
342
Time is limited, so I better wake up every morning fresh and know that I have just one chance to live this particular day right, and to string my days together into a life of action and purpose.
Lance Armstrong
343
No man has the right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training. It is a shame for a man to grow old without seeing the beauty and strength of which his body is capable
Socrates
344
We are not born sexist or racist. Rather, systemic racism and misogyny socializes us to believe that we are ranked, when in fact we are linked.
Gloria Steinem
345
There is no education in the second kick of a mule
Mitch McConnell- old Kentucky country saying
346
bildungsroman
coming of age story
a novel that details the maturation, and specif. the psychological development and moral education, of the principal character
347
par excellence
better or more than all others of the same kind.
348
persona grata
a person, especially a diplomat, acceptable to certain others.
349
persona non grata
an unacceptable or unwelcome person.
350
suo jure
in his/her own right. Commonly encountered in the context of titles of nobility or honorary titles
351
semper ubi sub ubi
"Always where under where."
When spoken it comes out as "Always wear underwear.".
352
nonpareil
a person or thing that has no equal; a paragon
353
flagrante delicto
"in blazing offense" or sometimes simply in flagrante ("in blazing")
in the very act of committing a misdeed : red-handed.
in the midst of sexual activity.
354
pezzanovante
".95. caliber," Italian slang for "big shot".
355
He has some very good qualities. It's his bad qualities that ain't so good.
Sonny Liston's manager
356
succès d’estime
a success through critical appreciation, as opposed to popularity or commercial gain
357
succès de scandale
a success due to notoriety or a thing's scandalous nature.
358
beau idéal
the perfect type or model
a person or thing representing the highest possible standard of excellence in a particular respect.
359
We have a choice every day of our lives: Accept things as they are or take responsibility for changing them.
Cory Booker
360
free-wheeling conversationist
liar (a la Trump) coined by Peter Nicholas- WSJ
361
The truth is: there is no one way to be a man
Harry's ad
362
People in the South are more concerned with being comfortable than being excellent
Cameron
363
“He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How.”
Friedrich Nietzsche:
364
When seeking revenge, best dig two graves
Confucius
365
People in the South are more concerned with being comfortable than being excellent
Cameron
366
You cannot reason with a tiger when your head is in its mouth
Winston Churchill
367
Let the steel of my resolve be not bested by the sum of my fears
Parkway Drive (Australian metal core band)
368
screed
parenthetical
Yascha Mounk
Must look up
369
When you sink your personality and soul into what you’re doing, the product itself is going to be better.
Ty Pennington
370
Absent facts and data, you can believe whatever you want
Bernie Sanders campaign manager for mayor of Burlington, VT
371
on the regs; on the regular
regularly; to do something regularly, usually something positive but not limited to
372
First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, and then the drink takes you.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
373
I’m here to build something for the long-term. Anything else is a distraction.
Mark Zuckerberg
374
altitude adjustment
shift in status (National Geographic)
375
vae victis
woe to the vanquished
376
Et lux in tenebris lucet
—and the light shineth in the darkness
377
There is only one thing that I dread: not to be worthy of my sufferings.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
378
Life is like being at the dentist. You always think that the worst is still to come, and yet it is over already.
Otto von Bismarck
379
Emotion, which is suffering, ceases to be suffering as soon as we form a clear and precise picture of it.
Spinoza, “Ethics”
380
That which does not kill me, makes me stronger.
Friedrich Nietzsche
381
Pessimism is my defense against optimism
Arthur Miller
382
What you have experienced, no power on earth can take from you.
Viktor Frankl
383
Only when the emotions work in terms of values can the individual feel pure joy
Viktor Frankl
384
When it is obvious that the goal cannot be reached, don't adjust the goal, adjust the action steps.
Confucius
385
To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often
Winston Churchill
386
It does not matter how slowly you go as long as you do not stop
Confucius
387
Abundance is the process of letting go that which empty can receive
Bryant H. McGill, American author
388
It always seems impossible until it's done
Nelson Mandela
389
We’re all doing our best and finding our own ways to preserve what’s important to us.
Zoe Paknad, Food author
390
bluebird of happiness
Old Kentucky idiom meaning peacemaker, embodiment of cheer and goodwill
391
I want the market to punish the idea
Olivier Knox
392
I want the invisible hand to smack the hell of this
Olivier Knox
393
So I’m not sure that you can take the abstract principle of equality without the accompanying inequality of reality.
Brian Glover, a professor who specializes in 18th-century British literature at East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina
394
Create your own visual style… let it be unique for yourself and yet identifiable for others
Orson Welles
395
tyranny of the default
the idea that people tend to maintain the recommended default settings
396
It is not what they call you, but what you answer to.
April Ryan
397
force majeure
unforeseeable circumstances that prevent someone from fulfilling a contract.
irresistible compulsion or greater force
398
enfant terrible
a person whose unconventional or controversial behavior or ideas shock, embarrass, or annoy others.
399
Amoris laetitia
the joy of love
400
As an actor, you have many tools - your body, your voice, your emotions, mentally. In film, you have your eyes because they communicate your thought process. In fact, generally in film, what you don't say is more important than what you say. That's not so much the case for stage.
Hugh Jackman
401
Quality is not an act, it is a habit
Aristotle
402
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
Winston Churchill
403
The beauty of being able to draw, or paint, from an early age is that you never feel trapped, least of all by your immediate circumstances.
Bill Blass
404
From the School they tore down before they built the Old School.
Funny line from http://chicagolionsden.blogspot.com/2016/03/nancy-reagan.html
405
Capital is capital; it is not your friend
Old saying
406
I hated every minute of training, but I said, ‘Don’t quit. Suffer now and the rest of your life as a champion.
Muhammad Ali
407
When I was born, Angel said "Oh, competition"
Saying
408
Montezuma's revenge
diarrhea suffered by travelers, especially visitors to Mexico.
Traveler's diarrhea
409
maintaining momentum
keep going on life; keep moving
410
let the dogs off the leash
Go negative
411
Memories are what you no longer want to remember
Joan Didion
412
My hypocrisy goes only so far
Tombstone returning Wyatt's Sheriff's badge to him
413
The wages of sin is death
Roman 6:23. KJV
414
Magic happens
Tim Carney, the Washington Examiner
415
Free will is like a stone that doesn’t know why it’s falling but wants to keep going
Spinoza
416
Gott im Himmel
God in Heaven!
417
Don’t be confused by the facts
Anonymous
418
We were always following the birds
Queen Elizabeth the QM describing moving around for the shooting seasons
419
Smart people like smart questions
Kara Swisher
420
If you want that job, you have to stand up and do it
Kara Swisher
421
If you want to rule, you have to rule
Kara Swisher
422
Who your allies are shift with time and public opinion
Major Garrett
423
If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog
anonymous (most say Harry S. Truman)
424
Jesus, take the wheel
When things go awry. When you can no longer take whats happening around you so you ask for the higher power.
425
Come correct or don’t come at all.
Be appropriate at all costs.
426
You don’t want a guy with a soft trigger finger in the cockpit
You don’t want someone who will go soft on your enemies
427
People who shut their eyes to reality simply invite their own destruction, and anyone who insists on remaining in a state of innocence long after that innocence is dead turns himself into a monster.
James Baldwin
428
To be haunted while asleep has its advantages, because one will awake. But to be haunted while awake is far more frightening.
George Yancy, Emory Professor
429
“Don’t simply retire from something; have something to retire to.”
Harry Emerson Fosdick, an American pastor. Fosdick became a central figure in the Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy within American Protestantism in the 1920s and 1930s and was one of the most prominent liberal ministers of the early 20th century.
430
If you pluck a feather one at a time from a chicken, it will not notice.
Benito Mussolini
431
I Am Not My Achievements, I Am My Failures. Everyone Of Them Forging Me Into Who I Am Today! Failures Only Really Count If You Give Up….
Myles Leask, Fitness blogger
432
to a drunk, the sea is only knee-deep
Old Russian saying
433
He is so positive that I saw an electron hit him
Comedian
434
mais oui
but yes
435
brothel fabulous
super tacky, gold laden
436
No news is better than evil news
King James I of England
437
Do it for the vine
When you want someone to do something, take your phone and say "do it for the vine" while recording him, then he'll do it because of the "social" pressure.
438
lie on your dick
inflating the number of women you have slept with
439
drop the mic
A phrase describing the action performed after getting the better of someone.
Calling someone out so hard that you just walk away indisputably victorious
440
Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
441
beta orbiter
The non Alpha Male who hovers (or orbits) around and pedestalizes women in hopes they can get their foot in the door and get chosen or laid.
442
Describing life as a 3 act structure
(Before, during, after)
Tom Hanks
443
Convergence of a thousand sanities
Adam Gopnik, American writer and essayist
444
Kinsley gaffe
A truthful statement told accidentally, usually by a politician. Named for the man who originally defined it.
445
Dream big, but keep a small dream too
Paula Poundstone, American standup comedienne
446
generational talent
Once-in-a-generation talent
447
Fruit of the poisonous tree
a legal metaphor in the United States used to describe evidence that is obtained illegally.
448
If you can love the wrong one so much, just imagine how much you can love the right one.
Brandon Stanton, American author
449
Don’t hate – spectate
current saying (Chris Cuomo said this on social media
450
What you see and what you hear depends a great deal on where you are standing. It also depends on what sort of person you are.
C.S. Lewis
451
What we believe is what we become.
C.S. Lewis
452
old age and illness are destroyers of individuality
Annejet van der Zijl, Dutch author
453
They are looking at each other like it’s the tenth day since the food ran out on their lifeboat.
Olivier Knox
454
non sequitur
a conclusion or statement that does not logically follow from the previous argument or statement.
455
I can tell people are judgmental just by looking at them
anonymous
456
born in (or to) the purple
born into a reigning family or privileged class.
457
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention
Herbert Simon, a Nobel Prize winning economist
458
There’s no point in speaking unless you can improve on silence
Edmund Muskie, former U.S. Senator and Secretary of State
459
Don't over-salt
Don't give too much detail. If you don't have enough, you can always add more, but if you give too much...
460
Everything should be made simple, but not simpler
Albert Einstein
461
en sourdine
softly ⧫ quietly
462
If you’re indicted, you’re invited
Comedian Joey Adams’s oft-repeated joke about Roy Cohn’s soirées
463
lift a few
have a drink
464
All lives are lived in the context of how they grow up
NPR
465
He was heroic, but he wasn’t a hero
About Jim Brown
466
You can't undo new knowledge
Harvey Fineberg, former Dean of Harvard Medical School
467
Know what you own and know why you own it.
Peter Lynch
468
Go to where the puck is going, not where it has been.
Walter Gretzky, Wayne Gretzky's father
469
A majority consciousness is finally catching up to where she’s been all along
Gloria Steinem describing RBG
470
Reacting in anger or annoyance will not advance one’s ability to persuade
RBG
471
a solution in a search of a problem
Old saying
472
Science doesn’t care what you believe
T-shirt
473
A passionate woman is worth the chaos
Malanda Jean-Claude
474
Gruppenführer
group leader
475
bon ton
the fashionable world.
476
magnum opus
a large and important work of art, music, or literature, especially one regarded as the most important work of an artist or writer.
477
It is in the middle that human choices are made; the beginning and the end remain with God. The decrees of God are birth and death, and in between those limits man makes his own distress or joy.
from "Shade of His Hand" by Oswald Chambers
478
when i ask for meat i don’t wish to hear the story of the cow
Westworld
479
Tweet others like you want to be tweeted
sign on Cedar Shoals Baptist Church
480
to be PNG’d
to be declared officially “persona non grata”
481
sweat like a sinner in church
old saying
482
Impossible is an opinion
Muhammad Ali
483
partus sequitur ventrem
In American, under slavery, the term, (a Latin phrase) which means “that which is brought forth follows the womb.
484
nota bene
observe carefully or take special notice (used in written text to draw attention to what follows).
485
I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself.
Johnny Carson
486
I don’t spank other people’s kids. Other people conduct their own families as they see fit. But I can criticize and take my own family to task when they’re wrong
Amanda Carpenter, American author, political advisor, and speechwriter
487
You have to have something to hang your hat on- because you can’t put it on the floor
Emily Jashinsky, culture editor at The Federalist
488
If God had called his heroes home in a different order
Bill Clinton
489
To understand is to forgive.
Blaise Pascal, a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, philosopher, writer and Catholic theologian.
490
There are more stars in the sky than grains of sand on the earth.”
Barack Obama
491
Sometimes even to live is an act of courage
Lucius Annaeus Seneca
492
I'd rather live in a fun hell than in a shitty heaven
CBG's friend comparing NYC to LA
493
As long as you’re good to your neighbors individually, it doesn’t matter how you treat people in the aggregate,”
NY Times commentary on the Roseanne re-boot
494
All etiquette is a set up assumptions and presumptions
Clarence Page, The Chicago Tribune
495
Political correctness is fascism pretending to be manners
George Carlin
496
omne trium perfectum
everything that comes in threes is perfect, or, every set of three is complete
497
credit where due
Give credit where it’s due
498
Less is more
old Coco Chanel maxim
499
Humming to a tune someone else composed
Ford character, Westworld (HBO)
500
Isn't the pleasure of a story discovering the ending yourself?
Ford character, Westworld (HBO)
501
We are all atheists about most of the gods that societies have ever believed in. Some of us just go one god further.
Richard Dawkins, an English ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and author.
502
I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.
Richard Dawkins
503
By all means let's be open-minded, but not so open-minded that our brains drop out
Richard Dawkins
504
caveat on
caveat to something they're telling you to beware — maybe what they're telling you comes with certain conditions or maybe there's something dangerous lurking
505
Experience food as one does as a child in an emotional way when you can escape this world and lose yourself in food.
Anthony Bourdain
506
What is the largest nation in the world?
Procrastination
Wealth Wave
507
Chefs should be in the Pleasure business, not the "Look at Me" business
Anthony Bourdain
508
Disobedience is my joy.
Princess Margaret, Countess of Snowden
509
Having to borrow money to pay attention
Rom Wills
510
grass widow
An unmarried woman who has lived with several different men; a former mistress. [from 16th c.]
A married woman whose husband is away. [from 19th c.] quotations ▼
511
post facto
Occurring, made, or enacted after the event; done with hindsight.
512
ex post facto
With retrospective action or force
An example would be a law that makes chewing gum illegal and requires the arrest of every person who has ever chewed gum, even before the law existed, would be an example
513
People in movies hit on strangers in public places because they only have 90 minutes to live out a whole dramatic arc.
Sophia Benoit, writer and comedian
514
You should leave your children enough so they can do anything, but not enough so they can do nothing.
Warren Buffett,
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway
515
Your process is your brand
Pia Silva, American entrepreneur and brand strategist
516
Being well dressed is a beautiful form of politeness
Anonymous or Coco Chanel
517
You have to live inside the Perimeter to marry outside the family
Bryan Amaral
518
If you’ll answer for his death, I’ll answer for his damnation
King William IV about his Lord Chancellor
519
Tweet others like you want to be tweeted
Cedar Shoals Baptist Church
520
If you agree with me on 9 out of 12 issues, vote for me. If you agree with me on 12 out of 12 issues, see a psychiatrist.
Ed Koch
521
What is the largest nation in the world? Procrastination
Wealth Wave
522
dramatis personae
the characters of a play, novel, or narrative.
523
Mastery is not a function of genius or talent. It is a function of time and intense focus applied to a particular field of knowledge
Robert Greene, author
524
O Thestorides, of the many things hidden from the knowledge of man, nothing is more unintelligible than the human heart.
Homer
525
Any man who is under 30, and is not a liberal, has no heart; and any man who is over 30, and is not a conservative, has no brains.
Winston Churchill
526
It’s what my father taught me about running a successful business: Make your people your No. 1 priority, and the rest will follow.
Scott Scherr
CEO of Ultimate Software
527
vulgaris
the common people (Latin)
528
Whose pussy is this?
You don't know him!
Unknown comedian
529
Do not judge my story by the chapter you walked in on
Unknown
530
Don't mistake my kindness for weakness. I am kind to everyone, but when someone is unkind to me, weakness is not what you will remember about me.
Al Capone
531
I write to create reality, not to escape it.
Unknown
532
People don’t have ideas, ideas have people.
Carl Jung
533
We tend to kiss up and kick down.
Christine Porath, Georgetown University
534
An educated citizenry is an essential requisite for a healthy democracy.
Tim Farley, Sirius XM Potus Channel
535
I will never say anything that cannot stand as the last thing I will ever say.
Benjamin Zander
536
“Who am I being that my children’s eyes are not shining.” In other words, how can we improve ourselves so that we inspire the people around us? It’s definitely something to think about.
Benjamin Zander
537
There is plenty of information. The problem—the central issue—is that the needle comes in an increasingly larger haystack.
Nassim Taleb, Lebanese-American essayist, mathematical statistician whose work concerns problems of randomness, probability, and uncertainty.
538
I'd rather live with your judgment than die with your sympathy.
Westworld
539
You live as long as the last person who remembers you
Westworld
540
So, I say it to the world and say it to myself: Marcus, start preparing yourself for a character that is a demigod, with powers, who takes care of both himself and other people. And it’s preparing for that character that makes me think it could happen.
Marcus Patrick, actor
541
in the main
for the most part
542
Human life occurs only once, and the reason we cannot determine which of our decisions are good and which bad is that in a given situation we can make only one decision; we are not granted a second, third or fourth life in which to compare various decisions.
Milan Kundera
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
543
IRL
in real life
544
ne plus ultra
the perfect or most extreme example of its kind; the ultimate
545
c’est lui
it's him
546
c'est pas moi
it's not me
547
stare decisis
A doctrine that means that courts look to past, similar issues to guide their decisions. The past decisions are known as precedent. Precedent is a legal principle or rule that is created by a court decision. This decision becomes an example, or authority, for judges deciding similar issues later.
the legal principle of determining points in litigation according to precedent.
settled law
548
precedent
a legal principle or rule that is created by a court decision. This decision becomes an example, or authority, for judges deciding similar issues later.
549
Cui bono?
who stands, or stood, to gain (from a crime, and so might have been responsible for it)?
literally "to whom is it a benefit?" Latin
550
reality lags promises
New York Times - the truth isn't living up to the hype
551
There's only so many traumas a person can withstand before they take to the street and start screaming
Cate Blanchett (Woody Allen) in Blue Jasmine
552
I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.
Woody Allen
553
Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.
Misquoted as "Pride goeth before a fall"
Proverbs 13:24
554
The one who withholds [or spares] the rod is one who hates his son
Misquoted as Spare the rod, spoil the child
Proverbs 16:18
555
I look back on my life and it’s 95 per cent running around trying to raise money to make movies and five per cent actually making them.
Orson Welles
556
The LOVE of money is the root of all evil
1 Timothy 6:10
557
The Lord works in mysterious ways
Not in the Bible at all
558
Cleanliness is next to godliness
John Wesley's 1778 sermon, “Cleanliness is indeed next to godliness”
559
This too shall pass
Not in the Bible.
560
Seven deadly sins
Proverbs 6:16-19 says, "These six things the Lord hates, Yes, seven are an abomination to Him: A proud look, A lying tongue, Hands that shed innocent blood, A heart that devises wicked plans, Feet that are swift in running to evil, A false witness who speaks lies, And one who sows discord among brethren." Although this verse may have been the inspiration for the "Seven Deadly Sins" list, nowhere does the Bible say these are "deadly
561
God helps those who help themselves
Not in the Bible. Various speakers and writers throughout the centuries, like Benjamin Franklin in Poor Richard's Almanac of 1757
562
Man was born free, but everywhere he is in chains.
Rousseau
563
Divide each difficulty into as many parts is as feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Descartes
564
sapere aude (Latin)
dare to know
dare to be wise
dare to think for yourself
565
To believe in something and not live it is dishonest
Mahatma Gandhi
566
Where the need of the world and your talents cross, there lies your vocation
Aristotle
567
Life without experience and sufferings is not life.
Socrates
568
I do not think that philosophy alone can change the world, but it is the only activity that gives us some conceptual resources for thinking such a change.
Karl Marx
569
Politics stops at the water's edge
Arthur Vandenberg, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vandenberg Resolution, June 1948
570
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it one gets through many a dark night.
Friedrich Nietzsche
571
Authenticity is nothing but an ideology.
Kevin Perry
Author of Philosophy
572
Other dogs bite only their enemies, whereas I bite also my friends in order to save them.
DIOGENES THE CYNIC
573
Life is too short to make all the mistakes, so you have to be sure to learn from other people’s.
old saying
574
Mid-downfall is the wrong time to think of your innocent bystanders
Heidi Stevens, Reporter, Chicago Tribune
575
It is important to remember whose hearts and hopes and livelihoods are in our hands, and let that privilege be your North Star.
Heidi Stevens, Reporter, Chicago Tribune
576
Wisdom and peace lay in being reconciled to the uncontrollable.
Solomon Gabirol
577
The loneliest woman in the world is the woman without a close woman friend.
Toni Morrison
578
The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists working on the fact that it is. Somebody says you have no art, so you dredge that up. Somebody says you have no kingdoms, so you dredge that up. None of this is necessary. There will always be one more thing.”
Toni Morrison
579
You are not your job, you’re not how much money you have in the bank. You are not the car you drive. You’re not the contents of your wallet. You are not your fucking khakis. You are all singing, all dancing crap of the world..
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
580
Men lie, women lie, numbers don't.
Jay-Z
581
The Constitution is a floor, not a ceiling.
Kate Crawford, Liberty Project, ACLU Massachusetts
582
Clara was a class act – but it was all ‘low’.
old saying
583
What you own, owns you.
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
584
We all die. The goal isn't to live forever, the goal is to create something that will.
Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club
585
It's only after we've lost everything that we're free to do anything
Chuck Palahniuk, author of Fight Club
586
Every time someone gets busted for a horrific statement, he or she suddenly announces: "It was a joke!"
Uh uh. No. You are not going to cloud up our art form with your ill-conceived oral feculence.
Elayne Boosler
587
Fortune is still, as always, adverse to merit.
Baldassar Castiglione
588
reprehend
reprimand
589
knuckle up
To prepare to kick another's ass, getting prepared to engage in fisticuffs
590
In life and on the stage, you never say a name neutrally.
You always have intention behind the name.
Anne Bogart, Head of Directing Concentration, Columbia University
591
Anarchy of the subconscious helps to bring works alive
David Henry Hwang, Playwright
Christian Parker is head of dramaturgy
592
time and tide wait for no man
if you don't make use of a favorable opportunity, you may never get the same chance again.
593
time and tide
The processes of nature continue, no matter how much we might like them to stop.
594
I have friends in high places and even better friends in low places
old saying
595
The only way I can lose this election is if I’m caught in bed with either a dead girl or a live boy.
Edwin Edwards
596
David Treen is so slow it takes him an hour and a half to watch 60 Minutes.
Edwin Edwards
597
I give Pfizer blood for them to make Viagra.
Edwin Edwards
598
Don’t compare yourself with anyone in this world…if you do so, you are insulting yourself.
Bill Gates
599
What the fuck?
Very much the fuck.
Succession. (HBO)
600
I can work with him, but I can’t work for him.
It’s a preposition thing.
Succession. (HBO)
601
Weather is not climate.
Anecdote is not data.
Dave Clark, AFP
602
Flattery will get you everywhere. You should know that.
Michael Smerconish
603
I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.
Lao Tzu
604
If this be treason, make the most of it!
Patrick Henry
605
All theatre educates. Good theatre entertains.
Bertolt Brecht
606
throw shade
publicly criticize or express contempt for someone.
To say a rude or slick comment towards another person with little or no one else catching the insult except who it was directed towards.
607
In a divided disbelieving nation, will this really turn out to be the epic moment it looks like? Or will Trump’s intense year-long campaign to undermine the media- and truth itself pay off now -in the clutch?
Margaret Sullivan
608
it may prompt them to locate their spines
Maybe it will cause them to show some courage
609
three quarters of an about face
Eric Levitz, political columnist, New York Magazine
610
The biggest mistake my generation made was to overvalue opinion
Lucky Nahum
611
On a long enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.
Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
612
Don't poke the bull
Shanin Spector, Attorney warning that Trump should not antagonize Trump
613
Rudy Giuliani is pulling out his remaining hair
Shanin Spector, Attorney warning that Trump should not antagonize Trump
614
giving it to someone blood raw
keeping it raw
bein real, tellin a nigga the truth
telling the unvarnished truth
615
straight-edge
Primarily focuses on maintaining a pure body and conscience by abstaining from drugs and alcohol.
is a subculture of hardcore punk whose adherents refrain from using alcohol, tobacco and other recreational drugs, in reaction to the excesses of punk subculture. For some, this extends to refraining from engaging in promiscuous sex, following a vegetarian or vegan diet or not using caffeine or prescription drugs. The term straight edge was adopted from the 1981 song "Straight Edge" by the hardcore punk band Minor Threat. Lead singer Ian MacKaye
616
The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no good
Samuel Johnson
18th century English writer
617
Write drunk, edit sober.
