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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

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

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

The nature of treatment depends on the severity of an individual's alcoholism and the resources that are available in his or her community.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

History is more or less bunk.
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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Too many people start looking for a specific job before thinking out their occupational aims.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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'.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

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 wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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 with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

The sky is always dull and overcast and it often rains, so there are pools on roads and cars splash the water on the passers-by.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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 strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

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

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
He who laughs, lasts!

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

In the room there is also a wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a fluffy carpet on the floor.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

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.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
All movements go too far.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

ponedjeljak, 27.09.2010.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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, char

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

In the Northern Territory you will find the red heart of Australia.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

In Russia the weather is very cold in winter in winter and very warm in summer, people usually wear too much clothes in winter ? warm sweaters, jeans, tights, winter boots and fur-coats, mittens, scarves, hats and other warm things.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
History is more or less bunk.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

For example, in Britain the weather is often rainy, summer there is quite warm, but windy.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
The best way out is always through.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

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 next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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?
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

subota, 25.09.2010.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

When we take a book, we mustn't do dog's ears, we mustn't write anything on the pages, and we must return books to the library in time.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
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 we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
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.
People fail forward to success.

Today Australia is an independent federative state consisting of 6 states and 2 territories.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

When you visit your health care provider, he or she will ask you a number of questions about your alcohol use to determine whether you are experiencing problems related to your drinking.

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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I didn't even breathe.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

My choice of this occupation didn't come as a sudden flash.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

Swift's democratic ideas expressed in the book had a great influence on the English writers who came after Swift.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

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 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.
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.
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.
People fail forward to success.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Someone went upside my head again.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

And I believe that it's not the size of the place where you live that matters, but the way you feel about it.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

? Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.

The left always having been linked with evil.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Their numerous facilities include both: large and small cocktail barber's shops and conference halls, equipped with simultaneous, multilingual translation systems.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away wha

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.

I also live in a flat and I can say that all these disadvantages don't bother me very much, and in general it's a good type of housing.

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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.

In the period that followed, the two parties differed little in their programs.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan , its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million y

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

petak, 24.09.2010.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

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

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

In the end I'd like to add that there are many types of housing and all the people have the right to choose where to live.

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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
All great truths begin as blasphemies.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Memory feeds imagination.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Walking is man's best medicine.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.

Extensive forests remain in eastern and northern Scotland and in south-eastern and western England.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

We can hardly say that today there exist the problem of choosing a type of housing.

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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

This description of alcoholism helps us understand why most alcoholics can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drinking.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.