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srijeda, 31.03.2010.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I didn't even breathe.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Well done is better than well said.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.'
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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 Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Life is consciousness.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
So little time and so little to do.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.
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.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