Attributed to Ernest Hemingway, but he didn't really say that
618
You can't bomb knowledge
Heather Hurlburt, New America
619
un petit peu agréable
a little nicer
620
un petit peu
a little; a little bit
621
United States of Amnesia
Gore Vidal
622
The idea that we’re always getting better keeps us from seeing those times when we’re getting worse
Gore Vidal
623
order of magnitude
a class in a system of classification determined by size, each class being a number of times (usually ten) greater or smaller than the one before.
relative size, quantity, quality, etc.
the arrangement of a number of items determined by their relative size.
624
hothouse flower
A person who is very fragile and vulnerable as a result of having been sheltered.
625
mise en scène
The arrangement of props, objects and decor displayed in a shot/frame
626
the soil in which an ideology exists
the source of a particular ideology
627
imperium intra imperio
state within a state
government within a government
628
It started out as catharsis, but ended up being more prescriptive than that
Rick Wilson, GOP strategist
629
Courage is contagious
Rick Wilson, GOP strategist
630
The distasteful curiosity of the non-participant
Katharine Anne Porter, Ship of Fools
631
path of greatest resistance
guest on Happy foundation on American Voices
632
We can talk like two people who met on the other side of the grave
Ship of Fools (Katherine Anne Porter)
633
modus vivendi
way of life
mode of living
634
An institution is the lengthened shadow of one man.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
635
You're only as healthy as you are when you wake up in the morning- a diagnosis can change your life instantly
James Naughton, speaking about his wife's pancreatic cancer
636
A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation
Mark Twain
637
Without music, life would be a mistake
Friedrich Nietzsche
638
When there's intention behind an experience, it changes the way, it is consumed, crafted, and maintained.
Janice Bond, Director of Music and Social Programming at Klimpton Gray Hotel, Chicago
639
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain
640
You can’t solve a problem you haven’t admitted you have.
Heidi Heitkamp
641
Check your ideology at the door and bring facts and data
Heidi Heitkamp
642
res judicata
a matter that has been adjudicated by a competent court and may not be pursued further by the same parties.
643
If you're not at the table, you're on the menu
quote about representation
644
You can’t solve a problem with the same level of thinking that created it.
Albert Einstein
645
Despite how stuck you may feel, you are here to dissolve the veil of denial with the power of your own loving support
Matt Kahn, author and spiritual teacher
646
There's no fear when you're having fun.
Will Thomas, American novelist
647
Unless I see the nail marks in his hands and put my fingers where the nails were, and put my hand into his side, I will not believe.
John 20:25
"Doubting Thomas"
648
Being President doesn't change who you are, it reveals who you are
Michelle Obama
649
'Tis a lesson you should heed:
Try, try, try again.
If at first you don't succeed,
Try, try, try again
William Edward Hickson, British educator
650
Pay attention to your attention
Amishi Jha, associate professor of psychology at the University of Miami
651
Tis a fearful thing to love what death can touch.
Yehuda HaLevi poem
652
Against stupidity, the gods themselves struggle in vain.
Friedrich Schiller
653
Exercise is the key to making that transition to being a celebrated senior.
Renauld White
654
People will want to know what you do because you’ll make it look effortless and seamless, even though you put a lot of hard work into it.
Renauld White
655
We cannot sing in someone else’s voice, nor can we petition, praise, cry out, or thank with someone else’s sentiment.
Rabbi Bradley Shavit Artson, DHL Vice President American Jewish University
656
prayer is a place where ideas and ideals come together
Rabbi Ralph D. Mecklenburger
657
The President is not seeking converts but comforting the converted
Rudy Giuliani
658
cerebrovascular accident (CVA)
Stroke
659
bringing sand to the beach
When you have all the information you need and more of it is simply piling on
660
‘I’m not going to treat my body like a temple. I’m going to treat it like a fun house.’ And that's what he did.'
Michael Ruhlman about Anthony Bourdain
661
Our incapacity is their livelihood
John McCain
662
Your body is not a temple. It is a amusement park. Enjoy the ride.
Anthony Bourdain
663
If I believe in anything, it is doubt. The root cause of all life’s problems is looking for a simple f—ing answer.
Anthony Bourdain
664
spend a penny
urinate
665
Hit a bully one good time and he'll leave you alone
April Ryan's Aunt Pearl
666
Knowledge is potential power, but execution is invincible
Joshua Torres, Lifehack (The Algorithm that Will Help You Program a Successful Life)
667
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it’s all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
Marcus Aurelius
668
The ability to be present in the moment is a major component of mental wellness
Abraham Maslow
669
If people concentrated on the really important things in life, there’d be a shortage of fishing poles.
Doug Larson, American journalist
670
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
671
First too big to fail. Then too big to jail
A.B. Stoddard
672
Man is his own most vexing problem.
Reinhold Niebuhr
673
Late nights do not eliminate early mornings
Facebook person
674
opted for Lucullus” — the Roman consul famous for his banqueting — “over Flaubert.
NY Times obituary about James Villas
675
Believing firmly in the hedonistic philosophy of living half as long and seeing twice as much
James Villas
676
Your vibe attracts your tribe
Saying
677
I love everything you hate about yourself
Tumblr
678
An island of broken toys
Island of Misfit Toys
Peggy Noonan describing Trump’s dysfunctional team where every member is looking out for themselves
From Rudolf, the Red-Nosed Reindeer
679
Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.
Abraham Lincoln
680
Lyndon Johnson, like Abraham Lincoln and FDR, knew that people were more easily influenced by stories than any other way, that stories were remembered far longer than facts and figures
Doris Kearns Goodwin
681
Never predict any future that hasn’t already passed
Political saying
682
Boredom: the desire for desires
Leo Tolstoy
683
Chauncey Gardner option
Being silent and vague, which is interpreted as wisdom- there for people to see whatever they want to see
684
Grand Guignol
dramatic entertainment featuring the gruesome or horrible
685
rota system
a collateral pattern of succession
686
remount her high horse
opposite of getting off your high horse; becoming haughty
687
a thirst for the putdown
a need to belittle others
688
We are born in a clear field, and we die in a dark forest,
Russian proverb
689
The only thing that I know consistently, but as a universal thing in show business, is that it’s always, always about reinvention, and I think, you have to get offstage so you can come back and make another entrance, It has to be fresh, and everybody who has sustained and been around, knows that.
Lorne Michaels
690
à quatre
dinner à quatre
of (for) four
dinner for four
691
train de vie
lifestyle (contextually refers to money)
692
reported speech gets twisted in the retelling
The Crown
693
If you put them on truth serum, they would tell you ...
Abby Livingston, Texas Tribune
694
Don’t ever predict the future until it has passed
Old political saying
695
You have the stand in the margins with the marginalized in kinship.
Jane Fonda
696
Sic transit gloria mundi
Thus passes the glory of the world
697
Power fades and fame is fleeting
Old saying
698
When you are on the side of the majority, you need to stop and think.
Robert J Ringer
699
We all share the same sky. One Sky. One World. But we all have different horizons.
Robert J Ringer
700
Truth is abhorred by the masses
Baltasar Gracian, 17th century Jesuit priest
701
I have abandoned my search for truth and am now looking for a good fantasy
Ashleigh Brilliant, British author and syndicated cartoonist
702
Nothing is as easy as it looks,
Everything takes longer than you expect,
And if anything can go wrong, it will,
At the worst possible moment.
Murphy's Law
703
The wealthy find objects that amuse them: that’s history.
Oliver Smith, Broadway set designer
704
To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment
Ralph Waldo Emerson
705
If you’re really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world…you should have faith in yourself.
Deepak Chopra
706
Care about people’s approval and you will always be their prisoner
Lao Tzu
707
Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those who matter don’t mind
Dr. Seuss
708
Some people say you are going the wrong way, when it’s simply a way of your own.
Angelina Jolie
709
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people’s expectations, then you can go mad
Benedict Cumberbatch
710
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing
Richard Feynman, American theoretical physicist
711
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. The mediocre mind is incapable of understanding the man who refuses to bow blindly to conventional prejudices and chooses instead to express his opinions courageously and honestly.
Albert Einstein
712
I’m kind of like the church elder who double-counts the collection plate every Sunday for the pastor.
Jeff Sessions
713
falsus in unum, falsus in omnibus
false in one thing, false in everything
714
A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.
Eric Hoffer, American moral and social philosopher
715
Vanity made the revolution. Liberty was only a pretext.
Napoleon
716
Very few people who claim virtuosity are really deserving of the mantle.
Henry David Thoreau
717
Excessive desire makes us slaves of whatever we crave
Buddha
718
There's no education like adversity
Benjamin Disraeli
719
kulturkampf
culture war
720
In the misfortune of our best friends, we always find something which is not displeasing to us.
François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
721
We are all strong enough to bear the misfortunes of others.
François, Duc de la Rochefoucauld
722
She was poetry in a world that was still learning the alphabet
Alex Collier
723
When I saw you, I fell in love, and you smiled because you knew
William Shakespeare
724
Easter Egg
an unexpected or undocumented Ite in a piece of computer software or on a DVD, included as a joke or a bonus
725
Kill the chicken to scare the monkey
An old Chinese idiom, which refers to making an example out of someone in order to threaten others.
726
froideur
coldness
727
la vie bohème
The bohemian life. A song from the musical RENT, in the format of a toast to the life of a poor artist. Has become an anthem of sorts for many artists
728
femme fatale
an attractive and seductive woman, especially one who will ultimately bring disaster to a man who becomes involved with her.
729
salon des refusés
exhibition of rejects (is generally an exhibition of works rejected by the jury of the official Paris Salon, but the term is most famously used to refer to the Salon des Refusés of 1863)
730
if memory serves (me correctly)
If I have correctly remembered the details
731
if history serves...
If history has taught us anything...
732
Tie up your point for me so that we can move on
Chris Cuomo
733
Ends/means test on integrity
Chris Cuomo
734
It's all very edge of seat
Julie Mason
735
It's all very (xxx)
Popular aphorism
736
Age is a number and mine is unlisted.
Laura Maioglio, owner of NYC's Barbetta
737
his age “somewhere between 40 and death
Wallace Jordan, a diner at Barbetta
738
Just because it isn’t nothing doesn’t mean it’s something special
Chris Cuomo
739
Smoke signals would indicate that...
The information we now have indicated that...
740
the sly, sharp instinct for self-preservation that passes for wisdom among the rich
Evelyn Waugh
741
de bonne grace et de bonne foi
good grace and good faith
742
épater le bourgeois
to shock the middle classes
743
What do you do when you realize that the answer you've been chasing your whole life is really just the next question,"
George Gumpert Jr. who sent message in a bottle to his father
744
Decalogue
The Ten Commandments, the list of ethical principles in Exodus 20:1–17 and Deuteronomy 5:4–21.
745
three-line whip
strict instruction to attend and vote, breach of which would normally have serious consequences.
746
“Outward beauty is a true sign of inner goodness. This loveliness, indeed, is impressed upon the body in varying degrees as a token by which the soul can be recognized for what it is, just as with trees the beauty of the blossom testifies to the goodness of the fruit.”
Baldassare Castiglione
747
Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
Napoleon Bonaparte
748
An army marches on its stomach.
Napoleon Bonaparte
749
History is a set of lies agreed upon.
Napoleon Bonaparte
750
Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.
André Gide
French author and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
751
Dull Not To
A motto to live and die by
752
idée fixe
an idea or desire that dominates the mind; an obsession
753
thé dansant
tea dance
a dance while afternoon tea is served, popular in the 1920s and 1930s
754
Concordia, Integritas, Industria
Unity, Integrity, Industry
Rothschild Family motto on crest
755
ancien régime
a political or social system that has been displaced, typically by one more modern.
the political and social system in France before the Revolution of 1789
756
Conduct your own rule as if you were striving to ensure that no successor could be your equal, but all the time prepare your children for their future reign as if to ensure that a better man would indeed succeed you.
Desiderius Erasmus
757
He acquires most who requires nothing, but commands respect.
Desiderius Erasmus
758
dame de compagnie
gentlewoman; ladies companion
live-in companion
759
Every saint has a past,
Every sinner has a future.
Oscar Wilde
760
the "good life" attainable through the "goods life"
money and things can buy happiness
761
inconnue (french noun)
unknown
762
Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
Mahatma Gandhi
763
Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.
Herman Cain
764
You may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.
Mary Pickford
765
Trump tweets like an escaped monkey from a cocaine study
Jonah Goldberg, National Review
766
Be thankful for what you have; you'll end up having more. If you concentrate on what you don't have, you will never, ever have enough.
Oprah Winfrey
767
Surround yourself with only people who are going to lift you higher.
Oprah Winfrey
768
bandwagon IAB
Self-explanatory
769
I gave you a lot of rope and now you got a lot of rope marks around your neck
White House source describing Mueller probe and Donald Trump Jr.
770
en fête (adj.)
in a festive mood : in festive mode
1. dressed for a festivity
2. engaged in a festivity
771
grand seigneur
a dignified or aristocratic man
772
crown of thorns
a mock crown made of thorn branches that Roman soldiers placed on Jesus before the Crucifixion
773
Heal yourself first. The rest will come later.
Anonymous
774
I’ve spent so much time in my head and in my heart that I forgot to live in my body.
Tara Hardy, Bone Marrow
775
One you give in to the mob, the mob rules.
Siraj Hashmi
776
You can’t go back and change the beginning, but you can start where you are and change the ending.
C.S. Lewis
777
She not only endured it; she prevailed over it.
William Faulkner
778
Let’s not falsely equivalize
Molly Ball
779
People will stare. Make it worth their while.
Harry Winston
780
ikigai
Sense of purpose (Japanese)
a reason for being; the thing that gets you up in the morning
781
Not giving you open access to believability
Chris Cuomo
782
sans-pareil
unparalleled; unequalled
783
He seemed hardly able to get the words out as fast as the synapses fired,
Friend of New York software executive who killed himself
784
No paperwork required
When you don’t need a menu
785
So I think people who were like “Democrats are gonna lose six Senate seats” didn’t have the right prior.
Nate Silver
786
News is what somebody, somewhere, wants to suppress.
Lord Northcliffe, British newspaper publisher
787
The very concept of objective truth is fading out of the world. Lies will pass into history.
George Orwell
788
To other countries, I may go as a tourist, but to India, I come as a pilgrim.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
789
It doesn’t matter who the people voted for, it matters who gets to count the votes.
Joseph Stalin
790
Come on in. The water’s warm.
Nancy Pelosi about the prospect of competitors challenging her for the House speakership.
791
It feels more like Hanukkah than Christmas. It’s spread out over time.
Harry Enten, CNN Politics describing the Democratic pickups in the 2018 Midterm elections.
792
pot kettle
pot calling the kettle black
793
There is no margin in making enemies.
John Hickenlooper
794
stereotypes and the people who fulfill them
CBG
795
Republicans have traditionally held serve with white young people. to "hold serve"
Kristen Soltis Anderson, Sirius XM POTUS pollster discussing the concept of holding your ground
796
approval ratings lower than cockroaches and colonoscopies
Congressman Mike Gallagher, Wisconsin 8th District
797
You are right to conclude that...
Congressman Mike Gallagher, Wisconsin 8th District
798
I'm willing to work within your metaphor.
Lucifer
799
The undercovered story is
Mitchell Berger, special counsel for Democratic State Party of FL
800
Any civilization is the outcome of what may be called the collective will
Jiddu Krishnamurti
801
rule by fiat
rule by decree
a style of governance allowing quick, unchallenged creation of law by a single person or group, and is used primarily by dictators, absolute monarchs and military leaders.
802
many couples have ‘temperature fights’ in bed
WSJ article
803
What Bengal thinks today, India thinks tomorrow.
This was an accurate description of Bengalis a century ago. In science, in literature, in patriotism, in every sphere of life, Bengal was at the forefront.
804
Happy hour has now been extended to accommodate multiple time zones.
Funny napkins
805
diploma divide
term describing education gap in American electorate
806
square the circle
do something that is considered to be impossible
807
service à la russe
a manner of dining that involves courses being brought to the table sequentially.
food served course-wise rather than all at once
808
service à la française
the practice of serving various dishes of a meal at the same time
all the food is brought out at once, in an impressive display
809
machisma
strong or aggressive feminine pride
810
Are you smelling what I’m cooking?
Do you hear/understand me?
811
the _________ equivalent of cucumber circles and a massage
a thing that is extremely soothing and stress reducing
812
machisma
The female counterpart of machismo
813
The depth from which something emanates from you is the depth to which the audience feels it
Neal Brennan, comedian
814
above the line
better than average
815
He can’t even get it out to pee, much less get it up for three.
Dolly Parton describing her husband’s desire to have a threesome with Jennifer Anniston.
816
Uncomfortable expressing emotions while sober
Server at Ticonderoga Club
817
Don’t fall in love with GM. She will not love you back.
Marc Osler, Detroit journalist
818
To speak English natively
John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
819
We assign attributes to presidents in their rear view that we did not allow them in their current moment.
Julie Mason
820
If you want to imbibe a culture, you have to control to some degree the language that the culture is conducted in
John McWhorter, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University
821
crossing the rubicon to...
to reach a point where you cannot change a decision or course of action.
822
We don't want someone whose chlamydia has crabs.
A woman rejecting a porn star as a boyfriend.
823
There's no woman I'm spending more time with than you.
The best gigolo line ever
824
Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
Romans 12:15
825
preponderant (adjective)
predominant in influence, number, or importance.
826
The body stores mental tension that remains long after the causes have passed
Ben Foster, author of Gigolo
827
Hatred corrodes the container in which it is carried.
Old saying. Alan Cranston at GHW Bush’s funeral
828
She epitomized a certain sort of Englishness that was in the ascendant in 1930, when she was born, but in terminal decline by the start of this century
99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret
829
Praise Christ at all times. If necessary, use words.
Old saying & part of eulogy at GHW Bush's funeral
830
The mashup no one wanted.
A cross between C and Y
831
point that needs to be underscored repeatedly
Chester Crocker
Georgetown professor
Advisor to GHW Bush
832
supportive, but not directive
Not a tiger mom
833
Until the lion learns to write, the hunter will always be the hero.
African proverb
834
race goggles
Looking at everything through the prism of race
835
Georgia Red Bull
Coca-Cola
836
If you argue for your limitations, you get to keep them.
Jim Kwik, memory expert
837
aide-de-camp
French expression meaning literally helper in the [military] camp) is a personal assistant or secretary to a person of high rank, usually a senior military, police or government officer, or to a member of a royal family or a head of state.
838
coin of the realm
legal tender
839
Envy is my favorite seasonal scent.
away.com radio ad
840
Keep it 100
Being completely real- Tiffany Haddish
841
We don't know, the answers, but the answers are knowable.
Chris Hayes, MSNBC
842
dulce et decorum est
It is sweet and glorious
it is sweet and fitting
843
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.
Rumi
844
To see facts without opinion is one thing, but to have opinions about facts is totally another. It
Jiddu Krishnamurti
845
Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed.
The cardinal rule of Republican populism: Trump cannot fail, he can only be failed.
846
rara avis
rarae aves
rare bird
rare birds
847
I wish I had a magic wand.” Pat had responded, “I know, Freddy, but we run out of magic wands eventually.
Pat Buckley
848
When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the losers.
Socrates
849
Discretion is the better part of valor.
Caution is preferable to rash bravery.
When facing a dangerous situation, don't let courage overcome wisdom. If/when possible, it is favorable to avoid it, rather than risk the outcome.
caution is preferable to rash bravery
Said by Falstaff in King Henry the Fourth, Part One , by William Shakespeare.
850
Nothing so concentrates the mind as the sight of the gallows.
Samuel Johnson, English writer and lexicographer (1709-1784)
851
similarly situated
Alike in all relevant ways for purposes of a particular decision or issue. This term is often used in discrimination cases, in which the plaintiff may seek to show that he or she was treated differently from others who are similarly situated except for the alleged basis of discrimination.
852
limit the answer to a haiku
Jeff Greenfield
853
King Canute and the tide
an apocryphal anecdote illustrating the piety or humility of King Canute the Great, recorded in the 12th century by Henry of Huntingdon. King Canute is being used as shorthand to describe trying and failing to hold back the tide.
854
An attack unanswered is an attack believed.
Alan Simpson, former Wyoming senator
855
Odds are the people that love you are just dying for you to tell the truth.
Kiley Lotz, member of the band, Petal, a recording artist who suffers from manic depression
https://www.npr.org/sections/world-cafe/2018/12/21/678131293/10-world-cafe-quotes-from-2018-that-still-resonate
856
Throw a bouquet when he deserves it
Compliment when it is earned
857
In the 21st Century deleting history has become far more important than making it.
Anonymous
858
That doesn't help anybody, for you to weigh your pain against mine. Just be here for me and I'll be here for you.
Jeff Tweedy, American songwriter, musician, and record producer best known as the singer and guitarist of the band Wilco. He is also a recovering opioid addict.
859
If there's plenty of roosters and lots of corn, that's heaven to a chicken.
David Byrne, Scottish-American singer, songwriter, musician, record producer, artist, actor, writer and filmmaker[2][3] who was a founding member, principal songwriter and lead singer and guitarist of the American new wave band Talking Heads (1975–1991).
This is about empathy, Our individual versions of heaven are relative to our experiences on earth.
860
That doesn't help anybody, for you to weigh your pain against mine. Just be here for me and I'll be here for you.
Jeff Tweedy, a recovering opioid addict
861
I'm not from here, but neither are you.
Jorge Drexler, musician, actor, and doctor
862
born, bred and buttered
Jerry Zipkin
863
homesick for a place I've never been
Candice Marie Benbow, millennial blogger
864
If that doesn't make you cry, you have a hole in your soul
popular saying
865
misses the mark by a mile
popular aphorisms
866
We'll always be sisters, but we were friends once, too.
Lee Radziwill
867
The seed to your greatest power is hidden in the heart of your worst problem
Rick Amato, fundamentalist preacher
868
Time to drop a cloth over this parrot cage.
James Wilcott, Vanity Fair
869
Old joke about a man and a woman discussing whether she would agree to spend the night with him. A woman says she would sleep with the man for a huge sum of money. When he then suggests a paltry offer, she responds indignantly, “What kind of woman do you think I am?” His response: “We’ve already established that. Now we are just haggling over price.”
old joke
old chestnut
870
Only a difference in degree, not a difference in kind.
John F. Harris, The New Yorker
871
You have to hydrate yourself in beauty, luxury, and style
Andre Leon Talley
872
You have to hydrate yourself in beauty, luxury, and style
Andre Leon Talley
873
tsundoku
the act or art of acquiring more books than one will ever actually read, such that they gather in stacks & flocks on shelves and floors. Japanese, 積ん読, lit. "pile up-read").
874
Would you rather do something and be wrong or nothing and be wrong?
You- Netflix
875
Odds are that the people who love you are just dying for you to tell the truth
Kiley Lotz, who records as Petal
876
History is informative, but not determinative.
Rachel Maddow
877
this is only a difference in degree, not a difference in kind.
Anonymous
878
nom de plume
pen name
879
nom de guerre
an assumed name under which a person engages in combat or some other activity or enterprise
880
haute monde
high society. (Literally) high world
881
demimonde/demimondaine
a man/woman supported by a wealthy lover : a woman of the demimonde
(in 19th-century France) the class of women considered to be of doubtful morality and social standing.
a group of people considered to be on the fringes of respectable society.
1a : a class of women on the fringes of respectable society supported by wealthy lovers also : their world. b : the world of prostitution. 2 : a distinct circle or world that is often an isolated part of a larger world a night in the disco demimonde especially : one having low reputation or prestige.
882
PBM
professional black man
883
BAMF
bad as a mother fucker
884
The will to hold power often manifests itself not as a desire to understand the world, but rather as the desire to change it so that it corresponds to one’s current understanding.
Friedrich Nietzsche
885
The only thing that is new is the history you haven’t learned.
Harry S. Truman
886
‘Remember when’ is the lowest form of conversation
Tony Soprano
887
When you buy quality, you only cry once.
Old Chinese man
888
Real G's move in silence like lasagna
Lil Wayne
889
the great and the good
people who are considered important – used humorously
890
peppercorn rent
a very low rent
a very small amount of money, paid to show that there is an official contract between the owner and the person using a building, piece of land etc
891
This is the terrible catch-22: The thing that soothes the pain prolongs it.
Tommy Tomlinson, author of The Elephant in the Room
892
In a third of the cases of heart disease, the first symptom is death
Medical saying
893
We medicate and celebrate in good times and bad with food and drink
Article on obesity
894
hedonic motivation
the influence of a person's pleasure and pain receptors on their willingness to move towards a goal or away from a threat.
