abolob

petak, 08.04.2011.

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

Nothing is said that has not been said before.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

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

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
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.
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.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

We should eat fats and sugars in moderation, because too much fats and sugars can cause different heart-diseases.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
History is more or less bunk.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

The frustrated Republicans were never able to break the remarkable hold of Roosevelt and the New Deal on the electorate and regularly went down to defeat every four years, with Alfred M. Landon (1936), Wendell Willkie (1940), and Thomas E. Dewey (1944).

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
So little time and so little to do.
They can conquer who believe they can.

Gardens and parks are full of colorful flowers; there are a lot of berries in summer, so some people like to go to a forest to pick them up.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
My head rang like a gong.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

They weren't wearing insignia.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

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

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.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

He who laughs, lasts!
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Maybe they were terrorists!

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Rather then take trouble of going out to see a film, I would stay at home and watch television.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
So little time and so little to do.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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.

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

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

I am sure that books play a very important role in my life.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.

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

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 price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

His work was translated into Latin and Arabic, and was first printed in mass quantity in 1482, ten years before Columbus, but 1800 years AFTER it was written! From that point until the early 1900's, The Elements was considered by far the best geometry tex

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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?

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.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent.

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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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?
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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.

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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.

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