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utorak, 28.09.2010.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

Relapses are very common and do not mean that a person has failed or cannot eventually recover from alcoholism.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

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

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.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
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."
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

When we take a book, we mustn't do dog's ears, we mustn't write anything on the pages, and we must return books to the library in time.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

In 1948 the Republican party was supremely confident of defeating Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

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

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Maybe they were terrorists!

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

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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
No.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

Not far from the table there is a bed and next to it stands a bed-side table with the telephone.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

That's why we get books in public libraries.

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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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

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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Walking is man's best medicine.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

And it really is red, with red rocks, red sand, and red skies in the evening.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

Maybe they were terrorists!
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

The summer months are June, July and August.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Where facts are few, experts are many.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet

Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

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

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
No.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

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

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

The warm days of early autumn arc called the "Indian Summer" and it is really beautiful with its yellow, red and brown trees and golden leaves falling down.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
My home is not a place, it is people.

No whiskey can be released from bond in Great Britain until it has matured in wood at least three years, and in practice most whiskey is stored seven or eight years before marketing. In the United States bonded whiskey must stay a minimum of four years i

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

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 toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

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 y

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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 is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

I like the cinema tremendously.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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.

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

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

The weather is the favourite topic of conversation in Britain.

It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

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

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.

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.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventua

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

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So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Life is consciousness.
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!
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.

While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

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

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Life is consciousness.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

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

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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.'
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
You 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.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Effects of Employee Drinking

There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
All movements go too far.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

I consider that books are with us during all our life.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

A poem is no place for an idea.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Is there life before death?
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?
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

Her room is very cool and light, there are plenty of flowers here, as she has a green thumb.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.

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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

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.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
My home is not a place, it is people.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
They can conquer who believe they can.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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."

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

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

I am happy if it is a book. If I have free time I like to spend it with my favourite books.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
They weren't wearing insignia.

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

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

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

petak, 24.09.2010.

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

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with 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.
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.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The average person thinks he isn't.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

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

People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.

Each passenger is given a boarding pass to be shown at geparture gate and again to the stewardess when boarding the plane.

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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

There are many other works of Euclid which appear to be lost to time, but his primary work in The Elements is what made him famous.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

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.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
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.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

So, never judge people by appearances, because appearances are deceptive!

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

The name Wall Street remained from our days.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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?
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

The process of reading demands lots of thinking on the part of the reader because reading exists not only for entertainment.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.

Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

In a survey of 6,540 employees at 16 worksites representing a range of industries, 23 percent of upper-level managers reported any drinking during working hours in the previous month.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.

Now I like to read books on science, history and biology.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

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.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Each passenger is given a boarding pass to be shown at geparture gate and again to the stewardess when boarding the plane.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
A joke's a very serious thing.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
So little time and so little to do.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

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

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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.
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.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.

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

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

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

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
People fail forward to success.

Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

(To help remember these questions, note that the first letter of a key word in each of the four questions spells "CAGE.")

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

The choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.

It is understandable that women decide to defer having children later or do not have children at all.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

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.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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.

ponedjeljak, 20.09.2010.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

? Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover (Eye opener)?

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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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.
No.

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

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.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

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

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

It might be useful for travelling businessmen and tourists to know that tailor shops, shoe repair shops and laundry, dry cleaning services are available for guests.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
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.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

The left always having been linked with evil.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

At the beginning of the 19-th century the English colonists gave the fifth continent the name Australia or "the unknown southern land ".

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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
A joke's a very serious thing.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
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.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

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

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

Extensive forests remain in eastern and northern Scotland and in south-eastern and western England.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Hedgehogs, hares, rabbits, rats and mice are numerous. Deer live in some of the forests in the Highlands of Scotland and England.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
My home is not a place, it is people.

If I had a chance to go to some English - speaking country I would like to go to Australia.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

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.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.

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

We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
My home is not a place, it is people.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

I will never forget my first visit to the Bolshoy Theatre.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

At first, nobody wanted to live there because it was used as a prison where the British government would send British prisoners.

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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 guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

While alcoholism is a treatable disease, a cure is not yet available.

We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.

? Examine the benefits of stopping an unhealthy drinking pattern.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

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

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
A joke's a very serious thing.

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.

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

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

I don?t like to wear a lot of warm clothes, that is why my favorite season is spring.

He who laughs, lasts!
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.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

'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.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.

To others, it is an intrusion into their personal privacy and freedom.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

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.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
Life is consciousness.
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

petak, 10.09.2010.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

Other research is investigating the ways in which genetic and environmental factors combine to cause alcoholism.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

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

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

The ground is covered with snow, so a lot of people go skating and skiing.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

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

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

subota, 04.09.2010.

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

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.

The Scotch Highland whisky (made in pot stills) and that of the Lowlands (patent stills) differ in the percentage of barley used, quality of the water

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.

? Recurring alcohol-related legal problems, such as being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or for physically hurting someone while drunk;

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

This work made a great sensation in Ireland as well as in England, it equally strirred the interests of those in politics as well as the readers of novels.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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 watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

I also live in a flat and I can say that all these disadvantages don't bother me very much, and in general it's a good type of housing.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
My head rang like a gong.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.

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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.