895
hedonic consumption
the multisensory, fantasy, and emotional aspects of consumers' interactions with products. It involves use of a product to fulfill fantasies and satisfy emotions.
896
The only people you should try to get even with are those who have helped you.
Tom Yeotis
897
Great Spirit, grant that I may not criticize my neighbor until I have walked a mile in his moccasins
Tom Yeotis
898
De todo lo malo, siempre sale algo bueno
From everything bad, something good will come of it
899
Procrustean bed
robbing of all pleasure; a painful experience.
Procrustes, a son of the Greek god Poseidon, was a rogue smithy who forced guests to fit in his iron bed by amputating their limbs.
900
Ironies abound
Andrea Mitchell
901
Politics is the art of the possible.
Otto von Bismarck
902
Hope you make good memories today
News sign off
903
If you don't have anything nice to say about someone, say they're a great dancer.
Diana Warfield Daly
904
It is our knowledge — the things we are sure of — that makes the world go wrong and keeps us from seeing and learning,
Lincoln Steffens, New York- based, early 20th Century journalist
905
We underestimate the value of what we don’t know and take what we do know a little too seriously.
Nassim Taleb, Lebanese-American scholar, statistician, and essayist
906
the false polarity of intuition vs. intellect imprisons us
Susan Sontag
907
the Great Truth of “adaequatio” (adequateness), which defines knowledge as adaequatio rei et intellectus — the understanding of the knower must be adequate to the thing to be known
E.F. Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
908
Christian morality strongly condemned “those whose god is their belly”
Saint Paul, The Epistle to the Philippians, 3:19
909
realpolitik
a system of politics or principles based on practical rather than moral or ideological considerations
910
Who of you by worrying can add a single hour to your life?
Luke 12:25 NIV
911
Worrying won't stop the bad things from happening. It just stops you from enjoying the good.
Charles Schultz, Peanuts
912
If you get into a lousy business, get out of it.
Warren Buffett
913
Tell me who your heroes are and I'll tell you who will turn out to be.
Jim Rohn, motivational speaker
914
Chains of habit are too light until they are too heavy to be broken.
Warren Buffett
915
I try to buy stock in businesses that are so wonderful that an idiot could run them, because so or later, one will.
Warren Buffett
916
If you can't stop thinking about it, don't stop working for it.
Sports motivational quote
917
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooten, legendary UCLA basketball coach
918
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
Martin Luther King Jr.
919
Let no one ever come near you without leaving better and happier.
Mother Theresa
920
No need to dress rehearse for a tragedy
Bryan’s Rose
921
sans souci
without concerns
922
Demographics is destiny.
Auguste Comte, French sociologist and father of positivism (1798 - 1857)
923
The body is your instrument in dance, but your art is outside that creature, the body. I don’t leap and jump any more. I look at young dancers and am envious, more aware of what glories the body contains. But sensitivity is not made dull by age.
Martha Graham
924
Everybody has the liberty and luxury to espouse their own position and to criticize me for trying to go down the path in the most determined, positive way,
Nancy Pelosi
925
America, where people are more offended by being called a racist than they are by racism itself.
KJG and So- called Saul on Twitter
926
If this isn’t a crisis, it will have to do until one gets here
Old saying
927
You don't say the hurtful thing even if you're irritated or upset because that sticks, that sticks around..
Betty White
928
Everybody should have or cultivate a passion. Don't be afraid to really get hooked on something, because that will refurbish your entry.
Betty White
929
Don’t fight every fight as if it’s your last fight
Sam Rayburn
930
Know your power
Lindy Boggs to Nancy Pelosi
931
persuasion and reason
Sam Rayburn's self-described way of getting votes
932
Legislation should never be designed to punish anyone
Sam Rayburn
933
Gauche caviar
a pejorative French term to describe someone who claims to be a socialist while living in a way that contradicts socialist values.
934
Find what you love and let it kill you
Charles Bukowski, German American writer
935
We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us.
Charles Bukowski, German American writer
936
Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.
Charles Bukowski, German American writer
937
The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it - basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.
Charles Bukowski, German American writer
938
You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.
Charles Bukowski, German American writer
939
People who live by their wits develop very peculiar talents.
Truman Capote
940
The secret to a great party, said Kempner, who has been to thousands, is not lavish menus, place settings and flowers, but "imagination and great friends."
Nan Kempner
941
Some of the best parties are done in (Greenwich) Village with spaghetti. Nervous hostesses ruin a party.
Nan Kempner
942
In my house, every meal's a Last Supper, and why not? As they say, when you get to a certain age, 'dinner is served' are your three favorite words.
Nan Kempner
943
eds and meds
Institutions of higher learning and medical facilities
944
For families like mine, food fills in the blanks when words fail us.
Frank Shyong, LA Times columnist
945
stipple portrait
ink dot portraits used in columnist photos
946
Rome was not unbuilt in a day.
Chris Christie about the pace of change.
He was joking about weight loss.
947
bottom shelf
opposite of top shelf
948
one-man country song
a man whose life is nothing but misfortune
949
One reason I became a writer is because I don't know what I think until I sketch it out on a piece of paper
Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room
950
on the wagon
abstaining
951
off the wagon
Partaking (in any number of vices- e.g. alcohol)
952
borrow trouble
to go asking for problems
953
not the brightest bulbs in the chandelier
dumb
954
the back nine of life
latter part of one's life
955
the worst lie I tell myself, and the most powerful one, is about tomorrow
Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room
956
I'm the devil on my own shoulder. The angel is out on break.
Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room
957
A character you care about is struggling to get past an obstacle, trying to reach his or her personal pot of gold.
What every story boils down to, according to Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room
958
U-SUCK FM
The track playing in your head that says, "There's no point. Don't even try."
959
imposter syndrome
feeling that you're a fraud and will eventually be found out
960
I am a lifelong Southerner. Sweet tea is our blood type.
Tommy Tomlinson, The Elephant in the Room
961
The Montgomery Bus Boycott lasted 381 days. Put in the work every day, stick to the plan, and monumental things can happen.
A call to perseverance
962
God doesn’t call the qualified. He qualifies the called.
Religious saying
963
digital nomad
person who works remotely
964
tongue bath
the art of licking the ENTIRE body of your partner. Not necessarily limited to just the area in between one's legs...(Boobs, ass, back...as in bathing)
"Let me give you a tongue bath, I'll lick you from head to toe"."
a complementary interview
965
Sometimes you tell him what he wants to hear.
Sometimes you tell him what he needs to hear
Tanner from Kimball House
966
If you want to see the girl next door, go next door.
Joan Crawford
967
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
968
Long game this out for me
CNN anchor
969
Etiquette is all about presenting yourself with respect.
Myka Meier, founder of the Duchess Effect
970
mens rea
the mental element of a person's intention to commit a crime; or knowledge that one's action or lack of action would cause a crime to be committed. It is a necessary element of many crimes.
the intention or knowledge of wrongdoing that constitutes part of a crime, as opposed to the action or conduct of the accused.
971
actus reus
action or conduct which is a constituent element of a crime, as opposed to the mental state of the accused.
972
You can only be a fresh face once
Leah Askarinam, Inside Elections
973
Bloom where you are planted.
Old saying
974
When people can't find hope going forward, they seek greatness looking backward.
Russell Brown
975
It’s a difficult circle to square.
Hard thing to reconcile
976
virtue signaling
To take a conspicuous but essentially useless action ostensibly to support a good cause but actually to show off how much more moral you are than everybody else.
977
lighter-than-air quality
lightweight
978
People tell you who they are, but we ignore it—because we want them to be who we want them to be.
Don Draper
979
When you think about quitting, think about why you started.
Beebe Love
980
If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes.
Andrew Carnegie
981
Trade your cleverness for bewilderment.
Rumi
982
You’ve got to beat the drum in life. God is already famous, but that doesn’t stop the preacher from ringing the church bells each morning.
Paul Bocuse on self-promotion
983
Say no to people who prioritize being cool over being good.
Lindy West
984
Find what you love and let it kill you. Let it drain from you your all. Let it cling onto your back and weigh you down into eventual nothingness. Let it kill you, and let it devour your remains.
For all things will kill you, both slowly and fastly, but it's much better to be killed by a lover.
Charles Bukowski in a letter
985
Every minute you spend has an opportunity cost.
KJG
986
Never be limited by other people's imaginations
Mae Jemison, American astronaut and physician
987
Insistence is the new integrity
Chris Cuomo about the Trump mentality and Tucker Carlson
988
demon dinner
demon banquet
demon conference
gathering of deplorables
989
When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.
Origin unknown. Often mis-attributed to Sinclair Lewis.
he adage probably originated instead with James Waterman Wise, son of the eminent American rabbi Stephen Wise and one of the many voices at the time urging Americans to recognize fascism as a serious domestic threat.
990
The essence of demagoguery is recognizing that appealing to people’s emotions is the most rational way to move them. After all, that’s where people make their moral decisions.
Bart Campolo, humanist chaplain
991
au fait
having a good or detailed knowledge of.
992
I am the expert of my own experience
Jeff Goldblum
993
demonizing dissent
The U.S. during the Iraq War & ramp up; the South during the lead up to the Civil War
994
argumentum ad baculum
"argument to the cudgel" or "appeal to the stick" is the fallacy committed when one appeals to force or the threat of force to bring about the acceptance of a conclusion
995
Ad hominem (Latin for "to the person"[1]), short for argumentum ad hominem
a fallacious argumentative strategy whereby genuine discussion of the topic at hand is avoided by instead attacking the character, motive, or other attribute of the person making the argument, or persons associated with the argument, rather than attacking the substance of the argument itself.
996
Ad mulierem and ad feminam
ad hominem in female form- have been used specifically when the person receiving the criticism is female.
997
mean-reverting
reverts to the mean
998
A great landing at the wrong airport
well executed, but simply not something you care deeply about
999
Until lions have their own historians, tales of the hunt will glorify the hunter.
Lewinale Havett, Libertian artist
1000
socially unnatural
Anthony Scaramucci about Trump's attacks on John McCain
1001
Qui Audet Adipiscitur
She Who Dares Wins
1002
Bis vivit qui bene vivit
He lives twice who lives well.
1003
in rude health
very strong and healthy
1004
Work to become, not to acquire.
Elbert Hubbard
1005
lawful, but awful
Legal, but not ethical
1006
That’s a dark art.
Julie Mason about Democratic presidential candidates’ poaching donations from each other.
1007
Once I quit drinking, I ran out of things to do in Alabama.
Jason Isbell, singer and a Muscles Shoals area native
1008
When you buy a ticket to the circus, don't be surprised to see elephants.
Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer's widow
1009
What follows the "I am" will always come looking for you.
Joel Osteen
1010
Whatever you follow the "I am" with, you are handing an invitation to.
Joel Osteen
1011
Be careful what you follow the "I am" with
Joel Osteen
1012
Beauty is what God made you to be with confidence
Joel Osteen
1013
Don't give intimidation an invitation
Joel Osteen
1014
Your life is the way you see it
Oprah Winfrey
1015
If it doesn't suck, we don't do it
Navy seal saying
1016
40 % Rule: When your mind is telling you you’re done, you’re really only 40 percent done
David Goggins
1017
Our minds are like our houses. If you don't clean your house it gets dusty and stinky and filthy. If you don't clean your mind — through reading books or calming exercises or meditation — you don't grow. In Western civilization it's all about matter: Everyone is trying to get rich, everyone is trying to buy the house and get the paper. Thus we lose consciousness in spite of the fact that we really are spirits as much as we are matter."
Siri Sat Nam Singh, the Los Angeles-based therapist
1018
All 6 livable continents
Every continent except Anarctica
1019
If you can’t get a miracle, become one.
Nick Vujicic, born without arms or legs
1020
Embrace the suck
To consciously accept or appreciate something that is extremely unpleasant but unavoidable.
1021
As you get older it is harder to have heroes, but it is sort of necessary.
Ernest Hemingway
1022
aujourd'hui
today
1023
tasse de the
cup of tea
1024
He was so ordinary that it was breathtaking.
Carol Matthau about Truman Capote's lover John O'Shea.
1025
coup de grâce
"blow of mercy" is a death blow to end the suffering of a severely wounded person or animal.
1026
What We Do In Life Echoes In Eternity
Maximus to his troops in Gladiator
1027
Human potential is all we have.
David Goggins
1028
Most people who doubt you doubt you because they can never see themselves doing what you are trying to do.
David Goggins
1029
The only unpardonable sin in New York society is poverty.
Elaina Plott, in an article in The Atlantic, "Inside Ivanka's Dreamworld."
1030
I would usually call them in before I call them out.
Nancy Pelosi describing disgruntled members of her caucus.
1031
In what new skin will the old snake come forth?
Frederick Douglass about slavery and Reconstruction
1032
Viewing something as a lifeboat with only one seat.
James Poniewozik, New York Times Film and TV critic
1033
the hush that descends when an anecdote begins—and ends
Columbia Student News
1034
A good man when among good men, and when among the bad, worse than they.
Description of Miguel I of Portugal
1035
Always look for a new 100% for whatever life throws at you
David Goggins
1036
coup de foudre
a sudden unforeseen event, in particular an instance of love at first sight.
1037
Life is one big tug of war between mediocrity and finding your best self
David Goggins
1038
taking souls
doing what no one else can do
doing what no one else can even think of doing
1039
In life, I won't be satisfied until everything is in me is completely rung out of me
David Goggins
1040
Good manners are the lamp of beauty.
Good manners grease the wheels of society
Old sayings
1041
Courtesy is a lady's armor
Game of thrones
1042
A client would be delusional to think this is a long-term relationship that leads to marriage and kids. That would be like going to Disneyland and thinking you're going to live there without paying. There's a ticket price and a closing time.
Vin Armani
1043
Humanity happens.
Vin Armani
1044
It came down to how I wanted to be remembered
David Goggins
1045
Once I was so focused on failing, I was afraid to even try.
David Goggins
1046
Whoever you’re dealing with, your goal is to make them watch you achieve what they could never have done themselves.
David Goggins
1047
No matter how they’re treating you there is one way to not only earn their respect, but turn the tables. Excellence.
David Goggins
1048
My ability to stay open represented a willingness to fight for my own life, which allowed me to withstand hail storms of pain and use it to callous over my victim’s mentality.
David Goggins
1049
My ability to stay open represented a willingness to fight for my own life, which allowed me to withstand hail storms of pain and use it to callous over my victim’s mentality.
David Goggins
1050
if you can manage those moments of pain that come with maximum effort, by remembering what you’ve been through to get to that point in your life, you will be in a better position to persevere and choose fight over flight.
David Goggins
1051
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born...We privileged few, who won the lottery of birth against all odds, how dare we whine at our inevitable return to that prior state from which the vast majority have never stirred?
Richard Dawkins
1052
You must teach your children that the ground beneath their feet is the ashes of our grandfathers. So that they will respect the land, tell your children that the earth is rich with the lives of our kin.
Chief Seattle
1053
A society grows great when old men plan trees whose shade they know they will never sit in.
Greek proverb
1054
e all have the ability to dissolve into ecstasy- your opportunities to experience pleasure in this life are endless. The more intense the pleasure the more you’ll forget that every second brings you closer to death. So close your eyes while eating sushi, jump out of planes and have consciousness shattering sex. Sure it might not lead to a meaningful life, but it will sure be a fun one.
Unknown
1055
You don’t need an external source to tell you life’s point, use your brain and craft one for yourself.
Unknown
1056
The only way to guarantee failure is to quit right now!
David Goggins
1057
Take the pain, or it won’t just be your failure. It will be your family’s failure!
David Goggins
1058
Stay ahead of the quitting mind.
David Goggins
1059
You can't just outrun your past.
Dr. William O. Roberts, a professor of family and community medicine at the University of Minnesota, who led a study, which was published in Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise.
1060
The bottom line is that life is one big mind game. The only person you are playing against is yourself.
David Goggins
1061
Run your own race.
David Goggins and many, many others
1062
That’s when you take someone’s soul—at the end of a race, not at the beginning.
David Goggins
1063
If you want to master the mind and remove your governor, you’ll have to become addicted to hard work. Because passion and obsession, even talent, are only useful tools if you have the work ethic to back them up.
David Goggins
1064
Greatness is not something that if you meet it once it stays with you forever.
David Goggins
1065
A failure is a stepping stone to a future success
David Goggins
1066
You can't let a simple failure derail your mission
David Goggins
1067
Your entitled mind is dead weight. Cut it loose. Don’t focus on what you think you deserve. Take aim on what you are willing to earn!
David Goggins
1068
The scoreboard does not lie.
David Goggins
1069
Peaceful but never satisfied.
David Goggins
1070
Each specific life comes with its own personalized portion of pain.
David Goggins
1071
But it's not the external voice that will break you down. It’s what you tell yourself that matters. The most important conversations you’ll ever have are the ones you’ll have with yourself.
David Goggins
1072
prince du sang
princesse du sang
prince of the blood; blood prince
princess of the blood; blood princess
1073
There is no greater bore than perfection.
Richard Connell: The Most Dangerous Game
1074
reality distortion field
ability to convince oneself and others to believe almost anything with a mix of charm, charisma, bravado, hyperbole, marketing, appeasement and persistence. It was said to distort an audience's sense of proportion and scales of difficulties and made them believe that the task at hand was possible. Steve Jobs could also use the reality distortion field to appropriate other's ideas as his own, sometimes proposing an idea to its originator after dismissing it the week before.
1075
Get up and try hard every day. Never waste life.
Kimi Puntillo, marathon runner
1076
Roger that
Roger
I hear you; I understand that
1077
Approach them as they are: thoughts not threats.
Vin Armani
1078
The man with the most value is the most desirable to women.
Vin Armani
1079
Women of value will never be very far from money.
Vin Armani
1080
Wealth accumulation is a reproductive strategy but it is not the most effective strategy available to you. The most effective strategy available to a man who seeks to be sexually fulfilled - physically, mentally and emotionally - is to master the art of love.
Vin Armani
1081
The exchange of value for sex being a constant, then, the whole world is a brothel. All of humanity participates in the sexual marketplace. The currency in this marketplace is those attributes which bestow sexual market value upon an individual.
Vin Armani
1082
Whether he admits it or not, every man, every day, is engaged in the exchange of value for sex. To be even more precise, the sexual exchange is an exchange of value for value.
Vin Armani
1083
The value lies not in “where you are.” The value lies in “how you got there.”
Vin Armani
1084
Value is earned through pain and failure. Pain and failure, therefore, are valuable.
Vin Armani
1085
We walk on the floors that we never cleaned.
We walk through doors Wee never opened.
Judge Damon Keith
1086
eats your soul in small bites
James Comey describing Trump's effect on the accomplished people who work for him
1087
If animals practiced identitarianism, cows and chickens would fight about who is more privileged while the butcher laughed.
Unknown
1088
Two ways. Gradually and then suddenly.
Slowly at first. Then all at once. (misquote)
Ernest Hemingway, "The Sun Also Rises"
Misquoted many different ways and attributed to different authors.
1089
Call deep on my courage
Brené Brown in a TED talk. To go deep inside yourself to find strength.
1090
If you can't measure it, it doesn't exist.
Saying
1091
Connection is why we're here. It is what gives purpose and meaning to our lives.
Brené Brown
1092
I think the American public metabolizes conversations about race being led by white people differently than they do when those same conversations are being led by people of color.
Maya Rupert
1093
Vulnerability is not weakness. It is emotional risk, exposure and uncertainty
Brené Brown
1094
Vulnerability is our most accurate measurement of courage.
Brené Brown
1095
Vulnerability is the birthplace of birthplace of creativity, innovation, and change.
Brené Brown
1096
You gotta dance with the one who brung ya
Old saying
1097
Shame is the swampland of the soul.
Old saying
1098
It is not the critic who counts. (from the Man in the Arena quote)
Theodore Roosevelt
1099
Shame is the gremlin that keeps us from achieving greatness.
Brené Brown
1100
Shame drives two big tapes: 1) You are never good enough; and 2) Who do you think you are?
Brené Brown
1101
There is a huge difference between shame and guilt. Guilt focuses on behavior. Shame focuses on self. Guilt: I'm sorry. I made a mistake. Shame: I'm sorry. I am a mistake.
Brené Brown
1102
You either walk inside your story and own it or you stand outside your story and hustle for your worthiness.
Brené Brown
1103
Talk to yourself like you would to someone you love.
Brené Brown
1104
“Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be; embrace who you are.”
Brené Brown
1105
Sometimes the bravest and most important thing you can do is just show up
Brené Brown
1106
What’s the greater risk? Letting go of what people think – or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
Brené Brown
1107
When I see people stand fully in their truth, or when I see someone fall down, get back up, and say, ‘Damn. That really hurt, but this is important to me and I’m going in again’—my gut reaction is, ‘What a badass.’
Brené Brown
1108
We don’t have to do all of it alone. We were never meant to.
Brené Brown
1109
Perfectionism is a self destructive and addictive belief system that fuels this primary thought: If I look perfect, and do everything perfectly, I can avoid or minimise the painful feelings of shame, judgment, and blame.
Brené Brown
1110
The fear of shame, of criticism was so great that I engineered smallness in my life.
Brené Brown
1111
It wasn't worth it to step into my power and play big because I didn't know if I could physically withstand the criticism.
Brené Brown
1112
Today I will choose courage over comfort
Brené Brown
1113
You can't take criticism and feedback from people who are not being brave with their own lives. It will crush you.
Brené Brown
1114
When you make an emotional bid for connection to someone and you're turned away, you feel rejection and shame.
Brené Brown
1115
There has been a neurological event.
Someone has had a stroke.
1116
The wind hits you hard when ... and you’re forced to grow up.
Cornelia Guest
1117
Be careful, C.Z.! If she sets her jaw, she will not listen to you.
Winston Guest to CZ Guest about Cornelia Guest
1118
The opposite of belonging is fitting in. Fitting in is assessing and acclimating.
Brené Brown
1119
Belonging is belonging to yourself first. Speaking your truth, telling your story and never betraying yourself for other people.
Brené Brown
1120
True belonging doesn't require you to change who you are. It requires you to be who you are.
Brené Brown
1121
Joy is the most vulnerable of all human emotions. We are terrified to feel joy.
Brené Brown
1122
When you are grateful for what you have, you understand the magnitude of what someone else has lost.
Brené Brown
1123
We get so busy chasing the extraordinary moments that we don't pay attention to the ordinary moments
Brené Brown
1124
Time spent without purpose
Stuart Brown, researcher who studies play
1125
I'm afraid that what I say won't match my heart.
Brené Brown
1126
Not having conversations that make you uncomfortable is the very definition of privilege. Your comfort is not at the center of this discussion.
Brené Brown
1127
Choose courage over comfort
Brené Brown
1128
It is so much easier to cause pain than to feel pain.
Brené Brown
1129
When you don't acknowledge your pain, you work it out on other people.
Brené Brown
1130
You share your story with people who have earned the right to hear your story. Your story is a privilege to hear.
Brené Brown
1131
If you can't believe the guy who has told over 10,000 lies in two years, who can you believe?
Twitter follower
1132
Elegance is not about being noticed. It is about being remembered.
Giorgio Armani
1133
The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
B.B. King
1134
Home is where one is most deeply understood
Elegance Bratton
1135
sic
"thus", "just as"; in full: sic erat scriptum, "thus was it written"
1136
Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is the doing, not the getting; in the trying, not the triumph. Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Zig Ziglar
1137
Don’t pee on my leg and tell me it’s raining.
James Villas
1138
Believe you can and you’re halfway there.
Theodore Roosevelt
1139
Continuous efforts – not strength or intelligence – is the key to unlocking our potential.
Winston Churchill
1140
Too many of us are not living our dreams because we are living our fears.
Les Brown
1141
Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.
Helen Keller
1142
The sky is not my limit… I am.
T.F. Hodge
1143
Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
Barack Obama
1144
Inexperience is an asset. Embrace it.
Wendy Kopp
1145
Grinnin’ like a possum eatin’ a sweet potato.
Old Southern saying
1146
It’s all true, but it’s not all true equally.
Chris Cuomo
1147
the kind of sense that's non-
nonsense
1148
battery operated boyfriend
dildo
1149
These violent delights have violent ends.
Westworld
1150
If you think this has a happy ending, you haven't been paying attention.
Ramsey Bolton, Game of Thrones
1151
But a wise man once said you should never believe a thing simply because you want to believe it.
Tyrion Lannister, Game of Thrones
1152
What is truth, what is forgotten, and what gets remembered is decided upon those who shake hands, agree on the version of the tale that is suitable for print, and move on to further polish the rough spots out of their legacies.
Jacob Hall, GoT expert
1153
Hungry dogs run faster.
Old saying
1154
You either die a hero, or live long enough to see yourself become the villain.
An apocryphal wise lawyer
1155
Our word is good as gold.
The Golden Company's motto
1156
We too like trees can shake off our dead leaves and begin again.
AY Greyson
1157
I realized how hard it was to narrow your own ambitions to raise your kids and the conflicts that this caused.
