biortic online!

utorak, 26.10.2010.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

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

Who were these clowns?
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

There are 1,400 different kinds of fish, and more than 300 kinds of coral.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

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 &

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Is there life before death?
My home is not a place, it is people.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.

Newt Gingrich , who spearheaded the Republicans' congressional election campaign with his conservative "Contract with America" program, became speaker of the House.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

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 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."
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

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

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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Walking is man's best medicine.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.

subota, 23.10.2010.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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 wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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?
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?

For example, it is much better to eat an apple or a banana than to eat a double hamburger with ketchup and mayonnaise.

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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Each body has its art...
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

This anthill existence would require that everyone exist only on a diet of grain, cultivation all arable land, and mining much of the earth's crust of a depth of 1.6 kilometers (1 mile).

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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.

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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 older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

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.

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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

So I know it for sure that appearances are deceptive.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Its area is about the United States (without Alaska) -7,7 square km.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

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

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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 trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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.

It was difficult to write a book with a pen.

It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
To try to be better is to be better.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

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.

A smiling face is half the meal.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

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

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
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.

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

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!

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

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

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

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.

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.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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!
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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."
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Our lives teach us who we are.

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

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Naltrexone is the first medication approved in 45 years to help alcoholics stay sober after they detoxify from alcohol.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

People fail forward to success.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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!

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.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Art is science made clear.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

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

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on 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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

One of the most important reflections of equity is equal rights in the labor market.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

Today Australia is an independent federative state consisting of 6 states and 2 territories.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
The best way out is always through.

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

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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

Most of the crimes were committed in some closed surroundings with a limited number of people to suspect.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I am not young enough to know everything.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

The Civil War and Reconstruction Years

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

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

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
'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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
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.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
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.
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.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.

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

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

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

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

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

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
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.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

Newt Gingrich , who spearheaded the Republicans' congressional election campaign with his conservative "Contract with America" program, became speaker of the House.

Memory feeds imagination.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

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

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

It is an economic, financial, scientific and cultural center.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

My mother fixed me a hot lemonade but that didn't help me much.

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.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

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 enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
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 have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Per

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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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?

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

They weren't wearing insignia.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

If you are going to live alone, you can prefer a studio to a large apartment.

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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

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.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.

What is alcoholism, exactly?

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.
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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Art is science made clear.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.

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.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

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.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

The Great Barrier Reef on the coast of Queensland is a garden under the sea.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Sydney is the best known place in New South Wales.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
So little time and so little to do.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

? Have you ever felt you should Cut down on your drinking?

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.

I 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.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

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

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
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.
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.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

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

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

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.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
People fail forward to success.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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.

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

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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

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

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we'll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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 best way out is always through.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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!
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
People fail forward to success.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

When I was fifteen I was fond of reading too.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

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

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Before the concept of academic freedom could gain general acceptance, however, it was necessary that education become secularized.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
They weren't wearing insignia.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
I 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 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.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.

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

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.
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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

Books must be our friends during all our life.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

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.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

Recently, the Population Crisis Committee complied a human suffering index for each of 130 countries based on ten measures of human welfare.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
So little time and so little to do.

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

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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.
People fail forward to success.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Life is consciousness.

The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

? Craving: A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

First tradition is called "Wrong side of the bed" When people are bad tempered we say that they must have got out of bed on the wrong side. Originally, it was meant quiet literally. People belive that the way they rose in the morning affected their behaiv

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

The center of the actrical life is London.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

That's why we get books in libraries.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

It is a good idea to begin by attempting to define in clear terms what your requirements are from a career.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.'
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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 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.'
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.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.

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

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
The 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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

? Craving: A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.

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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
I 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.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.

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

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.
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.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
No.
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.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

You can eat a bowl of ice-cream, a pieces of apple pie, strawberries with cream or something like that for dessert.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Droughts are rare.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

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

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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 think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I stand in awe of my body.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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.

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 o

Never eat more than you can lift.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Euclid is thought to have lived from 325-265 BC, mostly in Alexandria.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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?

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.'

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.

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

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

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

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

The weather is getting warmer and warmer, everything changes and reborn.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I love 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.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

The scenery and the dancing were superb.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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 am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

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

I stand in awe of my body.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

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

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

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 take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
The 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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Is there life before death?

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.

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.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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 rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Also I had a splitting headache and a cough.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
'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.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

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

Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Maybe they were terrorists!

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.

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.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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.
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.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.

It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

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

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

He is clever, honest and kind to his people.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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 barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

Many larger mammals such as bear, wolf have been hunted to extinction, others are now protected by law.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

I adore my home; I like to be there, because it's always filed with happiness and joy.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

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

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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 never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
He who laughs, lasts!
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

It tells of the adventures of ship surgeon, as related by himself and divided into four parts of four voyages: 1. A voyage to Liliput. 2. A voyage to Brobdignag. 3. A voyage to Laputa. 4. A voyage to the country of Houyhnhnms.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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 we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The best way out is always through.

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

I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Much of the information we do have is from authors like Proclus who lived centuries later, writing about his books, not his life.

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.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

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

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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 cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

Republicans unseated long-time Democratic incumbents, winning control of both houses of Congress (for the first time since the 1950s) and claiming several governorships.

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.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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 Late Nineteenth Century

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

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.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Vigorous writing is concise.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

My home is not a place, it is people.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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!
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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.
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.'
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.

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.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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?
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

I can't say that I can stand colds.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.

London is also the main center of opera and ballet.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

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.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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 best way out is always through.
The average person thinks he isn't.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

A smiling face is half the meal.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Euclid is called "The Father of Geometry".

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.

Generally this limit is 20kg for economic class passenger and 30kg for first class passenger.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.

In fact, King Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was an easier way to study math than learning all the theorems.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Never eat more than you can lift.

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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The growing Populist party , with its radical program, had a peculiar position in those elections, receiving in each section of the country the support of the party not in power.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

To my mind those people, who prefer this type of dwelling really adore nature: they want to wake up to songs of birds, to enjoy beautiful landscapes, to breath fresh air or in other words they want to have a calm and measured rhythm of life.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

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

They can conquer who believe they can.
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.
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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

I stand in awe of my body.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Well done is better than well said.

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.

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.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

I think we can't live without books.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
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?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

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.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Today only about 6 per cent of the total land area remains wooded.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The 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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

subota, 02.10.2010.

Things are only impossible until they're not.

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.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

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

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
They weren't wearing insignia.

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

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.

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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Always after a hard day I return home and think "At last I came home". For me there is no place like home.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
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.

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

My home is not a place, it is people.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

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.

Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

They are filled with poison: industrial and nuclear waste, chemical fertilisers and pesticides.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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?
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.