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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

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Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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's another word for Thesaurus?

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Thanks to books we can talk to people who lived in different countries and ages.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

If little has ever been made of Euclid's life, then the opposite is true of his book.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences).

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Most of the crimes were committed in some closed surroundings with a limited number of people to suspect.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

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

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
We are what we repeatedly do.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

One can see a table near the window and two bookshelves on the wall with books, the majority of them are fiction, as my group mate really likes to read, she is an educated person.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

More than 3.500 million tons of industrial waste is pumped into the North Sea every year.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

The center of the city is on Capital Hill. This building houses both the senate and a House of Representatives.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.

In 1964 the conservative wing of the party engineered the nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater , who was, however, defeated in a landslide by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.'
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.
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?
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

The , which the doctor left, was made up at the chemist's.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Over 3 billion books by Agatha Christie were sold worldwide.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
My friends are my estate.

First tradition is called "Wrong side of the bed" When people are bad tempered we say that they must have got out of bed on the wrong side. Originally, it was meant quiet literally. People belive that the way they rose in the morning affected their behaiv

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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!'
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.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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.'

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

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.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
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?
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

"My home is my fortress", it is my territory, my place where I feel good and comfortable. And nobody can disturb me here.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

One of the most important reflections of equity is equal rights in the labor market.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Some project that if everyone existed at a minimum survival level, the earth could support 20 to 48 billion people.

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 have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

That means that it is never too hot or too cold. Winters are extremely mild.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
All the world's a cage.
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.
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.
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.

My favourite film is ... with ... starring. It is really wonderful from the beginning to the end.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I'd learned my lesson.

Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
My head rang like a gong.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

The , which the doctor left, was made up at the chemist's.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I'd learned my lesson.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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 supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
People fail forward to success.
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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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.
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 you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

Other analysts believe the earth could support 7 to 12 billion people at a decent standard of living by distributing the world's land and food supply more equitably and shifting from less abundant resources (such as lead, tin, uranium, oil, and natural g

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

In Britain the choice of films is limited to young people.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

As one of my friends says if you are not a handicapped person you are a really lucky and happy one.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Love truth, and pardon error.

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.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

But "waving the bloody shirt," as this type of propaganda was styled, was not enough to elect Blaine in 1884.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

You can also build some outhouses like a green-house, a garage, a tool shed or an arbour.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

If a book appeals to you, it arouses lots of feelings and emotions in your heart.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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 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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.

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

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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'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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Before the concept of academic freedom could gain general acceptance, however, it was necessary that education become secularized.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.
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.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

They call for MDCs to use their economic systems to reward population regulation and sustainable forms of economic growth instead of continuing their unsustainable forms of economic growth and encouraging LDCs to follow this eventually unsustainable and d

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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

Summer is the hottest season of the year and days are longer than in winter.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Each body has its art...
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Rather then take trouble of going out to see a film, I would stay at home and watch television.

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.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

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.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

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

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 happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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'.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.

Some people make headlines while others make history.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

There are 1,400 different kinds of fish, and more than 300 kinds of coral.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

My friends are my estate.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
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.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

I believe that everyone at least once in his/her life unwrapped a sweet in a bright paper but instead of a chocolate sweet found there just caramel.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

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.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Winter temperatures below 10 degrees are rare.

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.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

On Trafalgar Square, in the center of London stands a big cristmas tree.It is a gift from the people of Oslo.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.

Memory feeds imagination.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.'
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
No.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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 never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
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.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

For a man of such great significance to the world of mathematics, little is known about his actual life.

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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.
Each body has its art...
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

The average person thinks he isn't.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

subota, 25.09.2010.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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 lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

I know all the famous script writers, producers and cameramen.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Walking is man's best medicine.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Snow may come but it melts quickly. In winter the cold is humid cold, not the dry one.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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 years of accumulated finesse.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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'.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

And the last type of dwelling I want to mention is a detached house.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Those, who prefer to stay at home may spend their free time, watching TV, listening to the radio.

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.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.

I remember we were glad to see that Ulanova was dancing the main part.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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.'

It is not a secret that our meals influence much on our mood.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

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

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Moreover, she was an immensely prolific writer.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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.'
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

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

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

In addition, supervisors were under constant pressure to keep production moving and were motivated to discipline employees for drinking only if the drinking was compromising production or jeopardizing safety. Workers' knowledge that policies were rarely e

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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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'.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

And non-governmental charity organizations become a single source for support of such projects.

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.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

If a book appeals to you, it arouses lots of feelings and emotions in your heart.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Alcohol abuse is defined as a pattern of drinking that is accompanied by one or more of the following situations within a 12-month period:

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Britain was originally a land of vast forests.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
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.

his novel was written many years ago, but it is popular nowadays.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.