Jill Suttle, writer
1158
Any man who has to say, “I am the King” is no true king.
Tywin Lannister
1159
You never know who you're influencing. Operate in excellence.
Saying
1160
When people feel like they've made a decision on their own, they're much more likely to stick with it.
Charisma on Command YouTube videocast
1161
Never forget what you are. The rest of the world will not. Wear it like armor, and it can never be used to hurt you.
Tyrion Lannister
1162
I need you to become the man you were always meant to be. Not next year, not tomorrow, now.
Tywin Lannister
1163
The past is gone for good. You can sit here mourning its departure, or prepare for the future.
Petyr Baelish
1164
There is only one thing we say to death: Not today.
Syrio Forel, GoT
1165
The lords of Westeros are sheep. Are you a sheep? No, you're a dragon. Be a dragon.
Olenna Tyrell, GoT
1166
When the snows fall and the white winds blow, the lone wolf dies but the pack survives.
Ned Stark, GoT
1167
A ruler who kills those devoted to her is not a ruler who inspires devotion.
Tyrion Lannister, GoT
1168
It doesn't matter what we want. Once we get it, then we want something else.
Petyr Baelish, GoT
1169
A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone. That's why I read so much.
Tyrion Lannister, GoT
1170
The freedom to make my own mistakes was all I ever wanted.
Mance Rayder, GoT
1171
It's a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don't want to be most of us.
Oberyn Martell, GoT
1172
Fear cuts deeper than swords.
Arya Stark, GoT
1173
So many men, they risk so little. They spend their lives avoiding danger. And then they die.
Petyr Baelish, GoT
1174
Chaos isn't a pit. Chaos is a ladder. Many who try to climb it fail and never get to try again. The fall breaks them. And some are given a chance to climb, but they refuse. They cling to the realm or the gods or love. Illusions. Only the ladder is real. The climb is all there is.
Petyr Baelish, GoT
1175
Remember what you are and what you are not.
Ramsay Snow, GoT
1176
Remember what you are and what you are not.
Ramsay Snow, GoT
1177
A lion does not concern himself with the opinion of sheep.
Tywin Lannister GoT
1178
I will not become a page in someone else's history book.
Stannis Baratheon, GoT
1179
When you play the game of thrones, you win or you die.
Cersei Lannister, GoT
1180
People die at their dinner tables, die in their beds. They die squatting over their chamber pots. Everybody dies, sooner or later. Don't worry about your death. Worry about your life. Take charge of your life, for as long as it lasts.
Petyr Baelish, GoT
1181
It is beautiful beneath the sea, but if you stay too long, you'll drown.
Three-Eyed Raven, GoT
1182
No one can survive in this world without help. No one.
Jorah Mormont, GoT
1183
No matter who you are, no matter how strong you are, sooner or later, you'll face circumstances beyond your control.
Cersei Lannister, GoT
1184
No matter who you are, no matter how strong you are, sooner or later, you'll face circumstances beyond your control.
Cersei Lannister, GoT
1185
The occasional kindness will spare you all sorts of trouble down the road.
Cersei Lannister, GoT
1186
I was so focused on failing, I was afraid to even try.
David Goggins
1187
What am I capable of?
David Goggins
1188
My lack of focus and attention to detail cost me a shot at immortality.
David Goggins
1189
Each specific life comes with its own personalized portion of pain.
David Goggins
1190
The pot holes here are so bad I’ve spilled an inch of my best driving whiskey.
Roy from West Texas
1191
Love is more powerful than reason.
Tyrion Lannister, GoT
1192
Love is the death of duty
Jon Snow, GoT
1193
Stories are subordinated to someone else’s hero journey
GoT review in NYT
1194
Ethics in leadership is a requirement, an impediment or a luxury.
GoT review in NYT
1195
You can’t hate it unless you love it
The Last Black Man in San Francisco
1196
a high floor and low ceiling of support
not enough support to win, but enough to cause trouble
1197
You can be right or relevant and relevance has staying power.
Smerconish Show caller
1198
The story you know...
is the lie you were told.
Today, the truth prevails.
Ava DuVernay
1199
A good woman ought to know how to talk her way out of hell if she has to.
Leah Chase
1200
If you would seek my monument, look around you.
Christopher Wren’s famous epitaph, laid into the floor of St. Paul’s Cathedral, in London.
1201
demimonde
group of people who live hedonistic lifestyles, usually in a flagrant and conspicuous manner.
the class of women considered to be of doubtful morality and social standing.
a group of people considered to be on the fringes of respectable society.
1202
There are only two ways to live your life. One is though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Saying
1203
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
1204
The sway that upends the swagger
The things that causes someone's confidence to fail
1205
Succès de scandale (French for "success from scandal")
a term for any artistic work whose success is attributed, in whole or in part, to public controversy surrounding the work. In some cases the controversy causes audiences to seek out the work for its titillating content, while in others it simply heightens public curiosity. This concept is echoed by the phrase, "there is no such thing as bad publicity".
1206
In a sort of ghastly simplicity we remove the organ and demand the function.
C.S. Lewis in “The Abolition of Man”
1207
You do not merely want to be considered the best of the best. You want to be considered the only ones that do what you do.
Jerry Garcia
1208
Growing pains vs. the pains of not growing
Chuck Todd, Meet the Press
1209
“No weapon formed against me/thee shall prosper,”
Biblical saying
1210
Not every man really lives.
Braveheart
1211
Most of what gets shared as heartwarming stories are usually temporary, small-scale responses to systemic failures. I wish we found it just as inspirational to make structural changes to unjust systems, but I don’t know if our culture knows how to tell those stories.
Anil Dash
1212
Serves a dover sole that would “change the color of your mood ring
Description of La Grenouille in NYC
1213
John O’Hara was mesmerized by Yale, a virtual lifelong prisoner of that institution’s imagined graces and advantages.
Biographer Geoffrey Wolff
1214
I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love.
Marilyn Monroe
1215
Their words seemed to confirm what growing up as a woman and a person of color already taught me: that I belonged in margins and spaces, valid only as a minor character in their lives and stories.
Kelly Marie Tran, actress, wrote in an August 2018 op-Ed about her portrayal of a character that was traditionally played by a white person.
1216
lost to posterity
forgotten, consigned to oblivion, extinct, dead, gone
1217
Truth without compassion is cruelty
Saying
1218
The being is in the doing
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Author
1219
I don’t know who put the battery in your back.
1. Convincing a weak minded individual to handle a confrontation for you, usually through violence.
2. To persuade a individual to accomplish a task they were previously unaware of; or procrastinating on.
"I put the battery in your back", now go do what needs to be done.
1220
There are always flowers for those who want to see them.
Henri Matisse
1221
Nothing is as admirable in politics as a short memory
John Kenneth Galbraith
1222
Too small to be a republic and too large to be an insane asylum.
James Petigru’s 1860 assessment of his state (South Carolina)
1223
besaint the besotted and magnify the man-child.
Kathleen Parker, journalist, describing Mark Sanford and South Carolina
1224
What fresh hell is this?
Dorothy Parker
1225
None of us really see things as they are; we see things as we are.
Bonnie Carlson, character in Big Little Lies
1226
Make ‘em strong, Mick. I like a drink that can cauterize a wound.”
From Drunkard.com
1227
Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.
Gore Vidal
1228
Being wrong doesn’t prevent you from talking, and it doesn’t prevent other people from listening.
Alyssa Rosenberg, Washington Post opinion writer
1229
If you practice an art faithfully, it will make you wise.
William Saroyan
1230
black letter law
well-established legal rules that are no longer subject to reasonable dispute
1231
Voters act on what affects them, not on what offends them.
Kellyanne Conway
1232
It is easier to build strong children than it is to repair broken men.
Frederick Douglass
1233
begging the question
raising the question
1234
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
John Bennett, Oklahoma chef emeritus
1235
Nothing in life is to be feared. It is only to be understood.
Marie Curie
1236
hindsight privilege
the ability to understand an event or situation only after it has happened: With (the benefit/wisdom of) hindsight, I should have taken the job. In hindsight, it would have been better to wait. Wise and sensible.
1237
Anything worth doing is worth overdoing.
Bennett, Oklahoma chef emeritus
1238
I only ask to be free. The butterflies are free. Mankind will surely not deny to Harold Skimpole what it concedes to the butterflies.
From Dickens' "Bleak House"
1239
Most people are caught up in their own struggles to notice yours.
Tim Denning
1240
Power without love is reckless and abusive; love without power is sentimental and anemic.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1241
omakase
chef’s choice; (literally “trusting the chef”)
1242
shibui
Refined beauty that isn’t affected by time or social changes. Never complicated or contrived. Purity of being, of living, of sensing.
1243
harsh my mellow
to be a killjoy. to ruin someone's happiness, whether they are drunk, or just really happy, with sad news or drama.
1244
A combination of street and suite
Suzanne de Passé about Aretha Franklin
1245
Eight of Swords
A tarot card. In a general context, it can represent feeling trapped, confined, restricted or backed into a corner or having your hands tied. It signifies fear, terror, anxiety and psychological issues. It is a Minor Arcana card of hopelessness, helplessness, powerlessness, slavery, persecution and being silenced or censored.
1246
I need you to be on your game and then raise your game several levels to my game.
Diana Trout, a character on Younger
1247
Books, once they are written, have no need of their authors.
Elena Ferrante on why she doesn't use her real name on the books she authors.
1248
The scandal is what’s legal
Old Texas saying
1249
The smallest dog barks the loudest
An old Texas saying
1250
basso profundo
deep bass
1251
No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.
Robin Williams
1252
brain boner
Something that strikes a chord in someone's thinking, creating a spur of "enlightenment" and stimulation in knowledge, especially in subjects like philosophy & logic.
1253
pun totally intended
!
1254
“Why do you care that I’m dead when you’re still so afraid to live?”
Manson, Mark. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
1255
“Seek the truth for yourself, and I will meet you there!”
Manson, Mark. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
1256
Ele dobra o Cabo da Boa Esperança. It means, “He’s rounding the Cape of Good Hope.”
Ironically, it means that the person’s life is in its final phase, that he’s incapable of accomplishing anything more.
1257
You too are going to die, and that’s because you too were fortunate enough to have lived.
Manson, Mark. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
1258
There is nothing to be afraid of. Ever.
Manson, Mark. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
1259
One day, you and everyone you love will die. And beyond a small group of people for an extremely brief period of time, little of what you say or do will ever matter. This is the Uncomfortable Truth of life. And everything you think or do is but an elaborate avoidance of it. We are inconsequential cosmic dust, bumping and milling about on a tiny blue speck. We imagine our own importance. We invent our purpose—we are nothing. Enjoy your fucking coffee.
Manson, Mark. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck (The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
1260
You can catch more flies with honey, but you can catch more honeys being fly.
Saying
1261
The future depends on what you do today.
Mahatma Gandhi
1262
too good to check
Old journalism saying
1263
cattle to the abattoir
cows to the slaughter
1264
If they see you for free all week, they won’t pay to see you on the weekend, because they feel like they’ve seen you.
Sidney Poitier
1265
If you set your bar at “amazing,” it’s awfully difficult to start.
Seth Godin
1266
Stop it and say, "Thank you."
Maya Angelou
1267
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making some other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George Patton
1268
All you get from the negro is an intensification of the central ethos of the country.
Stanley Crouch
1269
Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak and to remove all doubt.
Abraham Lincoln
1270
Tough times don't last, tough people do.
Tough times go away. Tough people do not
Robert Schuller
Walter Payton
1271
verbal razor blade
cutting remarks
1272
Break the story before it breaks you
Ad for film "The Morning Show"
1273
Can’t unring that bell
Can undo damage that has already been done.
1274
humor = tragedy + time
old adage
1275
villainy of nature
Laurence Olivier describing Marilyn Monroe
1276
If we never did anything we shouldn't do, we wouldn't feel good about doing the things we should.
Frank Underwood, House of Cards
1277
First Folio
printed in 1623, is the first published collection of Shakespeare's plays, produced seven years after his death
1278
meat puppet
person(s) that have no will of there own; somebody that lets others control them
1279
mon dieu
My God!
1280
When you’re going to a gunfight, bring all your friends with guns.
Defense Secretary General James Mattis
1281
The two sides to every story are true and false, not yours and theirs. Facts are not political; lies are.
Deven Green (Mrs. Betty Bowers)
1282
En marche!
Forward!; Onward! Working! or On the Move!
1283
The interesting projects are the ones that are not erasing history, but figuring out how to use that and integrate it in a new way to give the public access to it.
Robert Hammond, urbanist and visionary of NYC's High Line
1284
In art, one must throw one’s life away in order to gain it.
Franz Kafka
1285
Feed them. Love everybody
Ram Dass
1286
contra naturam
against nature : not in accordance with the natural order or with religiously sanctioned normality
1287
The tyranny of the loud encourages the tyranny of the nasty.
Sally Kohn, media analyst
1288
death knell
the tolling of a bell to mark someone's death.
used to refer to the imminent destruction or failure of something.
1289
mio amore unico
my only love
1290
stick a fork in ...(something) (idiomatic, informal) Used to indicate that something or someone is finished, or, in a broader sense, defeated or ruined. I'd play the last level with you, but I'm out of lives. Stick a fork in me!
(something) (idiomatic, informal) Used to indicate that something or someone is finished, or, in a broader sense, defeated or ruined. I'd play the last level with you, but I'm out of lives. Stick a fork in me!
1291
vox humana (n)
an organ stop with a tone supposedly resembling the human voice.
1292
They used both "snob and mob appeal," which gave them a wide audience.
Nachman explains about Mike Nichols and Elaine Page
1293
Potemkin village
an impressive facade or show designed to hide an undesirable fact or condition
1294
mise en place
set up- which means "putting in place" or "everything in its place".
1295
dramatis personae (plural noun)
the characters of a play, novel, or narrative. Literally ‘persons of the drama’
1296
Thanatos (Greek)
Mors (Roman)
Mara (Hindu)
personification of death in mythology and ancient drama.
1297
I say to you what every warrior has known since the beginning of time: conquer your fear and you will conquer death.
Alexander the Great at the Battle of Gaugamela
1298
The purpose of tragedy is catharsis- the purgation of pity and fear
Aristotle
1299
True Judaism is in the heart, not in the building
Rabbi Phillip Sher, who leads the Adas Israel Congregation, after someone burned his Duluth MN synagogue to the ground.
1300
noblesse oblige
the inferred responsibility of privileged people to act with generosity and nobility toward those less privileged.
1301
She's as close to T-bills as we're likely to get
She is as neutral, inoffensive, and risk-free as we can get.
1302
It's unpleasant on the tongue
Succession
1303
Are we in the middle of the storm or are these the first raindrops?
Succession. How close are we to being done with this?
1304
spit and vinegar
strength and energy
1305
What's the protein?
What is the core or most important aspect of something?
1306
tools demonic
Brian Cox, actor
1307
It is easy to be happy. It is a decision. Like going to the dentist." Why then, do we so often choose unhappiness, when the only person we spite is ourselves?
Marina Carr, Woman and Scarecrow
1308
Washington is a "town of short leases."
George Will
1309
Mum as an oyster
Super quiet
1310
Those are my principles, and if you don’t like them, I have others.
NY Times review of Succession
1311
performative outrage
self explantory
1312
he’s cursed to be the protagonist of a TV show.
NY TImes review of Succession
1313
The most common way people give up their power is by thinking that they don’t have any.
Alice Walker
1314
arsonist standing in the way of the fire
Trump talking about Democratic obstruction
1315
the worse the art in restaurants, the better the food.”
Old addage
1316
privilege the lie
When news organizations let politicians like Trump shift blame to someone else.
1317
If "ifs and buts" were candies and nuts, we'd all have a wonderful Christmas
Old saying
1318
If "ifs and buts" were cherries and nuts, we'd all have a wonderful Christmas
Chris Cuomo
1319
If it grows together, it goes together.”
Old culinary saying
1320
Some of his charm offensive is very offensive.
Nancy Pelosi about Donald Trump
1321
res publica (n)
the state, republic, or commonwealth
1322
How to you personalize something anyone can do?
David Chang
1323
You're killing the spirit you're trying to uplift.
Rochelle Cummings
1324
Capitalism without capital is just ism.
Jesse Jackson
1325
You bring me the rough, but never the diamond.
Jafar
1326
If you want to make God laugh, tell him “your” plans!!
Old adage and Rick Perry
1327
Faustian bargain
Faustian bargain. [ (fow-stee-uhn) ] Faust, in the legend, traded his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge. To “strike a Faustian bargain” is to be willing to sacrifice anything to satisfy a limitless desire for knowledge or power.
Deal with the devil
1328
The cocktail didn’t represent a mistake; it was a decision.
A cocktail at Harry's Bar in Venice.
1329
Reputation breeds apathy.
Bar adage
1330
Criminally expensive and not very good.
The food upstairs at Harry's Bar in Venice.
1331
"You see those? Those are the frame lines. Now, ask yourself this: 'What needs to be there?' "
John Huston to Robert Forster
1332
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
Statement from James Comey’s quote of the day calendar
1333
One never feels more alive than when the president of the United States is calling you an unstable nutjob”—
Anthony Scaramucci
1334
They that sow the wind shall reap the whirlwind.
Hosea 8:7
1335
Pay a lot of attention to the people who pay no attention
Rich Thau - Engagious
1336
When we are dancing with the angels, the question will be asked, in 2019, what did we do to make sure we kept our democracy in tact.
Elijah Cummings
1337
When sorrows come, they come not single spies, but in battalions.
Hamlet, Act IV, Scene V (Claudius)
1338
Ecce homo
"Behold the man" - the Latin words used by Pontius Pilate in the Vulgate translation of the Gospel of John, when he presents a scourged Jesus Christ, bound and crowned with thorns, to a hostile crowd shortly before his Crucifixion.
1339
people who agree with you in large measure, but not every measure
Mitt Romney
1340
mea culpa (singular)
meae culpae (plural)
through my own fault
1341
When you're creating your own shit, even the sky ain't the limit.
Miles Davis
1342
There are only two messages in politics-:
1. Change is scary
2. Change is necessary
Jamal Simmons
Hill TV
1343
Quid Agas Agis Bene.
“whatever is worth doing is worth doing well.
1344
Don’t try to be the thing you dislike.
Chris Cuomo
1345
Better to light one candle than curse the darkness.
Chinese proverb
1346
quid pro quo
This for that. (in Latin)
1347
septem horribilis
horrible week (in Latin)
1348
Run it up the flag pole, but nobody wants to salute.
David Jackson, USA Today
1349
It’s a beach read if the beach is Dunkirk.
Elizabeth Day, author
1350
All bad poetry is sincere.
Oscar Wilde
1351
See that guy. Go find him.
Hilton Garrett
1352
Go where you are celebrated, not where you are tolerated.
When Trump changed his residence to Florida.
1353
An army of lions commanded by a deer will never be an army of lions.
Napoleon Bonaparte
1354
We hold fiduciaries to a higher standard than we do anyone else.
William Cohen, former GOP senator
1355
Power must be entrusted to someone, but no one can be trusted with power.
William Cohen, former GOP senator
1356
One more shameful moment from a shameless senator.
David Jolly about Lindsey Graham
1357
Hail Mary from two stadiums over
A real long shot- Steve Chaggaris
1358
caro amico
dear friend (in Italian)
1359
There are more things … likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
Seneca
1360
During times of war, hatred becomes quite respectable even though it has to masquerade often under the guise of patriotism.
Rev. Dr. Howard Thurman
1361
Ignorance, allied with power, is the most ferocious enemy justice can have.
James Baldwin
1362
It's like bringing a second green bean casserole to Thanksgiving, but only in much a smaller dish
Bringing some unneeded and unnecessary.- Steve Chaggaris
1363
That is the thought progression
Marie Yovanovitch surmising the link between her removal and Trump appointing Sondland.
1364
There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
Maya Angelou
1365
Si vis pacem, para bellum
If you want peace prepare for war.
1366
He’s not nature’s best diplomat. He doesn’t use a scalpel; he uses a meat ax.”
Republican operative about Donald Trump
1367
L'union fait la force
Unity makes strength
1368
Sic semper tyrannis
a Latin phrase meaning "thus always to tyrants".
1369
Sig Heil
a German phrase, which literally means "For ensured victory", or "For The Win"."
1370
CAVU
ceiling and visibility unlimited. A military term indicating perfect flying weather.
1371
in medias res
into the middle of a narrative; without preamble.
into the midst of things.
1372
Don’t antagonize. Organize.
Nancy Pelosi
1373
She doesn't follow parades. She leads them.
Rep. Gerry Connolly, a Democrat from Virginia about Nancy Pelosi
1374
The only thing that I know consistently, but as a universal thing in show business, is that it’s always, always about reinvention, and I think, you have to get offstage so you can come back and make another entrance,
Lorne Michaels
1375
Governments are only as good as the culture and the people upholding them.
Bari Weiss, NY Times
1376
He always skips ahead to the last chapter. Before he does anything, he always knows how things will end.
About Mitch McConnell
1377
allergic to irony
Joy Ann Reid about Mitch McConnell
1378
Le etat c’est moi.
I am the state. Louis XIV
1379
When they passed out talent, he stood in line twice.
Carol Channing about Jerry Herman (Hello Dolly, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles
1380
We can’t start anew while still hoping for a different past
Sign on Ponce de Leon church
1381
Not much information can get through fear
Diahann Carroll
1382
not foreclosing the possibility
Don’t rule it out
1383
Stop expecting you from other people
Russell Brown, M.D.
1384
The real national division is between people who have the resources, inner and outer, to survive their mental illness and those who don’t.
Lee Siegel, author of “The Draw: A Memoir.”
1385
Depression was anger turned inward.
Sigmund Freud
1386
Gray Divorce
divorces involving spouses over the age of 50, and who are typically members of the Baby Boomer generation. While the overall divorce rate has declined over the past 20 years, it has doubled for the segment of the population over age 50.
1387
missive
A letter, especially a long or official one.
1388
sans reproche
Beyond reproach
1389
sans peur
without fear
1390
toujours
always
1391
á la minute
(Made) to order
1392
The enemy to the great is good.
Unknown
1393
It’s a jump ball.
Al Sharpton
Anything can happen
1394
damnable lie
Joe Scarborough
1395
The grass isn’t greener on the other side. It’s greener where you water it.
Suzanne Ryan, a mom from the San Francisco area, who lost 120 pounds and transformed not just her body but her life.
1396
the most wounded of all the birds
the most unfortunate one of the lot
1397
Entertainment is a by-product of art. It’s not the purpose of art. We’ve come to a place where it’s an expectation, ‘I want to be entertained by a piece of art, instead of challenged.’”
Wendell Pierce, actor
1398
I got 20 summers left. That's how I look at my life. At this stage of my life, I got 20 summers left. I'm not going to waste any time on you
Wendell Pierce, actor
1399
Congo Square (in New Orleans) where captured Africans found their freedom before they found their physical freedom.
Wendell Pierce, actor
1400
Fame is obscurity in waiting
Wendell Pierce, actor
1401
El Caudillo de Mar a Lago
Caudillo is diminutive for capítulo “head”
Donald Trump
Military or political leader
1402
vis à vis
in relation to; with regard to.
1403
Saying the quiet part out loud
Political term meaning saying what your real motivations are aloud.
1404
engage in the narcissism of small differences
an article about AOC leaving the Democratic Party
1405
People remember stories better than facts and figures. Stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
Abraham Linclon
1406
Time the avenger
Fate wins. What happens today will impact tomorrow.
1407
taking on a Godot like quality
waiting forever for something to happen
1408
thug
KPG
the diet n word
1409
center at the spoke of the wheel
social hub bringing everyone together
1410
Irony is dead. Very, very dead
NYT
1411
His charisma bleached the identities of his five children.
IDK
1412
Almost better never than this late.
Peter Schjeldahl, American art critic, poet, and educator.
1413
The moment you’re a somebody, you have heard your last truth.
Peter Schjeldahl, American art critic, poet, and educator.
1414
Archimedes Principle - If the body is completely submerged, the volume of fluid displaced is equal to the volume of the body.
If the body is completely submerged, the volume of fluid displaced is equal to the volume of the body.
1415
sleeping the big sleep
dead
1416
When you have a disease people identify you with it.
Susan Sontag
1417
Drink was destroying my life. Tobacco only shortens it
Peter Schjeldahl, American art critic, poet, and educator.
1418
actuarial zone
old enough to die of natural causes
1419
red letter day
a day that is pleasantly noteworthy or memorable.
1420
Dolly Parton without makeup will make you skip lunch.
Dolly Parton without makeup shakes us to our core.
clickbait
1421
geographically here, but metaphorically there
someone who is physically, but not mentally there
1422
Definition of a gaffe in Washington is telling the truth in public.
political saying
1423
motive attribution asymmetry
one group's belief that their rivals are motivated by emotions opposite to their own. Makes solutions and compromise unattainable
1424
We should wait until he’s dead
Coach about Bucky
1425
Can you imagine what I would do if I could do all I can?
