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subota, 31.07.2010.

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 are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.

Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
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.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Walking is man's best medicine.

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

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
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.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

My whole body ached.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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?
All movements go too far.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

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.

Love truth, and pardon error.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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.

My mother bought beforehand two tickets for a matinee perfomance of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" by Chaikovsky.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

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

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

petak, 30.07.2010.

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

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
He who laughs, lasts!
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
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.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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?
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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 stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
We are what we repeatedly do.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
A poem is no place for an idea.

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

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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!
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

The division was made complete when, after Lincoln's assassination, his successor, Andrew Johnson , adopted a moderate program of Reconstruction . Johnson, a Jacksonian Democrat from Tennessee, had been added to the ticket in 1864 to strengthen the idea o

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Red Sea- ancient Sinus Arabicus or Erythraean Sea, narrow sea, c.440,300 sq km, c.2,330 km long and up to 225 mi (362 km) wide, between Africa (Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea) and the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen); a part of the Great Rift Valley.

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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Never eat more than you can lift.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

srijeda, 28.07.2010.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
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.

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. Happines

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

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.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
I 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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

But I preferred to read books about travels.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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.

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is the size of your salary important?

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
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.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
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 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.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
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.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
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.'
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

The party platform in 1860 included planks calling for a high protective tariff, free homesteads, and a transcontinental railroad; these were bids for support among Westerners, farmers, and eastern manufacturing interests.

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
'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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
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.
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.

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

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'.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
You 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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

utorak, 27.07.2010.

Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

I know all the famous script writers, producers and cameramen.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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 phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Six months later, participants reported less work-related stress, higher social support, and less alcohol use compared with a control group. Twenty-two months later, participants reported greater use of coping strategies and less drinking.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

The domestic program of the Eisenhower adminstration was moderately conservative, and in foreign policy the internationalist approach of the previous Democratic administration was continued. Despite the President's overwhelming personal popularity and hi

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.

The party lost control of the Senate as a result of a defection in mid-2001, but regained it after the Nov., 2002, elections. In 2004, Bush was renominated without opposition, and he subsequently soundly defeated the Democratic nominee, John Kerry .

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

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

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

ponedjeljak, 26.07.2010.

I also live in a flat and I can say that all these disadvantages don't bother me very much, and in general it's a good type of housing.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

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!
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Memory feeds imagination.

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

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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?
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

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

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

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

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

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

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.

In Russia the weather is very cold in winter in winter and very warm in summer, people usually wear too much clothes in winter ? warm sweaters, jeans, tights, winter boots and fur-coats, mittens, scarves, hats and other warm things.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

If governments wake up to what is happening- perhaps we'll be able to avoid the disaster that threatens the natural world and all of us with it.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

In this fast-moving world it is necessary to watch what we eat ? it should be healthy food, not junk one, which has become very popular.

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.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

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

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 more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
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?
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

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.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess 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.'
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

At first her stories appealed to the readers' detective inside, so you can't find much blood and violence in her stories.

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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.

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

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.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

Below I've mentioned such a type of housing as a block of flats.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

God creates men, but they choose each other.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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

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'.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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 can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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

Our lives teach us who we are.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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.

It seldom snows heavily in winter, the frost is rare. January and February are usually the coldest months, July and August the warmest. Still the wind may bring winter cold in spring or summer days. Sometimes it brings the whirlwinds or hurricanes.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
All the world's a cage.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
People fail forward to success.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

subota, 24.07.2010.

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
The 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.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.

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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.
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?
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Eating too much junk food can cause overweight and as heart-disease.

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.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Never eat more than you can lift.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
All the world's a cage.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

There are, for example, the Blue Mountains.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
Life is consciousness.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

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

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.
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.

The national academy of sciences and the library of congress are in Washington too.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

Read more and you'll never be bored!

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

To try to be better is to be better.

It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
I 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.
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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
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.

