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subota, 31.07.2010.

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

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The morning may be warm and the evening may be cool.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.

In 1964 the conservative wing of the party engineered the nomination of Senator Barry Goldwater , who was, however, defeated in a landslide by Lyndon B. Johnson.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
People fail forward to success.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Big farms grow millions of tones of wheat every year, and wheat has become Australia?s second biggest export.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.

My mother bought beforehand two tickets for a matinee perfomance of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" by Chaikovsky.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
He who laughs, lasts!
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
It's 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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

The climate is hot and Australian boast that they can sleep out -of- doors all the year round.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
A smiling face is half the meal.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

What Is Alcoholism?

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
To try to be better is to be better.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

Any reluctance you may feel about discussing your drinking with your health care professional may stem from common misconceptions about alcoholism and alcoholic people. In our society, the myth prevails that an alcohol problem is somehow a sign of moral w

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
All the world's a cage.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

It was one of my brightest memories.

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.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Our lives teach us who we are.

Historically, academic freedom developed during the Enlightenment.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
A poem is no place for an idea.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
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.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

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

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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 never find yourself until you face the truth.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

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

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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 strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

My home is not a place, it is people.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Art is science made clear.
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?

petak, 30.07.2010.

The left always having been linked with evil.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.

I 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.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

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

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?
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
So little time and so little to do.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
The 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.

I like to watch films very much. I prefer thrillers, comedies and horror movies, but I do not like tragedies and melodramas very much, and I hate soap operas, although they are becoming very popular in our country.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.

Euclid responded by giving the small child a coin, saying that "he must make gain out of what he learns."

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

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

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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.

The reward of a thing well done is to have done 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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

But the greatest disadvantage of living in a farmhouse or in a cottage, in my opinion, is that it takes much time to get to the nearest town, but if you have a car it isn't a problem for you.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The best way out is always through.

The party, however, suffered a series of massive setbacks with the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew upon his conviction for tax evasion and revelations of major White House involvement in the Watergate affair, which led finally to the resignation

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Never eat more than you can lift.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

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.
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?
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
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 is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

The Red Sea was an important trade route in antiquity.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

The party's national organization was perfected at Pittsburgh in Feb., 1856, and its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont , made a creditable showing against victorious James Buchanan.

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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

My home, my sweet home...

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

While bills were passed on the key program components, many items were thwarted or defeated in Congress or by the president.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.
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.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

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.
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.
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 so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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 your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

srijeda, 28.07.2010.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

I personally think that home is a little world where one lives according to his/her own rules. It's a place where you feel comfort, warmth and reliability.

I didn't even breathe.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

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 ca

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

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

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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
People fail forward to success.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Hoover in 1928 marked the first time since the end of Reconstruction that the party had carried states of the old Confederacy; this came about chiefly because the Democratic candidate, Alfred E. Smith, was a Roman Catholic and an opponent of prohibition.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

utorak, 27.07.2010.

It isn't convenient, but in spite of it the largest part of population in our country lives in blocks of flats.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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?
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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?

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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 I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Australia seems to me and other people to be the upside-down world.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Today there live about 17 million of people.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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 tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
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 importance of home is depicted in languages of all the nations: we say "East or West, home is best ", the English say "My home is my castle".

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

He or she is frequently in the grip of a powerful craving for alcohol, a need that can feel as strong as the need for food or water.

To try to be better is to be better.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Today there are a lot of different restaurants and cafes where you can eat delicious and not really expensive food.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.'
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

Drinking at work, problem drinking, and frequency of getting "drunk" in the past 30 days were positively associated with frequency of absenteeism, arriving late to work or leaving early, doing poor work, doing less work, and arguing with co-workers.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

Maybe they were terrorists!

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Each body has its art...
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.

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

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.

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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
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.
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.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

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

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The average person thinks he isn't.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

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

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

If you feel that you lack information, knowledge, and words to express your opinions - read more!

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
'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.

