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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

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

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
In 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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

The party platform in 1860 included planks calling for a high protective tariff, free homesteads, and a transcontinental railroad; these were bids for support among Westerners, farmers, and eastern manufacturing interests.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The party, however, suffered a series of massive setbacks with the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew upon his conviction for tax evasion and revelations of major White House involvement in the Watergate affair, which led finally to the resignation

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
The best way out is always through.

During a normal summer the temperature sometimes rises above 30 degrees in the south.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I 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.
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.

A sign at the entrance of the theatre said that "house full".

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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

Australia is a country of almost 3 million square miles far from other countries that's why it wasn't discovered for a long time.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
You can't 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.

Walking is man's best medicine.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Someone went upside my head again.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

Days are short and nights are long The weather is cold, rivers and lakes are usually frozen.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

The Highlands with thin soil are largely moorland with heather and grasses.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
A smiling face is half the meal.

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

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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

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

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

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.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
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.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.
Our lives teach us who we are.

This description of alcoholism helps us understand why most alcoholics can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drinking.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I didn't even breathe.
I'd learned my lesson.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

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

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

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.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

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

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

ponedjeljak, 27.09.2010.

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If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

It is easy enough to understand that in ridiculing the academy of Laputa.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Vigorous writing is concise.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.

People fail forward to success.

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!'
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

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.

Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
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.

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

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

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.

Some people make headlines while others make history.
Maybe they were terrorists!
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

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

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Dairy products provide us with calcium, meat provide our bodies with protein, iron, zinc.

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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
He who laughs, lasts!
Maybe they were terrorists!
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The average person thinks he isn't.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Who were these clowns?
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion, acid rains and the global warming that is believed to be coused by the greenhouse effect.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
We are what we repeatedly do.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Life is consciousness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

Every ten minutes one kind of enimal, plant or insect dies out for ever.

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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

nedjelja, 26.09.2010.

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

I stand in awe of my body.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

If nothing is done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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?

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.
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.
Each body has its art...
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.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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?
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.

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.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

Charles Sumner , and Edwin M. Stanton advocated a punitive policy for the South, while Lincoln and the moderates were inclined to leniency.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Theatrical perfomances are given by theatre companies.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
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.'
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

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

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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."
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

subota, 25.09.2010.

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 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 great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Proponents of population regulation point to the fact that we are not providing adequate basic necessities for one out of five people on Earth today who don't have the opportunity to be a net economic gain for their country.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Several million more adults engage in risky drinking patterns that could lead to alcohol problems.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

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!'
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.

Today there live about 17 million of people.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
Is there life before death?

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
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.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

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

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

The weather is not the same in different countries.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.

My favourite film is ... with ... starring. It is really wonderful from the beginning to the end.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
My head rang like a gong.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Books must be our friends during all our life.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Euclid is called "The Father of Geometry".

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

I see all the best films that are on.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.'
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.

Recently, the Population Crisis Committee complied a human suffering index for each of 130 countries based on ten measures of human welfare.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

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

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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 was sick of cars driving right past me.

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

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
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.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

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

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The 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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'

The weather is not the same in different countries.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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 boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

But most of all I like just ice-cream.

College isn't the place to go for ideas.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

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.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.

The Decision To Get Help

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
I stand in awe of my body.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

So,The main goals are protection of women?s rights and elimination of discrimination in society; widening women?s participation in policy decision-making processes on the local, regional and national levels; support for cooperation between women?s organiz

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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

They can conquer who believe they can.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

There is not much rain, and drought is a constant anxiety.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.'

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

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

In the Northern Territory you will find the red heart of Australia.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

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?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

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.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

ponedjeljak, 20.09.2010.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

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.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Is there life before death?
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

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

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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?

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

It was difficult to write a book with a pen.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

But most of all I like just ice-cream.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

It has a lot of advantages: first of all your neighbours can never disturb you.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

I think we can't live without books.

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.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Well done is better than well said.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
They can conquer who believe they can.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

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.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

The wrong side of the bed was the left side.

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.
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.
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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

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

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

Although he may not have written The Elements entirely on his own, his other works are certainly his alone.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
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.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

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?

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
People fail forward to success.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

She was just an old spinster, very modest but perceptive and not a flamboyant personality, who acted as a detective just by virtue of taking thought.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
People fail forward to success.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

The summer months are June, July and August.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Some project that if everyone existed at a minimum survival level, the earth could support 20 to 48 billion people.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

Today only about 6 per cent of the total land area remains wooded.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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 respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Is there life before death?
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
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.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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 national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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 moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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 art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

Phaenomena is about planetary motions and Optics about perspectives.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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 know all the famous script writers, producers and cameramen.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

My home is not a place, it is people.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

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

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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I'd learned my lesson.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.
No.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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?
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

People fail forward to success.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
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.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.

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

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

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

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Vigorous writing is concise.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, char

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
A smiling face is half the meal.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
People fail forward to success.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

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

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny 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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

In 1968 the party rebounded and won a narrow victory with party stalwart Richard Nixon over Democratic candidate Hubert Humphrey, who was handicapped by disaffection over the Vietnam War.

I stand in awe of my body.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

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 go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
My head rang like a gong.
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.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

petak, 10.09.2010.

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

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
All the world's a cage.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

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

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

The illicit manufacture of whiskey to avoid payment of excise taxes has been common.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
All the world's a cage.
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

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

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Is there life before death?
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.

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

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Is there life before death?
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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.
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?
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Well done is better than well said.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

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

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

So, we may say that the British climate has three main features: it is mild, humid and changeable.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.

And the last type of dwelling I want to mention is a detached house.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

They call for MDCs to use their economic systems to reward population regulation and sustainable forms of economic growth instead of continuing their unsustainable forms of economic growth and encouraging LDCs to follow this eventually unsustainable and d

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

He prescribed cups and mustard plasters.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Vigorous writing is concise.

Can Alcoholism Be Cured?

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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?
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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."
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

In the mountains there is heavier rainfall then in the plains of the south and east.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

četvrtak, 09.09.2010.

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

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

utorak, 07.09.2010.

Rainfall is more or less even throughout the year.

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
You 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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.'
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
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.

How can you tell whether you, or someone close to you, may have a drinking problem?

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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?
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?
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.

They are very important in the life of English people.Englishman are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.

The center of the city is on Capital Hill. This building houses both the senate and a House of Representatives.

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.