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subota, 31.07.2010.

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.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
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.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

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.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
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'.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Art is science made clear.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

When two Englishmen are introduced to each other, if they can't think of any thing else to talk about, they talk about weather.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.'
Keep cool and you command everybody.

The importance of home is depicted in languages of all the nations: we say "East or West, home is best ", the English say "My home is my castle".

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.

Life is consciousness.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

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.

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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

And the last type of dwelling I want to mention is a detached house.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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 can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

The driest period is from March to June and the wettest months are from October to January.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

? New medications: Studies have led to the Food and Drug Administration's approval of the medication naltrexone for the treatment of alcoholism.

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
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.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
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.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

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

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Who were these clowns?
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

The ongoing changes in social, political and economic spheres of the country entails not only the raise of women?s role in society, in addition they are accompanied by breaking of stereotypes to treat human beings by sex that had been shaping through dec

Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.

Swift ridicults the scientists of the 18'th century.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

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.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.
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?
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

After the overtune the curtain went up.

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

srijeda, 28.07.2010.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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!
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

I am sure that books play a very important role in my life. Our family has got many books.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

Swift's democratic ideas expressed in the book had a great influence on the English writers who came after Swift.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
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.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

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

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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.

It might be useful for travelling businessmen and tourists to know that tailor shops, shoe repair shops and laundry, dry cleaning services are available for guests.

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.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

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

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Researchers found that most managers and supervisors in one large manufacturing plant had little knowledge of the company's alcohol policy.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

Never eat more than you can lift.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.

My friends are my estate.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
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.
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.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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 nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

What Is Alcoholism?

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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Memory feeds imagination.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

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.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
I am not young enough to know everything.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

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

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.

utorak, 27.07.2010.

But New South Wales has more than cities.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Someone went upside my head again.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

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.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

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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 are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
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.

I stand in awe of my body.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

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

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.
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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

subota, 24.07.2010.

mainly oak and beech in the Lowlands and pine and birch In the Highlands, with great stretches of marshland and smaller areas of moors.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Life is consciousness.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

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?
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
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 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.'

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.

Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
My friends are my estate.

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 wom

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Someone went upside my head again.

The Elements was used as the primary geometry resource for over 2000 years, and his lessons could still be used today.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

While students no longer read directly from his writing, the textbooks of today are still based on Euclidean proofs and theorems.

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 aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
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.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

Cinema-going is more popular in industrial towns in the North of England and Scotland than in the South.

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.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
A poem is no place for an idea.

The Republicans also increased their majorities in both houses of Congress, as retiring Senate Democrats from the South were replaced by Republicans.

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.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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

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.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

The medieval universities also operated within a field of definite scope, primarily theological, and any teacher or scholar who extended inquiry beyond the approved limits was subject to the charge of heresy.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Walking is man's best medicine.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

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

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.
My friends are my estate.
No.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Isolationists held the upper hand in the party before World War II, and in 1940 two Republicans, Henry L.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
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.

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.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

The perfomance was a great success with the public.

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
I didn't even breathe.
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.
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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
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.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
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 have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
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.

People are beginning to realise that environmental problems are not somebody else's.

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

? Continued drinking despite having ongoing relationship problems that are caused or worsened by the effects of alcohol.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

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

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.

A poem is no place for an idea.

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Art is science made clear.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

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.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

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.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Is there life before death?

By 1855 the new party was well launched in the North.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

The choice of books in our school library is very good. There are many short stories and novels, textbooks and reference books, dictionaries and encyclopedias there.

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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

If your health care professional concludes that you may be dependent on alcohol, he or she may recommend that you see a specalist in diagnosing and treating alcoholism.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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.

A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

petak, 23.07.2010.

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Love truth, and pardon error.

However, Dewey, the party's first unsuccessful candidate ever to be renominated, was defeated by a close margin.

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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
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.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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 can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

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 is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

Do not forget your personal effects when leaving the plane.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Vigorous writing is concise.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.

But one of the consperators had several friends in the parliament and he didn't want them to die.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

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.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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 perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.

Every country and every nation has it's own traditions and customs.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.

You should be involved in making referral decisions and have all treatment choices explained to you.

In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.

The reform wing of the party, led by Carl Schurz, deserted Blaine for the conservative Democrat Grover Cleveland, who was elected.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
My friends are my estate.
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.
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.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Is there life before death?
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

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.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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 ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

He wrote a for a gargle and cough medicine.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

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

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
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.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.

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 gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
History is more or less bunk.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
My home is not a place, it is people.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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?
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

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That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

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

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.'
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.
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'.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach 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.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.

četvrtak, 22.07.2010.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

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.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
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 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.

Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.

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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
Each body has its art...

The White House is one of the oldest buildings in the city. It is the president?s residents.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
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.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

Life is consciousness.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

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.