Sun Tzu, The Art of War
1426
probative (adj)
having the quality or function of proving or demonstrating something; affording proof or evidence
(Legal)
1427
I want to give her something to push against in life. -
Ryan Reynolds about his newborn daughter.
1428
The Heartland
The place where white people run things.
1429
smell for the blue-collar
appealing to work class viewers was how CBS became so successful
1430
Smiling Cobra
CBS president James T. Aubrey for his brutal decision-making ways
1431
The amateur works until he can get it right. The professional works until he cannot get it wrong.
Madame Stiles-Allen, Julie Andrews's voice coach about professionalism.
1432
“It is possible NOT to lie in such a form, but to be sincere is an impossibility.”
Alexandre Pushkin about autobiographies
1433
Never stand in the way of someone who is more motivated
Guys sitting next to me at Radio Roaster on 1/31/2020.
1434
Eliminate the fattest fingers in the pie.
One way to reduce costs is to eliminate the costliest component.
1435
in the molecular structure of something
something so deeply imbedded in a culture that you can't extract it no matter how repellant that thing is
1436
droit du seigneur.
jus primae noctis[b] ('right of the first night'), and prima nocta
a supposed legal or customary right of a feudal lord to have sexual relations with a vassal's bride on her wedding night
a supposed legal right in medieval Europe, allowing feudal lords to have sexual relations with subordinate women, in particular, on their wedding nights.
1437
Elegance is in the brain as well as the body and in the soul. Jesus Christ is the only example we have of any one human having possessed all three at the same time.
Gloria Guinness in Harper's Bazaar's July 1963 issue
1438
"Elegance is in the brain as well as the body and in the soul. Jesus Christ is the only example we have of any one human having possessed all three at the same time."
Gloria Guinness in Harper's Bazaar's July 1963 issue
1439
Wasn’t feeling their flavor.
Simply not interested
1440
Amazing... without the grace
Russell Brown
1441
They weaken fabric that we all need to survive together. They actually rot the cloth until it becomes powder for the keg...
Russell Brown
1442
Problems created by man can be solved by man.
FDR
1443
WASPs name their dogs after liquor and theirs cars after dogs and their children after their ancestors.
Tad Friend
1444
I sort of liken it to sleeping with your ex-husband. The next morning you think, I know why I left him. I couldn’t resist. We had this brief mirage that having a digital and a print property was a great way to synergize and expand.
Tina Brown about working for Newsweek
1445
I would be on the thinnest of ice
Olivier Knox
1446
hubristic (adj)
excessively proud or self-confident.
1447
impenitent
not feeling shame or regret about one’s past actions or attitudes.
1448
quel mauvais goût
what bad taste
1449
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
William Shakespeare, The Tempest (Prospero)
1450
Frankly, I electrified a sleeping beauty that had become self-satisfied and self-admiring and was covered in fake ivy.
Tina Brown about The New Yorker staff when she first took over there.
1451
If we divorce our thinking from nostalgia, is anything really being lost culturally as magazines have diminished?
Tina Brown
1452
beard (one) in (one's) den
To confront risk or danger head on, especially for the sake of possible personal gain. The phrase is a variation of the Biblical proverb "beard the lion in his den.
1453
The powerful tyranny of public opinion
saying
1454
If you ever hear yourself saying, 'I think I understand this,' that means you don't.
Richard Feynman, the Nobel prize-winning physicist
1455
"Hell is empty and all the devils are here."
William Shakespeare, The Tempest
1456
dead cat bounce (n)
a temporary recovery in share prices after a substantial fall, caused by speculators buying in order to cover their positions.
1457
Scott’s life has moved along tracks grooved deep over decades
Followed a predictable, well-worn path.
1458
Rules are what make art beautiful.
Rules are what makes sports beautiful.
NAIC has rules.
Aaron Sorkin
1459
The crown always finds it way to the right head.
The Crown - Duke of Windsor to Elizabeth
1460
Cover the news as it happens and not the news that has yet to come
Julie Masón
1461
He not only took all of the oxygen out of the room, he brought his own oxygen.
Doug Heye about Donald Trump
1462
I didn’t invent it, but I’m in it.
Doug Heye
1463
Someone accused me of writing as if I'm perpetually on a first date with a girl I really want to have a second date with.
Aaron Sorkin
1464
He doesn’t have a flaw. He’s carved out of marble.
Aaron Sorkin about Atticus Finch and how he needed to create a flaw for him to be a compelling character in his play that is based on the novel.
1465
Audience should leave with a piece of you. My job is to use my pain to ease other people's pain
Jeff Garlin, comedian
1466
The trouble with the world is that the stupid are cocksure and the intelligent are full of doubt.
Bertrand Russell
1467
Dunning-Kruger Effect
a psychological rule that states; it’s the most incompetent who are the most confident, while the intelligent ones doubt their own abilities
1468
black harm closets
One of Tanya Poole's Facebook friends discusses the records of politicians as it relates to treating black people.
1469
tout court
quite short, brusque or simply
1470
It’s not the accolades when you arrive, but the judgments when you leave that count.
Pamela Harriman
1471
feel "bien dans sa peau"
feel comfortable in your own skin
1472
Every answer contains a pander
Bret Stephens from NYT about Elizabeth Warren
1473
He’s like mercury, and he’ll slip through the smallest crack.
old saying
1474
The file cabinet is bound to get full at some point, and something’s got to fall out the back.”
At some point, something's gotta give.
1475
au courant
aware of what is going on; well informed.
synonyms: up to date, up with, in touch, familiar, at home, acquainted, conversant; More
abreast of, apprised of, in the know about, well informed about, knowledgeable about, well versed in, enlightened about, aware of, no stranger to;
au fait;
informal: clued up about, genned up about, clued up on, well up on, plugged into, wise to, hip to;
fashionable.
1476
#MeToo, you know, which Tarana created as a language tool.
Tarana Burke who coined the term #MeToo
1477
If you are a gatekeeper of thought, you have to be really careful with what you’re putting into people’s heads.
Rose McGowan to Ronan Farrow in an Atlantic article
1478
"No one wants you to change. Everyone just wants to see you be the most fully realized version of yourself."
RuPaul
1479
it does not matter the amount of work you put into something, or what your intentions were—none of that matters because all the audience gets is what they see onstage.
Jinkx Monsoon from RuPaul's Drag Race
1480
Our job as the audience is to see what was put onstage in front of us and then tell you if it was effective or not.
Jinkx Monsoon from RuPaul's Drag Race
1481
If you can’t love yourself, how the hell you gonna somebody else? Can I get an amen up in here?
RuPaul
1482
The important part of being fearless is being vulnerable.
Usher & a bunch of other people
1483
If you have a chance to die at 75, take it
Saying
1484
The tooth fairy doesn’t come for adults
Michael Barbee
1485
Campaigns don’t make the best history lessons.
Pod Save America
1486
Dominick [had] this veneer of honesty, and a number of the young trial reporters he befriended adore him—adore him in a way no one adores me.
Robert Hofler about Dominick Dunne
1487
That’s a low bar to clear
Pod Save America
1488
X is my job, but Y is my passion.
Pod Save America
1489
This discovery of yours will create forgetfulness in the learners’ souls, because they will not use their memories; they will trust to the external written characters and not remember of themselves.
Socrates tells a story about the god Theuth discovering “the use of letters.
1490
a bastard child with terrible DNA
Pod Save America
1491
An obdurate woman with great memories and no future
Janet Maslin about Meryl Streep’s character in “Ironweed.”
1492
If there is a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, you must be the one to write it.
Toni Morrison
1493
We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.
Toni Morrison
1494
You wanna fly, you got to give up the shit that weighs you down.
Toni Morrison
1495
Life is to be lived, not controlled, and humanity is won by continuing to play in face of certain defeat.
Ralph Ellison
1496
When I discover who I am, I'll be free.
Ralph Ellison
1497
The Path Has Narrowed To A Close
Pete Buttigieg's presidential bid
1498
In God we trust. Everyone else bring data.
Michael Bloomberg
1499
In good odor
Thought well of
1500
I’m paraphrasing liberally
Saying
1501
The lake gets so dense with party boats you could pull a Jesus and walk continuously on from one shore to another
Marie Myung-ok Lee
1502
Always spend more on the things that separate you from the ground.
Old saying
1503
Brought us from the abstract to the concrete.
What was once just an idea has become real.
1504
Irony is dead, cremated, and scattered into the wind
Brian Jay Jones, Biographer
1505
It’s easier for the world to love a suffering woman than a joyful woman.
Glennon Doyle, authorhttps://www.brainscape.com/about
1506
Jesus, take the wheel and drive fast
Popular saying
1507
qui vive
on the qui vive
on the alert or lookout.
1508
If you have 30 seconds of your life to spare .....well, here you go.
Karine Jean-Pierre
1509
The downside of familiarity is imprecision
Richard Brody, New Yorker film critic
1510
au voir
vs.
à bientôt
Goodbye (the lapse period is indefinite)
vs.
See you soon (you hope you will see the person again within a short period of time)
1511
Let us remember the men in all the services, the women in all of the services who have laid down their lives. We have come to the end of our tribulation, and they are not with us at the moment of our rejoicing.
George VI
1512
regrette trop occupe
regret too busy
1513
We cannot seek achievement for ourselves and forget about progress and prosperity for our community.
Cesar Chavez
1514
Sisyphean task
(of a task) such that it can never be completed
1515
Never let a good crisis go to waste
You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.
Winston Churchill, Rahm Emmanuel, et al.
1516
We are an Easter people
We emphasize the triumph of hope and life over fear.
1517
$100 bills don't lie on the street forever.
Paul Krugman
1518
Everything has to tell the same story.
Anna Wintour
1519
Country music is the white man’s rhythm and blues. That’s where the pain is.
Kenny Rogers
1520
We cannot let the cure be worse than the problem itself.
Donald Trump
1521
Socially distanced, spiritually connected
Andrew Cuomo
1522
Every sale is also a purchase. Things add up.
Paul Krugman
1523
It’s appalling and enthralling at the same time
Cameron Green
1524
My peace quotient would be disrupted by it
Brian Stephenson
1525
Why I can smile and murder whiles i smile
William Shakespeare, Henry VI
1526
He is just somebody who didn't just dabble in anything. When he had hobbies, he was fully committed and he treated his work like that, he treated his hobbies like that. I know he treated his family and his wife like that. So he was just a such a dedicated individual.
About Dr. James T. Goodrich,, who died of Covid-19 in March 2020
1527
He was spitting distance from winning it
Thomas Hampton
1528
A party without cocktails is just a meeting.
Julia Child
1529
Fear can make ordinary people turn valorous or villainous or just unattractive.
Paul Schwartzman , Washington Post reporter
1530
While terrorism is about killing people, it’s mostly about manipulating our ideas and calculations of interest.”
Peter R. Neumann, professor of security studies at King’s College London and founder of the International Center for the Study of Radicalization.
1531
Being in her presence somehow allowed you to be a better version of yourself.
David McKean, Maeve Kennedy Townsend McKean's husband
1532
point d'appui
a support or prop; a strategic point.
in military theory, is a location where troops are assembled prior to a battle.
1533
soul - heart - head - lips
Cardinal Timothy Dolan
1534
“You Americans,” he said, “live in the faire [to do]. The avoir [to have]. In France, we live in the être [to be].”
A French teacher
1535
Too much dip on your chip
You’re being too much or going too far with what you’re saying.
1536
No one earns a billion dollars. People earn $10 an hour, people steal a billion dollars.
Fran Leibowitz
1537
One data point is not a trend.
One swallow does not make a spring.
One swallow does not a spring make.
One flower does not make spring.
One blossom does not make a spring.
A single flower does not make spring.
One flower does not a garden make.
One instance of an event does not necessarily indicate a trend.
One day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy.
1538
I'll spin you a tale
I'll tell you a story
1539
How far we’ve stumbled into an age of troubled sleep
Steven J Zipperstein, Stanford professor
1540
We can marinate in sorrow and disappointment together.
Julie Mason
1541
“Hindsight these days is not years later; it’s weeks later,”
Kamala Harris about London Breed
1542
pied noir
a person of European origin who lived in Algeria during French rule, especially one who returned to Europe after Algeria was granted independence.
1543
not for naught
all for naught
not for nothing
all for nothing
1544
never mistaken for a handsome man
euphemism for ugly
1545
If she didn't live it, she couldn't give it.
Jerry Wexler about Aretha Franklin
1546
Could sell white to an eggshell
Saying
1547
I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.
Dorothy Parker
1548
Hopefully, this is his Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn moment.”
Business manager Peter Tunney about Peter Beard's disappearance. Peter Beard was later found in the woods dead at age 82.
1549
Fortuna Favet Audaci
Fortune favors the brave - motto of Trumbull College
1550
Everyone wants to eat, but few are willing to hunt.
Saying
1551
mise en scène (n)
plural: mises en scène
the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.
the setting or surroundings of an event or action.
1552
historical illiteracy
when something is too divorced from the truth to even analyze.
1553
Imagination is more important than knowledge
Albert Einstein
1554
There are a maximum of three things you do so well , they should not be done by anyone else. Delegate the rest.
Paul Rulkens
1555
Focus today on taking massive action. Motion beats meditation every time.
Paul Rulkens
1556
Our priorities are the things that are most important to us right now—present tense. Not serving them is nonnegotiable.”
Romi Neustadt
1557
The next 168 hours will be filled with something, but what they are filled with is largely up to you.
Laura Vanderkam
1558
Set aside half the usual time for your tasks and your results will be the same or even better,.
Paul Rulkens
1559
Your inbox is not your action list.
Paul Rulkens
1560
We all want more of something.
Success Secrets TV
1561
The road that leads to heaven is often as hot as hell
Success Secrets TV
1562
I’m representing important characters here. I don’t want to be a dumpy Geralt or a fat Superman.
Henry Cavill
1563
THE BEST TIME TO LEAVE A PARTY IS WHEN THE PARTY’S JUST BEGINNING.
Diana Vreeland
1564
Scheherazade is a major female character and the storyteller in the frame narrative of the Middle Eastern collection of tales known as the One Thousand and One Nights
a legendary Arabic queen immortalized as the narrator of all one thousand stories in the One Thousand and One Nights.
1565
Not What We Have, But What We Enjoy, Constitutes Our Abundance
Epicurus
1566
Money is the handmaiden of creativity, not the God.
Amy Madden, bassist
1567
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
1568
jolie laide
beautiful ugly; pretty ugly
a woman whose face is attractive despite having ugly features
1569
There’s a blaze of light in every word. It doesn’t matter which one you heard.👌🏽
Leonard Cohen
1570
Make your relationship the top priority in your life.
The Golden Rule
1571
I think avoiding humiliation is the core of tragedy and comedy and probably of our lives.
John Guare
1572
Sepárate the noise from the signal
Olivier Knox
1573
Man sacrifices his health in order to make money.
Then he sacrifices his money to recuperate his health.
Then he is so anxious about the future that he does not enjoy the present; the result being that he does not live in the present or the future; he lives as if he is never going to die, and then he dies having never really lived.
Dalai Lama
1574
A triumph of hope over experience
Samuel Johnson’s assessment of second marriages
1575
Every sinapse I have is backfiring
Comedian
1576
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
Jim Rohn
1577
We tend to ignore what is unpleasant and inconvenient.
Chris Cuomo Let’s Get After It guest
1578
Cause if you like it then you shoulda put a mask on it
Dan Rather
1579
You don’t need to be a weatherman to know which way the wind blows,
Bob Dylan
1580
Cities have sexes. London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Angela Carter, British novelist
1581
When the generation that survived the war is no longer here, we’ll find out whether we have learned from history.
Angela Merkel
1582
As the twig is bent, so grows the tree.
Old saying
1583
Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.
Popular saying
1584
Etiquette is what elevates a typical day to one that is of beauty.
Elegant Everyday Living website https://elegantlivingeveryday.com/etiquette-3/
1585
When you mix science and politics, you get politics.
John M. Barry, author of The Great Influenza
1586
on tenterhooks
in a state of suspense or agitation because of uncertainty about a future event.
1587
Every hero becomes a bore at last.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
1588
When local officials attain national prominence their fiercest critics are back home. Jesus wasn’t a big deal in Nazareth.
Brian Robinson, a Republican political consultant and former communications director for Gov. Nathan Deal
1589
Politics is downstream of culture.
Andrew Breitbart
1590
He is on the legit afraid of a fair election
Nancy Pelosi about Donald Trump
1591
delicately said
Julie Mason
1592
They should have their cocktails imaginatively stirred
Olivier Knox
1593
why is this the "done" thing?
Jullie Mason
1594
There's a greatness to his lateness
Julie Mason
1595
We are all subject to the tyranny of the present
Old saying
1596
There are no futurists in foxholes. When there’s incoming fire, that’s all you can think about.
Old saying
1597
When a writer is born into a family, the family is finished
Czesław Miłosz
1598
Some people could start an argument in an empty room,
John Self, BBC journalist
1599
He had no stature socially speaking. He had no family. He was only an ornament. There was nothing for him to fall back on.
John Knowles about Truman Capote.
1600
A person’s epitaph was written when his or her last battle was fought.
Joe Biden
1601
We try to be so woke that we’re asleep
CBG
1602
You’ve lost one mother. I’ve lost 3
LaVon
1603
This isn’t the first class you failed
LaVon
1604
devil’s lettuce
marijuana
1605
A lion does not lose sleep over the opinion of sheep
GoT & others
1606
As you enter positions of trust and power, dream a little before you think.
Toni Morrison
1607
We go low so you don't have too.
Rick Wilson, GOP strategist
1608
I'm 30,000 footing it here.
Rick Wilson, GOP strategist
1609
My good morning could take us into the afternoon
Cory Booker
1610
It's a fair question, but it's not a fair analysis.
Seth Moulton
1611
That's such a strong point
Julie Mason
1612
He has kept up that drumbeat
Olivier Knox
1613
I cannot challenge your experience
Olivier Knox
1614
I don't want to oversell it
Julie Mason
1615
Land of fast women and pretty horses
Texas
1616
It's a bathroom scale, not a kitchen scale. It's pretty good at measuring pounds, but it's not good at ounces."
Cliff Zukin, a professor emeritus at Rutgers University who wrote a guide to variance in polls for the American Association for Public Opinion Research ahead of the 2016 election.
1617
No need to play the violin for me
Miles Taylor, Former DHS Chief of Staff
1618
Don't compare me to the almighty. Compare me to the alternative.
Joe Biden
1619
If you have a rule and you “cheat” every day, it’s not cheating- it’s a lifestyle.
Danny Kavadlo, personal trainer
1620
The greatest fear in the world is the opinion of others, and the moment you are unafraid of the crowd, you are no longer a sheep, you become a lion. A great roar arises in your heart, the roar of freedom
Osho, Indian public speaker
1621
playing the refs
working the refs
To attempt to persuade the referee or other officials to view the players on one's team with a sympathetic bias.
To manipulate the press to view one's candidate favorably and to report negative stories on one's opponent.
1622
The more seriously you take yourself, the unhappier you’re going to be.
Naval on Twitter
1623
The classical unities, Aristotelian unities, or three unities represent a prescriptive theory of dramatic tragedy that was introduced in Italy in the 16th century and was influential for three centuries.
The three unities are:
unity of action: a tragedy should have one principal action.
unity of time: the action in a tragedy should occur over a period of no more than 24 hours.
unity of place: a tragedy should exist in a single physical location.
1624
This, that, and a third
Charlotte King
1625
You have to love your kids enough to let them hate you.
Carol Burnett
1626
as a goal if not as an accomplishment
Saying
1627
in principle, if not in manifest
Ghezzi - what is said, but not what is done
1628
in principle
phrase of principle
as a general idea or plan, although the details are not yet established or clear.
"the government agreed in principle to a peace plan that included a ceasefire"
Similar:
in general, on balance, generally, in essence, by and large, on the whole, all in all, in the main, all things considered, used to indicate that although something is theoretically possible, it may not actually happen.
"in principle, the banks are entitled to withdraw these loans when necessary
Ok
1629
messaging by mendacity
Chris Cuomo
1630
A lie makes it halfway around the world before the truth puts on its pants
Old saying
1631
dispositively
Chris Cuomo
1632
It's a solar eclipse. It blocks out the sun from everything else.
Chis Cillizza
1633
Even more to the point
John Patrick Shanley
1634
Some people grow old, not up.
Isiah Maxwell
1635
the portentous value of dreams
Chris Cuomo on the predictive nature of dreams
1636
My life has been a hellscape
Chris Cuomo
1637
Work with deliberate speed
saying
1638
jus soli
birthright citizenship
1639
He was kind when you were unkind to his kind.
Felicia C Sullivan
1640
Damascene Conversion
A sudden and complete change in one's beliefs.
1641
cut mustard
To suffice; to be good or effective enough. Give me the bigger hammer. This little one just doesn't cut the mustard.
1642
Like a goose primed for foie gras
Nina Totenberg
1643
It’s not what you do to lose weight. It’s to stop what you’re doing that’s keeping your weight on.
Paraphrasing & extracting Miles Davis's dictum
1644
Too cute by half
saying
This means one-and-a-half times whatever is being described. Actually, "too cute by half" has the virtue of economy of words
1645
the weight of evidence
Coronavirus Fact vs Fiction
1646
It’s not the notes you play, it’s the notes you don’t play.
Miles Davis
1647
Save the drama until we have facts that motivate drama
Chris Cuomo
1648
Nothing vast enters the lives of mortals without a curse.
Sophocles
1649
Two basic messages in Politics- change is needed & change is scary
Olivier Knox
1650
Racism is about dehumanizing people so that they can be dealt with without empathy. . . . This is just another manifestation of a knee on a neck for eight minutes or a body left in the middle of a street for four hours.”
Michael L. Blakey, director of the Institute for Historical Biology at William & Mary.
1651
She turned around faster than a nuclear centrifuge.
Erik Wemple, Washington Post reporter about how Kimberly Guilfoyle avoided an awkward question.
1652
The grace of daily obligation
Doing what needs to be done now
1653
Is it a supple birch or a dry twig
Claire Malone - Fivethirtyeight discussing the resilience of democracy in the age of trump
1654
If you’re not paying for the product, then you are the product.
Silicon Valley saying
1655
Humans will do figure eights to make facts suit their fictions.
Jennifer Senior, NYT reporter
1656
Keep one's powder dry
To be prepared to act with little advance notice. The phrase refers to gunpowder, which needs to be kept dry in order to work properly.
1657
A perfectly serviceable Tuesday evening
An average Tuesday
1658
A quiet conscience makes for a light heart
Mark Salter - John McCain’s speechwriter
1659
feel over facts
People care more about feelings than facts.
1660
unicorn or wildebeest?
rate or common?
1661
When you’re betting on the past against the future, the future always wins.
Ron Browstein
1662
There’s no defeating it while denying it.
Mayor Pete Buttigieg
1663
Bringing home thicker pieces of bacon
Making more money
1664
sartorial overcommitment
overdressed
1665
surtax brackets
rich people
1666
Your name is “one of the greatest gifts that a family can give you. It is the first gift that a child, when they enter the Earth, receives from their family. It is usually informed by tradition and love, and the hope and aspiration the family has for that child. It is something precious and sacred and it is a part of their identity,
Kamala Harris
1667
Sic transit Gloria mundi (STGM)
Thus passes worldly glory.
So passes worldly glory!
How quickly the glory of the world passes away.
a reminder of the transitory nature of life and earthly honors.
1668
Just because you sue doesn’t mean it’s true.
Dan Rather
1669
Everybody wants to be a unique flower
Claire Malone, 538
1670
Distill that in a tweet
Give me a sound bite
1671
I’m throwing you a needle to thread
?
1672
Having a lot of CPU cycles in your prefrontal cortex
Very, very smart
1673
tabula rasa
tabula rasae (pl)
an absence of preconceived ideas or predetermined goals; a clean slate.
the human mind, especially at birth, viewed as having no innate ideas.
1674
cinéma vérité
a style of filmmaking characterized by realistic, typically documentary motion pictures that avoid artificiality and artistic effect and are generally made with simple equipment.
motion pictures made in the style of cinéma-vérité collectively.
1675
No stone thrown
Julie Mason
1676
Now that I’ve pronounced my Olympian judgment
Olivier Knox
1677
If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough
Albert Einstein
1678
Whole persons are engaged in a lifetime quest to achieve balance and congruity in all aspects of their lives and continually seek to develop their full human potential
Mortimer Adler
1679
Where delusion turns to derangement
Charlie Sykes
1680
feels like the Catholic Church is pulling indulgences
Olivier Knox
1681
The isms aren’t going away tomorrow.
