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subota, 26.06.2010.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

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 nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

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

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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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.

Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.

Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

The river brings greenness and life to the south-east corner. In the early of the Australian history, the Murrey River was South Australia?s main road.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

petak, 25.06.2010.

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

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

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

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

There are 2 big concert halls in London.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

It is winter now.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

We are what we repeatedly do.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

It has a lot of advantages: first of all your neighbours can never disturb you.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.

There are parking areas which can accomodate a lot of cars.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
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.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

četvrtak, 24.06.2010.

He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.

The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

My home is not a place, it is people.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

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

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

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

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
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.
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Even if you answered "no" to all of the above questions, if you are encountering drinking-related problems with your job, relationships, health, or with the law, you should still seek professional help.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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.
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?
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.

The 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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

Although the Republican party had become a minority in registration, Nixon failed by fewer than 200,000 votes to defeat John F. Kennedy.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.

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.

All the world's a cage.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

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'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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

The most numerous are blackbirds, sparrow and starling. Robin Redbreast is the national bird of Britain.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.

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.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

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 charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

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

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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.

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

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

To some, population regulation is a violation of their deep religious beliefs.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

srijeda, 23.06.2010.

It?s beautiful place, with parks, lakes, big open streets and fine buildings.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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 strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

Is there life before death?
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
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.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Dairy products provide us with calcium, meat provide our bodies with protein, iron, zinc.

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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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 people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Worries go down better with soup than without.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

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.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
History is more or less bunk.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

I am happy if it is a book. If I have free time I like to spend it with my favourite books.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

utorak, 22.06.2010.

Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

Eating fruit and vegetables helps to keep us healthy too because they give us fibre, vitamins and minerals.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

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.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
All movements go too far.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I am not young enough to know everything.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

People prefer to stay at home and to watch TV or video.

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

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

I stand in awe of my body.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be o

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.

Appearances are really deceptive; it's like a wrap of a sweet.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

The frustrated Republicans were never able to break the remarkable hold of Roosevelt and the New Deal on the electorate and regularly went down to defeat every four years, with Alfred M. Landon (1936), Wendell Willkie (1940), and Thomas E. Dewey (1944).

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

It was difficult to write a book with a pen.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

? Craving: A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
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.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
I stand in awe of my body.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

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.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations.

Maybe they were terrorists!
I never know how much of what I say is true.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

subota, 19.06.2010.

Whiskey [from the Gaelic for "water of life"], spirituous liquor distilled from a fermented mash of grains, usually rye, barley, oats, wheat, or corn.

The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Rainfall is more or less even throughout the year.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

? Loss of control: The frequent inability to stop drinking once a person has begun.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
I'd learned my lesson.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The average person thinks he isn't.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
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.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.

Because the involvement of family members is important to the recovery process, many programs also offer brief marital counseling and family therapy as part of the treatment process.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

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

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Our lives teach us who we are.

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

People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

utorak, 08.06.2010.

Restricting workers' access to alcohol may reduce their drinking.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.