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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

Well done is better than well said.

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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
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.

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

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.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

So, sometime ago I suddenly fell ill.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
The 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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Early cultures, which viewed education as a system of absorbing a well-defined subject matter, offered little opportunity for speculation.

There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Despite promises about sharing the world's wealth, the gap between the rich and poor has been getting larger since 1960.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

My home, my sweet home...

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
No.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

Dairy products provide us with calcium, meat provide our bodies with protein, iron, zinc.

They weren't wearing insignia.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Walking is man's best medicine.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
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.
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.

These analysts recognize that population growth is not the only cause or our environmental and resource problems.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

I didn't even breathe.

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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
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.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

What is alcoholism, exactly?

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The Republicans favored a protective tariff and the Democrats a tariff for revenue only, but even this traditional distinction was not rigidly kept.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I 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.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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?

Someone went upside my head again.

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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

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

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Taft , choosing instead the popular war hero, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as their presidential nominee.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.

Stimson and Frank Knox , were virtually read out of the party for accepting posts in Roosevelt's cabinet.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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

The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

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 heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Art is science made clear.
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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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 problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
You 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.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

To help them in this they got Guy Fawker, a soldier of fortune, who would do the actual work.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

By 1855 the new party was well launched in the North.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
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.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I am not young enough to know everything.

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 nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
So little time and so little to do.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The best way out is always through.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

My friends are my estate.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

I love it because the nature wakes up ? trees are in blossom, the green grass grows up, the sun shines, birds sing?beautiful!

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
I 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.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
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.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

Some people make headlines while others make history.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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 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.
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.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.
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.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
'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.

So,The main goals are protection of women?s rights and elimination of discrimination in society; widening women?s participation in policy decision-making processes on the local, regional and national levels; support for cooperation between women?s organiz

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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 average person thinks he isn't.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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 the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.

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

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

I am not young enough to know everything.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Vigorous writing is concise.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

This information will explain alcoholism and alcohol abuse, symptoms of each, when and where to seek help, treatment choices, and additional helpful resources.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

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 was sick of cars driving right past me.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

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

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

He was tortured and hanged, Catesby was killed, resisting arrest in his own house.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

? Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Someone went upside my head again.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

You can neither buy happiness, nor sell it; you can never win it in the lottery; the only way to be happy is to grow your happiness.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.

Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is the size of your salary important?

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

? Drinking in situations that are physically dangerous, such as while driving a car or operating machinery;

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
All the world's a cage.
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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

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.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.

ponedjeljak, 27.09.2010.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

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

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
History is more or less bunk.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I 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.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
All the world's a cage.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

The dancers got many curtain calls and were presented with many flowers.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

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.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.

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 mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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?

petak, 24.09.2010.

The division was made complete when, after Lincoln's assassination, his successor, Andrew Johnson , adopted a moderate program of Reconstruction . Johnson, a Jacksonian Democrat from Tennessee, had been added to the ticket in 1864 to strengthen the idea o

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
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.
Who were these clowns?
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

The nomination of the war hero Ulysses S. Grant assured Republican success over the Democrats led by Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.

Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The 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.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
To try to be better is to be better.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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?

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

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

They are covered with forests of blue colored eucalyptus trees.

Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
People fail forward to success.
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 enough to aim; you must hit.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

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

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

The farther north you go, the hotter it gets.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

Too many people start looking for a specific job before thinking out their occupational aims.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

They were successful in the elections of 1858 and passed over their better-known leaders to nominate Abraham Lincoln in 1860.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

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?

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Where facts are few, experts are many.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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 like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
To try to be better is to be better.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Walking is man's best medicine.
My head rang like a gong.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

The same holds true for Mexico City and 600 cities of the former Soviet Union.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

The Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction.

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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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 trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

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

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
So little time and so little to do.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure , in education). Essential to the acceptance of the concept of academic f

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I didn't even breathe.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

The fireplaces are often used. but the coal is not used as it's very expensive.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

In our country cinema-going is not so popular now as it was earlier.

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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

A poem is no place for an idea.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

I remember, I liked thick books.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
History is more or less bunk.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Others opposed to population regulation feel that all people should have the freedom to have as many children as they want.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Art is science made clear.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

? Examine the benefits of stopping an unhealthy drinking pattern.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

Contemporary life is impossible without reading.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

At first her stories appealed to the readers' detective inside, so you can't find much blood and violence in her stories.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
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 trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

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?
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

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

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Try to answer these questions as fully and honestly as you can.

Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

I usually go to the cinema for the morning or day shows.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
'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.
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.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
There 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.'
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
I stand in awe of my body.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

srijeda, 22.09.2010.

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

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

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.

History is more or less bunk.
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 reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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 was sick of cars driving right past me.

We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Well done is better than well said.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

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

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

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."

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Our lives teach us who we are.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Read more and you'll never be bored!

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.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

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The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Books... I think that we can't live without them.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

Newly made whiskey is colorless, the rich brown of the matured liquor being acquired from the cask in which it is stored. Canadian whiskey has a characteristic lightness of body and must, according to law, be produced from cereal grain only.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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

Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

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

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

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 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.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
All the world's a cage.

The trees begin to blossom. Sometimes it drizzles, but there are no rough winds; the sun shines brightly.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.

You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Memory feeds imagination.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

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?

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

The Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

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

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
I am not young enough to know everything.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
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!

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

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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?
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.'
My head rang like a gong.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

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

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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

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

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.
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.

Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

At first sight they have nothing in life; they don't have stable jobs or their own apartments, but they are really happy; they meet every day with a smile, they laugh and receive pleasure from life. Isn't that great?

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

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

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
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.
Each body has its art...
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

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.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

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

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

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

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
So little time and so little to do.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

The perfomance was a great success with the public.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

If I have got time I like to spend it with my favourite book.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.

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

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Do you want to develop new ideas and initiate changes.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Heavy drinking can increase the risk for certain cancers, especially those of the liver, esophagus, throat, and larynx (voice box).

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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?
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
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.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

petak, 10.09.2010.

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

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.

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

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

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

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
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.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
My home is not a place, it is people.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
I stand in awe of my body.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

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

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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?
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

Well done is better than well said.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Alcohol abuse is defined as a pattern of drinking that is accompanied by one or more of the following situations within a 12-month period:

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

When you visit your health care provider, he or she will ask you a number of questions about your alcohol use to determine whether you are experiencing problems related to your drinking.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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.'
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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 would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
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.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
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?
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

But most of all I like just ice-cream.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Is there life before death?
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
No.

I didn't even breathe.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
People fail forward to success.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

četvrtak, 09.09.2010.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

utorak, 07.09.2010.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!

I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Today there live about 17 million of people.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

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

Life is consciousness.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

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

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

The Old Royal Albert Hall and the New Royal Festival Hall, which is one of the most modern concert halls in the world.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.'
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I think that my facilities combined with the knowledge would be quiet enough to succeed in my work.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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

You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.

? Drinking in situations that are physically dangerous, such as while driving a car or operating machinery;

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

The hangover effect was demonstrated among pilots whose performance was tested in flight simulators.

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

ponedjeljak, 06.09.2010.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

subota, 04.09.2010.

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
People fail forward to success.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.

If you take to reading, the world of other people's ideas and problems becomes familiar to you.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

A sign at the entrance of the theatre said that "house full".

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

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

A poem is no place for an idea.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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?
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.