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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?
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
I stand in awe of my body.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
People fail forward to success.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

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 trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There are 2 big concert halls in London.

The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

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.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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 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 didn't even breathe.
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.'

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

Recently, the Population Crisis Committee complied a human suffering index for each of 130 countries based on ten measures of human welfare.

The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

There is wide variation in the existence of alcohol policies, in employees' awareness of them, and in their enforcement in workplaces across the country.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
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.'

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

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

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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

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

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I stand in awe of my body.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

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

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.

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.

I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

His work was translated into Latin and Arabic, and was first printed in mass quantity in 1482, ten years before Columbus, but 1800 years AFTER it was written! From that point until the early 1900's, The Elements was considered by far the best geometry tex

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
He who laughs, lasts!
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

subota, 17.07.2010.

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.

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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.
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.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

The left always having been linked with evil.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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'.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
A smiling face is half the meal.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

In this work Swift intended to satirise the evils of the existing society in the form of fictions travels.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Someone went upside my head again.

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.

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Love truth, and pardon error.
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.
Our lives teach us who we are.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Who were these clowns?
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
History is more or less bunk.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

The nomination of the war hero Ulysses S. Grant assured Republican success over the Democrats led by Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Any reluctance you may feel about discussing your drinking with your health care professional may stem from common misconceptions about alcoholism and alcoholic people. In our society, the myth prevails that an alcohol problem is somehow a sign of moral w

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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
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.
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.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.

It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
History is more or less bunk.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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 you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
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.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

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

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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

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.

Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.

The closing of the canal after the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, the building of pipelines to the Mediterranean Sea, and the construction of supertankers too large for the canal diminished the sea's importance as a commercial artery, especially for petroleum.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

According to United Nations Gender Organization data, 67 percent of those unemployed in Russia are women.

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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

In 1948 the Republican party was supremely confident of defeating Roosevelt's successor, Harry S. Truman.

Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
The best way out is always through.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

četvrtak, 15.07.2010.

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

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

These books excite my imagination. I think I devote much time to reading.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

But in general I'm sure that it's quite nice to live in a semi-detached house.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

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.

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.
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.
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.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.

According to United Nations Gender Organization data, 67 percent of those unemployed in Russia are women.

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
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?
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.

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

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford , attempted to disassociate the party from the scandals, but Watergate appeared to be a major factor in the substantial Republican losses in the 1974 elections and in the subsequent defeat of Ford by the Democrat Jimmy C

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
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.
So little time and so little to do.

The author idealizes an agricultural country ruled by ideal monarch.

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.
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

srijeda, 14.07.2010.

Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

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.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

My favourite film is ... with ... starring. It is really wonderful from the beginning to the end.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

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 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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

The illicit manufacture of whiskey to avoid payment of excise taxes has been common.

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.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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 best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.

My choice of this occupation didn't come as a sudden flash.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
They can conquer who believe they can.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

utorak, 13.07.2010.

Also it is pleasant to walk when it is not very cold and it snows.

The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Who were these clowns?
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

Such people see only dark sides in everything and it prevents them from being happy. But look at other people!

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
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.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
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.'
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
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.

? Recurring alcohol-related legal problems, such as being arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol or for physically hurting someone while drunk;

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

At that time the crucial issue of the extension of slavery into the territories split the Democratic party and the Whig party , and opponents of the Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854 organized the new Republican party. Jackson, Mich., is called the birthplace o

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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?
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
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.

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

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.

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.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
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.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

The English also say that they have three variants of weather: when it rains in the morning, when it rains in the afternoon or when in rains all day long. Sometimes it rains so heavily that they say "It's raining cats and dogs".

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
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.

Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

So in the end I'd like to say that I usually pay attention to all the details in other people's rooms, even to the smallest ones, because all of them reveal me new traits of the character of this person and new sides of the person I know.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Watch the electric sign flashes when you are on board, when the "Fasten Seat Belts" sign goes on do it promptly and also obey the "No Smoking" signal.

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.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Vigorous writing is concise.

The Old Royal Albert Hall and the New Royal Festival Hall, which is one of the most modern concert halls in the world.

The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Who were these clowns?
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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.

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

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

nedjelja, 11.07.2010.

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.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
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.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

subota, 10.07.2010.

Researchers found that most managers and supervisors in one large manufacturing plant had little knowledge of the company's alcohol policy.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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?
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.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

petak, 09.07.2010.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
The best way out is always through.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
'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.

I'd learned my lesson.

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.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

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

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Someone went upside my head again.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Someone went upside my head again.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.

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.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

The book is a faithful and undemanding friend.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.

And if your house is not just a building for you but a place that you can call home, it means that you want to stay there as long as possible and it's a place where you always want to return to.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

A poem is no place for an idea.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

There are four seasons in a year: spring, summer, autumn and winter. December, January and February are winter months.

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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.