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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

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 truth, and pardon error.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in 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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

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

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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 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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

The Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received a popular plurality of over 250,000 votes, but the disputed electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, the only Southern states still under Republican control, were awarded to Rutherfor

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
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?
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.

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

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Who were these clowns?

Nowadays people who go on business mostly travel by air as it is the fastest means of travelling.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
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.

More than two-thirds of the 984 workers surveyed at a large manufacturing plant said it was "easy" or "very easy" to bring alcohol into the workplace, to drink at work stations, and to drink during breaks.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
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 always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists do

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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 have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

In fact, King Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was an easier way to study math than learning all the theorems.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.

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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.

I'd learned my lesson.

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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

In ancient times books were written by hand.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
People fail forward to success.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Insurgents led by Senator Robert M.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

I don?t like to wear a lot of warm clothes, that is why my favorite season is spring.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
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.
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.

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

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

There are many other works of Euclid which appear to be lost to time, but his primary work in The Elements is what made him famous.

Memory feeds imagination.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

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

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

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

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Winter temperatures below 10 degrees are rare.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
The 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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.

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.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

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

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

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

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
An idea is salvation by imagination.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

He is clever, honest and kind to his people.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

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

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

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

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

The domestic program of the Eisenhower adminstration was moderately conservative, and in foreign policy the internationalist approach of the previous Democratic administration was continued. Despite the President's overwhelming personal popularity and hi

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The average person thinks he isn't.

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

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

The party opposed the repeal of the Missouri Compromise and the extension of slavery, denounced the Supreme Court's decision in the Dred Scott Case , and favored the admission of Kansas as a free state.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Walking is man's best medicine.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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.

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

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.
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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

The influence of literature on people's mind is great.

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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I 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.

Is there life before death?

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

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

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

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

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I stand in awe of my body.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

nedjelja, 26.09.2010.

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

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Australia is the world's largest island and the smallest continent.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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?

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

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.
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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

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

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?
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Morrow and colleagues found that pilots were still significantly impaired 8 hours after reaching a BAC of 0.10 percent.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.
Life is consciousness.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
I 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!'
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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 are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Things are only impossible until they're not.

subota, 25.09.2010.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

She wasn't a professional and had never been one.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
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.
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 human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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 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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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

Walking is man's best medicine.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.

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

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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 Britain the choice of films is limited to young people.

Art is science made clear.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

Such questions as women and their place in the society, their political and social activity as well as enlightening of those problems in mass media; questions of creation of informational data-base as well as maternity and childhood cannot be effectively

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.

In spite of these arguments we musn't forget about everybody's vacation.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-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 the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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 man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

It is not surprising because we are living in a world of growing international trade and expanding economic and technical cooperation.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

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.

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 was sick of cars driving right past me.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The average person thinks he isn't.

In America the word ?the movies? is often used.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Well done is better than well said.
People fail forward to success.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

My whole body ached.

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?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
So little time and so little to do.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

While bills were passed on the key program components, many items were thwarted or defeated in Congress or by the president.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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

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!
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

It?s the same size as England.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
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.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

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

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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 rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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'.

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Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
People fail forward to success.

There are six public holidays a year in G.B..

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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

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

Memory feeds imagination.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Each body has its art...
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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.

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.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I am not young enough to know everything.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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 are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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?
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

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.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

He prescribed cups and mustard plasters.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
My home is not a place, it is people.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

The center of the actrical life is London.

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's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

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:

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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.
He who laughs, lasts!
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

petak, 24.09.2010.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' 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.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
People fail forward to success.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

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.

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.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

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

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 good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.'
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.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
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!

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

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.
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.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

Memory feeds imagination.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

There are promising types of counseling that teach recovering alcoholics to identify situations and feelings that trigger the urge to drink and to find new ways to cope that do not include alcohol use.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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 am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

March, April and May are spring months.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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."
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.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else's.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

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

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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

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

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I 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.
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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

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

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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?
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

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

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

As the result of a shipwreck Gulliver finds himself in a country, inhabited by a race of people about six inches high.

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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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?
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.

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

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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 think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

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.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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 only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing 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.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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?
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 think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

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.

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.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

March, April and May are spring months.

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.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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 hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

The Iran-contra affair, which broke in late 1986, marred the last years of his tenure, though his vice-president, George H. W. Bush, was nonetheless able to defeat the Democratic nominee, MichaelDukakis, in the 1988 election.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

The cakes were round like the full moon and lit with tapers.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
We are what we repeatedly do.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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 scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
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.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
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.
Who were these clowns?
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

There are a lot of films which are worth seeing, but this one is the best one to my mind.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.

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

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

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

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I never know how much of what I say is true.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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

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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I stand in awe of my body.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

More than one-half of the 294 workers attended the sessions. Researchers based their results on data from 120 employees who completed prestudy and poststudy evaluations.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

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

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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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?
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

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'.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

Sydney is the best known place in New South Wales.

The average person thinks he isn't.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

utorak, 07.09.2010.

He hates wars and wants to make his people happy.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

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.
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.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.'
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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.
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.'
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Moreover, taking steps to identify a possible drinking problem has an enormous payoff--a chance for a healthier, more rewarding life.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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 love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.

Each passenger of more than 2 years of age has a free luggage allowance.

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.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.