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subota, 31.07.2010.

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.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.

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

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Someone went upside my head again.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

It can be put aside and taken up again at any moment..

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
All movements go too far.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

It is often cold.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.

By straddling the issue of the League of Nations and calling for a return to "normalcy," the party easily elected Warren G. Harding in 1920.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Tasmania, the island south of Australia, is small.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Memory feeds imagination.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

I usually take books from school library.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

petak, 30.07.2010.

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.

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.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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 God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

In ancient times books were written by hand.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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.
No.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
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 summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

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

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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
History is more or less bunk.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

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

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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 on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
They weren't wearing insignia.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

Academic freedom right of scholars to pursue research, to teach, and to publish without control or restraint from the institutions that employ them.

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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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?
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

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.

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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

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

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

On the domestic side, however, Bush's administration was perceived as being slow to respond to such problems as stagnant economic growth, rising unemployment, and the unaffordability of health care for many Americans.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
You'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 should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.

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

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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?

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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
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.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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.
Life is consciousness.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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 feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
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.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

As a result, you may feel that to seek help is to admit some type of shameful defect in yourself. In fact, however, alcoholism is a disease that is no more a sign of weakness than is asthma or diabetes.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

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

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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 only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

To minorities, population regulation is sometimes seen as a form of genocide to keep their numbers and power from rising.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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.
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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

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

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

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

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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?
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

By the time Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, the number had doubled again, to I billion.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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

Our lives teach us who we are.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

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

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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 cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

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

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 am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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 chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

The Late Nineteenth Century

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.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.

He wrote a for a gargle and cough medicine.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

srijeda, 28.07.2010.

I'd learned my lesson.

Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

The ship anchors near the land of the giants to take in a supply of water.

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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
'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.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

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

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

Is there life before death?
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.'

Many people were standing at the entrace of the theatre asking if we had an extra ticket.

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
I 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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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 don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

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

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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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.

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.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I'd learned my lesson.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

In fact, it?s the best known place in Australia.

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.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

The Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.

For example, do you like working alone or with others?

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 often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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 lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Then printing came into our life.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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?
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

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

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

His work in geometry led to discovery after discovery in history, and provided the basis for mathematical education for 2000 years.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

They believe, however, that adding several hundred million more people in MDCs and several billion more in LDSs ( less developed countries) will intensify many environmental and social problems by increasing resource use and waste, environmental degradat

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
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.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Is there life before death?
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

It is not only children and members of family.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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 you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

By straddling the issue of the League of Nations and calling for a return to "normalcy," the party easily elected Warren G. Harding in 1920.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

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

An idea is salvation by imagination.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.

Is there life before death?

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
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.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

utorak, 27.07.2010.

She is popular for ingenuity of plots, which are classical murder mysteries: marooned places and a well-mannered murderer.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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."

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Inferior whiskeys are made from potatoes, beets, and other roots.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

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.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

After the overtune the curtain went up.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.'
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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.

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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The ballet seemed to me a fairy-tale. When the last curtain fell, the house burst out into applause.

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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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.

Only a half of million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests.

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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
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.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The best way out is always through.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

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

I didn't even breathe.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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.
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.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Swift creates such a monarch in the king of Brobdingnag.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.

They have done this more or less every 5th of November since 1605.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Well done is better than well said.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
I 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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

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

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Other analysts believe the earth could support 7 to 12 billion people at a decent standard of living by distributing the world's land and food supply more equitably and shifting from less abundant resources (such as lead, tin, uranium, oil, and natural g

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.

Hoover and the Republicans were blamed for the disastrous economic depression that soon enveloped the country, and the Democrats, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were swept into office in 1932.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

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

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
We are what we repeatedly do.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Every singly person should eat proper kinds of food ? dairy products, meats, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars, cereals and grains.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

I believe that my bedroom also tells a lot about me to people who visit it.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.'
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.

Besides among advantages of living in a block o f flats some people name the fact that it takes less time to tidy up a flat than a house.

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.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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 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!'

The center of the actrical life is London.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

ponedjeljak, 26.07.2010.

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

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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 crowd gives the leader new strength.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
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.

Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole won the Republican nomination for the presidency, but he and his running mate, Jack Kemp , were never able to reduce significantly President Clinton's substantial lead. In the House and Senate, Republicans retained t

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

The city was founded in 1791 and named after the first president.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

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

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Maybe they were terrorists!

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

If present trends continue for the next several decades, our planet will become uninhabitable.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.'
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Art is science made clear.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.

Some of the chapters seem to be written with different styles, and others are geared for different ages, leading one to believe that he inserted other mathematicians' work into his own.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.

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

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

The British bedroom is especially cold, sometimes electric blankets or hotwater bottles are used.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

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 .

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Our lives teach us who we are.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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 an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
There 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.'
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.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

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.'
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
'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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
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.
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.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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.

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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.

Despite not winning the popular vote.

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

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

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Is there life before death?
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

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

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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I'd learned my lesson.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

Hoover and the Republicans were blamed for the disastrous economic depression that soon enveloped the country, and the Democrats, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were swept into office in 1932.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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 never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Only a half of million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
No.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

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

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.

We came to the theatre long before the perfomance began.

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.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

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

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

Other great holidays are:Father?s day,Mother?s day,Helloween and other.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

There are more than a dozen very good orchestras in Britain and some of them are world famous.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
History is more or less bunk.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

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

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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 Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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 see all the best films that are on.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
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.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

subota, 24.07.2010.

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

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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 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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

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.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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 had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

And only in 1606 Dutch sailors reached the shores of the unknown continent, but it was not settled till the English Captain Cook discovered the East Coast in 1770.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for 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.

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

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

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 real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I 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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

petak, 23.07.2010.

Under Roosevelt's Republican successor and friend, William Howard Taft , "dollar diplomacy" flourished, but a new rift appeared in the party.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Worshippers of Artemis, godess of the moon and hunting, used to place honey cakes on the altars of her temples on her birthday.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

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

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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Campaigning against the domestic policy of the Truman administration and its prosecution of the war in Korea, Eisenhower swept to a landslide victory over the Democratic candidate, Adlai E. Stevenson .

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.
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.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
We are what we repeatedly do.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

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

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The best way out is always through.
I stand in awe of my body.
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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.

In the 1994 congressional and state elections, however, the Republican party scored major victories and increased its hold in the South.

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.
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.'

Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.
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.'
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Homes reflect the way of life and habits of their owners.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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 reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

Vigorous writing is concise.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Some individuals who have stopped drinking after experiencing alcohol-related problems choose to attend AA meetings for information and support, even though they have not been diagnosed as alcoholic.

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.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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.

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.

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!
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Lord Monteagle took the letter hurrily to the King. Guards were sent at once to examine the cellars of the house of Parliament.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
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 minute's success pays the failure of years.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
He who laughs, lasts!
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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.
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.

Some 230 kinds of birds live in Britain, and another 200 are regular visitors, many are songbirds.

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.
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.
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.'
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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?

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
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.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

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?

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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Who were these clowns?
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

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

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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 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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

To some, population regulation is a violation of their deep religious beliefs.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
I 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.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.'

econd custom is called "Blowing out the candles" The custom of having candles on birthday cakes goes back to the ancient Greeks.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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.
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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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 heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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.

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

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.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Then he examined my throat and said that it was a little inflamed.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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

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.
People fail forward to success.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
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 kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

As one of my friends says if you are not a handicapped person you are a really lucky and happy one.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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

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.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

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

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

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

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

The Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
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 wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Films are placed in one of three categories in Britain. "U" - suitable for everybody, "A" - more suitable for adults, "X" - suitable only for adults.

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.

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

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

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

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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!
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Someone went upside my head again.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.'
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

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.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

So I know it for sure that appearances are deceptive.

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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

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

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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 need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

He was widely lauded for his role in orchestrating the coalition of forces against Iraq in the Persian Gulf War.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

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. Per

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.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.

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

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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

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.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Euclid also founded a great mathematics school in Alexandria.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Miss Marple was absolutely opposite to Poirot.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

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

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
All the world's a cage.

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

In the 1994 congressional and state elections, however, the Republican party scored major victories and increased its hold in the South.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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 love every corner and every thing in my flat.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
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.'
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
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.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

subota, 17.07.2010.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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!
Things are only impossible until they're not.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

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."
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
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.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

petak, 16.07.2010.

