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utorak, 31.08.2010.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I am not young enough to know everything.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498.

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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.

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.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

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

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Someone went upside my head again.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

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.
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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

petak, 20.08.2010.

There are some problems in our life and sometimes it is difficult to solve them.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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 shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
So little time and so little to do.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

They have a higher flavor and a much deeper color than Scotch or Irish and require from two to three years longer to mature.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
The 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'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Another tradition is to send cristmas cards.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
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.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

You can any types of food in restaurants ? you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

As my parents are an engineeres they have made a great influence on my choice and I can say that this profession runs the family.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.'
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I didn't even breathe.

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

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Maybe they were terrorists!
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
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.
'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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

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

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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

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.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I didn't even breathe.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Passengers must register their tickets, weigh in and register the luggage.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The 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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

? Failure to fulfill major work, school, or home responsibilities;

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
All the world's a cage.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.'
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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?
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.

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

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.
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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

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

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.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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?
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

So little time and so little to do.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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 your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
All the world's a cage.
Walking is man's best medicine.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.

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

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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 crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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?
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
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 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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Getting the Facts For many people, the facts about alcoholism are not clear.

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.
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.

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

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

I'd learned my lesson.

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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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'.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The average person thinks he isn't.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
People fail forward to success.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I didn't even breathe.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

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

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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!
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

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

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The 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.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
History is more or less bunk.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
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.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

četvrtak, 19.08.2010.

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

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
My friends are my estate.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
I 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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

utorak, 10.08.2010.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

The Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received a popular plurality of over 250,000 votes, but the disputed electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, the only Southern states still under Republican control, were awarded to Rutherfor

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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'.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to 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.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

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

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Vigorous writing is concise.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.

Isolationists held the upper hand in the party before World War II, and in 1940 two Republicans, Henry L.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my 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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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.

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

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
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.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
My home is not a place, it is people.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Memory feeds imagination.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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?
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
My friends are my estate.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

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

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

The scientific method of analyzing data and establishing hypotheses, a vital concomitant of academic freedom, was initiated during the Enlightenment , mainly by scholars outside university life such as Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Voltaire.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Even the best of friends need time apart.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

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 joke's a very serious thing.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

More than two-thirds of the 984 workers surveyed at a large manufacturing plant said it was "easy" or "very easy" to bring alcohol into the workplace, to drink at work stations, and to drink during breaks.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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?
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.
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.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.

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.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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'.

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

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.

In the room there is also a wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a fluffy carpet on the floor.

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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Droughts are rare.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

utorak, 03.08.2010.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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

You 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?
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

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.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.

Generally belligerent toward the South, the Republicans were regarded by Southerners with mingled hatred and fear as sectional tension increased.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

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

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

It's very easy to form a negative opinion about a person just because you don't like the way he looks, and it becomes like a barrier for further communication between you and this person, though in fact he can be an interesting, well-educated and talente

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

It is over 50 feet high.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
My friends are my estate.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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 often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

What's another word for Thesaurus?

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.

All movements go too far.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.

A smiling face is half the meal.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Well done is better than well said.

Whether we want it or not, but we always reflect ourselves as personalities who adore some things and hate other ones, who have some preferences, habits and interests, when we do a repair.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophob

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I didn't even breathe.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

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.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

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.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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?
History is more or less bunk.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Our lives teach us who we are.

The number of ducks, geese and other water fowl has diminished during recent years.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

I followed all the doctor's instructions and very soon I felt much better.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.