Donna Brazile
1682
back to the salt mines
Back to one's job or daily work, especially when it is very hard or unpleasant. Sometimes used humorously.
1683
Why not be the responsibility you want to see
Caller on the Big Picture about leaders who flout mask mandates while imposing them
1684
Now is the time for Americans to set aside their differences and do what I want.
Olivier Knox
1685
It was the thread hanging out of the sock that annoyed me, so that led me to pull on the thread.
Francis Ford Coppola
1686
non compos mentis
not sane or in one's right mind.
For his last ten years, Strom Thurmond didn’t know if he was on foot or on horseback
1687
in the brackets normal
normal life for normal people
1688
I really, truly love people. I try to find the good in everybody. I try to find the God light in everybody.
Dolly Parton
1689
There are only three things you can do with a dollar: spend, loan, or own.
Venita Van Caspel
1690
has gone to great rhetorical lengths to avoid...
WSJ
1691
reassessing your political identity
Jon Ossoff
1692
When there’s built-in expectation, your brain always processes that as danger
Ryan Reynolds
1693
the stress dispensary in our house.
Ryan Reynolds about his father
1694
There's always something to take the "j" out of joy
Mom
1695
faced criticism of elitism and tardiness around diversity
NYT
1696
The Kool-Aid is deep in her bloodstream
Twitter about Kayleigh McEnany
1697
Changing the way in which paper gets shuffled
Space Force
1698
This is one of those ‘Monolith of Whites in America” questions.
538
1699
Live in a world of basics
Rochelle
1700
Remember tonight... for it is the beginning of always.
Dante Alighieri
1701
odds are fair that...
Odds are that..,
1702
How long have you been holding those words in your head, hoping to use them?
John Locke (via meineluft)
1703
deader than Julius Caesar
MSNBC analyst
1704
there are lots of narrative cul-de-sacs
Matt Zoller Seitz, film and TV critic
1705
It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
Henry David Thoreau
1706
He came in to carpe diem.
Julie Mason
1707
Sign me up 7 days of the week and twice on Sunday
Michael Steel
1708
like the difference between lightning and a lightning bug
WSJ op ed comment
1709
hard cheese
“tough luck", a shame. Something that's not very good but you can't really do much about it
1710
We are what we pretend to be, and so we must be careful what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut wrote in the opening of his 1962 novel, Mother Night.
1711
You have to stay subjective to your own spirit
Glenn Close
1712
The best movie you'll ever be in is your own life because that's what matters in the end.
Tina Louise
1713
not a necessary evil, but a positive good
John Caldwell Calhoun’s position on slavery
1714
You won't arrive alive if you leave to go
Clay Foster Lee, Bishop of United Methodist Church
1715
tits up
Broken, dead in the water, floating (as in a project)
1716
boarded the train for glory
died
1717
We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
Charlayne Hunter Gault’s journalism professor
1718
Trumpism is “a philosophical torch that can be passed from one runner to the next
Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
1719
master of the acidic bon mot
description of H.L. Mencken
1720
Good riddance to bad rubbish
Old saying
1721
The Bechdel test
Named after cartoonist Alison Bechdel, judged artistic works based on whether there were any scenes in which two or more women had a conversation about something other than a man
1722
Play refreshes the soul
Thomas Aquinas
1723
Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
Martin Luther King Jr.
1724
Ten square miles surrounded by reality
Ithaca, NY
1725
Every caveat is applied
newsfolk & KJG
1726
The idea that it couldn't happen here is why it happened here
Ron Steslow, the Lincoln Project
1727
Gerald was vintage, Alan was vin ordinaire."
A friend of Somerset Maugham referring to his lovers.
1728
parallel process (v)
to process multiple things simultaneously
1729
metabolize things quickly
Digest facts and circumstances quickly
1730
Pass the vodka, comrade. I’ll sleep where I fall.
Russian political joke
1731
Two words, three lies
Les Dialoliques
1732
You’ll never outperform your belief systems.
Kevin Samuels
1733
Vīta brevis,
ars longa,
occāsiō praeceps,
experīmentum perīculōsum,
iūdicium difficile.
Life is short,
and art long,
opportunity fleeting,
experimentations perilous,
and judgment difficult.
1734
blue tribe
Democrats
1735
expose the jugular
admitting guilt or culpability
1736
Be assured that nothing is more pleasing, but nothing shorter-lived.
Emperor Domitian said of hair
1737
Knowledge alone is completely useless.
Darius Foroux
1738
lose their purchase
lose caché; lose value; lose credibility
1739
The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.
Cicely Tyson, the ancestor
1740
Never get into anything so deep that you’ve lost all chance for conciliation.
John F. Kennedy
1741
Character is based on how you test the people you’re allowed to mistreat.
David Sedaris discusses this in his Master Class.
1742
Imaginary January exception
Jamie Raskin about Donald Trump’s attempt to overthrow the 2020 presidential election
1743
Plus ultra
Beyond the ultimate
1744
President Donald J. Trump ran out of nonviolent options to retain power.
Ted Lieu
1745
nil volentibus arduum
nothing is impossible for those willing
1746
He's going to age like milk, he's not going to age like wine.
Eric Swalwell about Donald Trump.
1747
That logic pretzels out.
SNL
1748
a triumph of hope over experience.
Dr. Samuel Johnson’s characterization of remarriage
1749
Crisis management is about assuming that people are not stupid and that the truth will come out.
Lanny Davis
1750
People who are influenced before they are informed are dangerous to democracy.
Laura Coates
1751
It’s a bit like we had the lyrics, but not the music. We had J’s script, but the actual dynamic and the rhythm of the scene, I never knew which way it was going to go,”
Rosamund Pike
1752
Correlation is not necessarily causation
Chris Cuomo
1753
Perhaps we all give the best of our hearts uncritically to those who hardly think about us in return.
T.H. White
1754
Maybe you wouldn't have to mention you are a Christian all the time if you just acted like one most of the time.
Twitter quote card
1755
The universe keeps sending you the same lesson until you learn it.
Crystal Hefner, Hugh's widow
1756
We all breath the same air, but not all of us cherish it in the same way
Tom Stevenson, journalist
1757
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
T. S. Eliot
1758
It’s not in my power how long I will live, but rather how long I will truly exist.
Seneca
1759
Life is like a play: it’s not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.
Seneca
1760
What one generation tolerates, the next generation will embrace.
John Wesley
1761
You have power over your mind — not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
Marcus Aurelius
1762
The needs of a happy life are very few.
Marcus Aurelius
1763
“The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.”
Marcus Aurelius
1764
“Waste no more time arguing what a good man should be. Be one.”
Marcus Aurelius
1765
“Just that you do the right thing. The rest doesn’t matter.”
Marcus Aurelius
1766
“Understand that your time has a limit set to it. Use it, then to advance your enlightenment; or it will be gone, and never in your power again.”
Marcus Aurelius
1767
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
Winston Churchill
1768
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
Louis Auchincloss
1769
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality
German poet Novalis (formally Georg Friedrich Philipp von Hardenberg)
1770
Running around the shower to get wet
Very skinny
1771
male approval
ejaculate (Tumblr)
1772
People are doing their best with the light they have to see with.
Leslie Jordan
1773
That’s the way my life went–from a misdemeanor to a felony.
Natalie Cole
1774
Juggling with fiery knives
Doing a difficult task
1775
Measuring yourself with someone else’s ruler
Comparing yourself to others
1776
You go to war with the army you have.
old saying
1777
At the end of the day, we can endure more than we think we can.
Frida Kahlo
1778
Rendezvous with reality
Face the truth
1779
stark relief
To cause something to stand out sharply or be vividly visible or noticeable.
1780
The highest human act is to inspire
Nipsey Hussle
1781
I’ve been misreported and misrepresented
Princess Margaret
1782
Hara Hachi Bu
Stop Eating When You’re 80% Full
1783
Ease is a greater threat to progress than hardship.
Denzel Washington
1784
Grist for the mill
All of our troubles and trials can be useful or contain some profit to us.
1785
pretzel logic
fallible, twisted or circular reasoning that when dissected is wrong, does not make sense or does not explain the situation rationally.
1786
Don't wear private grief on a public sleeve,
British Royals saying
1787
Men are judged on their potential and women on their accomplishments
old adage
1788
A little bit of bad taste is like putting paprika on food. it makes it more interesting.
Diana Vreeland
1789
That’s where dinner fights go to live.
Julie Mason
1790
A little bit of bad taste is like putting paprika on food
Diana Vreeland
1791
We come here to a do a job, not keep a job.
Nancy Pelosi to Chick Schumer after his disappointment on the cost of the Affordable Care Act
1792
Snowflake on tip of tip of iceberg
Laura Coates
1793
operational
(as defined by Nancy Pelosi) the ability to get things done. "You can be passionate, but at the end of the day you were elected to compromise and get things done.
1794
Gucci glove "velvet glove" vs. (under or beneath) Iron Fist
saying
1795
tough sledding
hard work
1796
People at birth are inherently good.
A line from an ancient Chinese poem. Chloé Zhao
1797
Gross underestimate
CNN
1798
Repetition is the mother of skill.
Tony Robbins
1799
The mind can race.
The mind races.
Julie Mason
1800
There is no percentage in...
There is no benefit in (doing)...
1801
The more you sweat in training, the less you bleed in battle.
Richard Marcinko
1802
“Repetition is the mother of skill.” – Tony Robbins
“Repetition is the mother of skill.” – Tony Robbins
1803
No man is more unhappy than he who never faces adversity. For he is not permitted to prove himself.
Seneca
1804
We seek to be validated rather than educated.
Frank Lutz, Republican pollster
1805
Compare and despair
Old saying
1806
TL;DR
too long; didn't read
1807
That arched a lot of eye brows
That took people aback.
1808
The brain is the muscle that can move the world
Stephen King
1809
When the vulgarity of the reality abates, then I'll use different languate (swearing).
Chris Cuomo
1810
dark triad
In psychology, it comprises the personality traits of narcissism, Machiavellianism, and psychopathy
1811
An 80% friend is not a 20% enemy
Ronald Reagan
1812
I want to live vicariously through your plans since I don’t have any.
Julie Mason
1813
Roll off tongue with charming simplicity
Dick Pound, Canadian IOC board member and former Olympian.
1814
Pars pro toto
Latin for '"a part (taken) for the whole"
1815
Embrace the teetotal
Don't drink alcohol
1816
testicular fortitude
A more academic English translation of the Spanish word "cojones", that originally stood for testicles, two spheric glands part of the reproductive system of males, also commonly known as balls.
To have testicular fortitude is to show strength, courage and sagacity in challenging situations. The story of how strength and courage is related to two nuts encased in shriveled skin hanging from between a man’s legs is a fascinating story that i don't have the time to go into right now.
1817
The greatest prison people live in is the fear of what other people think.
Idk
1818
Not to the manner born himself, but to manners bred.
Description of Stephen Birmingham
1819
high polish
a bright, smooth, mirror-like finish. A surface which is polished to a mirror-like finish. Hue is the term used for the actual color of the spectrum (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo or violet). The more pure a gemstone 's hue, the more valuable.
1820
the great storyteller is rarer than the great writer
Jackie Collins's agent
1821
Narcissism of small differences
Narcissism of marginal differences
Mindy Kalig describing minorities’ prejudices against each other.
The thesis that communities with adjoining territories and close relationships are especially likely to engage in feuds and mutual ridicule because of hypersensitivity to details of differentiation
We tend to be more critical of the people closest to us, rather than those who seem further away
We obsess over the tiniest details
(The term was coined by Sigmund Freud in 1917).
1822
E pluribus unum
Out of many, one
1823
habeas corpus
You shall have the body.
the legal principle that guarantees an inmate the right to appear before a judge in court, so it can be determined whether or not that person is being lawfully imprisoned. It's also one of the cornerstones of the American and British legal systems. Without it, tyrannical and unjust imprisonments would be possible. In situations where national security is at risk, however, habeas corpus can be suspended.
1824
Ad majorem dei gloriam
(AMDG)
All to the glory of God.
Ad majorem dei gloriam is often shortened to AMDG. In other words, it's the WWJD of the Jesuits, who've been drilling the mantra into their followers since (Saint) Ignatius of Loyola founded the Catholic Order in 1534. They believe all actions, big or small, should be done with AMDG in mind. Remind your Jesuit-educated buddies of this when they seem to be straying from the path. (Best used with a wink and a hint of irony.)
1825
Alack and alas
Used to express regret or sadness.
1826
One snap of his fingers and he can raise hemlines so high the whole world's your gynecologist.
Comment about Andre Leon Talley
1827
Comparison is the thief of joy.
Theodore Roosevelt
1828
plump as a partridge
used to be a compliment,
1829
On your last lap
about to die
1830
We simply get our news to affirm rather than inform.
Frank Lutz, Republican pollster
1831
We seek to be validated rather than educated.
Frank Lutz, Republican pollster
1832
We tend to amplify the voices that are already amplified.
Frank Lutz, Republican pollster
1833
All of our lives are too unique to copy the past from someone else. Too bring meaning to your life, to bring value to your life, you have to learn and master yourself.
Master Shi Yeng Yi from his TedX Talk
1834
Humility is the opiate of the mediocre.
Flow is the opiate of the mediocre
I don’t know
1835
"A- plus point
Good point (Lizzie Post)
1836
All of our lives are too unique to copy the past from someone else. Too bring meaning to your life, to bring value to your life, you have to learn and master yourself.
Master Shi Yeng Yi
1837
Don’t think that black cows give white milk
Grannie- not believing the obvious
1838
"Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit:
There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect."
Frank Wilhoit
1839
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Buddha
1840
L'air du temps
"the current trend" or "fashionable at the moment".
1841
Seek first the virtues of the mind; and other things either will come, or will not be wanted.
Francis Bacon
1842
exotic, but not exoticized.
discussion about Crazy Rich Asians
1843
The development of a man’s inner masculinity starts with a man taking control over the one thing he is able to exercise 100 percent control over: himself.
Rom Wills
1844
laundering their reputation
Trump's team
1845
Life is too short to not read the very best book you know of right now.
Patrick Collison, the founder of Stripe
1846
All in all, I don’t waste energy feeling bad for myself. I surround myself with people that I want to be with. And I keep moving forward.
Sam Berns
1847
The biggest ball drop
Dropping the ball
1848
“All in all, I don’t waste energy feeling bad for myself,” Berns said. “I surround myself with people that I want to be with. And I keep moving forward.”
Sam Berns
1849
Never believe a prediction that doesn't empower you.
Sean Stephenson, a therapist who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta.
1850
The only disability is one's refusal to adapt.
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VaRO5-V1uK0)
Sean Stephenson, a therapist who was born with osteogenesis imperfecta.
1851
Visual language is a super language. It transcends linguistic barriers.
Yo Yeng Lu, emoji creator
1852
I believe that nobody has the same parents, that you're born into a family at a different time; that your parents relate to you differently depending on what your personality is and how they connect.
Delia Ephron
1853
If you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you, but if you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your joke. And you're the hero of the joke because you're telling the story.
Delia Ephron
1854
Money doesn't care who is sticks to.
Amazon ad
1855
Don't yuck someone's yum
The Genius Tapes
1856
Don't "at" me.
The Genius Tapes
1857
Insta-stalking
Stalking someone on Instagram.
1858
Sacred cows make the most satisfying burgers.
Old saying
1859
Sequoia sempervirens
Always green, ever-living
1860
If you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
1861
When the only friend you have is the one looking you back in the mirror, you’re screwed.
An Andrew Cuomo adviser
1862
She thought I was Jesus jumping off the cross
Liz Smith
1863
People living deeply have no fear of death.
Anaïs Nin
1864
Perfect is the enemy of good.
Voltaire
1865
Art is never finished, only abandoned.
Leonardo da Vinci
1866
To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance.
Oscar Wilde
1867
The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.
Marcus Aurelius
1868
In three words, I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on.
Robert Frost
1869
There comes a point in your life when you need to stop reading other people’s books and write your own.
Albert Einstein
1870
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
George Washington Carver
1871
When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
1872
Blessed are the hearts that bend; they can never be broken.
Albert Camus
1873
Life is not so much what you accomplish as what you overcome.
Robin Roberts
1874
It takes courage to believe that the best is yet to come.
Robin Roberts
1875
If you invest in beauty, it will remain with you all the days of your life.
Frank Lloyd Wright
1876
When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
B.F. Skinner
1877
American history isn't history until there's a movie about it.
dream hampton, the film maker who produced "Surviving R Kelly."
1878
The rule of holes
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
1879
You can't argue with the fireman when your kitchen is on fire.
old saying
1880
Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
William Morris
1881
Where there is love and inspiration, I don’t think you can go wrong.
Ella Fitzgerald
1882
We are the sum of what we achieve, not what we intend
Machiavelli
1883
If you know neither the enemy or yourself, you will succumb in every battle.
Sun Tzu
1884
Seduce yourself first.
Kamand Kojouri
1885
It sucks when you think someone is dope and they turn out to be baking soda.
Travis Winfrey (or some anonymous person)
1886
It's more important to out-think your enemy than to outfight him.
Sun Tzu
1887
“Everyone in this room is going to be gone pretty quickly — and we will have either made something or not made something. The artists that inspire me are the ones that I look at and go, ‘Oh my god — you didn’t have to go there. It would’ve been safer not to — but, for whatever reason, you did.’ And every time death happens, I’m reminded that it’s stupid to be safe… Usually, whatever that is — wherever you don’t want to go, whatever that risk is, wherever the unsafe place is — that really is the gift that you have to give.”
Amanda Palmer, artist
1888
However meaningless and vain, however dead life appears, the man of faith, of energy, of warmth … steps in and does something.
Van Gogh on fear, taking risks, and how inspired mistakes propel us forward
1889
Don't tell me what you believe in. I'll observe how you behave and I will make my own determination.
Alex Trebek
1890
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath
1891
contra mundum
against the world; in defiance of all general opinion
1892
compos mentis
having full control of one's mind; sane.
1893
to be iron about something
to be hard, unyielding, inflexible about something
1894
Every man dies. Not every man really lives.
William Wallace
1895
We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
E. M. Forster
1896
à bas
down with, away with (literally: to the bottom)
1897
What your character does reveals who they are. What they say reveals who they see themselves as.
Aaron Sorkin
1898
the pointed end of the bayonet
Cal Smith, King & Spalding
Speaker at NACD luncheon
1899
go to fist city
fight
1900
Let go of people who aren’t ready to love you yet! This is the hardest thing you’ll have to do in your life and it will also be the most important thing: stop giving your love to those who aren’t ready to love you yet.
Unknown
1901
A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely.
Michael K. Williams
1902
élan vital
the vital force or impulse of life especially :
the creative force within an organism that is responsible for growth, change, and necessary or desirable adaptations.
a creative principle held by Bergson to be immanent in all organisms and responsible for evolution.
1903
The pointed end of the bayonet
Cal Smith,
King & Saplding
Speaker at NACD luncheon
1904
Throw in the middle of traffic
Put someone in the middle of controversy.
Throw under the bus
1905
the fog of war
the uncertainty in situational awareness experienced by participants in military operations.[1] The term seeks to capture the uncertainty regarding one's own capability, adversary
1906
Women’s greatest strength is the facade of weakness.
Men’s greatest weakness is the facade of strength.
Saying
1907
There is a light at the end of the tunnel, but it is a long tunnel.
Old saying
1908
For a landlord, I’m very grateful that I’m allowed to occupy so much space in his brain rent-free.
Saying
1909
jawline dude
a man with perfect facial features
1910
Have goals outside of your comfort zone that will challenge you.
Les Brown
1911
You need a mentor with experience who's been there and done that. There must be someone who sees something in you that you can't see. That cant take you to a place within yourself that you can't go by yourself
Les Brown
1912
In order to do something you've never done is to become someone you've never been.
Les Brown
1913
You can't see the picture if you're in the frame.
Les Brown
1914
Process is more important than the product
Model Health
1915
Noise is the enemy, clarity the goal
Jon Stewart
1916
cause célèbre
controversial celebrity issue;
an issue or incident arousing widespread controversy, outside campaigning, and heated public debate.
1917
cause du jour
issue of the day
1918
If you hang around the barbershop too long, you'll get a haircut.
saying
1919
As you ramble on through life, Brother,
Whatever be your goal,
Keep your eye upon the doughnut,
And not upon the hole.
Margaret Atwood
1920
“Future love does not exist. Love is a present activity only. The man who does not manifest love in the present has not love.
Leo Tolstoy
1921
O.Q.P
Only quality people
1922
You earn between $2000 of your closest friends. People rub off on you.
Les Brown
1923
When you go for a walk with someone, something happens. Either they adjust to your pace or you adjust to their pace. Whose pace have you adjusted to?
Sidney Poitier
1924
From brick and mortar to click and order
Les Brown
1925
We have to transform to accommodate our disruptions
Les Brown
1926
If there's no enemy within, the enemy outside can do us no harm.
African proverb
1927
Many of us die not because of what we eat, but because of what's eating us.
Les Brown
1928
Evil prevails when good men and women do nothing.
Les Brown
1929
Some things are taught.
Some things are caught.
Nature vs. nuture
1930
I don't want to do life with you anymore. I feel lonely whenever you're around.
Les Brown
1931
There is no success without successors
T.D. Jakes
1932
You're never too old to learn.
You're never too young to teach.
Les Brown
1933
If you can get a man's attention by tapping him on the shoulder, why knock him in the mouth? Because he's going to have to fight you, even if he doesn't want to and he might get in a lucky punch. Call him aside and talk to him.
Les Brown
1934
Legacy is about how you want to be remembered.
Dynasty is about why you will never be forgotten.
John-Leslie Brown
1935
If information could change people. everyone would be skinny, rich, and happy. A story touches he heart and it impacts five areas of the brain.
Les Brown
1936
Never let what you want to say get in the way of what your audience wants to hear.
Les Brown
1937
Conduct communications intelligence.. Ask questions. Find out their sweet spot, Ask them what keeps them up at night. When did they lose their fire?
Les Brown
1938
Conduct communications intelligence.. Ask them what keeps them up at night.
Les Brown
1939
We are today what we were then.
People living out of heir history; their imagination. When was your life shut down? When did you lose your voice?
1940
Life is a fight for territory. Once you stop fighting for what you want, what you don't want will automatically take over.
Les Brown
1941
We may not get everything we fight for, but everything we get, there will be a fight
Frederick Douglass
1942
When bad things happen, you don't deny it you defy it.
Norman Cousins
1943
Distract, dispute, inspire
Les Brown
1944
Living out of your imagination instead of living out of your history
Les Brown
1945
We want to live a life that will outlive us.
Live a life that will outlive you.
Les Brown
1946
Orchestrate an emotional experience. If information could change people, everybody would be skinny, rich, and happy.
Les Brown
1947
I aspire to inspire until I expire.
Les Brown
1948
Smart people learn from their mistakes. But the real sharp ones learn from the mistakes of others.
A smart person learns from his mistakes, but a truly wise person learns from the mistakes of others.”
Geniuses learn from other’s mistakes, smart people learn from their own mistakes, and stupid people never learn.
Many people
1949
Education is not the learning of facts, but the training of the mind to think.
Albert Einstein
1950
The most important decision we make is whether we believe we live in a friendly or hostile universe.
Albert Einstein
1951
Impose your will on something
Inky Johnson
1952
The process is far more important than the product
Inky Johnson
1953
founding fathers and sustaining mothers
Laura Coates
1954
Lazarus Moment
Something in your life that appears to be dead that’s not intended to remain dead. There is something that needs to be brought back to life or revived.
1955
Grade your own homework.
Make your own homework.
The expression implies that whenever a person or group self-assesses and/or self regulates their own work they will usually treat it more favorably than if it were assessed by an independent person or group.
1956
If the architecture is any good, a person who looks and listens will feel its good effects without noticing.
Carlos Scarpa
1957
losing better
lose by closer margins (politics)
1958
Not only do I gild the lily, I gild the gilded lily.
Barrry Kibbrick while interviewing Robert Greene
1959
All art is autobiographical; the pearl is the oyster’s autobiography.
Federico Fellini
1960
narrative cul-de-sac
writing phrase
1961
karmic account balance
Anthony Bourdain
Law of karma or a law of acting, balance, causes and results, action and reaction can be described with one of proverb: “as you sow, so shall you reap”
1962
Whoever controls the past controls the future.
George Orwell
1963
The micro plays into the macro
Saying
1964
With confidence, you have won before you have started.
Marcus Garvey
1965
Feel compliments as deeply as you feel insults.
James Clear
1966
We all have ability. The difference is how we use it.
Stevie Wonder
1967
Optimism is a force multiplier.
Colin Powell
1968
You’re pushing me close to a line I do not intend to cross.
Merrick Garland
1969
Happiness quite unshared can scarcely be called happiness — it has no taste.
Charlotte Brönte
1970
Unsubscribe
When someone says something you don't like
1971
off the wagon
No longer maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from an undesirable habit, especially drinking alcohol.
