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srijeda, 27.07.2011.

But one of the consperators had several friends in the parliament and he didn't want them to die.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The best way out is always through.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

I prefer features films, though I enjoy documentaries almost as much to say nothing of animated cartoons films, news-reels or popular science films.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Is there life before death?

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

However, she managed to become famous. Not many people know that she used to write under a pen-name of Mary Westmacott.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

However, even individuals who are determined to stay sober may suffer one or several "slips," or relapses, before achieving long-term sobriety.

I stand in awe of my body.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
My home is not a place, it is people.

Even if you answered "no" to all of the above questions, if you are encountering drinking-related problems with your job, relationships, health, or with the law, you should still seek professional help.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
We are what we repeatedly do.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

A smiling face is half the meal.
I am not young enough to know everything.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

According to United Nations Gender Organization data, 67 percent of those unemployed in Russia are women.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

The seas are in danger.

It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

I consider that it's the cheapest type of dwelling in a town.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Each body has its art...
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

It is understandable that women decide to defer having children later or do not have children at all.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

The dancers got many curtain calls and were presented with many flowers.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

I often read for pleasure and sometimes for information.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

petak, 22.07.2011.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what your requirements are from a career.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
To try to be better is to be better.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
All the world's a cage.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

His work in geometry led to discovery after discovery in history, and provided the basis for mathematical education for 2000 years.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'

Whether we want it or not, but we always reflect ourselves as personalities who adore some things and hate other ones, who have some preferences, habits and interests, when we do a repair.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Now there are many books in the shops.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
My head rang like a gong.

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

If your health care provider determines that you are not alcohol dependent but are nonetheless involved in a pattern of alcohol abuse, he or she can help you:

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Now Washington is the residents of the president and the congress.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Never eat more than you can lift.

Maybe they were terrorists!
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
They can conquer who believe they can.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

If I want to go to an evening show I book tickets beforehand.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Moderate drinkers also reduced their consumption, and participants reported changes in their attitudes toward drinking and drinking and driving, knowledge about problem drinking, and recognition of signs of a drinking problem.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

While some people are able to recover without help, the majority of alcoholic individuals need outside assistance to recover from their disease.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Agatha Christie's favourite way of murdering was by poisoning.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Who were these clowns?
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai peninsula.

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Moreover, taking steps to identify a possible drinking problem has an enormous payoff--a chance for a healthier, more rewarding life.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

I see all the best films that are on.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

While AA is generally recognized as an effective mutual help program for recovering alcoholics, not everyone responds to AA's style and message, and other recovery approaches are available.

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

There are also those who like semi-detached houses or, as the Americans call them, duplexes.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Letýs reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, letýs keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Even after the first few minutes in our flat you can understand all hospitality and friendliness of this place and the family which lives there.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

Some of the chapters seem to be written with different styles, and others are geared for different ages, leading one to believe that he inserted other mathematicians' work into his own.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

ý Continued drinking despite having ongoing relationship problems that are caused or worsened by the effects of alcohol.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

Women comprise 54 percent of contemporary Russian society. However, the number of women taking part in the country's political, economic and civic life shows that women are restricted in the spheres of politics and government.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

Our lives teach us who we are.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

There are six public holidays a year in G.B..

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
People fail forward to success.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
No.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Is there life before death?

Now there are many books in the shops.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

So, never judge people by appearances, because appearances are deceptive!

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

I personally think that home is a little world where one lives according to his/her own rules. It's a place where you feel comfort, warmth and reliability.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someoneýs feelings or ignoring truth.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
All the world's a cage.

Oak, elm, ash, and beech are the commonest trees in England, while Scotland has much pine and birch.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Who were these clowns?
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.

Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
So little time and so little to do.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Is there life before death?
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

Recently, the Population Crisis Committee complied a human suffering index for each of 130 countries based on ten measures of human welfare.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

So, never judge people by appearances, because appearances are deceptive!

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

They have done this more or less every 5th of November since 1605.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Someone went upside my head again.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

Women's social status is a serious problem.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

In the 1994 congressional and state elections, however, the Republican party scored major victories and increased its hold in the South.

They can conquer who believe they can.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Passengers are requested to arrive at the airport 2 hours before departure time on international flights and an hour on domestic flights as there must be enough time to complete the necessary airport formalities.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

He prescribed cups and mustard plasters.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

econd custom is called "Blowing out the candles" The custom of having candles on birthday cakes goes back to the ancient Greeks.

The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
A poem is no place for an idea.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.