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nedjelja, 27.06.2010.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Gold was found in Kalgoorlie in1893, and the ?Golden Mile? was for a time the most expensive piece of land in the world.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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.

However, she managed to become famous. Not many people know that she used to write under a pen-name of Mary Westmacott.

My home is not a place, it is people.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

There are five universities in the city.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.'
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

People prefer to stay at home and to watch TV or video.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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 important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
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!
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

A lack of state financing in social programs has caused further tightening in the labor market, particularly for women.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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 like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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?
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

The ongoing changes in social, political and economic spheres of the country entails not only the raise of women?s role in society, in addition they are accompanied by breaking of stereotypes to treat human beings by sex that had been shaping through dec

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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?
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

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.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

The room is always filled with the sounds of music.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
To try to be better is to be better.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

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.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.

subota, 19.06.2010.

Here there are a lot of things that make this room look nice; she has a lot of toys which sit on her bed, on the shelves and on the windowsill. She collects statues of cats that she brings from different countries, it characterizes her as a broad-minded p

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

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

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
So little time and so little to do.
A joke's a very serious thing.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
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.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

We found our seats which were in the stalls and went exploring the theatre.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

četvrtak, 17.06.2010.

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

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

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

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

In Britain the choice of films is limited to young people.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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.

Some people make headlines while others make history.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

I'm extremely fond of reading.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
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?
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.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.

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

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
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.

A person under 16 years of age may see an "A" filem only in company of an adult.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

utorak, 15.06.2010.

79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19 plays were written by that strange woman.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

There are more than a dozen very good orchestras in Britain and some of them are world famous.

Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

They found a high correlation between the level of human suffering and the rate of population increase in countries. The 30 countries falling in the extreme human-suffering range--all in Africa and Asia--averaged a high annual rate of population increase

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Is there life before death?
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
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.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.

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

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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

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.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
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.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Love truth, and pardon error.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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, 08.06.2010.

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

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.