Now Washington is the residents of the president and the congress.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
They weren't wearing insignia.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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 th

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

Finns like to eat hot sausages and drink beer in the streets; many Philipinos prefer to eat with their hands.

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.
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.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

Choosing a comfortable hotel to stay at is, therefore, a matter of some importance.

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.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
My friends are my estate.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

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.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

In bad times, and in the driest parts, many animals may die for want of water.

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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Is there life before death?
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

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

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

subota, 24.07.2010.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

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's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.'
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.
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.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Overpopulation is often defined as the condition of having more people than can live on Earth in comfort, happiness, and health and still leave the planet a fit place for future generations.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Women have less access to retraining programs than men, while women entrepreneurs are a rarity.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.'
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.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

And as you have a neighbour you can always turn to him if you need something, though from time to time your neighbour can disturb you when he repairs his part of the house or listens to music too loudly.

I stand in awe of my body.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.'

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

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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?
No.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

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.
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.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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 problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

The name Wall Street remained from our days.

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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
People fail forward to success.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

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.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Life is consciousness.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

How does it differ from alcohol abuse?

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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.
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.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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'.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.
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 kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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 &

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

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

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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
My head rang like a gong.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
'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.
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.
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.

četvrtak, 22.07.2010.

Ames and colleagues found a positive relationship between the frequency of being "hungover" at work and the frequency of feeling sick at work, sleeping on the job, and having problems with job tasks or co-workers.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.

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

Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

Days are short and nights are long The weather is cold, rivers and lakes are usually frozen.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
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 domestic program of the Eisenhower adminstration was moderately conservative, and in foreign policy the internationalist approach of the previous Democratic administration was continued. Despite the President's overwhelming personal popularity and hi

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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 only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

The , which the doctor left, was made up at the chemist's.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

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.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.

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

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'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

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.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.'
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

It is surrounded by exceedingly hot and dry deserts and steppes; the summer water temperature exceeds 85F (29C), and the water has a high salt content.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

utorak, 20.07.2010.

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

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

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 stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

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

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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I didn't even breathe.

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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 world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

? New medications: Studies have led to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medication naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism.

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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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'.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

? Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get "high."

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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

Every singly person should eat proper kinds of food ? dairy products, meats, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars, cereals and grains.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
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.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.

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

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

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

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

nedjelja, 18.07.2010.

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

My home is not a place, it is people.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

Researchers found that most managers and supervisors in one large manufacturing plant had little knowledge of the company's alcohol policy.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

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

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

The New Year is at midsummer, midwinter is in June.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

I think that nowdays this profession is of great need and importance to our country.

A joke's a very serious thing.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Never eat more than you can lift.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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.'

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

subota, 17.07.2010.

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.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Someone went upside my head again.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

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

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.
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.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
I'd learned my lesson.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

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

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.
He who laughs, lasts!
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.

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

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.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

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

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

These emissions have disastrous consequences for our planet.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Walking is man's best medicine.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

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

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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
They can conquer who believe they can.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Flats can be of different sizes: one-roomed, two-roomed, three-roomed, so one can choose a flat he/she likes.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

We can hardly say that today there exist the problem of choosing a type of housing.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
'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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

The , which the doctor left, was made up at the chemist's.

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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200,000 years ago until Ju

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?
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely 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.

When I was a child my parents read them to me.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
History is more or less bunk.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess 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.
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.'
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

Someone went upside my head again.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
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.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.

So little time and so little to do.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

In Brazil the climate is warm and citizens wear shorts and T-shirts there almost whole year.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Acknowledging that help is needed for an alcohol problem may not be easy.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

I am sure that books play a very important role in my life.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I stand in awe of my body.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

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.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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.

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.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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."
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?
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Each body has its art...
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
I didn't even breathe.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Life is consciousness.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.

