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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

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

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
He who laughs, lasts!
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

The author idealizes an agricultural country ruled by ideal monarch.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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."
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

But most of all I like just ice-cream.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
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 art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.'
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

Getting the Facts For many people, the facts about alcoholism are not clear.

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.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
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.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

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

Even the best of friends need time apart.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

I didn't even breathe.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

That means that even if an alcoholic has been sober for a long while and has regained health, he or she remains susceptible to relapse and must continue to avoid all alcoholic beverages.

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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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.

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 older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

The sun shines in winter and in summer. Snow and ice are rare, except the high mountains.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

The left always having been linked with evil.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
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 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.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

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.

All movements go too far.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Who were these clowns?
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

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 was sick of cars driving right past me.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
People fail forward to success.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.

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.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

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.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Life is consciousness.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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!
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The average person thinks he isn't.

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

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

There are many customs and traditions in England. And I would like to tell you some of them.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

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.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

Euclid was apparently a kind, patient man, and did possess a sarcastic sense of humor.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Maybe they were terrorists!
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

The radicals were supreme under Grant, but their excesses and the open scandals of the administration created a new schism, leading to the formation of the Liberal Republican party .

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Because of differing concepts of carrying capacity, however, experts differ widely over what level of population is considered too high.

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
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.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

But "waving the bloody shirt," as this type of propaganda was styled, was not enough to elect Blaine in 1884.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

It is easy enough to understand that in ridiculing the academy of Laputa.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.'
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

This strengthens the stereotype of "male superiority" and hinders the creation of true partnerships between men and women.

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.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

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 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!
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

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.

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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Is there life before death?
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
History is more or less bunk.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
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.

My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
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.
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.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

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.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Historically, academic freedom developed during the Enlightenment.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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?
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Is there life before death?
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

Excess luggage must be paid for except for some articles that can be carried free of charge.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

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

Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Before real roads and railways came, the river carried people and goods from the east up into the country.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

While students no longer read directly from his writing, the textbooks of today are still based on Euclidean proofs and theorems.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
I 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.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

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

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
I'd learned my lesson.

Like orchestras, the theatre companies usually play in rented theatres, but there are several theatres which have their own homes.

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're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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

Is there life before death?
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.'
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.

Worshippers of Artemis, godess of the moon and hunting, used to place honey cakes on the altars of her temples on her birthday.

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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Life is consciousness.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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).

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

After the overtune the curtain went up.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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 be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

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.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
People fail forward to success.

Eisenhower and Nixon

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.

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

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
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?
He who laughs, lasts!

Relapses are very common and do not mean that a person has failed or cannot eventually recover from alcoholism.

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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

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

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
All movements go too far.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

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

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The best way out is always through.

Anti-slavery Whigs such as William Seward and Thurlow Weed were dominant in the new grouping, but elements of the Know-Nothing movement , together with the Free-Soil party , abolitionists , and anti-Nebraska Democrats also supplied strength.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.

I pay attention to the cover of the book, its illustrations, the name of the author, the title of the book and the contents.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
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.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

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

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
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.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.

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.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.
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.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

All the world's a cage.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.

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

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

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

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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

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

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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Have you ever noticed that some people are always grumbling about their endless problems, dissatisfaction in life and even about the dull weather that annoys them?

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

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

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Australia is sometimes called ?the lucky country?.

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.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.

petak, 24.09.2010.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
He who laughs, lasts!
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

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

I never know how much of what I say is true.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

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

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

There is not much rain, and drought is a constant anxiety.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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?
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
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.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.

They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
All movements go too far.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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 freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

While AA is generally recognized as an effective mutual help program for recovering alcoholics, not everyone responds to AA's style and message, and other recovery approaches are available.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in 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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

The human race ocupies a position of servility there and a noble race of horces rules the country by reason and justice.

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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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?
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

The left always having been linked with evil.

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Each body has its art...
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Preventing Alcohol Problems in the Workplace

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!
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
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?

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

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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
He who laughs, lasts!

The average range of temperature (from winter to summer) is from 15 to 23 degrees above zero.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
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.

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.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

There are many customs and traditions in England. And I would like to tell you some of them.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

But I preferred to read books about travels.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

Does teaching people appeal to you?

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
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.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.

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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

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

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Walking is man's best medicine.

The illicit manufacture of whiskey to avoid payment of excise taxes has been common.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

It's very important to know traditions and customs of different people.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.

It was hear that the Dutch built the first building of the town.

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.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

However, even individuals who are determined to stay sober may suffer one or several "slips," or relapses, before achieving long-term sobriety.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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."
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 any types of food in restaurants ? you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

She wasn't a professional and had never been one.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.

'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.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

It was ages ago, but this stands out in my memory quiet vividly.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
The 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!
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
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 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

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Who were these clowns?
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

srijeda, 22.09.2010.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
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.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.

I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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.

But these places are also holy to the Aboriginals.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
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 function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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 never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
My friends are my estate.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

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.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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?
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

his novel was written many years ago, but it is popular nowadays.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Who were these clowns?
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

I often read the paper "Film Week" to know which films have been released and which ones are being shot.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
I 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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
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.

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

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody 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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
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.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
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.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

The best way out is always through.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

Women's social status is a serious problem.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
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.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
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.

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

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A smiling face is half the meal.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
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.'

I like to read almost all books.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.

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

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

The frequency of abortions in Russia is one of the highest in the world.

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.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

They were translated into 136 languages.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

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

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.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

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

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?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Is there life before death?
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

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

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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 louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
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.
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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

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

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Walking is man's best medicine.
People fail forward to success.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

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

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

If little has ever been made of Euclid's life, then the opposite is true of his book.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Love truth, and pardon error.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

So little time and so little to do.

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.
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 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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.

It was in the Prussia of Frederick the Great that the new freedom first flourished within the university itself. In England, it was laymen like Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, Herbert Spencer, Charles Darwin, and Thomas Huxley who demonstrated the value of

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.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

petak, 10.09.2010.

While on shore Gulliver is captured by the giants.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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?
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

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.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Memory feeds imagination.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Walking is man's best medicine.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

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

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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Everybody enjoys the cloudless sky and bright sun.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.'
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

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.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.