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utorak, 26.10.2010.

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

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

I am not particulaly fond of the cinema.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

Autumn is the season of fruit and vegetables, lots of people pick mushrooms up in the forest and dry them for winter.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

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 crowd gives the leader new strength.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
So little time and so little to do.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

I like to read stories about heroes, great travelers, explorers, and courageous men.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

If a relapse occurs, it is very important to try to stop drinking once again and to get whatever additional support is needed to abstain from drinking.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

The library is helpful when I have to make a report, when I need information on some subjects.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Art is science made clear.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Life is consciousness.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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?
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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.

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

? Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.

I stand in awe of my body.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

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.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

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

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

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

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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

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

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

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

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
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!'
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

subota, 23.10.2010.

But New South Wales has more than cities.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

Now Washington is the residents of the president and the congress.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Is there life before death?
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Our flat is very warm and cosy, so it makes any person feel at home.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Is there life before death?

The fauna or animal life of Britain is much like that of north-western Europe, to which it was once joined.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

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

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I didn't even breathe.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

The weather is not the same in different countries.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

"My home is my fortress", it is my territory, my place where I feel good and comfortable. And nobody can disturb me here.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

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.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

The party did not fair as well in other races for national office, and the Democrats made gains in Congress, although the Republicans retained control there.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.'

Some programs also link up individuals with vital community resources, such as legal assistance, job training, child care, and parenting classes.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

The national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.

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.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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.

He who laughs, lasts!

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Blackpool is not officially asafe.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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 problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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."
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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 ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

Does teaching people appeal to you?

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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 am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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 can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

But one of the consperators had several friends in the parliament and he didn't want them to die.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
All movements go too far.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

I can't say that I can stand colds.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
No.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

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

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.
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.
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.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

So,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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
History is more or less bunk.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I 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.

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

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

When we drove up to their house my attention was attracted by a little tidy girl in a rose dress, who was sitting to squat and playing with her long blond curl. It was Nina.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Rainfall is more or less even throughout the year.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
To try to be better is to be better.

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

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.

Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Well done is better than well said.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

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

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

So, sometime ago I suddenly fell ill.

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.
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.'
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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?
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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 like to come to hte cinema a couple of minutes before the movie starts.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Someone went upside my head again.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.
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.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Finally the identity of the murderer is revealed and a hooked reader starts looking for another book by Agatha Christie.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

People in the office help guests to book train or steamer tickets and rent a car.

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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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 crowd gives the leader new strength.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

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

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

For a man of such great significance to the world of mathematics, little is known about his actual life.

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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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 easy enough to understand that in ridiculing the academy of Laputa.

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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

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

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Australia is sometimes called ?the lucky country?.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

? Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get "high."

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
My friends are my estate.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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 release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

If a relapse occurs, it is very important to try to stop drinking once again and to get whatever additional support is needed to abstain from drinking.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

Autumn is the season of fruit and vegetables, lots of people pick mushrooms up in the forest and dry them for winter.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

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

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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 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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

? Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get "high."

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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

But keep in mind that the sooner a person gets help, the better are his or her chances for a successful recovery.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

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

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.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only ad

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

Moose convention chose Roosevelt to lead the new Progressive party ticket.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
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.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
I 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.

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

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Someone went upside my head again.

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

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

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

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

La Follette balked at the party's conservatism and when the regulars renominated Taft in 1912, most of the dissidents withdrew and in the Bull

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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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."
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.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

British cinema-goers see mainly English and American films, though many of the foreign films are often shown in London and in the South of the country.

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'.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
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.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Someone went upside my head again.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

In Russia the weather is very cold in winter in winter and very warm in summer, people usually wear too much clothes in winter ? warm sweaters, jeans, tights, winter boots and fur-coats, mittens, scarves, hats and other warm things.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

There are many threats to wildlife and ecological balance around the coast.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

The standard whiskeys of the world are Scotch (commonly spelled whisky ), Irish, American, and Canadian.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

A service is usually excellent and friendly waiters help you to relax and enjoy your meal fully.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
A 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.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.

My mother showed me the boxes, the pitm the dress-circle, the tieres and balconies.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

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?

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

It's better to stay neutral until the moment when you can say for sure that you know this or that person pretty well to say he is a person who deserves (or doesn't deserve) faith, understanding or attention. It's my life motto since I've made such a mista

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

I like to read stories about heroes, great travelers, explorers, and courageous men.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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?
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.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

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

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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 th

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I 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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

People come back from the countryside and do not walk outside enough.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Each body has its art...
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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 most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.

Drinking at work, problem drinking, and frequency of getting "drunk" in the past 30 days were positively associated with frequency of absenteeism, arriving late to work or leaving early, doing poor work, doing less work, and arguing with co-workers.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
My friends are my estate.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

One reason is the wonderful riches under the earth: gold, silver, iron, coal and many precious metals.

They can conquer who believe they can.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

In the United States this is known as moonshining.

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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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

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.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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.

