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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
All the world's a cage.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

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.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
To try to be better is to be better.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

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

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

I like to come to hte cinema a couple of minutes before the movie starts.

Now we were descending just as steeply.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
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.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

To be a well prepared engineer I should have some important qualities: great capability persistance, knowledge of science and, of course, knowledge of foreign languages.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Walking is man's best medicine.

The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, George W. Bush appeared generally to lead in the polls in what ultimately became a popular-vote loss to Democrat Al Gore.

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

My home is not a place, it is people.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The average person thinks he isn't.
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.
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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

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

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.

? Failure to fulfill major work, school, or home responsibilities;

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

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

Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Life is consciousness.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Less than a hundred years ago, there was nothing except sheep in Canberra.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

Perhaps it is fitting, then, that Euclid is called "The Father of Geometry".

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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.
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.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

This custom was next recorded in the middle ages when German peasants lit tapers on birthday cakes, the number lit indicating the person's age, plus an extra one to represent the light of life. From earliest days burning tapers had been endoued with mysti

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

It's not my rule to make hasty conclusions, I prefer to get to know more about a person, then to analyze this information and only then to draw my conclusion.

Who were these clowns?
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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 sincere; be brief; be seated.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
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.

Like orchestras, the theatre companies usually play in rented theatres, but there are several theatres which have their own homes.

I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
People fail forward to success.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Snow may come but it melts quickly. In winter the cold is humid cold, not the dry one.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

utorak, 28.09.2010.

The name reappeared in the 1850s, when the present-day Republican party was founded.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

God creates men, but they choose each other.
So little time and so little to do.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

I followed all the doctor's instructions and very soon I felt much better.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I 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.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.

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

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
A smiling face is half the meal.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

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 th

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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 man can do all things if he but wills them.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

He hates wars and wants to make his people happy.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

There are some problems in our life and sometimes it is difficult to solve them.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
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 couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.

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

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

The trees look strange; it will seem odd to you that they never lose their leaves, and you will miss the bare branches in winter.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I didn't even breathe.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

ponedjeljak, 27.09.2010.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.

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.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.

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

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

You may think for example, that you would like a job which involves organizing people, but liking such a job is not a sufficient justification if experience you already may have suggests that this is not your strong point.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I'd learned my lesson.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Ames and colleagues found a positive relationship between the frequency of being "hungover" at work and the frequency of feeling sick at work, sleeping on the job, and having problems with job tasks or co-workers.

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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
History is more or less bunk.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
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.

There are many customs and traditions in England. And I would like to tell you some of them.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Things are only impossible until they're not.

The surge in population is both a cause of the changed relationship and one of the clearest illustrations of how startling the change has been, especially when viewed in a historical context. From the emergence of modern humans 200,000 years ago until Ju

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
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.

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

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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Agatha Christie's favourite way of murdering was by poisoning.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
So little time and so little to do.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.

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

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Art is science made clear.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

Art is science made clear.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
All movements go too far.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
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.
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.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
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.

In the 2000 elections, the party's presidential nominee, George W. Bush appeared generally to lead in the polls in what ultimately became a popular-vote loss to Democrat Al Gore.

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
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.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

But at the same time if you want to ask your neighbours for something or just to have a talk you can visit them.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Love truth, and pardon error.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

I like the cinema tremendously.

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!
'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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.

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

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
The lesson which life repeats and constantly enforces is 'look under foot.' You are always nearer the divine and the true sources of your power than you think.
The 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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
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.
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 crowd gives the leader new strength.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

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

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.

The first voyage was to a strange country Lilliput.

One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
The average person thinks he isn't.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

There are some traditions connected with it.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

nedjelja, 26.09.2010.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

One of them is to give presents to each other.

All the world's a cage.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
My friends are my estate.

It is not only children and members of family.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
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?
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

Home is a place that awakens the most pleasant feelings and high emotions in soul of every person.

Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

It's the place where I wake up every morning to the refreshing smell of coffee from the kitchen and where every day of my life starts, that's why it is so important for me.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

In fact, King Ptolemy once asked Euclid if there was an easier way to study math than learning all the theorems.

The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
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 man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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.
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 is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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!
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

That's why now I never make any conclusions about a person when I meet him or her for the first time.

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
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.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

Everything else in this country is on a correspondent scale.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.

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

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

subota, 25.09.2010.

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

What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
So little time and so little to do.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

The party's national organization was perfected at Pittsburgh in Feb., 1856, and its first presidential candidate, John C. Fremont , made a creditable showing against victorious James Buchanan.

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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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?
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

Orchestras in Britain have no concert halls of their own, but play in halls rented from local authorities or private companies.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I'd learned my lesson.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

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

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Australia seems to me and other people to be the upside-down world.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
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.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

He who laughs, lasts!

You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

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

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?
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
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.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
I didn't even breathe.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

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

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.

Rainfall is more or less even throughout the year.

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?
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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 no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
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.

Other great holidays are:Father?s day,Mother?s day,Helloween and other.

