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nedjelja, 27.02.2011.

Children find cristmas presents in their stockings.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
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.

All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

All the world's a cage.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Euclid also founded a great mathematics school in Alexandria.

If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.

Each passenger of more than 2 years of age has a free luggage allowance.

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 believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

subota, 27.11.2010.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
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.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.

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

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

In spring all birds come back from the South and they sing sweetly on the branches of the trees.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

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