1972
on the wagon
Abstaining from drinking any alcoholic drink, usually in the sense of having given it up (as opposed to never having partaken).By extension, maintaining a program of self-improvement or abstinence from some other undesirable habit.
1973
We are not final because we are infallible, but we are infallible only because we are final.
Robert Houghwout Jackson, only person to be Associate Justice of the Supreme Court, Solicitor General and Attorney General. Was Chief US Prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials of Nazi war criminals. Had no law degree.
1974
liber pauperum
"poor people's book", church covered with sculptures vividly illustrating biblical stories, for the vast majority of parishioners who were illiterate.
1975
Find a purpose to serve, not a lifestyle to live.
Criss Jami
1976
You are the canary in my coal mine.
Ali Velshi saying I’ll worry when you worry.
1977
Before you argue with someone, ask yourself, is that person even mentally mature enough to grasp the concept of a different perspective. Because if not, there is absolutely no point.
Helen Mirren
1978
Left of bang
When you are left of bang you are able to identify some of the pre-event indicators that exist before a crime is committed and have done so with enough time to be proactive
1979
You have to kill the beta within before the beta within kills you.
Stephon Clinkscales
1980
I got off on a flight of fancy.
I lost my train of thought and forgot what I was going to say.
1981
My hand to God
I swear to God. I'm telling the truth
1982
Rossini of rhetoric
Description of Winston Churchill
1983
Come on in, the water's fine!
A phrase of encouragement for one to start something.
1984
You're only as young as the last time you changed your mind.
Timothy Leary
1985
résumé vs. eulogy virtues
The résumé virtues are the skills you bring to the marketplace. The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral — whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful.
1986
Whatever you resist becomes the biggest thing in your mind
Sadhguru
1987
Anything weaker than us we exploit.
Sadhguru
1988
lunch à deux
dinner à deux
lunch for two
dinner for two
1989
Once you are in touch with the innermost core of who you are, you live a complete life.
Sadhguru
1990
Courage is not simply one of the virtues but the form of every virtue at the testing point.
C.S. Lewis
1991
liar's dividend
the way in which an environment where it is unclear what is real and what is fake can benefit those who create and spread fakes
1992
learn from the past and fortify souls for the future
saying
1993
move with expedition
phrasing- Adam Schiff
1994
That’s dangerous Kool-Aid
Republicans
1995
Ambition is a dream with a V8 engine.
Elvis Presley
1996
Genocide is a process. The Holocaust did not start with the gas chambers. It started with hate speech.
The United Nations tweeted this on 12/08/2019.
1997
meat puppet
person(s) that have no will of their own; somebody that lets others control them.
Another name for a human being, especially one who doesn't think for herself/has no soul and is therefore controlled by others.
A person that is totaly devoid of brain material; a complete idiot
1998
BDSM
An overlapping abbrevation of Bondage and Discipline (BD), Dominance and Submission (DS), Sadism and Masochism
1999
higher than giraffe pussy
higher than a full tank of gas
higher than dinosaur pussy/coochie
that person is high/drunk
2000
higher than giraffe pussy
saying
2001
The devil finds work for idle hands.
old saying
2002
en sourdine
softly ⧫ quietly; [faire] quietly
2003
cercle vicieux
vicious circle
2004
demi monde
the class of women considered to be of doubtful morality and social standing.
a group of people considered to be on the fringes of respectable society.
"the demimonde of arms deals"
2005
It’s a boyle, but the sickness is beneath the skin
Eddie Glaude
2006
working on a third chin
getting super fat
2007
looks like life has thrown a few punches his way
description of Sylvester Stallone
2008
He has aged a few decades over the last ten years.
description of Arnold Schwartzenegger
2009
broaden out
get fat
2010
No good deed goes unpunished.
Clare Booth Luce
2011
Widowhood is a fringe benefit of marriage
Clare Booth Luce
2012
A hospital is no place to be sick
Clare Booth Luce
2013
Acts vs omissions
What one did versus what one did not do.
2014
Golden nugget
Smoking gun
2015
He will push the bayonet in deeper and deeper as long as he feels soft tissue and won't stop until he feels the resistance of steel.
Russian saying about Vladimir Putin.
2016
whose psychological issues are so many and so complex that Michelangelo couldn’t capture them
Sophie Gilbert (the Atlantic) describing Roman Roy
2017
too soon, said the room
When one jokes about something too soon after a tragedy
2018
Having strong enemies is a blessing.
Nipsey Hussle
2019
I seriously try not to be as petty as the universe is asking me to be.
Tressie McMillan Cottom
2020
That Parisian photographer really hitched my carriage to a star.”
Capucine
2021
Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.
Winston Churchill’s official biographer, Sir Martin Gilbert, speaking of this quote, noted that Churchill actually said, ‘Meeting jaw to jaw is better than war.’ Four years later, during a visit to Australia, Harold Macmillan said the words usually—and wrongly—attributed to Churchill: “Jaw, jaw is better than war, war.” Credit: Harold Macmillan.
2022
At 50, everyone has the face he deserves
George Orwell
2023
coin of the realm
the legal money of a country
something valued or used as if it were money in a particular sphere information is the coin of the realm in the capital—
2024
Nature gives you the face you have at 20. Life shapes the face you have at 30. But at 50 you get the face you deserve.
Coco Chanel
2025
dans le vague
"in the dark"
remaining somewhat vague; undecided;
ambiguously open
2026
statement game
Michigan v. Ohio State, Georgia v. Alabama
2027
Devoting my life to human expression rather than human perfection
Yo-Yo Ma
2028
The right keeps losing the culture and winning the culture wars.
Chris Hayes
2029
genocidaire
people who practice genocide
2030
Apart from our shadows, we have no friends.
Hoelun, the Secret History of the Mongols
2031
tableau vivant
living picture, a still scene with actors, props and scenery.
a silent and motionless group of people arranged to represent a scene or incident.
2032
If I ever get this small again, I promise that I won't fumble it.
Shana W-G
2033
How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
How many angels can stand on the point of a pin?
wasting time debating topics of no practical value, or questions whose answers hold no intellectual consequence, while more urgent concerns accumulate.
The subject of arcane intellectual speculation; used as an example subject of inquiry the pursuit of which is of no value.
2034
Toxic Positivity
The belief that, "if you just stay positive, you will overcome any obstacle," to such a degree that you invalidate natural emotional responses and the person having those feelings.
2035
Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.
Voltaire
2036
Rhetorical cul de sac
The place where that’s all you end up talking about
2037
Culture is the root of politics, and religion is the root of culture.
Richard John Neuhaus
2038
“Think before you speak, buddy. Consequences follow.”
Francis X. Maier
2039
by half
too clever by half
by an excessive amount
Shrewd but flawed by overthinking or excessive complexity, with a resulting tendency to be unreliable or unsuccessful.
2040
"Happiness is never an accident. It is the prize we get when we choose wisely from life's great stores."
John Joseph Dunne, Irene Dunne's father
2041
leave it where it lies
(also let things lie)
leave it lay where Jesus flung it
to take no action about something
leave well enough alone
2042
Cute kids, aren't they?
Out of the Past
2043
Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude.
Anonymous, misattributed to Anne Frank
2044
as inevitable as the tide
Old saying
2045
Walk the plank
Take the blame
2046
He doesn’t want war. He wants the fruits of war.
Winston Churchill, when asked whether Stalin wanted war.
2047
Criminal stronger than the law
About J6
2048
Act under the color of law
Deprive people using the rule of law
2049
In the name of God, go!
to Neville Chamberlain after the failure of his appeasement policy
2050
I have more than a casual affection for democracy
Ali Velshi
2051
sharp relief
throw (something) into sharp relief
1. To cause something to stand out sharply or be vividly visible or noticeable
2052
The stupid are winning the war
Michael Starr Hopkins
2053
Scientific evidence suggests but does not prove…
This shit could be bogus
2054
Fashion always goes out of style, but style never goes out of fashion
Lee Radziwill
2055
The ass is the face of the soul of sex.
Charles Bukowski
2056
See if you can do something with these eyes. I've got bags like Yoda's balls sac.
Jonathan Pie
2057
Let go and let God
saying
2058
bacchanalian sensibility
Justin Fornal aka Baron Ambrosia
2059
Sooner or later, life makes philosophers of us all.
Enjoy the problems from life.
Maurice Riseling,
2060
Try not to seek happiness, encounter it.
Philosophical Joker on Medium
2061
You don't find happiness. You create it.
Katarina Blom, psychologist
2062
Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not.
Epicurus
2063
He who sups with the Devil should have a long spoon.
One should be cautious when dealing with dangerous persons.
2064
le gratin
high society
2065
bel homme
a particularly toothsome man
2066
mal de vivre
despair; desperation; despondency; unhappiness
2067
grande horizontale
grandes horizontales (pl)
a high-status prostitute. call girl, camp follower, harlot, prostitute, scarlet woman, streetwalker, strumpet, tart, whore, courtesan
2068
tragedy magnet
term
2069
That's too coincidental to be a coincidencw
Saying
2070
'The nice thing about Miami is the moment you stop working, you're on vacation.' "
Quote from Vanity Fair
2071
summa contra everything
one against everything
2072
The ton
Ward McAllister's term for the "cream of society"
2073
aloe on the sunburn
Make a bad situation a little better
2074
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
Carl Sagan
2075
The people who inspire and attract us are the ones who know how to inspire themselves.
Bronwyn
2076
Relief is not the same as pleasure. As joy. While the things that bring us relief are never more than an arm’s distance away, the things that bring us pleasure are often intimidating, scary, and require more.
Bronwyn Saglimbeni, Communications coach
2077
Churchillian speech that gave us more Church than Chill
David Axelrod
2078
Tomorrow always comes
Old saying
2079
Don’t you ever lie to me to protect my feelings.
Young Thug
2080
“At your absolute best, you still won’t be good enough for the wrong person, at your worst, you’ll still be worth it to the right person.”
Saying
2081
Caesar Solution
Assasinating a political leader
2082
In the long run, we only hit what we aim at.
Henry David Thoreau
2083
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
proverb If one is involved with a famous or prominent figure, one must avoid attracting negative attention or scrutiny. Julius Caesar allegedly used the phrase to explain why he divorced his wife, Pompeia.
2084
Which percentage of reality is it?
How true is it?
2085
Nothing is forever in this world, not even our problems.
Charlie Chaplin
2086
Caesar's wife must be above suspicion.
proverb If one is involved with a famous or prominent figure, one must avoid attracting negative attention or scrutiny. Julius Caesar allegedly used the phrase to explain why he divorced his wife, Pompeia.
2087
In the end, someone is depending on me to show up on their set looking a specific way,”
Matt Bomer
2088
The most lost day in life is the day we don't laugh.
Charlie Chaplin
2089
Six best doctors in the world:
1. The sun,
2. Rest,
3. Exercise,
4. Diet,
5. Self-respect
6. Friends.
Charlie Chaplin
2090
The most lost day in life is the day we don't laugh.
Charlie Chaplin
2091
Name verges on Dickensian parody
Review of The Gilded Age
2092
If past is prologue
Experience tells us that…
2093
Britain had “lost an empire but not yet found a role,”
Dean Acheson in 1962
2094
And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.
F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby
Jordan Baker
2095
The cat was out the bag and running down the street
Eileen Davidson
2096
Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
2097
Find the thing you do well and do it again and again for the rest of your life.
Jóhann Jóhannsson
2098
Art is about finding creativity in the gutter next to you.
Olafur Eliasson, Danish sculptor
2099
Never enter into a negotiation you’re not willing to walk away from.
Shonda Rhimes
2100
The effort to astroturf the insurrection was ultimately unsuccessful.
astroturfing something means to put something fake over it to change the perception of it
2101
Open a vein
to proactively and unprovoked tell an uncomfortable, honest truth about oneself or one's opinions.
2102
expositionally announces that...
In a story when dialogue serves only as exposition
2103
Our doubts are traitors, and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to attempt.
William Shakespeare
2104
weapons-grade nostalgia
nostalgia to an extremely high degree
2105
The greatest obstacle to living is expectancy, which hangs upon tomorrow and loses today… The whole future lies in uncertainty: live immediately.
Sencea
2106
If past is prologue
Experience tells us that…
2107
No point other than pique
Sound and fury signifying nothing
2108
There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that ‘my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.
Isaac Asimov
2109
Rita's dress was held up by confidence and nothing else!
Someone's grandmother describing Rita Hayworth's dress in "Gilda"
2110
One day, if you have a little bit of talent and a lot of hard work, you're going to find out who you are.
Massimo Bottura, an Italian restaurateur and the chef patron of Osteria Francescana, a three-Michelin-star restaurant based in Modena, Italy.
2111
You can't learn style. Style, I think, is in your DNA.
Iris Apfel
2112
one sandwich short of a picnic
crazy
2113
offense, but...
Opposite of no offense. Deliberately meant to insult
2114
Il faut cultiver notre jardin
(One Must Cultivate One's Own Garden)
meaning we must tend to our own affairs
The world is nothing in itself. Your mind must give it meaning. And what you behold upon it are your wishes. There is no world apart from what you wish.
And what we hold in our minds translates into what we experience in the world. The world is nothing more than the result of a choice in our minds.
Voltaire
2115
felix culpa
an apparent error or disaster with happy consequences.
the sin of Adam viewed as fortunate, because it brought about the blessedness of the Redemption.
2116
vita activa
active life
(labor, work, and action)
vita activa (active life) by distinguishing it from vita contemplativa (contemplative life).
2117
vita contemplativa
contemplative life
2118
A party with a cult-of-personality problem is like a person with a substance abuse problem, meaning they’re going to ride the addiction to rock bottom.
Bret Stephens, NYTimes Opinion columnist
2119
laboring oar
(Carry/pull) the laboring oar
a part or task requiring greater effort than others
the oar which requires most strength and exertion; often used figuratively; as, to have, or pull,
the laboring oar in some difficult undertaking.
2120
This girl is jolie laide. In America, we are only good at jolie
Kristen Richardson, The Season- A Social History of the Debutante
2121
Stole his own glory
Comment about Will Smith
2122
hurt people hurt people
Andrew Fuller, a Tik Tok personality
2123
Behavior is language.
Andrew Fuller, a Tik Tok personality
2124
Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places.
Camille Pissaro
2125
beer muscles
exaggerated bravado
2126
Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large groups
George Carlin
2127
People rarely leave your presence neutral. They either leave engaged or depleted.
Brady Wilson, Co-founder of Juice, Inc. during a TedXMississauga
2128
autobiographical fix
putting your solution before what the other person needs
2129
How you do anything is how you do everything
Lomi Compo, TedX
2130
dancing on adjectives
parsing words
2131
unprepared for the unprecedented
Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) describing its lack of response to the Will Smith assault
2132
dissect the entirety of his statement
Tim Alberta about Trump lies
2133
I don't care who does the electing as long as I get to do the nominating.
William "Boss" Tweed
2134
unclubbable
social outcast
2135
In order for you to insult me, I would have to first value your opinion...
Werley Nortreus, Haitian philosopher
2136
render visible (to make visible) is Proust’s succinct definition of what an original artist does.
literally: to make visible
Proust’s succinct definition of what an original artist does.
2137
As in all cases where imagination is corrected by experience, imagination is killed.
Saying
2138
We tell ourselves stories in order to live.
Joan Didion
2139
We are always the same age on the inside.
Gertrude Stein
2140
narrow the divide between what people project and what they protect.
saying
2141
Is the juice worth the squeeze?
Too little juice for too much squeeze.
Cost/benefit analysis
Is it worth the trouble?
2142
If you don't trust the pilot, don't go.
Denzel Washington
2143
If you don't work out the things that you need to work out first with the world, you'll be working it out with the world.
Janelle Monae
2144
A lot of people are burning the midnight oil on this question.
Lots of smart minds are focused on this.
2145
Everybody is a product of their history.
Saying
2146
coalition of the willing
the US-led Multi-National Force – Iraq, the military command during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and much of the ensuing Iraq War.
2147
nostalgia misplaced
Julie Mason
2148
Jacques Sixpack
French Joe Sixpack
2149
Make your mess your message.
Robin Roberts’s mother
2150
Everyone is a limited edition
Robin Roberts
2151
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
2152
Scylla and Charbydis regrets of the one that got away and the stone left unturned
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
2153
Catch-22
a problematic situation for which the only solution is denied by a circumstance inherent in the problem or by a rule; also : the circumstance or rule that denies a solution.
2154
What you put in your body always shows up on the outside.
Fitness trainer Chris Hansen's father
2155
tools demonic
devil's toolbox
Brian Cox describing Logan Roy's schemes
2156
Ponder for a long time whether you shall admit a given person to your friendship, but when you have decided to admit him, welcome him with all your heart and soul.
Seneca
2157
a lot of thunder, but no lightning
Lots of noise, but nothing substantive
2158
We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.
Adrienne Rich
2159
All friendships of any length are based on a continued, mutual forgiveness.
David Whyte, poet and philosopher
2160
Friendship is unnecessary like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself… it has no survival value; rather it is one of those things which give value to survival.
C.S. Lewis
2161
If you consider any man a friend whom you do not trust as you trust yourself, you are mightily mistaken and you do not sufficiently understand what true friendship means.
Seneca
2162
One who seeks friendship for favorable occasions, strips it of all its nobility.
Seneca
2163
How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm.
Seneca
2164
The willingness to accept responsibility for one's own life is the source from which self-respect springs.
Joan Didion
2165
Men are only as faithful as their options.
Chris Rock
2166
When we ask for advice, what we are usually looking for is an accomplice.
Saul Bellow
2167
Is that a good summary sentence?
Did I sum that up appropriately?
2168
Disappointment is the difference between expectations and reality.
Pastor John C Maxwell
2169
Malthusian Theory
The theory of exponential population and arithmetic food supply growth. The theory was proposed by Thomas Robert Malthus. He believed that a balance between population growth and food supply can be established through preventive and positive checks.
2170
What shows up when you show up ( do you make things better or worse)
Antonio Neves
2171
mise en scène
the arrangement of scenery and stage properties in a play.
the setting or surroundings of an event or action.
2172
It's only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Margaret Bonnano, American science fiction writer, ghost writer and small press publisher.
2173
Beauty is looks you can never forget. A face should jolt, not soothe.
John Waters
2174
To be universally liked is to be relatively ignored.
Dataclysm
2175
mal du Suisse
nostalgia; homesickness; "Swedish illness)
2176
The jokes write themselves
Saying
2177
I am duty-bound to mention
Saying
2178
I am a glutton for …
Saying
2179
Flakier than piecrust.
Saying
2180
The hardest part of anything is making a dish consistently great - you order it seven years later, if it's still on the menu, and it's still as good as what you remember.
Mario Batali
2181
My last meal? The food would be much less significant than the company.
Mario Batali
2182
an addiction to the drug of feeling desired
Emily Flake, a writer, cartoonist, performer and illustrator in an article about middle aged invisibility
2183
net negative experience
self explanatory
2184
Safe as brandy
Gay
2185
Minimum daily requirement of
a reasonable amount of
2186
My give a s**t (crap) is broken
Julie Mason
2187
Nobody can make you happy until you’re happy with yourself first.
Saying
2188
quod erat demonstrandum
Q.E.D.
meaning "which was to be demonstrated". Literally it states "what was to be shown".[1] Traditionally, the abbreviation is placed at the end of mathematical proofs and philosophical arguments in print publications, to indicate that the proof or the argument is complete.
used to convey that a fact or situation demonstrates the truth of one's theory or claim, especially to mark the conclusion of a formal proof.
2189
Tragedy of the Commons
Rush to the bottom
a problem that occurs when individuals exploit a shared resource to the extent that demand overwhelms supply and the resource becomes unavailable to some or all.
2190
beauty without intelligence is a masterpiece painted on a napkin
saying
2191
The war is not over until all the battles have been decided.
saying
2192
If I can feel all this there must be something good in the universe.
Ezra Pound
2193
The hardest things for human being to do is to know themselves and to change themselves.
Alfred Adler
2194
Is she in cooperation with your operation?
Rom Wills
2195
My favorite old man trainer Art Devany says ‘age is just a build-up of damage.' I think it can be a building up of all the positive physical stuff as well.
Tim Walker, trainer at UK's Evolve Fitness gym
2196
What can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.
Hitchens's razor
2197
Let go and let God
Acknowledging God to direct our paths, letting go of lingering doubts, and submitting our lives to God alone. When God is in control of our lives, our lives become whole.
2198
rogues' gallery (or rogues gallery)
a police collection of mug shots or other images of criminal suspects kept for identification purposes
2199
“If you still refuse to believe facts stacked Himalayan high before your eyes and insist the independent group hired to conduct the investigation is part of a (liberal!) human conspiracy or demonic attack, you’re not just deceived. You are part of the deception.”
Beth Moore, famed evangelist
2200
Rasputin in a slim fitting suit
Stephanie Grisham's description of Jared Kushner
2201
in between blessings
broke
2202
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Leonardo da Vinci
2203
If you hit a wrong note, it's the next note that you play that determines
if it's good or bad.
Miles Davis
2204
Have you met yourself?
Brandon from Ecco
2205
Only you can handle you
Guest at Ecco
2206
"I'm just going down like a ship. All my sails are up but I'm just sinking.
Elsie Woodward
2207
Shaken by the lapels
Saying
2208
If you can't walk around with your shirt off and get some attention then you got some work to do.
Shophar, Rom Willis's mentee
2209
I can’t promise to solve all your problems but I can promise that you won’t have to face them alone.
Unknown
2210
Chilling chilling, what's Gucci?
I'm doing fine. How are you? (response to "How are you"'
2211
Never be a prisoner of your past. It was just a lesson, not a life sentence.
Unknown
2212
kicking the outrage into full gear
Julie Mason
2213
All good with the wood
Knows how to fuck
2214
You get the extended benefit of the doubt if you are the benefit of the doubt.
Amir Salmon
If you show people grace, you are more likely to receive grace from others.
2215
The food is terrible and in such small portions
People’s view of government
2216
nascitur non fit
born not made
2217
true up
To make something true, equal, or correct.
reconciling or matching two and more than two accounts' balances. Further breaking down of the definition explains that the reconciliation or matching is done by making adjustments in accounts
2218
A $5 idea and a $5M idea should be the same idea.
Composer of Holy Wars
2219
The American press could never agree on the Duke’s salient characteristics, which effectively implied that he had none.
Anderson Cooper
2220
chest thumping
thumping her pigeon breast
conduct or expression marked by pompous or arrogant self-assertion
2221
lethally incisive
brutally honest, accurate, analytical
2222
This is plowed ground.
This is known information.
We already knew about this.
2223
The same people who thought Obama was a Muslim, think that Trump is a Christian.
John Collins, a law professor, educator
@Logically_JC
2224
If your will can be bought, you won’t get what you want.
Tom Bilyeu
2225
Unless you try something beyond what you’ve already mastered, you will never grow.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
2226
I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough. We must apply. Be willing is not enough. We must do.
Leonardo da Vinci
2227
You can’t cross the sea by merely standing and staring at the water.
Ravendraugjnaught
2228
The only thing you should demand of yourself is courage
Tom Bilyeu
2229
You cannot throw yourself a surprise party
You will not ever be surprised by the outcome of a plan you were a part of.
2230
pure as the virgin snow
innocent as the virgin snow
sayings
2231
fool's errand
a task or activity that has no hope of success.
2232
Dobbs gives George and Republicans like him occasion to reopen their nostrils to more conventionally appealing scents
Explanation of why Republicans who held their noses to vote for Trump because of the Supreme Court might be willing to abandon him now that Dobbs has been decided and Roe has been overturned.
2233
We can’t stand not to have somebody that we care about be us. It really takes effort to think, “This is a separate person.”
Jeanne Safer, a psychoanalyst and the author of the 2019 book I Love You, But I Hate Your Politics: How to Protect Your Intimate Relationships in a Poisonous, Partisan World. She is also a therapist who has been in private practice for over 45 years.
2234
taking the pH of the water
Taking the temperature of the water
figuring out what the environment is like
2235
the last button on Gabriel's coat
the youngest (hence last) member of a family
The saying comes from the Archangel Gabriel removing a button from his coat for each family member and the youngest was the last button.
2236
You have to surmount that bar.
Barbara McQuade
2237
One more feather in your cap to glory.
Mom describing a trial that God will ultimately reward you for.
2238
To have courage for whatever comes in life- everything lies in that.
Teresa of Avila
2239
nolens volens
Whether willing or unwilling.
Willing or unwilling; willy-nilly.
2240
Semicolons only prove that the author has been to college.
E.B. White
2241
I have yet to see a piece of writing, political or non-political, that does not have a slant. All writing slants the way a writer leans, and no man is born perpendicular.
E.B. White
2242
But real life is only one kind of life — there is also the life of the imagination.