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

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
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 fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

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

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
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?
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.

Tasmania, the island south of Australia, is small.

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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happines

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

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

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

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.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

Benjamin Harrison defeated Cleveland in 1888 but lost to him in 1892.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Women's social status is a serious problem.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The best way out is always through.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

It probably produces fewer headlines than wars, earthquakes and floods, but it is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
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.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

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.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

? Physical dependence: The occurrence of withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drinking. These symptoms are usually relieved by drinking alcohol or by taking another seda

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.
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 my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

March, April and May are spring months.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

His work in Data is probably the most famous of his smaller works, and focuses on finding certain measurements and quantities when others are given.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

Behind the cine-ma screen there is a stage, so that the building can be used for concerts and other performances.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
He who laughs, lasts!
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

I try to enjoy every day of my life and be happy all the time: to smile when I wake up because of the bright sun shining directly into my window, to feel happiness somewhere deep inside playing snowballs or swimming in the sea, to feel pleasure when I see

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.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.

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.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny 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 ...'
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
A smiling face is half the meal.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Alcoholism has little to do with what kind of alcohol one drinks, how long one has been drinking, or even exactly how much alcohol one consumes.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

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

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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

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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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

I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

He or she can help you determine whether you have a drinking problem and, if so, recommend the best course of action for you.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.

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

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Someone went upside my head again.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

When settlement began in 1788 the continent was inhabited by about 300 000 people, who are now called aborigines.

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I 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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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 wrong side of the bed was the left side.

I am not young enough to know everything.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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?
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
To try to be better is to be better.
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.

Virtually all alcoholism treatment programs also include meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which describes itself as a "worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober."

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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

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

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

Health promotion programs offered in the workplace may reduce employees' alcohol-related problems.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

We came to the theatre long before the perfomance began.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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 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.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

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

History is more or less bunk.
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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

Proponents of population regulation believe this is caused by a combination of population growth and unwillingness of the wealthy to share the world's wealth and resources more fairly.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

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.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.

A further point to consider is how far you will be willing to do for a time things which you do not like knowing that they are necessary to achive your longer term objectives.

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.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

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

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
So little time and so little to do.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
'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.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

The , which the doctor left, was made up at the chemist's.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

nedjelja, 11.07.2010.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

It often rains, both in winter and summer.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Is there life before death?

In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety.

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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I know all the famous script writers, producers and cameramen.

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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

To be a well prepared engineer I should have some important qualities: great capability persistance, knowledge of science and, of course, knowledge of foreign languages.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Each body has its art...
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 ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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'.
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.

subota, 10.07.2010.

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

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

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

We are what we repeatedly do.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
They can conquer who believe they can.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Maybe they were terrorists!
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

Limited work supervision, often a problem on evening shifts, has been associated with employee alcohol problems.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.

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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

I love every corner and every thing in my flat.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.

Sometimes you can depend on your neighbours - imagine such a situation: your neighbours' tap is dripping and they need it to be repaired, so they block the water supply not only in their own flat but also in yours and you have to wait for hours till you c

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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.
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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

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

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

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

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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.
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.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Each volume begins with pages of definitions and postulates, followed by his theorems.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

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

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
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.
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.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
Life is consciousness.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

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

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
No.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Love truth, and pardon error.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

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.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

Then he examined my throat and said that it was a little inflamed.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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'.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

You can also build some outhouses like a green-house, a garage, a tool shed or an arbour.

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.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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.

utorak, 06.07.2010.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Walking is man's best medicine.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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!
Memory feeds imagination.
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.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
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.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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 flat coastal plains of the Red Sea slope gradually to the submarine central trough, more than 2,134 m deep. The sea is dotted with islands (the largest group is the Dahlak Archipelago in the southwest) and with dangerous coral reefs.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

We left our coats in the cloak-room and bought a program from the usher to see what the cast was.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

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.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

That's why I think over the possibility to live in a cottage when I retire.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Each body has its art...
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing 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.

In the United States the early colleges were also religiously controlled, and there are still some denominational schools that define areas of inquiry.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.