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utorak, 26.10.2010.

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

You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

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

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

My best friend's name is Nina, we are friends for many ages; but I can never forget our first meeting. It was in summer when our families decided to rest in the south together.

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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.

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

So little time and so little to do.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.

As a result, you may feel that to seek help is to admit some type of shameful defect in yourself. In fact, however, alcoholism is a disease that is no more a sign of weakness than is asthma or diabetes.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

If a relapse occurs, it is very important to try to stop drinking once again and to get whatever additional support is needed to abstain from drinking.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
They can conquer who believe they can.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

Few female decision-makers can be found in positions of social importance.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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 Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai peninsula.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
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.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.

Amounts large and famous American cities are Chicago, Boston, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Francisco and New York.

Facts are the enemy of truth.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

Before real roads and railways came, the river carried people and goods from the east up into the country.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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.

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

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

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
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?
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
History is more or less bunk.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Books must be our friends during all our life.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

The best way out is always through.
He who laughs, lasts!
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

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

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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

The sun shines in winter and in summer. Snow and ice are rare, except the high mountains.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
'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.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
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.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

subota, 23.10.2010.

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

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 secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
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 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.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

Never eat more than you can lift.

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.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The best way out is always through.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.

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

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.

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

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Do you want to be an organizer of other people's activities?

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

Today Australia is an independent federative state consisting of 6 states and 2 territories.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

She wasn't a professional and had never been one.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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.
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.
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 impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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?
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
People fail forward to success.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
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.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
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.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

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

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.

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

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
They weren't wearing insignia.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

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

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.'
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

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.

For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.

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

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
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.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.

In the cultivated areas that make up most of Britain there are many wild flowers, flowering plants and grasses.

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.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

The Great Barrier Reef on the coast of Queensland is a garden under the sea.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

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

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

When we drove up to their house my attention was attracted by a little tidy girl in a rose dress, who was sitting to squat and playing with her long blond curl. It was Nina.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
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.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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?
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
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.'

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
History is more or less bunk.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
You 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 great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

A smiling face is half the meal.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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.

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
The best way out is always through.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

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

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

Who were these clowns?
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.

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

My home is not a place, it is people.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
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.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.

We can hardly say that today there exist the problem of choosing a type of housing.

You always pass failure on the way to success.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
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.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

On Trafalgar Square, in the center of London stands a big cristmas tree.It is a gift from the people of Oslo.

Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
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.

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

To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

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 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.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

They found a high correlation between the level of human suffering and the rate of population increase in countries. The 30 countries falling in the extreme human-suffering range--all in Africa and Asia--averaged a high annual rate of population increase

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
History is more or less bunk.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

My friends are my estate.
No.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

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.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.

One can see a table near the window and two bookshelves on the wall with books, the majority of them are fiction, as my group mate really likes to read, she is an educated person.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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 reader has to solve the mystery and decide who the murderer is hand-in-hand with the author.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
People fail forward to success.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

It is the longest and the widest street in New York.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
They can conquer who believe they can.

As you have some land around the house you can build outhouses; and if I lived in a detached house I would certainly build a garage, a summer house, maybe a padding pool and certainly I would arrange some flowerbeds as I adore flowers.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

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

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
He who laughs, lasts!
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

It is also very different from the other states.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
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.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.

Today there are a lot of different restaurants and cafes where you can eat delicious and not really expensive food.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

The radicals were supreme under Grant, but their excesses and the open scandals of the administration created a new schism, leading to the formation of the Liberal Republican party .

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Both inherited and environmental influences are called "risk factors."

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

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

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
To try to be better is to be better.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

Overpopulation, pollution and energy consumption have created such planet-wide problems as massive deforestation, ozone depletion, acid rains and the global warming that is believed to be coused by the greenhouse effect.

There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
People fail forward to success.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

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

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
A joke's a very serious thing.
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.'
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

I'd learned my lesson.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

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

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
We are what we repeatedly do.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
My friends are my estate.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

I think it is necessary to follow these rules.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

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.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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'.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.

Facts are the enemy of truth.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
I 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.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

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

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

We found our seats which were in the stalls and went exploring the theatre.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Although he may not have written The Elements entirely on his own, his other works are certainly his alone.

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.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
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.

Who were these clowns?

Where facts are few, experts are many.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Love truth, and pardon error.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
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.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

The 1996 elections saw incumbents generally retain their offices.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
All movements go too far.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

subota, 09.10.2010.

Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

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.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

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

Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.'
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

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

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa.

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.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Vigorous writing is concise.

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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
My friends are my estate.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
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.

I can't say that I can stand colds.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Now I like to read books on science.

The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

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

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
The 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.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

Several million more adults engage in risky drinking patterns that could lead to alcohol problems.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

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

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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

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.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.

Regular reading enriches your knowledge of the world and helps to form your entire personality.

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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I 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.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

They have many TV and radio programs to choose from.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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!

Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.

All movements go too far.
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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

His work in Data is probably the most famous of his smaller works, and focuses on finding certain measurements and quantities when others are given.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
There'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.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

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

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

The summer months are June, July and August.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

When we came into the hall the orchestra were tuning in their instruments.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

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.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

In the British homes there has been no central heating up till recently.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

The Bass Strait, of the coast of Victoria, has been one of the country?s biggest oil fields for many years.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

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

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
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?
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
I 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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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

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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Memory feeds imagination.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Who were these clowns?
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.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
A smiling face is half the meal.
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.
Art is science made clear.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.

As for me, I have made up my mind to be an engineer.

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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

To most environmentalists, the data suggest that the planet is already overpopulated.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Is there life before death?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

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

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

In addition, supervisors were under constant pressure to keep production moving and were motivated to discipline employees for drinking only if the drinking was compromising production or jeopardizing safety. Workers' knowledge that policies were rarely e

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Who were these clowns?
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Women have less access to retraining programs than men, while women entrepreneurs are a rarity.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.

But the greatest disadvantage of living in a farmhouse or in a cottage, in my opinion, is that it takes much time to get to the nearest town, but if you have a car it isn't a problem for you.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
People fail forward to success.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
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.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.

Where facts are few, experts are many.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

It's very important to know traditions and customs of different people.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
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.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
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.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
A joke's a very serious thing.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.

As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
The 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 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 have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

Those include Data, Optics, Phaenomena, and On Division of Figures.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
They can conquer who believe they can.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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'.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

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.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
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.'
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

They can conquer who believe they can.

I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

nedjelja, 03.10.2010.

We are what we repeatedly do.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

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

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
I stand in awe of my body.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.

One of them is to give presents to each other.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
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.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
A poem is no place for an idea.

The Highlands with thin soil are largely moorland with heather and grasses.

To try to be better is to be better.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Finally the identity of the murderer is revealed and a hooked reader starts looking for another book by Agatha Christie.

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.
'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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

For example, it is much better to eat an apple or a banana than to eat a double hamburger with ketchup and mayonnaise.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

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

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Cristmas day is one of their favorite holidays.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
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.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
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.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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.

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.

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Also it is very important for our health.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
So little time and so little to do.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

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

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

This work made a great sensation in Ireland as well as in England, it equally strirred the interests of those in politics as well as the readers of novels.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
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.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

The center of the city is on Capital Hill. This building houses both the senate and a House of Representatives.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.