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subota, 31.07.2010.

It was in the Prussia of Frederick the Great that the new freedom first flourished within the university itself. In England, it was laymen like Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Huxley who demonstrated the value of

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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
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?

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

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.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
To try to be better is to be better.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

When you are taken away by a thrilling plot and by author's vivid imagination or by his humorous remarks or by the way he portrays people, you can't help reading the book from cover to cover, when the life of a literary character is similar to yours, you

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.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
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.

It was hear that the Dutch built the first building of the town.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
I'd learned my lesson.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.

The nomination of the war hero Ulysses S. Grant assured Republican success over the Democrats led by Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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!'
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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

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?
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

petak, 30.07.2010.

And I believe that it's not the size of the place where you live that matters, but the way you feel about it.

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.
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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
My friends are my estate.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Both inherited and environmental influences are called "risk factors."

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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?
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
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.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

You should be involved in making referral decisions and have all treatment choices explained to you.

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.
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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.

She accurately described the process because she had learned a lot about poisons and other chemicals during World War II, while working in a hospital.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Now we were descending just as steeply.

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

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
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.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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 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.

At first her stories appealed to the readers' detective inside, so you can't find much blood and violence in her stories.

The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
I am not young enough to know everything.

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

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

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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Well done is better than well said.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

utorak, 27.07.2010.

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

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Is there life before death?
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
All movements go too far.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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.
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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

In spring all birds come back from the South and they sing sweetly on the branches of the trees.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
I 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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

Eating too much junk food can cause overweight and as heart-disease.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

In the course of time, much forest land was cleared and almost all Lowlands outside the industrial areas were put under cultivation.

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.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

ponedjeljak, 26.07.2010.

I think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

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

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

My friends are my estate.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

He had luxurious moustaches and he was really proud of them.

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.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I usually go to the cinema for the morning or day shows.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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!
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

While AA is generally recognized as an effective mutual help program for recovering alcoholics, not everyone responds to AA's style and message, and other recovery approaches are available.

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.
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.
All movements go too far.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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

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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

A poem is no place for an idea.

I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

I didn't even breathe.

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.

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.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.

London is also the main center of opera and ballet.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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.'
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
The average person thinks he isn't.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
They can conquer who believe they can.

In one study of 832 workers at a large manufacturing plant, workers on evening shifts, during which supervision was reduced, were more likely than those on other shifts to report drinking at work.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

However, the Republican tariff policy was the work of leaders of the new industrial capitalism, whose influence in party councils began to be strongly felt under Grant.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Is there life before death?
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

The Republican "old guard," led by Roscoe Conkling , while failing to secure a third nomination for Grant in 1880, nevertheless temporarily blocked the presidential aspirations of James G. Blaine .

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
He who laughs, lasts!

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

History is more or less bunk.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

Effects of Employee Drinking

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

The trees begin to blossom. Sometimes it drizzles, but there are no rough winds; the sun shines brightly.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan , its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

subota, 24.07.2010.

In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, George W. Bush appeared generally to lead in the polls in what ultimately became a popular-vote loss to Democrat Al Gore.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
So little time and so little to do.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Also they think that it is polite to leave a little food on the plate at the end of a meal.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

My friends are my estate.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

petak, 23.07.2010.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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!'
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

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

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

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.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

I like to read books about animals, nature and children.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.

Everything else in this country is on a correspondent scale.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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.

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.
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'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

They have many TV and radio programs to choose from.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Is there life before death?

Because of differing concepts of carrying capacity, however, experts differ widely over what level of population is considered too high.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
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.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Maybe they were terrorists!

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

So in the end I'd like to say that I usually pay attention to all the details in other people's rooms, even to the smallest ones, because all of them reveal me new traits of the character of this person and new sides of the person I know.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

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

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.'
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
People fail forward to success.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
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.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

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.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

The hangover effect was demonstrated among pilots whose performance was tested in flight simulators.

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.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Although the Republican party had become a minority in registration, Nixon failed by fewer than 200,000 votes to defeat John F. Kennedy.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we'll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

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

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
History is more or less bunk.

Love truth, and pardon error.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

Eating habits are different in different countries.

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 like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

The Red Sea was an important trade route in antiquity.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

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

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

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

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

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

A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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?
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

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?

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

On another occasion, a student of his questioned the value of learning geometry, much like students today.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Vigorous writing is concise.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

There are about 200 professional theatres in Britain.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

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

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

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

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.

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

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.
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.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

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.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

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

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
The 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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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

Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

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

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Phaenomena is about planetary motions and Optics about perspectives.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Memory feeds imagination.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

It was not until 1826 that the first nonsectarian university was established in London.