This new knowledge will help identify individuals at high risk for alcoholism and also will pave the way for the development of new treatments for alcohol-related problems.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
I'd learned my lesson.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19 plays were written by that strange woman.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

This defection by the mugwumps illustrated the lack of real issues between the two parties; it was the man and not the party that counted.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

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.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

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

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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 years of accumulated finesse.
Love truth, and pardon error.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

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 freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Many families celebrate cristmas day in the open air near the cristmas tree in order to catch the spirit of cristmas.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.
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.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

But it has a great deal to do with a person's uncontrollable need for alcohol.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

He also largely continued Reagan's policy toward the Soviet Union.

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.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Someone went upside my head again.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
'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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

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.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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.
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!
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

I can't say that I can stand colds.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
'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 mother told me to stay in bed, then she called for a doctor.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Each body has its art...
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

At that time the crucial issue of the extension of slavery into the territories split the Democratic party and the Whig party , and opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the new Republican party. Jackson, Mich., is called the birthplace o

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
I'd learned my lesson.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

srijeda, 22.09.2010.

The library is helpful when I have to make a report, when I need information on some subjects.

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 have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

I believe that such houses attract people because they are less expensive than mansions or bungalows for example and you have only one neighbour as opposed to block of flats.

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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Art is science made clear.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Below I've mentioned such a type of housing as a block of flats.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
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.
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.

The fireplaces are often used. but the coal is not used as it's very expensive.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Today only about 6 per cent of the total land area remains wooded.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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?

It is over 50 feet high.

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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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.
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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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!

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

From a legal point of view, a man and a woman in Russia are equal.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I think that my facilities combined with the knowledge would be quiet enough to succeed in my work.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

For a main course you can order fish, meat or chicken with some rice or potatoes, also you can ask for pasta and salad.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.
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.
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.'
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

So, we may say that the British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Each body has its art...
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I'd learned my lesson.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

It doesn?t matter what kind ? with raspberry favor, with marmalade, chocolate chips or pieces of fruit.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond 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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Here there are a lot of things that make this room look nice; she has a lot of toys which sit on her bed, on the shelves and on the windowsill. She collects statues of cats that she brings from different countries, it characterizes her as a broad-minded p

Even the best of friends need time apart.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

At first sight they have nothing in life; they don't have stable jobs or their own apartments, but they are really happy; they meet every day with a smile, they laugh and receive pleasure from life. Isn't that great?

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

I followed all the doctor's instructions and very soon I felt much better.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

It?s beautiful place, with parks, lakes, big open streets and fine buildings.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Our lives teach us who we are.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

In bad times, and in the driest parts, many animals may die for want of water.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

Treatment may include detoxification (the process of safely getting alcohol out of one's system); taking doctor-prescribed medications, such as disulfiram or naltrexone, to help prevent a return to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and/o

'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.
I didn't even breathe.
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.'
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
'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.
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.'
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Nonetheless, a substantial number of people have serious trouble with their drinking.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

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 hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

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

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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

From a legal point of view, a man and a woman in Russia are equal.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.

But it has a great deal to do with a person's uncontrollable need for alcohol.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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.

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.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill 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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
My home is not a place, it is people.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Less than a hundred years ago, there was nothing except sheep in Canberra.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
They weren't wearing insignia.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
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 don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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?
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

The Republicans also increased their majorities in both houses of Congress, as retiring Senate Democrats from the South were replaced by Republicans.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.

Only person over 16 years of age may see "X" films.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
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!'
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Many schools and universities have no central heating either, and the floors there are made of stone.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

The party lost control of the Senate as a result of a defection in mid-2001, but regained it after the Nov., 2002, elections. In 2004, Bush was renominated without opposition, and he subsequently soundly defeated the Democratic nominee, John Kerry .

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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

That means that it is never too hot or too cold. Winters are extremely mild.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

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

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
People fail forward to success.
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.
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.
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.

Home is a place that awakens the most pleasant feelings and high emotions in soul of every person.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
My friends are my estate.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
To try to be better is to be better.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
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?

British cinema-goers see mainly English and American films, though many of the foreign films are often shown in London and in the South of the country.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.

Washington is a large scientific and cultural center.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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.
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.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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 years of accumulated finesse.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

Yet it is important to recognize that aspects of a person's environment, such as peer influences and the availability of alcohol, also are significant influences.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Well done is better than well said.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.

The radicals were supreme under Grant, but their excesses and the open scandals of the administration created a new schism, leading to the formation of the Liberal Republican party .

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I stand in awe of my body.

Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
They weren't wearing insignia.

Many people wonder: Why can some individuals use alcohol without problems, while others are utterly unable to control their drinking?

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

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.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

I see all the best films that are on.

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.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
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.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Cinemas in England are usually large and more comfortable than the theatres.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.

The climate is hot and Australian boast that they can sleep out -of- doors all the year round.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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?
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

I think that my facilities combined with the knowledge would be quiet enough to succeed in my work.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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?
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.