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subota, 31.07.2010.

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

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
A smiling face is half the meal.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

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

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
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.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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 are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

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

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

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

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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

petak, 30.07.2010.

When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1,500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

The flat coastal plains of the Red Sea slope gradually to the submarine central trough, more than 2,134 m deep. The sea is dotted with islands (the largest group is the Dahlak Archipelago in the southwest) and with dangerous coral reefs.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

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

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
People fail forward to success.

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.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Many of the rivers are "biologically dead", i.e. unable to support fish and wildlife.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

The height of radical power was reached in 1868 with the impeachment of Johnson, which was defeated by only a one-vote margin.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

The 44 countries with a high human suffering rate--all in Africa, Asia, and Latin America--also had an average annual population increase of 2.8%.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Housework, chores and raising children are generally considered to belong to a woman's domain.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
He who laughs, lasts!
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

Acknowledging that help is needed for an alcohol problem may not be easy.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
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!
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Someone went upside my head again.

Lord Monteagle took the letter hurrily to the King. Guards were sent at once to examine the cellars of the house of Parliament.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
He who laughs, lasts!
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

Is there life before death?
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Later, already being a world-known writer, she tried to avoid publicity and stayed out of public eye.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Walking is man's best medicine.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
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?
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.

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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Life is consciousness.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

Women have less access to retraining programs than men, while women entrepreneurs are a rarity.

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.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

srijeda, 28.07.2010.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

For most people, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.

In the cultivated areas that make up most of Britain there are many wild flowers, flowering plants and grasses.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

First, there?s real kind ? the kind that comes out of the ground.

I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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?
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

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

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.

utorak, 27.07.2010.

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

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Walking is man's best medicine.

At first, nobody wanted to live there because it was used as a prison where the British government would send British prisoners.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

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

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become extinct twenty years from now.

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 our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

In 1726 Swift's masterpiece "Gulliver's Travels" appeared.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

In fact, it?s the best known place in Australia.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
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 not enough to aim; you must hit.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
All the world's a cage.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be o

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

Most airlines have at least 2 classes of travel: first class and economy class which is cheaper.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

These emissions have disastrous consequences for our planet.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

Those include Data, Optics, Phaenomena, and On Division of Figures.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Memory feeds imagination.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.

When used in combination with counseling, this drug lessens the craving for alcohol in many people and helps prevent a return to heavy drinking.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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

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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Life is consciousness.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

ponedjeljak, 26.07.2010.

We are what we repeatedly do.

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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
No.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
A joke's a very serious thing.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.

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's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.

Analysis of existing legislation of Russia confirms its prohibition on gender discrimination.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.

I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Keep cool and you command everybody.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

They can conquer who believe they can.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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 strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

It is often cold.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.

There are plently of good hotels, motels, and guest houses, in the world, conviently located for major business centers.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

Can Alcoholism Be Cured?

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
In 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?
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

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.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

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.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Each body has its art...
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Preventing Alcohol Problems in the Workplace

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

He who laughs, lasts!
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

For example, do you want to live in the country or in the town?

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

petak, 23.07.2010.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

People fail forward to success.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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 scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

(To help remember these questions, note that the first letter of a key word in each of the four questions spells "CAGE.")

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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
All the world's a cage.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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 are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.

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

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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 only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Virtually all alcoholism treatment programs also include meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which describes itself as a "worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober."

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I'd learned my lesson.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

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

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

In this fast-moving world it is necessary to watch what we eat ? it should be healthy food, not junk one, which has become very popular.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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.

Euclid of Alexandria is one of the most important and influential mathematicians in history.

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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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 is not a secret that our meals influence much on our mood.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

četvrtak, 22.07.2010.

Inferior whiskeys are made from potatoes, beets, and other roots.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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?

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Love truth, and pardon error.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

You can neither buy happiness, nor sell it; you can never win it in the lottery; the only way to be happy is to grow your happiness.

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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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?
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

The name Wall Street remained from our days.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

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

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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.
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.

She is popular for ingenuity of plots, which are classical murder mysteries: marooned places and a well-mannered murderer.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

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 better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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.

Do you want to put down roots or travel videly? Second: what sort of work do you want to do?

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.

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

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

? Set a drinking goal for yourself. Some people choose to abstain from alcohol, while others prefer to limit the amount they drink.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

My home, my sweet home...

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

Because of this division, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was elected President and, narrowly reelected in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes , he served through World War I.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

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.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

But at the same time if you want to ask your neighbours for something or just to have a talk you can visit them.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

If you are going to live alone, you can prefer a studio to a large apartment.

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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

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

A minute's success pays the failure of years.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Hoover in 1928 marked the first time since the end of Reconstruction that the party had carried states of the old Confederacy; this came about chiefly because the Democratic candidate, Alfred E. Smith, was a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

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

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

In either case, it is important that you see your doctor or other health care provider right away to discuss your responses to these questions.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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 was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

The summer months are June, July and August.