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 was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

I'm sure that home of a person is as much a reflection of his personality, as the clothes he wears, the food he eats, the books he reads and the friends he spends his time with.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
So little time and so little to do.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Have you ever noticed that some people are always grumbling about their endless problems, dissatisfaction in life and even about the dull weather that annoys them?

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

nedjelja, 18.07.2010.

All these cards are brightly and coloured.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The 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 believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

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

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

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

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!'
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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."

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

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.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

I think it is necessary to follow these rules.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

British people say: "Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather."

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

Vigorous writing is concise.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Memory feeds imagination.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.

However, the Republican tariff policy was the work of leaders of the new industrial capitalism, whose influence in party councils began to be strongly felt under Grant.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
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.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.

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

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

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

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

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

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.

They weren't wearing insignia.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Each passenger is given a boarding pass to be shown at geparture gate and again to the stewardess when boarding the plane.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

He can be described as a funny little man taken by many readers as a comic.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

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

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

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

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.

A 15-session worksite coping-skills intervention designed to reduce work- and family-related risk, to enhance protective factors, and to reduce negative health outcomes was conducted among 136 female secretaries.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

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

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

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

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

New York is the city of famous skyscrapers.

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.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

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 summer night is like a perfection of thought.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.
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.'
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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.'
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.

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

The Late Nineteenth Century

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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 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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I stand in awe of my body.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.

They are covered with forests of blue colored eucalyptus trees.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I stand in awe of my body.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

The average range of temperature (from winter to summer) is from 15 to 23 degrees above zero.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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.
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.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

I remember, I liked thick books.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.

I prefer features films, though I enjoy documentaries almost as much to say nothing of animated cartoons films, news-reels or popular science films.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
I stand in awe of my body.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.

The most of Australia is a semi-desert so most people in Australia live in South - East.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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!
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

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.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizin

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

The frequency of abortions in Russia is one of the highest in the world.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

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

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
I 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.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

He who laughs, lasts!

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.

nedjelja, 11.07.2010.

I hate being disturbed when a film is on. If I like a movie very much I go to see it a second time and besides I see many of the movies televised.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The best way out is always through.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

He or she is frequently in the grip of a powerful craving for alcohol, a need that can feel as strong as the need for food or water.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

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.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

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.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I stand in awe of my body.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.

They see people overpopulation in MDCs (more developed countries) as threats to Earth's life support systems for us and other species.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

subota, 10.07.2010.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

All movements go too far.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.'
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

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 never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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?
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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.

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
My home is not a place, it is people.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

Her room is very cosy, though it isn't very large.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Amounts large and famous American cities are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

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 ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Our lives teach us who we are.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

In Cairo just breathing the air is life threatening- equivalent to smoking two packs of cigarettes a day.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.

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

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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

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

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

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

The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
All movements go too far.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

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

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

I like to come to hte cinema a couple of minutes before the movie starts.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
People fail forward to success.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
To try to be better is to be better.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.'

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

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The best way out is always through.
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.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

They found a high correlation between the level of human suffering and the rate of population increase in countries. The 30 countries falling in the extreme human-suffering range--all in Africa and Asia--averaged a high annual rate of population increase

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I 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!
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

The 1996 elections saw incumbents generally retain their offices.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

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.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The average person thinks he isn't.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Maybe they were terrorists!
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

"We cannot continue to use our seas as a dustbin and expect our coastline to survive," says Greenpeace.

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.
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 come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

I stand in awe of my body.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Never eat more than you can lift.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

It is an economic, financial, scientific and cultural center.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Because the involvement of family members is important to the recovery process, many programs also offer brief marital counseling and family therapy as part of the treatment process.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

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.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Art is science made clear.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

The climate in Great Britain is generally mild and temperate due to the influence of the Gulf Stream. The south-western winds carry the warmth and moisture into Britain. The climate in Britain is usually described as cool, temperate and humid.

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.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

petak, 09.07.2010.

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Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
A smiling face is half the meal.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

They were successful in the elections of 1858 and passed over their better-known leaders to nominate Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

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

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
He who laughs, lasts!
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

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

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

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.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

srijeda, 07.07.2010.

In Other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

They are the main reason for the greenhouse effect and acid rains.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
It 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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Not far from the table there is a bed and next to it stands a bed-side table with the telephone.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

On the other hand, you should remember that training willl equip you to do new things.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

utorak, 06.07.2010.

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

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

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

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

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

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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
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.'
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

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

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I never know how much of what I say is true.

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

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Is there life before death?
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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 are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.