I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I didn't even breathe.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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.
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.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
A poem is no place for an idea.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
My head rang like a gong.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.'
Vigorous writing is concise.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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 hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.
He who laughs, lasts!
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
All movements go too far.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.'
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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 opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
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.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
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.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Love truth, and pardon error.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Each body has its art...
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
I 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.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
To try to be better is to be better.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
All movements go too far.
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.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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.
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.
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.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
A smiling face is half the meal.
All movements go too far.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The best way out is always through.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I stand in awe of my body.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
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.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
History is more or less bunk.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I 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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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?
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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.
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.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Each body has its art...
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Life is consciousness.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
| < | srpanj, 2011 | |||||
| P | U | S | Č | P | S | N |
| 1 | 2 | 3 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
| 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 |
| 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22 | 23 | 24 |
| 25 | 26 | 27 | 28 | 29 | 30 | 31 |
Dnevnik.hr
Gol.hr
Zadovoljna.hr
Novaplus.hr
NovaTV.hr
DomaTV.hr
Mojamini.tv
Along with that, there is a lack of knowledge about modern contraception and a correspondingly large number of abortions.
Dnevnik.hr
Video news portal Nove TV
Blog.hr
Blog servis
Igre.hr
Najbolje igre i igrice
Forum.hr
Monitor.hr