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I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

It is a civil right that is enjoyed, at least in statute, by all citizens of democratic countries.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

Printing played an important role in the development of literature and culture.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Memory feeds imagination.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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!
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
I 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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

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

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
He who laughs, lasts!

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 never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

Anti-slavery Whigs such as William Seward and Thurlow Weed were dominant in the new grouping, but elements of the Know-Nothing movement , together with the Free-Soil party , abolitionists , and anti-Nebraska Democrats also supplied strength.

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.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole won the Republican nomination for the presidency, but he and his running mate, Jack Kemp , were never able to reduce significantly President Clinton's substantial lead. In the House and Senate, Republicans retained t

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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!
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Phaenomena is about planetary motions and Optics about perspectives.

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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

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.

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.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Is there life before death?
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is the size of your salary important?

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 undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Who were these clowns?
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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.

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.
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.
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.
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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

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

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

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?

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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
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.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

To help them in this they got Guy Fawker, a soldier of fortune, who would do the actual work.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Art is science made clear.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
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.
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.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

If I have got time I like to spend it with my favourite book.

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.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Life is consciousness.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to 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?
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.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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

It's never just a game when you're winning.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.

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

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.

And it really is red, with red rocks, red sand, and red skies in the evening.

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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
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.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Today there are a lot of different restaurants and cafes where you can eat delicious and not really expensive food.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

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

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
To try to be better is to be better.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

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

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Often there is a restaurant, so that it is possible to spend an afternoon and evening there (if you have enough money, of course).

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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
My friends are my estate.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

The most numerous are blackbirds, sparrow and starling. Robin Redbreast is the national bird of Britain.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
All the world's a cage.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

Most of big cities of G.B.,especially London, are decorated with coloured lights and cristmas trees.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

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

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Someone went upside my head again.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

He also advocated increased military spending and presided over the largest military buildup during peacetime in American history.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

And even when it gives you hardships and difficulties, it gives you strength to overcome them. Happiness means to live your life in such a way that when retired you have something to remember and to be proud of, some pleasant moments that will always evok

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Each party had numerous almost irreconcilable factions, and each avoided taking any real stand on controversial issues, which were generally left to lesser political groups such as the Granger movement and the Greenback party .

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
My friends are my estate.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Now, in the course of one human lifetime - mine - the world population will increase from 2 to more than 9 billion, and it is already more than halfway there.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

This novel was published at the beginning of the 20th century.

To try to be better is to be better.
People fail forward to success.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

Memory feeds imagination.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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 ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Is there life before death?
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

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

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
My home is not a place, it is people.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

My friends are my estate.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
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.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

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

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

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.

We are what we repeatedly do.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

It was ages ago, but this stands out in my memory quiet vividly.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Vigorous writing is concise.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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 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.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Euclid was apparently a kind, patient man, and did possess a sarcastic sense of humor.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

It?s the same size as England.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

At 12 sharp th lights went down. The conductor appeared and the overtune began.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.

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 do

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Life is consciousness.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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 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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

The opening of the Suez Canal in 1869 made the Red Sea one of the chief shipping routes connecting Europe with East Asia and Australia.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

In our country cinema-going is not so popular now as it was earlier.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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?
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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 you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

In 1980, the conservative Ronald Reagan, a former supporter of Barry Goldwater, regained the presidency for the Republicans and reversed long-standing political trends by instituting a supply-side economic program of budget and tax cuts.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
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.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

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.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

With the election, however, Republican domination of the South and radical rule of the party were definitely ended.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Read more and you'll never be bored!

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The best way out is always through.

His work in Data is probably the most famous of his smaller works, and focuses on finding certain measurements and quantities when others are given.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

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 realizin

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
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.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

The election of 1876 indicated that radical Republicanism had lost much of its popular support.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Well done is better than well said.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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?
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Benjamin Harrison defeated Cleveland in 1888 but lost to him in 1892.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
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.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

The 1998 mid-term elections saw the Republican margin in the House reduced, despite expectations that they would benefit from the effects of the Lewinsky scandal; the results led to Gingrich's resignation from office.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

She wanted to give me some aspirin tablets too, but there weren't any in our house.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

At 12 sharp th lights went down. The conductor appeared and the overtune began.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

My head rang like a gong.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
To try to be better is to be better.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

The closing of the canal after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the building of pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea, and the construction of supertankers too large for the canal diminished the sea's importance as a commercial artery, especially for petroleum.