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

Keep in mind, too, that every day that a recovering alcoholic has stayed sober prior to a relapse is extremely valuable time, both to the individual and to his or her family.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

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

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

No.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Art is science made clear.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

Another ex-Union general, James A. Garfield , was nominated and was elected over a Democratic general, Winfield S. Hancock.

Maybe they were terrorists!
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

The fauna or animal life of Britain is much like that of north-western Europe, to which it was once joined.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Walking is man's best medicine.
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.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent 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.
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.
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.'
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

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.

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?
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
They weren't wearing insignia.

While students no longer read directly from his writing, the textbooks of today are still based on Euclidean proofs and theorems.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Love truth, and pardon error.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
No.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.

Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
My home is not a place, it is people.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.

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

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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
No.
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.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

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.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

While alcohol abuse is basically different from alcoholism, it is important to note that many effects of alcohol abuse are also experienced by alcoholics.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

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

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.'
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Even those who are helped by AA usually find that AA works best in combination with other elements of treatment, including counseling and medical care.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.

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?

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Passengers are requested to arrive at the airport 2 hours before departure time on international flights and an hour on domestic flights as there must be enough time to complete the necessary airport formalities.

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.
I stand in awe of my body.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
No.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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 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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

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

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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
I 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.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
All movements go too far.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

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

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 friends are my estate.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

It's the place where I wake up every morning to the refreshing smell of coffee from the kitchen and where every day of my life starts, that's why it is so important for me.

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.
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.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Who were these clowns?
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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

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

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

If your health care professional concludes that you may be dependent on alcohol, he or she may recommend that you see a specalist in diagnosing and treating alcoholism.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

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

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.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

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

The best way out is always through.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

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

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.

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

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

When I was a child, my parents read me interesting books.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.

Also it is very important for our health.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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

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!'
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
I 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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

It's never just a game when you're winning.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
A poem is no place for an idea.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

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 undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

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

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
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.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

The national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.

A smiling face is half the meal.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

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

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Maybe they were terrorists!
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Every daily paper publishes a weather forecast. Both the radio and television give the weather forecast several times each day.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

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

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

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

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
People fail forward to success.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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

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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

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 excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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 cannot speak about England without speaking about it's traditions and customs .

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Now we were descending just as steeply.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

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.
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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Walking is man's best medicine.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.

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

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

Do not forget your personal effects when leaving the plane.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.

Twenty-four percent reported any drinking at work at least once during the year before the survey.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
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.'
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Art is science made clear.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

Therefore it is natural for the people to use the comparison "as changeable as the weather" of a person who often changes his mood or opinion about something.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
To try to be better is to be better.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Each body has its art...
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

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

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.

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

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

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

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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

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?
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

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.
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.
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.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

It doesn?t matter what kind ? with raspberry favor, with marmalade, chocolate chips or pieces of fruit.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

When two Englishmen are introduced to each other, if they can't think of any thing else to talk about, they talk about weather.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.

What is alcoholism, exactly?

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
No.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Together, these investigations will help to prevent alcohol problems; identify alcohol abuse and alcoholism at earlier stages; and make available new, more effective treatment approaches for individuals and families.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
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?
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
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.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

? Continued drinking despite having ongoing relationship problems that are caused or worsened by the effects of alcohol.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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 choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

Euclid was apparently a kind, patient man, and did possess a sarcastic sense of humor.

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.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
A joke's a very serious thing.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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

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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
People fail forward to success.

Nonetheless, a substantial number of people have serious trouble with their drinking.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The radicals were supreme under Grant, but their excesses and the open scandals of the administration created a new schism, leading to the formation of the Liberal Republican party .

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

The name was first used by Thomas Jefferson's party, later called the Democratic Republican party or, simply, the Democratic party .

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

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.

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.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

One famous man said: "The nature doesn't have bad weather?, so in my opinion we should like all seasons, because every season is beautiful in its own way.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

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

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Swift creates such a monarch in the king of Brobdingnag.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
I stand in awe of my body.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Vigorous writing is concise.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

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

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

subota, 02.10.2010.

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

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
No.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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!'
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

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

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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?
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

I 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.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

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

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

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

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

? Examine the situations that trigger your unhealthy drinking patterns, and develop new ways of handling those situations so that you can maintain your drinking goal.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
A poem is no place for an idea.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

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

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

The book is a faithful and undemanding friend.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

A smiling face is half the meal.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The average person thinks he isn't.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
The most 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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

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

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
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.

It is a civil right that is enjoyed, at least in statute, by all citizens of democratic countries.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

In Optics, Euclid attempts to prove the common belief of the time that sight was created by rays coming from the eye, rather than light entering the eye.

God creates men, but they choose each other.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Is there life before death?
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

This involves taking a realistic view of your strengths and weaknesses.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

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

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

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.'

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

They are covered with forests of blue colored eucalyptus trees.

All the world's a cage.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Memory feeds imagination.
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?
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
No.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.