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subota, 24.07.2010.

If nothing is done about it, one million species that are alive today will have become extinct twenty years from now.

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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
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?
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
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.
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.

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

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.'
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.

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

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

She was just an old spinster, very modest but perceptive and not a flamboyant personality, who acted as a detective just by virtue of taking thought.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

The biggest threat to the coastline is pollution. Even much-loved.

Facts are the enemy of truth.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

There are some traditions connected with it.

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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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 ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Euclid then proves each one of his theorems using the definitions and postulates, mathematically proving even the most obvious.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

It is my aim to be a qualified specialist and to serve the interests of my country.

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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.

This description of alcoholism helps us understand why most alcoholics can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drinking.

Who were these clowns?
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The trees begin to blossom. Sometimes it drizzles, but there are no rough winds; the sun shines brightly.

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.
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.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
A smiling face is half the meal.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

Treatment may include detoxification (the process of safely getting alcohol out of one's system); taking doctor-prescribed medications, such as disulfiram or naltrexone, to help prevent a return to drinking once drinking has stopped; and individual and/o

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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 release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

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

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.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
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.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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'.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I never know how much of what I say is true.

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.

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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Our lives teach us who we are.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
No.

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

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Who were these clowns?
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Yet it is important to recognize that aspects of a person's environment, such as peer influences and the availability of alcohol, also are significant influences.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

It's never just a game when you're winning.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Swift meant this small country with it's shallow interest, corrupted laws and evil customs to symbolize the England of the 18'th centure, the court with it's atmosphere of hostility, hypocrizy and flattery where the author felt as lonely as his hero when

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

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

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
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.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.

You can learn many intresting things. From books.

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.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
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.
So little time and so little to do.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
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.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

You will see too small groups of children pulling round in a home made cart, a figure that looks something like a man but consists of an old suit of clothes, stuffed with straw.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.

The scenery and the dancing were superb.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

subota, 17.07.2010.

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.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Each body has its art...
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

I am not young enough to know everything.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

So, never judge people by appearances, because appearances are deceptive!

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.

In 1960, an incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president for the first time since 1836.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

You will feel full in both cases, but a fruit or a vegetable is healthier.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.

When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan , its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

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

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

It is an economic, financial, scientific and cultural center.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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?
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

On another occasion, a student of his questioned the value of learning geometry, much like students today.

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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Our flat is very warm and cosy, so it makes any person feel at home.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

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

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I stand in awe of my body.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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 can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

Is there life before death?

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

petak, 16.07.2010.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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!

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

Keep cool and you command everybody.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I was pleased to listen to stories and tales. I like to read books about nature children and animals. I like to get presents on my birthday.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

From a legal point of view, a man and a woman in Russia are equal.

Even the best of friends need time apart.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.
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.
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 you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

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

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Every ten minutes one kind of enimal, plant or insect dies out for ever.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Is there life before death?

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
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.
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.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

They are filled with poison: industrial and nuclear waste, chemical fertilisers and pesticides.

Art is science made clear.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

You can learn many intresting things. From books.

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 coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.

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

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
My head rang like a gong.

If your health care professional concludes that you may be dependent on alcohol, he or she may recommend that you see a specalist in diagnosing and treating alcoholism.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The best way out is always through.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

All books are arranged in alphabetical order.

Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

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.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
We are what we repeatedly do.
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.
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.

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.

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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
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 rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

I seemed to share this attitude with the most other people in Britain.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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.
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.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Someone went upside my head again.

I prefer features films, though I enjoy documentaries almost as much to say nothing of animated cartoons films, news-reels or popular science films.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
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 weather is not as good as in spring and in summer.

'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 can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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.
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'.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

I was pleased to listen to the stories and tales. I learned a lot of interesting things from books.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

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

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

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

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.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

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

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!
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

In 1726 Swift's masterpiece "Gulliver's Travels" appeared.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
All the world's a cage.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

In a survey of 6,540 employees at 16 worksites representing a range of industries, 23 percent of upper-level managers reported any drinking during working hours in the previous month.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
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.
Is there life before death?
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.
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.
Now we were descending just as steeply.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Is there life before death?
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

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 respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

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

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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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.

I think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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.
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 was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

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

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

Many people were standing at the entrace of the theatre asking if we had an extra ticket.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.

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

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
The 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.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

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

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

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

I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
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.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
All the world's a cage.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
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.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

This defection by the mugwumps illustrated the lack of real issues between the two parties; it was the man and not the party that counted.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

The traditional english dinner on cristmas is turkey and pudding.

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.

subota, 10.07.2010.

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

I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Its candidate, Horace Greeley, although supported by the Democrats, was not popular enough to defeat Grant in 1872, and corruption became even more widespread.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.'
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

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

People fail forward to success.
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.
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.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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 struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
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.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

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

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
No.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

It's a tradition to give cristmas presents to the people you work with.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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

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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
The average person thinks he isn't.

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

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

They are covered with forests of blue colored eucalyptus trees.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

However, the Republican tariff policy was the work of leaders of the new industrial capitalism, whose influence in party councils began to be strongly felt under Grant.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

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?

I am not young enough to know everything.
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.
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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

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

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
All movements go too far.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

Whiskey was made in England in the 11th cent., chiefly in monasteries, but in the 16th cent. distilling was carried on commercially.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.