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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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 am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Life is consciousness.
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.

It's celebrated on the 25-th of december.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.

Every singly person should eat proper kinds of food ? dairy products, meats, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars, cereals and grains.

It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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?
Even the best of friends need time apart.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The 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 older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.

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

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

To proponents of population regulation, it is unethical for us not to encourage a sharp drop in birth rates and unsustainable forms of resource use to prevent a sharp rise in death rates and human misery and a decrease in Earth's biodiversity in the futu

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

The party, however, won the Congressional elections of 1918, and Republican opposition was a large factor in defeating Wilson's peace program.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

It will help you to know more about the history and life of different nations and countries.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

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.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

In Brazil the climate is warm and citizens wear shorts and T-shirts there almost whole year.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.

We left our coats in the cloak-room and bought a program from the usher to see what the cast was.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

"Cutting down" on drinking doesn't work; cutting out alcohol is necessary for a successful recovery.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

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.

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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Despite not winning the popular vote.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
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.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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

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.
They can conquer who believe they can.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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 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.

An idea is salvation by imagination.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The seas are in danger.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

If you take to reading, the world of other people's ideas and problems becomes familiar to you.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
My head rang like a gong.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
My home is not a place, it is people.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

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.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

No whiskey can be released from bond in Great Britain until it has matured in wood at least three years, and in practice most whiskey is stored seven or eight years before marketing. In the United States bonded whiskey must stay a minimum of four years i

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
All the world's a cage.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

To proponents of population regulation, it is unethical for us not to encourage a sharp drop in birth rates and unsustainable forms of resource use to prevent a sharp rise in death rates and human misery and a decrease in Earth's biodiversity in the futu

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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.
All the world's a cage.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

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.

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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

It is often cold.

A joke's a very serious thing.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

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

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Who were these clowns?

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

subota, 17.07.2010.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

He or she can help you determine whether you have a drinking problem and, if so, recommend the best course of action for you.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Under Roosevelt's Republican successor and friend, William Howard Taft , "dollar diplomacy" flourished, but a new rift appeared in the party.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

One of them is to give presents to each other.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
So little time and so little to do.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

I remember, I liked thick books.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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 makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
I stand in awe of my body.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
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?
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
To try to be better is to be better.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

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.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Who were these clowns?
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
My friends are my estate.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

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!
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

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

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

The ongoing changes in social, political and economic spheres of the country entails not only the raise of women?s role in society, in addition they are accompanied by breaking of stereotypes to treat human beings by sex that had been shaping through dec

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

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.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

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

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Blackpool is not officially asafe.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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?
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

It is the street there most famous theaters are situated.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

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

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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'.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

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

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
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.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Is there life before death?
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to I billion.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

I think it is necessary to follow these rules.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I 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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Campaigning against the domestic policy of the Truman administration and its prosecution of the war in Korea, Eisenhower swept to a landslide victory over the Democratic candidate, Adlai E. Stevenson .

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

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 charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

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.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

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.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

nedjelja, 11.07.2010.

I am sure that books play a very important role in my life.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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 can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I was pleased to listen to stories and tales. I like to read books about nature children and animals. I like to get presents on my birthday.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
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.
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.

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.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
No.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

You can neither buy happiness, nor sell it; you can never win it in the lottery; the only way to be happy is to grow your happiness.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

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.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Scotch, but no peat is used in the curing, and instead of the dry, somewhat smoky flavor of Scotch, it has a full, sweet taste.

Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

subota, 10.07.2010.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The average person thinks he isn't.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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.

First: what sort of life do you want to lead?

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
History is more or less bunk.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Where facts are few, experts are many.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.

It's very important to know traditions and customs of different people.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

But anyways whatever you like you should remember words of wisdom which say that we eat to live, but not live to eat.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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.
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.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

I didn't even breathe.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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?
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

In England the cinema is usually called ?the pictures?.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.

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

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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.
My friends are my estate.

petak, 09.07.2010.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Each body has its art...
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.
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 only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

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

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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
He who laughs, lasts!
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

We are what we repeatedly do.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

Keep cool and you command everybody.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
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 are many customs and traditions in England. And I would like to tell you some of them.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.

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

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?
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Ultimately his policies and attempts to implement them antagonized his supporters among the moderate Republicans and paved the way for the triumph of the radicals in the congressional elections of 1866.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Someone went upside my head again.
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.
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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

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.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I see all the best films that are on.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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 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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'

American whiskeys are divided into two main varieties, rye and bourbon, a corn whiskey that derives its name from Bourbon co., Ky.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

There are, for example, the Blue Mountains.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a wom

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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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?
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Rainfall is more or less even throughout the year.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.
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."
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.