But anyways whatever you like you should remember words of wisdom which say that we eat to live, but not live to eat.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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 domestic program of the Eisenhower adminstration was moderately conservative, and in foreign policy the internationalist approach of the previous Democratic administration was continued. Despite the President's overwhelming personal popularity and hi

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

petak, 16.07.2010.

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

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.'
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

If nothing is done about it, one day nothing will be able to live in the seas.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Diseases brought by settlers caused many deaths among the aborigines and now there are only about 60 000 of them.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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 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 have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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 admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
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 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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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?
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.
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.
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.

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

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.
All movements go too far.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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.
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.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

His work in geometry provided the foundation on which all future mathematicians were educated.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.

Her room is very cosy, though it isn't very large.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

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

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We are what we repeatedly do.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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.
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?

These emissions have disastrous consequences for our planet.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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 problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Someone went upside my head again.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

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

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

This novel was published at the beginning of the 20th century.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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 have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

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.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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 believe that such houses attract people because they are less expensive than mansions or bungalows for example and you have only one neighbour as opposed to block of flats.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

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

I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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 like to watch films very much. I prefer thrillers, comedies and horror movies, but I do not like tragedies and melodramas very much, and I hate soap operas, although they are becoming very popular in our country.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Now we were descending just as steeply.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
All the world's a cage.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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 must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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 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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

She wanted to give me some aspirin tablets too, but there weren't any in our house.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
My head rang like a gong.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Each body has its art...

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.

Hoover and the Republicans were blamed for the disastrous economic depression that soon enveloped the country, and the Democrats, under Franklin Delano Roosevelt, were swept into office in 1932.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Life is consciousness.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

The availability and accessibility of alcohol may influence employee drinking.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

First, there?s real kind ? the kind that comes out of the ground.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.
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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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.

Is there life before death?
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.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

These emissions have disastrous consequences for our planet.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

Dutch settlers founded the city in 17 century.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

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.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

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

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

You 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.
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.
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'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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

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 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.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

That's why now I never make any conclusions about a person when I meet him or her for the first time.

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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Memory feeds imagination.

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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

? New medications: Studies have led to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medication naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
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.

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

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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 place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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 stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Currently, nearly 30 million Russians - abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

In the mountains there is heavier rainfall then in the plains of the south and east.

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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?
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

Memory feeds imagination.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The best way out is always through.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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.
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.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Only a half of million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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.

On Trafalgar Square, in the center of London stands a big cristmas tree.It is a gift from the people of Oslo.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

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

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
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'.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Memory feeds imagination.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
'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 got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

They can conquer who believe they can.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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 two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

Bush's high popularity after the Persian Gulf War dropped rapidly, and he lost the 1992 presidential election to the Democrat, Arkansas's Governor Bill Clinton.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
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.
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.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

Is there life before death?
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I didn't even breathe.

nedjelja, 11.07.2010.

In the period that followed, the two parties differed little in their programs.

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.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

There are six public holidays a year in G.B..

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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?
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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 can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

Academic freedom right of scholars to pursue research, to teach, and to publish without control or restraint from the institutions that employ them.

It's never just a game when you're winning.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
I stand in awe of my body.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
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?

In the period that followed, the two parties differed little in their programs.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
History is more or less bunk.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

These forests are full of wonderful flowers and interesting animals.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

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.

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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

subota, 10.07.2010.

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

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.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
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.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

You should be involved in making referral decisions and have all treatment choices explained to you.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

The Decision To Get Help

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
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.

Often there is a restaurant, so that it is possible to spend an afternoon and evening there (if you have enough money, of course).

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

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

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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.'
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

petak, 09.07.2010.

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

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.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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 read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

Female unemployment is rising at a catastrophically high rate.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
'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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

Vigorous writing is concise.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
We are what we repeatedly do.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

The Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden, received a popular plurality of over 250,000 votes, but the disputed electoral votes of Florida, South Carolina, and Louisiana, the only Southern states still under Republican control, were awarded to Rutherfor

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
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.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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 was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
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 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.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.

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

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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!'
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.