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.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
My friends are my estate.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

No.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Sometimes you can depend on your neighbours - imagine such a situation: your neighbours' tap is dripping and they need it to be repaired, so they block the water supply not only in their own flat but also in yours and you have to wait for hours till you c

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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 hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

But in general I'm sure that it's quite nice to live in a semi-detached house.

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.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Eating fruit and vegetables helps to keep us healthy too because they give us fibre, vitamins and minerals.

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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.

Today there are a lot of different restaurants and cafes where you can eat delicious and not really expensive food.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

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

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?
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

You also will be given a physical examination.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

nedjelja, 26.09.2010.

The doctor asked me to strip to the waist. He examined my lungs, felt my pulse and blood pressure, took my temperature.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Maybe they were terrorists!

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.

Can Alcoholism Be Cured?

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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 can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

Before real roads and railways came, the river carried people and goods from the east up into the country.

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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

If your health care professional concludes that you may be dependent on alcohol, he or she may recommend that you see a specalist in diagnosing and treating alcoholism.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

petak, 24.09.2010.

? Genetic research: Scientists are now studying 3,000 individuals from several hundred families with a history of alcoholism in order to pinpoint the location of genes that influence vulnerability to alcoholism.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
My head rang like a gong.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

I pay attention to the cover of the book, its illustrations, the name of the author, the title of the book and the contents.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The average person thinks he isn't.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Art is science made clear.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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 most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

To my mind those people, who prefer this type of dwelling really adore nature: they want to wake up to songs of birds, to enjoy beautiful landscapes, to breath fresh air or in other words they want to have a calm and measured rhythm of life.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
The best way out is always through.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.

By straddling the issue of the League of Nations and calling for a return to "normalcy," the party easily elected Warren G. Harding in 1920.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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.

That is why it is important today to assist the creation of such mechanisms through the activation of women?s public organizations.

Now we were descending just as steeply.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

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.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

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

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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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!
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

It?s not surprising that more holiday-makers come to Queensland every year.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

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.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

They are good-natured creatures and treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his small size and look upon him as a plaything.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Is there life before death?
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

srijeda, 22.09.2010.

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.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.

At that time James the First was on the throne. He was hated with many people especialy the Roman catholics against whom many sever laws had been passed.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Red Sea- ancient Sinus Arabicus or Erythraean Sea, narrow sea, c.440,300 sq km, c.2,330 km long and up to 225 mi (362 km) wide, between Africa (Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea) and the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen); a part of the Great Rift Valley.

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.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Twenty-four percent reported any drinking at work at least once during the year before the survey.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
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.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Eating habits are different in different countries.

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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

An employee health promotion program delivered in three 2-hour sessions at one manufacturing plant was designed to increase participants' awareness of the health risks related to stress and drinking.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Others opposed to population regulation feel that all people should have the freedom to have as many children as they want.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
No.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
All movements go too far.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Is there life before death?

I never know how much of what I say is true.

The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
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.
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.
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'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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Academic freedom right of scholars to pursue research, to teach, and to publish without control or restraint from the institutions that employ them.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure , in education). Essential to the acceptance of the concept of academic f

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Art is science made clear.
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 watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Memory feeds imagination.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

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.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

Art is science made clear.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Children find cristmas presents in their stockings.

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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
My head rang like a gong.

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

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

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.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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?
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

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

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

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.

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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

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

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
They can conquer who believe they can.

New York is the city of famous skyscrapers.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.

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 ad

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
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.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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 poisoning of the world's land, air, and water is the fastest-spreading disease of civilisation.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Someone went upside my head again.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

Generally this limit is 20kg for economic class passenger and 30kg for first class passenger.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.
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.

The party's national organization was perfected at Pittsburgh in Feb., 1856, and its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont , made a creditable showing against victorious James Buchanan.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
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.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

utorak, 07.09.2010.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

One cannot speak about England without speaking about it's traditions and customs .

While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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 like to read stories about heroes, great travelers, explorers, and courageous men.

My friends are my estate.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

As for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Never before in the history of the world have businessmen traveled so much as they do today.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Well done is better than well said.

If a relapse occurs, it is very important to try to stop drinking once again and to get whatever additional support is needed to abstain from drinking.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
All movements go too far.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

After 6 months, 76 percent of the heaviest drinkers reportedly reduced their alcohol consumption.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

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

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

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.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.

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.

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.
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.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.
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.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

The ballet seemed to me a fairy-tale. When the last curtain fell, the house burst out into applause.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
Art is science made clear.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
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'.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.

There are five universities in the city.

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 avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

The Elements was used as the primary geometry resource for over 2000 years, and his lessons could still be used today.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
History is more or less bunk.