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utorak, 26.10.2010.

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

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
A poem is no place for an idea.

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

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
History is more or less bunk.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

People come back from the countryside and do not walk outside enough.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

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

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
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.

It's very easy to form a negative opinion about a person just because you don't like the way he looks, and it becomes like a barrier for further communication between you and this person, though in fact he can be an interesting, well-educated and talente

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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

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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

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

God creates men, but they choose each other.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

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

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.

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

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.

Watch the electric sign flashes when you are on board, when the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign goes on do it promptly and also obey the "No Smoking" signal.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The best way out is always through.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Her room is very cool and light, there are plenty of flowers here, as she has a green thumb.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
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'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

The doctor asked me to strip to the waist. He examined my lungs, felt my pulse and blood pressure, took my temperature.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

? Failure to fulfill major work, school, or home responsibilities;

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
All movements go too far.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I'd learned my lesson.

This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

Do you want to put down roots or travel videly? Second: what sort of work do you want to do?

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

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

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

It probably produces fewer headlines than wars, earthquakes and floods, but it is potentially one of history's greatest dangers to human life on earth.

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.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

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.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess 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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

They can conquer who believe they can.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
A smiling face is half the meal.

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Someone went upside my head again.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
So little time and so little to do.

A poem is no place for an idea.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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 never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Who were these clowns?
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?
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.

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 happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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?
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

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

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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!
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

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

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
The best way out is always through.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

Historically, academic freedom developed during the Enlightenment.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
People fail forward to success.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

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

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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

The choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Things are only impossible until they're not.

I like to read books about animals, nature and children.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

utorak, 19.10.2010.

Also it is very important for our health.

No.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We are what we repeatedly do.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.

The influence of literature on people's mind is great.

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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

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 realizin

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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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

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?
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
History is more or less bunk.

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

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.
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.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

Fascinating though it is for tourist travelling, however, has become the most tiring of all the occupations for many businessmen and experts.

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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 beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
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.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

I like to read books about animals, nature and children.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.

Droughts are rare.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
My friends are my estate.

The reform wing of the party, led by Carl Schurz, deserted Blaine for the conservative Democrat Grover Cleveland, who was elected.

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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
My head rang like a gong.
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.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
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.
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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Cristmas day is one of their favorite holidays.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

There are promising types of counseling that teach recovering alcoholics to identify situations and feelings that trigger the urge to drink and to find new ways to cope that do not include alcohol use.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

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.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

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

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

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.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
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.

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

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

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

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
My home is not a place, it is people.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

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

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.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.

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

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

I like to come to hte cinema a couple of minutes before the movie starts.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

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.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
They can conquer who believe they can.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

On the domestic side, however, Bush's administration was perceived as being slow to respond to such problems as stagnant economic growth, rising unemployment, and the unaffordability of health care for many Americans.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

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.

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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

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

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
When 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.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

Usually such people keep the poultry and the cattle.

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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

It's not my rule to make hasty conclusions, I prefer to get to know more about a person, then to analyze this information and only then to draw my conclusion.

Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

I was in raptures at what I saw on the stage.

It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
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 am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

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

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

The weather in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be fine and the next day may be wet.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a wom

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.'
A poem is no place for an idea.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

And I think that is true.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Art is science made clear.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

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.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
'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.
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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Is there life before death?

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
A smiling face is half the meal.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

People in the office help guests to book train or steamer tickets and rent a car.

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

First: what sort of life do you want to lead?

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
People fail forward to success.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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?
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

Moreover, she was an immensely prolific writer.

Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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.
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 must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.'
People fail forward to success.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

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

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I 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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
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.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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?
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!

"My home is my fortress", it is my territory, my place where I feel good and comfortable. And nobody can disturb me here.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

They are very important in the life of English people.Englishman are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Each body has its art...
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.

Bush was generally recognized as strong on foreign policy.

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?
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

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

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

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 y

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Well done is better than well said.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

They have many TV and radio programs to choose from.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
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.
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.

Inferior whiskeys are made from potatoes, beets, and other roots.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.'

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

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
All movements go too far.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

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

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Art is science made clear.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

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

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
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.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

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

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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.'
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
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.
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 don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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 that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
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?
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

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

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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 cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

I followed all the doctor's instructions and very soon I felt much better.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.

It's celebrated on the 25-th of december.

All movements go too far.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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 classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

First: what sort of life do you want to lead?

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Memory feeds imagination.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

It was one of my brightest memories.

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.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

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

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you ca

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.
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.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

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

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 trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Each body has its art...
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
'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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

I am sure that books play a very important role in my life. Our family has got many books.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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?
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

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

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The weather in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be fine and the next day may be wet.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

Books must be our friends during all our life.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

In addition, alcohol abuse is less likely than alcoholism to include tolerance (the need for increasing amounts of alcohol to get "high").

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

subota, 02.10.2010.

An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations.

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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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.
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.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Is there life before death?

And non-governmental charity organizations become a single source for support of such projects.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

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

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

In America the word ?the movies? is often used.

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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
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.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.

Another famous street is Broadway.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

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

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

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

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

In 1952, the more liberal element among the Republicans was able to deny the conservatives' choice, Robert A.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

Our lives teach us who we are.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
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.
All movements go too far.

The work began in 1913. Now, Canberra is an international city, full of diplomats and government offices.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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?

The average person thinks he isn't.

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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

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

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
Now we were descending just as steeply.

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

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Who were these clowns?
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

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

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
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.

There are also those who like semi-detached houses or, as the Americans call them, duplexes.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
People fail forward to success.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

This humid and mild climate is good for plants. The trees and flowers begin to blossom early in spring.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

Bush secured the presidency with a victory in the electoral college when he won Florida by an extremely narrow margin and outlasted Gore's unsuccessful court challenge of the Florida vote-counting process.

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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
No.
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 cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.

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

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

They call for MDCs to use their economic systems to reward population regulation and sustainable forms of economic growth instead of continuing their unsustainable forms of economic growth and encouraging LDCs to follow this eventually unsustainable and d

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
My home is not a place, it is people.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
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.

They have done this more or less every 5th of November since 1605.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.