E.B. White
2243
The first thing you should know about me is that I'm not you. A lot more will make sense after that.
Saying from Inspirational Quotes
2244
He looked like a dish of ice cream. So cute you want to eat him up.
Marsha, Mildred's daughter
2245
There are people in the world with larcenous hearts.
Marsha, Mildred's daughter
2246
We're all in the same leaky boat
Marsha, Mildred's daughter
2247
"On set I developed a ‘better than’ issue. Then when I was by myself, I had a ‘less than’ issue."
Seth Gamble
2248
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself.
Paulo Coelho
2249
Set wide the window. Let me drink the day.
Edith Wharton
2250
Necessity first mothered invention. Now invention has little ones of her own, and they look just like grandma.
E.B. White
2251
Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.
James Baldwin
2252
Just cause the lord blessed you with a dang-a-lang don't mean you the head of anythang.
Saying
2253
Some of y'all need church.
You need Jesus.
Black saying
2254
Talking left and right and out of your neck.
Angrily responding to somethng you don't now.
2255
You cannot grow if your feelings are in the way.
YouTuber Tony Gaskins
2256
shrimp cocktail
small dick
2257
God did not give us the ability to see ourselves as others see us.
Tony Gaskins
2258
We’re living in the back of the Bible right now and heading straight to the Apocalypse.
Jason Ghezzi
2259
‘Invertebrate' Josh Hawley
What an invertebrate that man is!
Spineless Josh Hawley
2260
That’s the pregnant question.
That’s the (salient, most important, significant) question.
2261
the respectable right
Mainstream Republicans
2262
Stop calling your woman your rib, but then treating her like your pinky toe (or your heel).
Tony Gaskins
2263
looks challenged
ugly (Tony Gaskins said this)
2264
There's nothing you can do with a woman I can't do. We're both men.
An ugly guy said this to Tony Gaskins
2265
If you base your life on an exception to the rule, you will end up more often hurt than happy.
Tony Gaskins
2266
You can't have a message unless you have a mess.
Tony Gaskins
2267
I have holes in my socks.
You can't see my problems.
2268
Do you want to be right or do you want to be happy?
Saying
2269
Chew the meat. Spit out the bones.
People are imperfect. Learn from the best of what they have to offer. Learn to forgive their transgressions.
2270
The messenger is the message
Saying
2271
Don't mix the sacred with the profane
Saying
2272
You must find peace in singleness in order to find peace in love.
Tony Gaskins
2273
3 Bs that your focus will elevate you a higher level of self-love- Brain, Brand, Body
Tony Gaskins
2274
6-6-6-6
6 feet., 6 pack, 6 inches, 6 figures
Tony Gaskins
2275
Let a person's character be their currency. A lot of broke people are rich and a lot of rich people are broke.
Tony Gaskins
2276
No amount of money can buy character, but character can make you a lot of money.
Tony Gaskins
2277
Chasing a fantasy vs. chasing a dream
A fantasy is rooted in pleasure while a dream is rooted in purpose
2278
The man you're in submission to has to have a mission. If he doesn't have a mission, you should not be in submission to him.
Tony Gaskins
2279
Everyone within the sound of my voice.
Tony Gaskins
2280
You can measure the maturity level of a man by the degree to which he is able to treat a woman he is not attracted to with decency and respect.
YouTube
2281
Car ain't got no roof.
Men's hair loss on top of head.
2282
The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.
Amelia Earhart
2283
Anything plus white equals privilege
Damona Hoffman, an online dating coach and a black woman who is married to a white man
2284
I give face to the faceless.
Michael Jai White talking about standing up for the defenseless.
2285
The child that is not embraced by the village will burn it down to feel its warmth.
African proverb
2286
I’m not a morning person. I’m a middle person
Julianne Moore
2287
a real person vs. a literary construct
debate about whether Homer or other ancient authors ever really existed
2288
How do you shame the shameless?
Jon Stewart about U.S. Senate Republicans
2290
Littlefinger looks at you and sees a collection of profitable holes.
Varys to Ros in Game of Thrones
2291
Think Positive To Make Things Positive
A Pinterest and Tumblr board
2292
the math isn't mathing
when something just doesn't add up.
2293
dirty bird
A sexual act between three men and one woman. the woman is giving a blow job and two hand jobs at the same time, thus having the appearance of a bird, a very dirty bird.
2294
mari complaisant
complaisant husband : cuckold who accepts his wife's infidelity.
man who laid down his wife for his country
2295
coup de foudre
a sudden unforeseen event, in particular an instance of love at first sight.
2296
amour propre
a sense of one's own worth; self-respect.
amour de soi is directed at self-preservation, whereas amour-propre is concerned with judgments of merit and honour, with how highly one is 'regarded'.
2297
amour de soi
self preservation
the kind of self-love that humans share with brute animals and predates the appearance of society
one's feelings for onself alone, without any intervening concerns about one is seen by others.
2298
hors de combat
out of action due to injury or damage.
2299
Some people will never like you because your spirit irritates their demons.
Denzel Washington
2300
The mask fell off
When people show you who they really are
2301
I don’t know what the import is.
It ultimately doesn’t matter. Josh Gerstein
2302
Don’t take anything personally. Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.
Don Miguel Ruiz
2303
I love America more than any other country in the world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually.
James A. Baldwin
2304
mais oui
(may wee)
but yes
yes indeed!
2305
You can only give away what you have inside. Become an instrument of love.
Wayne Dyer
2306
Go and love someone exactly as they are. And then watch how quickly they transform into the greatest, truest version of themselves. When one feels seen and appreciated in their own essence, one is instantly empowered.
Wes Angelozzi
2307
TINA
there is no alternative
2308
Genius is nothing more nor less than childhood recovered at will.
Charles Baudelaire
2309
ditch the moo
give up dairy
2310
Get up quickly-just switch on the white light of the will.
Susan Sontag
2311
unreliable narrator
A narrating character or storyteller in a literary or other artistic work—such as a novel, play, song, or film—who provides inaccurate, misleading, conflicting, or otherwise questionable information to the reader or audience.
2312
To rank the effort above the prize may be called love.
Confucius
2313
A vial of escapism is a necessary element in life: “They cannot subsist on the scanty satisfaction they can extort from reality.”
Sigmund Freud
2314
The need to escape from the limits of our bodies, physical spaces, families, societies, culture and, hell, the solar… For some, escaping altogether will be the only solution.
Ravi Amaratunga Hitchcock
2315
Even a beautiful scenery, even a beautiful flower is meaningless when you see it alone...
Misao's Song, Magical Project S
2316
C-19
Covid-19
2317
I'll drink her bathwater
Got milk (a woman with big breasts)
I am simping
Simping ain't easy
If it's in your world, it's not far-fetched
Men date who's in front of them. Women make up a fantasy person. Carlos Miller
That Dude Named Dave (TDND, YouTuber)
2318
Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.
Simone Weil
2319
Different criteria are in play.
Wendy Soneson
2320
Failure is the most information-rich data stream on earth.
Tom Bilyeu
2321
Does he like hole and pole?
Is he gay or straight?
2322
Milk. Bagged salad. Giving Donald Trump the benefit of the doubt. These are all things which don’t tend to age particularly well.
Arca Mahdawi
The Guardian
2323
You become what you repeat.
Tom Bilyeu
2324
Neurons that fire together wire together
Tom Bilyeu
2325
That’s not the thread for me to pull on.
That’s not the thing that motivates me.
2326
Your brain will justify whatever you tell it.
Tom Bilyeu
2327
The amplitude of desire
How I feel about myself
2328
Boos don’t block dunks
Kobe Bryant
2329
To be famous for the wrong thing is a terrible fate.
Salman Rushdie
2330
My strong surmise is…
My strong belief is…
2331
Someone will always be prettier.
Someone will always be smarter.
Someone will always be younger.
But they will never be you.
Keanu Reeves
2332
History is not the soil in which happiness grows. The periods of happiness in it are the blank pages of history.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
2333
I don't care how much you like me. Last I checked the road to heaven wasn't paved through your yard.
Keanu Reeves
2334
You must want to spend the rest of your life with yourself first.
Rupi Kaur
2335
I don't have to explain myself. My frequency is very common and is open to anybody to tune in.
RuPaul
2336
I have to die. If it is now, well then I die now; if later, then now I will take my lunch, since the hour for lunch has arrived - and dying I will tend to later.
Epictetus
2337
Let the barber bless you.
Rom Wills
(Go to the barber to achieve your best look)
2338
dedicated to form over feeling
cared more about things appeared than emotion (Nana)
2339
cavaliere servente
A man who displays devotion to a married lady.
2340
back number (British)
an issue of a periodical earlier than the current one.
a person or thing seen as old-fashioned.
2341
eye-watering
eye-watering expense
1. extremely surprising, because of being great in amount:
2. causing tears to form in your eyes
2342
culturati
People interested in culture and cultural activities.
2343
fleshpots
places providing luxurious or hedonistic living.
2344
There is a reason why Profiles in Courage is a slim volume.
John F. Kennedy
2345
I believe that one defines oneself by reinvention. To be yourself. To cut yourself out of stone.
Henry Rollins
2346
If past is prologue
everything that has taken place in the past is a preparation for the opportunities to come.
2347
You can start late, look different, be uncertain, and still succeed.
Misty Copeland
2348
un homme ordinaire
an ordinary man
2349
International diplomacy rarely offers encounters with angels.
Tina Brown, The Palace Papers
2350
Jack the Lad
An irresponsible young man, seeking personal pleasure without regard to responsibilities. A rogue.
2351
Embarrassment is a choice that an individual makes. It's not the fault of the other person.
Wendy Riche, Tom Markle's boss as executive producer of General Hospital
2352
America and Britain are two nations separated by a common language.
George Bernard Shaw
2353
Taking a sledgehammer to crack a nut
overkill
2354
For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about the sea.
Enoch Powell, Tory MP
2355
Some recollections may vary
Polite way of saying, "You're lying."
2356
A-Game or no No Game
Vice Polemarch Clark
2357
When you have two quarterbacks, you have no quarterback.
Old saying
2358
I’m not one of God’s strongest soldiers
KPG
2359
If you think it's necessary to judge me by my past, don't get mad when I put you there.
William "Butch" Brooks
2360
turnt up
1. A state of euphoria brought about by having an extremely good time
2. the act of dancing excitedly to popular music
3. an energetic feeling brought on by upbeat music, highly felt emotions, or positive events
2361
To say I was devastated is to pick a word on a low shelf for convenience.
Gabrielle Union after discovering that Dwayne Wade had fathered a child with someone else.
2362
The other members of the royal family are scaffolding that holds up the monarch.
Tina Brown
2363
QED
quod erat demonstrandum
Which was to be demonstrated
may appear at the conclusion of a text to signify that the author's overall argument has just been proven.
means you've proven something. It's pretentious to use it when you're not discussing a proof, and embarrassing to use it you're just ranting and not even remotely proving anything.
2364
Dad's wisdom: You cannot be wrong toward another person and be right with God.
Kathy Colbenson’s Daf
2365
Success always demands a greater effort.
Winston Churchill
2366
ex libris
used as an inscription on a bookplate to show the name of the book's owner.
a bookplate inscribed to show the name of the book's owner.
2367
In the dark, all cats are grey.
Benjamin Franklin once tried to convince his son to find an older mistress with that astute reasoning.
2368
Preparation reduces risk because it enables you to deal with situations as they arise. If you are prepared, then you know you have the answer, and you can rely on their training. There is then less to fear as you know you can cope.
Robert Herbst, world champion powerlifter
2369
the bargain
if I want to work at home, I'll allow you to monitor me
2370
If you don't show up for yourself, no one else is going to want to show up with you.
Courtney Ryan, YouTube dating coach
2371
You can’t message your way out of reality
Saying
2372
The proof of principle is there
Sanjay Gupta
2373
gruntled mollified
Look up
2374
exculpatory vs. inculpatory
tending or serving to clear from alleged fault or guilt.
vs.
implying or imputing guilt : tending to incriminate or inculpate an inculpatory statement.
2375
Not a good data point
MSNBC
2376
Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves.
Etty Hillesum, Dutch author of confessional letters and diaries which describe both her religious awakening and the persecutions of Jewish people in Amsterdam during the German occupation. In 1943, she was deported and murdered in Auschwitz concentration camp
2377
mariage blanc
unconsummated marriage
2378
lavender marriage
a union between a gay man and a lesbian
2379
low hanging implication of...
saying
2380
Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle.
Fred Rogers
2381
escutcheon
(also escutcheon plate)
A flat piece of metal for protection and often ornamentation, around a keyhole, door handle, or light switch.
2382
“Friendship” is a loose and capacious category
Kwame Anthony Appiah, The Ethicist, The New York Times
2383
a priori vs. a posteriori
“A priori” and “a posteriori” refer primarily to how, or on what basis, a proposition might be known. In general terms, a proposition is knowable a priori if it is knowable independently of experience, while a proposition knowable a posteriori is knowable on the basis of experience.
2384
powerball election
odds are low
2385
to iris in on something
To focus in on something
2386
There is no learning in the second kick of smile.
Saying
2387
Did not advocate it, but validated it
Saying
2388
I cannot imagine anything more terrifying than looking across the net and seeing her on the other side.
Woman at Oceanaire about Serena Williams
2389
Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: "I'm with you kid. Let's go.
Maya Angelou
2390
dead to rights
INFORMAL
in the act of doing something wrong; red-handed.
2391
That's an accurate presentation of the stakes.
Perry Bacon, Jr.
2392
Everybody wants to be famous, but nobody wants to do the work.
Saying
2393
Speak to and speak through (a person)
Dr. Walter Kimbrough at Dwayne Howard’s funeral
2394
Taking longer doesn’t make it better. Your words need not be everlasting
Rafael Warnock (at Dwayne Heard's funeral)
2395
preportunity
Where preparation meets opportunity (Dwayne Heard)
2396
A focused mind with attention/retention is unstoppable.
Calvin Vismale (at Dwayne Heard's funeral)
2397
Unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality
Martín Luther King, Jr.
2398
So many have showed up for him because he showed up for so many.
Rafael Warnock
2399
Showed up at the table of kinship and friendship
Rafael Warnock
2400
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
2401
Affirmation news
News that confirms your existing biases
2402
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
Dolly Parton
2403
I’m not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.
Jon Stewart
2404
See you next Tuesday
CUNT
2405
You can't live a perfect day without doing something for someone who will never be able to repay you.
John Wooden
2406
Make yourself so happy so that when others look at you they become happy, too.
Yogi Bhajan
2407
I don't care who you are, what you look like or how you choose to live your life, if you are good to me, I will be good to you.
tumblr
2408
The number of "followers" does not make you better than anyone else. Hitler had millions. Jesus had 12.
Mark Hart
2409
Throw sand in the gears
Deliberately and fraudulently manipulate the process
Trying to fuck things up
2410
Those words ring evergreen.
The words are as true now as they were when they were first said.
2411
flying too close to the sun
overly ambitious
a reference to Icarus's recklessness and defiance of limitations
2412
Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.
John Wooden
2413
If you don’t like something, change it. If you can’t change it, change your attitude.
Maya Angelou
2414
Robbing a store that is too small
Bryan Amaral
2415
A change of mind, a change of spirit, and a change of actions can create a new you.
Sister Souljah, The Coldest Winter Ever
2416
People will provoke you until they bring out your ugly side and then play victim when you go there.
Keanu Reeves
2417
Pursue that narrative
Joyce Carol Oates
2418
An unsolved mystery is like a thorn in the heart
Joyce Carol Oates
2419
"It was pointed out this week that she never went out of fashion because she was never in it.
Jeremy Clarkson, racist British journalist about Queen Elizabeth II
2420
Not the sharpest pencil in the box
Not the sharpest tool in the shed
Not the brightest crayon in the box
Not the sharpest knife in the drawer
Not the brightest bulb in the chandelier
Not the brightest candle
Not the brightest light on the street
A few fries short of a Happy Meal
A sandwich short of a picnic
dumb
To be rather unintelligent, dim-witted, or prone to stupidity.
not the smartest person in the world
none-too intelligent
2421
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
Oscar Wilde
2422
differences of degree rather than kind
saying
2423
This isn’t my ministry
Not what I’m called to do
Not what I was born to do
2424
Find, Refine, Respect, Protect
Dianne Reeves
2425
You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future.
You have to trust in something—your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.
Steve Jobs
2426
A few eggs short of a dozen
Tray is not in its fully upright and locked position
Not playing with a full deck of cards
Alle tassen stehen nicht im Schank. (All the cups are in the cupboard)
crazy
2427
The stars lined up just right just once.
Kevin Whitehead, music critic
2428
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes.
Written by satirist Jonathan Swift in 1710
2429
It is a beautiful truth that all men contain something of the artist in them.
Walt Whitman
2430
An open enemy is better than a false friend.
Saying
2431
I'm only responsible for what I SAY, not for what YOU understand
Saying
2432
There are those in the party that think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
Nancy Pelosi
2433
Hang out with people who fit your future, not your past
Saying
2434
Trust me when I say that even my good days are harder than you could ever imagine.
Narin Grewal, a woman who writes about grief
2435
You are not required to set yourself on fire to keep other people warm.
Saying on tumblr
2436
Does a bear shit in the woods?
Yes and you shouldn't have needed to ask this question.
2437
Courage is more exhilarating than fear and in the long run it is easier.
Eleanor Roosevelt
2438
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Eckhart Tolle, a German-born spiritual teacher and self-help author
2439
au pif
“winging it,” as we say in English when you cook something by instinct
2440
Bad people can’t be recognized on sight. There’s no point in trying.
Decisions are made by those who show up.
No, “however.” Just be wrong. Just stand there in your wrongness and be wrong and get used to it.
The world can move or not by changing some words.
I’m the President of the United States, not the president of the people who agree with me.
I'm not going anywhere, I'm standing up, which is how one speaks in opposition in a civilized world.
Every time we think we’ve measured our capacity to reach a challenge, we look up and we’re reminded that capacity may well be limitless.
Aaron Sorkin- Various Characters, West Wing
2441
All men, brother Gallio, wish to live happily,
The Roman philosopher and statesman Lucius Annaeus Seneca
2442
I will look upon death or upon a comedy with the same expression of countenance.
Seneca
2443
I will submit to labors, however great they may be, supporting the strength of my body by that of my mind.
Seneca
2444
I will despise riches when I have them as much as when I have them not; if they be elsewhere I will not be more gloomy; if they sparkle around me I will not be more lively than I should otherwise be: Whether Fortune comes or goes I will take no notice of her.
Seneca
2445
I will view all lands as though they belong to me, and my own as though they belonged to all mankind.
Seneca
2446
I will so live as to remember that I was born for others, and will thank Nature on this account: for in what fashion could she have done better for me? She has given me alone to all, and all to me alone.
Seneca
2447
Whatever I may possess, I will neither hoard it greedily nor squander it recklessly.
Seneca
2448
I will do nothing because of public opinion, but everything because of conscience: Whenever I do anything alone by myself I will believe that the eyes of the Roman people are upon me while I do it.
Seneca
2449
I will be agreeable with my friends, gentle and mild to my foes: I will grant pardon before I am asked for it, and will meet the wishes of honorable men halfway.
Seneca
2450
salad days
the period when one is young and inexperienced.
the peak or heyday of something.
a Shakespearean idiomatic expression that means a youthful time, a period of carefree innocence, idealism and pleasure associated with youth. The modern use, especially in the United States, refers to a heyday, a period when somebody was at the peak of their abilities, not necessarily in their youth.
2451
Keep calm. Carry on.
Queen Elizabeth's motto
2452
Will this be the moment that ends the inheritance?
Tony Blair discussing when the Queen hesitated to come down to Buckingham Palace after Diana's death
2453
The point is not to pay back kindness but to pass it on.
Julia Alvarez
2454
It is well to fly towards the light, even where there may be some fluttering and bruising of wings.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
2455
Don't walk a Camino before your Camino.
Don't train super hard everyday in preparation for something that you need to really experience to understand.
2456
Footsteps in the concrete.
Footsteps made in concrete.
The facts are so obvious, so transparent, that it is easy to track.
2457
Neither blame or praise yourself.
Plutarch
2458
To fight unhappiness one must first expose it.
Simone de Beauvoir
2459
If you do nothing unexpected, nothing unexpected happens.
Fay Weldon
2460
femme du monde
woman of the world
2461
in high dudgeon
resentfully or furiously
If you do something in high dudgeon, you do it angrily, usually because of the way you have been treated:
2462
If a person has never done anything that offends anyone, or that nowadays in society you have to apologize for them, they are not being authentic.
Mary Louise Parker discussing Whoopi Goldberg
2463
Abandoning herself would cause an almost physical pain for somebody like Goldberg. The two are not compatible.
Mary Louise Parker discussing Whoopi Goldberg
2464
rough to the touch
rough to touch
use too much force and not enough care or gentleness.
2465
You can't lead the people if vou don't love the people.
You can't save the people, if you don't serve the people.
Cornel West
2466
Our ultimate freedom is the right and power to decide how anybody or anything outside ourselves will affect us
Steven Covey
2467
The Lion does not concern himself with the opinions of the sheep.
Tywin Lannister, Game of Thrones
2468
Given that he has so many demons and skeletons in his closet — he’s like a one-man haunted house.
Jonah Goldberg about Herschel Walker
2469
pounding the rubble
beating a dead horse
exhausting a topic beyond what is necessary
2470
Being nice to the arrogant is no better than being arrogant to the nice.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2471
No one can be responsible for where or how we each begin. No one has the freedom to do anything or everything, and all choices bring consequences. What we choose to do next, though, how to spend our resources or attention or effort, this is what defines us.
Seth Godin
2472
We upped sticks and moved the family to a house I found in County Cork
Angela Lansbury
2473
babes in the woods
Spring chickens
Newbies
Young, inexperienced
2474
gone full chiquita
bananas, crazy
2475
sustine et abstine
Bear and forbear
2476
mens sana in corpore sano
sound mind in a strong body
2477
The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction.
Dr. Samuel Johnson
2478
Nature, in order to be commanded, must be obeyed.
Francis Bacon
2479
amor fati
love of fate
love of one’s fate
an attitude in which one sees everything that happens in one's life, including suffering and loss, as good or, at the very least, necessary
2480
Gentleman, I am hardening on this enterprise. I repeat, I am now hardening towards this enterprise.
Winston Churchill about the Invasion of Normandy- I was skeptical, but have come to believe strongly that this is the way
2481
sitzfleisch
winning by sticking your ass to the seat and not leaving until after it’s over
power to endure or to persevere in an activity; staying power.
The ability to endure or carry on with an activity
2482
Si Quaeris Peninsulam Amoenam, Circumspice (If You Seek a Pleasant Peninsula, Look About You)
Michigan's motto
2483
Wisdom, Justice, Moderation
“Agriculture and Commerce.”
Georgia does not have an official state motto, but one side of its Great Seal does bear the words “Wisdom, Justice, Moderation,” which is commonly considered the motto. The seal has two sides, however, with the other stating “Agriculture and Commerce.” But the former is a little punchier, which is probably why it’s more popular.
2484
Res ipsa loquitur
the thing speaks for itself
2485
descensus ad inferos
descent into Hell
Harrowing of Hell
the descent of Christ into Hell
2486
make manifest
to make evident or certain by showing or displaying
2487
Your transformation is now complete
Darth Vader
2488
Once you realize that you can do something, it would be difficult to live with yourself if you didn't do it.
James Baldwin
2489
jeunesse dorée
fashionable, wealthy young people
young people of wealth and fashion
2490
conflict librarian
lawyer
2491
Hope is the fool's ally.
Lord Corlys Velaryon, House of the Dragon
2492
Above all do not forget your duty to love yourself.
Soren Kierkegaard, Danish theologian, philosopher, poet, social critic, and religious author
2493
No more likely to change his mind than to change his character.
Richard Powell, The Philadelphia Story
2494
NGL
Not gonna lie
2495
You were once wild. Don't let them tame you.
Isadora Duncan
2496
Somewhere between o and kay
Not doing super well
2497
The news you can use
Saying. Laura Coates
2498
It’s not where you’re from. It’s where you are.
Saying
2499
deponent sayeth not
A deponent is the individual whose deposition, or sworn, out-of-court testimony, is taken during the discovery process.
The deponent can either be a party to the case, a witness who will later testify at trial, or anyone with knowledge of facts relating to the case.the person has nothing else to say about the issue being discussed.
2500
Further affiant deponent sayeth not.
the person has nothing else to say about the issue being discussed.
2501
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
Gisele Bündchen
2502
Cult + time = religion
Reza Azlan
2503
Where people know when you are sick, love you while you are alive, and miss you when you die.
Lyndon Johnson talking about the Hill Country he came from.
2504
What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to
make.
Jane Goodall
2505
If the risk is fully aligned with your purpose and mission, then it's worth considering.
Peter Diamandis
2506
Live for each second without hesitation.
Elton John
