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utorak, 31.08.2010.

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

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.
The 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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

Someone went upside my head again.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

The poisoning of the world's land, air, and water is the fastest-spreading disease of civilisation.

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.
My head rang like a gong.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

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

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.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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

A poem is no place for an idea.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Who were these clowns?
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

Summer is the hottest season of the year and days are longer than in winter.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

subota, 28.08.2010.

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

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
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.

On the domestic side, however, Bush's administration was perceived as being slow to respond to such problems as stagnant economic growth, rising unemployment, and the unaffordability of health care for many Americans.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Naltrexone is the first medication approved in 45 years to help alcoholics stay sober after they detoxify from alcohol.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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.

We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.

I stand in awe of my body.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

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

Well done is better than well said.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
The art of war is simple enough. Find out where your enemy is. Get at him as soon as you can. Strike him as hard as you can, and keep moving on.
They weren't wearing insignia.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Keep cool and you command everybody.

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.
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.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.

petak, 20.08.2010.

Our flat is very warm and cosy, so it makes any person feel at home.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
So little time and so little to do.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
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 cool and you command everybody.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.

My friends are my estate.

'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.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
No.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

My home is not a place, it is people.

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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Virtually all alcoholism treatment programs also include meetings of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), which describes itself as a "worldwide fellowship of men and women who help each other to stay sober."

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.

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.'

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

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.

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
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.
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.
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.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
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.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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.

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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!
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
People fail forward to success.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.

It has a lot of advantages: first of all your neighbours can never disturb you.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Never eat more than you can lift.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
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.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
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.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
A joke's a very serious thing.

For example, in Britain the weather is often rainy, summer there is quite warm, but windy.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.

Sometimes after a long journey I return home with such pleasure and happiness, that I feel myself like a baby that returns to its mother.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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 most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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 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!
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

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

We are what we repeatedly do.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
My head rang like a gong.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
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.
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.
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?
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.

There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.'
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Walking is man's best medicine.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Such questions as women and their place in the society, their political and social activity as well as enlightening of those problems in mass media; questions of creation of informational data-base as well as maternity and childhood cannot be effectively

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Well done is better than well said.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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.'
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.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
It'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'.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
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.

The Late Nineteenth Century

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Never eat more than you can lift.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
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.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
He who laughs, lasts!
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

Nowadays people who go on business mostly travel by air as it is the fastest means of travelling.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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.
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 felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
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.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Each body has its art...
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Someone went upside my head again.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
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.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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 you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
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.
Memory feeds imagination.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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!
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

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.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
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.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
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 may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Even the best of friends need time apart.

utorak, 10.08.2010.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
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.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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 excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

Sydney is the best known place in New South Wales.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.

utorak, 03.08.2010.

And non-governmental charity organizations become a single source for support of such projects.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
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.

This humid and mild climate is good for plants. The trees and flowers begin to blossom early in spring.

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
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.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
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 first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

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.

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.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
People fail forward to success.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

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

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

ponedjeljak, 02.08.2010.

This anthill existence would require that everyone exist only on a diet of grain, cultivation all arable land, and mining much of the earth's crust of a depth of 1.6 kilometers (1 mile).

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

I like to watch films very much. I prefer thrillers, comedies and horror movies, but I do not like tragedies and melodramas very much, and I hate soap operas, although they are becoming very popular in our country.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
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.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

One of the most important reflections of equity is equal rights in the labor market.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.

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

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

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

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

This novel was published at the beginning of the 20th century.

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.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.

In the case of scholars, whose occupation is directly involved with that right, the concept of academic freedom generally includes the property right of tenure of office (see tenure , in education). Essential to the acceptance of the concept of academic f

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
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.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
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.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.

Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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

History is more or less bunk.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
You cannot run away from a weakness; you must sometimes fight it out or perish. And if that be so, why not now, and where you stand?
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

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