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subota, 28.08.2010.

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

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

petak, 20.08.2010.

A person under 16 years of age may see an "A" filem only in company of an adult.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.'
They can conquer who believe they can.
Memory feeds imagination.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
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.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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 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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I didn't even breathe.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
All movements go too far.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.'
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.'
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Any of these treatments may be provided in a hospital or residential treatment setting or on an outpatient basis.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Someone went upside my head again.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

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

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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 freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

In particular, you can answer to important questions.

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!
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
My friends are my estate.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.

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

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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Well done is better than well said.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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!
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Life is consciousness.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

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

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.
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

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

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
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.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

Now I like to read books on science, history and biology.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
They can conquer who believe they can.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Each body has its art...
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
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.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
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.

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

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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I 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.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.

Everything else in this country is on a correspondent scale.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
All movements go too far.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.'
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

utorak, 10.08.2010.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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!
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Is there life before death?
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

Behind the cine-ma screen there is a stage, so that the building can be used for concerts and other performances.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
I don't 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.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The Bass Strait, of the coast of Victoria, has been one of the country?s biggest oil fields for many years.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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 you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.'

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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 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?
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

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

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
So little time and so little to do.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

The air above the forest contains millions of microscopic drops of eucalyptus oil.

We are what we repeatedly do.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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!'
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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

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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
He who laughs, lasts!
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

The author idealizes an agricultural country ruled by ideal monarch.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.

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

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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventua

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

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?
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
A poem is no place for an idea.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.

My home, my sweet home...

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

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

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
A smiling face is half the meal.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

All things are difficult before they are easy.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

utorak, 03.08.2010.

Euclid responded by giving the small child a coin, saying that "he must make gain out of what he learns."

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

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

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

It is also very different from the other states.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Life is consciousness.
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 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.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.'

You can eat a bowl of ice-cream, a pieces of apple pie, strawberries with cream or something like that for dessert.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I 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.
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.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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 require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
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.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

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

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

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.
'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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

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.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

ponedjeljak, 02.08.2010.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

The process of reading demands lots of thinking on the part of the reader because reading exists not only for entertainment.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
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.
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.

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

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.'
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
When 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.
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.

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.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

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

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

Then printing came into our life.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Air population is a very serious problem.

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.'
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

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

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.

The morning may be warm and the evening may be cool.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
'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.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

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

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
People fail forward to success.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

I consider that books are with us during all our life.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

In the United States this is known as moonshining.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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