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

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Someone went upside my head again.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

My first impressions about her were far from my opinion about her now. At first she seemed to me so correct, obedient and shy that I didn't like her at all, but when we began to communicate closer I understood I was mistaken. I think it makes sense to say

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.'
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.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

In 1972, President Nixon was triumphantly reelected, defeating George McGovern on a record of favoring a strong defense with a limited detente with the Soviet Union and China, and a conservative domestic program featuring a decentralization of political

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.

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'.

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.
No.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
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.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

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

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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.
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.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

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

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.'
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
A smiling face is half the meal.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
People fail forward to success.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

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

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

She accurately described the process because she had learned a lot about poisons and other chemicals during World War II, while working in a hospital.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Home is a place that awakens the most pleasant feelings and high emotions in soul of every person.

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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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 heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

Below I've mentioned such a type of housing as a block of flats.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
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 two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Every singly person should eat proper kinds of food ? dairy products, meats, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars, cereals and grains.

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.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

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

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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.
People fail forward to success.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I didn't even breathe.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

? Physical dependence: The occurrence of withdrawal symptoms, such as nausea, sweating, shakiness, and anxiety, when alcohol use is stopped after a period of heavy drinking. These symptoms are usually relieved by drinking alcohol or by taking another seda

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
Life is consciousness.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

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.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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 knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.

? Tolerance: The need for increasing amounts of alcohol in order to get "high."

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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 think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The best way out is always through.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
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.'
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

nedjelja, 18.07.2010.

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Our lives teach us who we are.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.

Women comprise 54 percent of contemporary Russian society. However, the number of women taking part in the country's political, economic and civic life shows that women are restricted in the spheres of politics and government.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

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

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
I didn't even breathe.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.
The 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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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!
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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventua

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
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.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
Love truth, and pardon error.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.
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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

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.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

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

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.'
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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?
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Academic freedom right of scholars to pursue research, to teach, and to publish without control or restraint from the institutions that employ them.

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.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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?
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.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
So little time and so little to do.

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

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

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.
No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
To try to be better is to be better.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

subota, 17.07.2010.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
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.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

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.'

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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 crowd gives the leader new strength.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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 most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

In addition, approximately 53 percent of men and women in Russian Federation report that one or more of their close relatives have a drinking problem.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

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

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

? Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?

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.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

But I preferred to read books about travels.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.

Having thought carefully about the sort of person you are, try to work out a realistic set pf occupational requirment.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

petak, 16.07.2010.

During a normal summer the temperature sometimes rises above 30 degrees in the south.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
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?
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Rather then take trouble of going out to see a film, I would stay at home and watch television.

I didn't even breathe.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

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

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

The heart of the New York is Manhattan.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.
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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

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

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

The fauna or animal life of Britain is much like that of north-western Europe, to which it was once joined.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventua

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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

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

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

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

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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 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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Most airlines have at least 2 classes of travel: first class and economy class which is cheaper.

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?
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

A sign at the entrance of the theatre said that "house full".

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
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?
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.

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.
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.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

He also advocated increased military spending and presided over the largest military buildup during peacetime in American history.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

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

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.
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.

The Republican victory with Herbert C.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

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

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

I stand in awe of my body.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

You can learn many things from books.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
People fail forward to success.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

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

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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

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

The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
All the world's a cage.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

One reason is the wonderful riches under the earth: gold, silver, iron, coal and many precious metals.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

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.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
They can conquer who believe they can.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

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

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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!
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.

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.'

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

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

Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
To try to be better is to be better.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

In Optics, Euclid attempts to prove the common belief of the time that sight was created by rays coming from the eye, rather than light entering the eye.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

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

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

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

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Passengers are requested to arrive at the airport 2 hours before departure time on international flights and an hour on domestic flights as there must be enough time to complete the necessary airport formalities.

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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

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

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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.

srijeda, 07.07.2010.

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.

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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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?

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.