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

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

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.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

New York is the largest city in USA.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Life is consciousness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

Well, as for me I do respect their eating habits and like to eat different countries? food such as Italian Pasta, Japanese rice with sushi or Indian spicy meat.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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 never too late to give up our prejudices.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
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.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Any of these treatments may be provided in a hospital or residential treatment setting or on an outpatient basis.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

petak, 24.09.2010.

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.

Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
So little time and so little to do.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
'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.

In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

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.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
People fail forward to success.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
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.

his novel was written many years ago, but it is popular nowadays.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

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

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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Many people were standing at the entrace of the theatre asking if we had an extra ticket.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
I 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.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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 car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.
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.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south.

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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

I stand in awe of my body.
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.
Is there life before death?
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

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

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
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.

Ames and colleagues found a positive relationship between the frequency of being "hungover" at work and the frequency of feeling sick at work, sleeping on the job, and having problems with job tasks or co-workers.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
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.
Who were these clowns?
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
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.

srijeda, 22.09.2010.

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

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.

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

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.

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

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

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

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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.
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.

If you are going to live alone, you can prefer a studio to a large apartment.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.

At that time James the First was on the throne. He was hated with many people especialy the Roman catholics against whom many sever laws had been passed.

History is more or less bunk.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
The 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.

ponedjeljak, 20.09.2010.

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.

The average person thinks he isn't.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Campaigning against the domestic policy of the Truman administration and its prosecution of the war in Korea, Eisenhower swept to a landslide victory over the Democratic candidate, Adlai E. Stevenson .

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

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

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

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.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

Love truth, and pardon error.

Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
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.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
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.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

Eating habits are different in different countries.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

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

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
My friends are my estate.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
The average person thinks he isn't.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Vigorous writing is concise.

Gardens and parks are full of colorful flowers; there are a lot of berries in summer, so some people like to go to a forest to pick them up.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.

A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.
Life is consciousness.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

The name reappeared in the 1850s, when the present-day Republican party was founded.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Facts are the enemy of truth.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

My home, my sweet home...

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

I consider that it's the cheapest type of dwelling in a town.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Keep on going and the chances are you will stumble on something, perhaps when you are least expecting it. I have never heard of anyone stumbling on something sitting down.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

Anti-slavery Whigs such as William Seward and Thurlow Weed were dominant in the new grouping, but elements of the Know-Nothing movement , together with the Free-Soil party , abolitionists , and anti-Nebraska Democrats also supplied strength.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

'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.

The best way out is always through.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

It was not until 1826 that the first nonsectarian university was established in London.

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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
I 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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
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.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
Is there life before death?
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

Now, in the course of one human lifetime - mine - the world population will increase from 2 to more than 9 billion, and it is already more than halfway there.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
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?
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

By straddling the issue of the League of Nations and calling for a return to "normalcy," the party easily elected Warren G. Harding in 1920.

So little time and so little to do.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

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

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children

Home is a place that awakens the most pleasant feelings and high emotions in soul of every person.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

How can you tell whether you, or someone close to you, may have a drinking problem?

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
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.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

Then he examined my throat and said that it was a little inflamed.

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 faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

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

We are what we repeatedly do.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I've never quite believed that one chance is all I get.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

All the members of our family buy books and read them.

The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't 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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.

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.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
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.
He who laughs, lasts!
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

Housework, chores and raising children are generally considered to belong to a woman's domain.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.

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.

If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

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.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
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.

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

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
People fail forward to success.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Each body has its art...

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I didn't even breathe.
A poem is no place for an idea.

This strengthens the stereotype of "male superiority" and hinders the creation of true partnerships between men and women.

A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

The highest buildings are Impure State Building and the united national building.

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 scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
My friends are my estate.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
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.

Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.

For a man of such great significance to the world of mathematics, little is known about his actual life.

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

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.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

There are no deserts in Tasmania.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.
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.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

At that time James the First was on the throne. He was hated with many people especialy the Roman catholics against whom many sever laws had been passed.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
He who laughs, lasts!
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Is there life before death?

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
To try to be better is to be better.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Well done is better than well said.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

In particular, you can answer to important questions.

Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

srijeda, 15.09.2010.

Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

A joke's a very serious thing.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
My friends are my estate.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

All the world's a cage.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

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

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

In one study of 832 workers at a large manufacturing plant, workers on evening shifts, during which supervision was reduced, were more likely than those on other shifts to report drinking at work.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.

There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.

Although the Republican party had become a minority in registration, Nixon failed by fewer than 200,000 votes to defeat John F. Kennedy.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

The children will sing:" Remember, remember the 5th of November; Gun powder, treason and plot". And they will ask passers-by for "a penny for the Guy" But the children with "the Guy" are not likely to know who or what day they are celebrating.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
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.

In bad times, and in the driest parts, many animals may die for want of water.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Each body has its art...
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

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

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.

Benjamin Harrison defeated Cleveland in 1888 but lost to him in 1892.

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.

My home is not a place, it is people.
When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.

There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

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

I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

petak, 10.09.2010.

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 be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.

But the party supported the nation's war effort and after the war, led by Senator Arthur H. Vandenberg , joined the Democratic administration in a bipartisan foreign policy.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing 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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.

People prefer to stay at home and to watch TV or video.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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'.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
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.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
'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.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
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.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.

Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I 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.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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 don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.