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ponedjeljak, 22.11.2010.

Homes reflect the way of life and habits of their owners.

Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
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!'
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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 car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.

Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.

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

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.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

utorak, 09.11.2010.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

79 shot stories, 4 non-fiction ones and 19 plays were written by that strange woman.

Memory feeds imagination.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

All movements go too far.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...

And only in 1606 Dutch sailors reached the shores of the unknown continent, but it was not settled till the English Captain Cook discovered the East Coast in 1770.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

But "waving the bloody shirt," as this type of propaganda was styled, was not enough to elect Blaine in 1884.

My friends are my estate.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
I stand in awe of my body.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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?

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

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