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utorak, 26.10.2010.

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.

There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
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.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

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

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
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 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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

On Trafalgar Square, in the center of London stands a big cristmas tree.It is a gift from the people of Oslo.

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 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.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.

If you feel that you lack information, knowledge, and words to express your opinions - read more!

A smiling face is half the meal.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
I'd learned my lesson.

He was tortured and hanged, Catesby was killed, resisting arrest in his own house.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

subota, 23.10.2010.

While some people are able to recover without help, the majority of alcoholic individuals need outside assistance to recover from their disease.

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

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.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

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

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
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.

There are many other works of Euclid which appear to be lost to time, but his primary work in The Elements is what made him famous.

Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I'd learned my lesson.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
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.
Life is consciousness.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
A poem is no place for an idea.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

Cinema-going is a favourite pastime in Britain.

It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
The 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.
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.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

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

Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

When we drove up to their house my attention was attracted by a little tidy girl in a rose dress, who was sitting to squat and playing with her long blond curl. It was Nina.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

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

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.

Only a half of million people live in Tasmania, and a large part of the island is still covered with wild, beautiful wild forests.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
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.
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.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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!'
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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?
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

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.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
My home is not a place, it is people.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Memory feeds imagination.

In these postwar elections, the party, always supported by the Grand Army of the Republic , denounced all Democrats as former Copperheads and claimed to have alone saved the Union.

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.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
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 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.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

After summer autumn comes.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

I will never forget my first visit to the Bolshoy Theatre.

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
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?
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

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?
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
You 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 believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
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.
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.

Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.

But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.

There are many foxes. Otters are common along rivers and streams, and seals live along much of the coast.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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!
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Historically, academic freedom developed during the Enlightenment.

Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Is there life before death?
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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.

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

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
No.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

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

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
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.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
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 all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

In either case, it is important that you see your doctor or other health care provider right away to discuss your responses to these questions.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

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

There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Is there life before death?
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

Euclid is thought to have lived from 325-265 BC, mostly in Alexandria.

Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Many developing countries, such as India, Egypt, Nigeria, Lybia, etc have excellent hotels.

I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.

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.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
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 was sick of cars driving right past me.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

In 1972, President Nixon was triumphantly reelected, defeating George McGovern on a record of favoring a strong defense with a limited detente with the Soviet Union and China, and a conservative domestic program featuring a decentralization of political

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
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.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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 scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

At first sight they have nothing in life; they don't have stable jobs or their own apartments, but they are really happy; they meet every day with a smile, they laugh and receive pleasure from life. Isn't that great?

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
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.

Industrial enterprises emit tons of harmful substunces.

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
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.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
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.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

Living in ancient Alexandria, he wrote The Elements, a geometry textbook used in some places until the twentieth century.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

Autumn is the season of fruit and vegetables, lots of people pick mushrooms up in the forest and dry them for winter.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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?
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.

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 ad

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
I'd learned my lesson.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

With support and treatment, many individuals are able to stop drinking and rebuild their lives.

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

I often read for pleasure and sometimes for information.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

Alcohol abuse is defined as a pattern of drinking that is accompanied by one or more of the following situations within a 12-month period:

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

On Trafalgar Square, in the center of London stands a big cristmas tree.It is a gift from the people of Oslo.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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

Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

More than two-thirds of the 984 workers surveyed at a large manufacturing plant said it was "easy" or "very easy" to bring alcohol into the workplace, to drink at work stations, and to drink during breaks.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Someone went upside my head again.
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 don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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 read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
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?

Lord Monteagle took the letter hurrily to the King. Guards were sent at once to examine the cellars of the house of Parliament.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Memory feeds imagination.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.

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.
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.
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.
People fail forward to success.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

Alcohol Policies.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Every singly person should eat proper kinds of food ? dairy products, meats, fruit and vegetables, fats and sugars, cereals and grains.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

How does it differ from alcohol abuse?

I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
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.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
A poem is no place for an idea.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
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.

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

If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

The warm days of early autumn arc called the "Indian Summer" and it is really beautiful with its yellow, red and brown trees and golden leaves falling down.

Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
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.
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.'
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

As the result of a shipwreck Gulliver finds himself in a country, inhabited by a race of people about six inches high.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.

My home, my sweet home...

Our patience will achieve more than our force.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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.

It is not only children and members of family.

All movements go too far.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
A poem is no place for an idea.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

They found a high correlation between the level of human suffering and the rate of population increase in countries. The 30 countries falling in the extreme human-suffering range--all in Africa and Asia--averaged a high annual rate of population increase

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
History is more or less bunk.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
There is a tragic flaw in our precious Constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

One can see a table near the window and two bookshelves on the wall with books, the majority of them are fiction, as my group mate really likes to read, she is an educated person.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

To try to be better is to be better.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

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

None are so busy as the fool and knave.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

? Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?

Some people make headlines while others make history.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Art is science made clear.
The average person thinks he isn't.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

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

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

We found our seats which were in the stalls and went exploring the theatre.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny 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?

Its candidate, Horace Greeley, although supported by the Democrats, was not popular enough to defeat Grant in 1872, and corruption became even more widespread.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

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.

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.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
I stand in awe of my body.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.

The business center of New York is near Wall Street.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
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.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

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

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
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.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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?
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The average person thinks he isn't.

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

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.

His administration rivaled Grant's for corruption, but after Harding died in office, his successor, Calvin Coolidge , was returned over John W. Davis and La Follette.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Facts are the enemy of truth.

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.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
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.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The 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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I often read the paper "Film Week" to know which films have been released and which ones are being shot.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
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.
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?
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

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

I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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?
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

utorak, 12.10.2010.

To my mind those people, who prefer this type of dwelling really adore nature: they want to wake up to songs of birds, to enjoy beautiful landscapes, to breath fresh air or in other words they want to have a calm and measured rhythm of life.

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?
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.

Do you want to develop new ideas and initiate changes.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Walking is man's best medicine.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Another ex-Union general, James A. Garfield , was nominated and was elected over a Democratic general, Winfield S. Hancock.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
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.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Vigorous writing is concise.

At the beginning of the 19-th century the English colonists gave the fifth continent the name Australia or "the unknown southern land ".

The average person thinks he isn't.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
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?
Art is science made clear.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.
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.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.

Before real roads and railways came, the river carried people and goods from the east up into the country.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

The 1998 mid-term elections saw the Republican margin in the House reduced, despite expectations that they would benefit from the effects of the Lewinsky scandal; the results led to Gingrich's resignation from office.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.

Some towns on the Murrey still keep the old river boats, and visitors can ride on them.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

A joke's a very serious thing.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

As one of my friends says if you are not a handicapped person you are a really lucky and happy one.

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
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'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

There are a lot of films which are worth seeing, but this one is the best one to my mind.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

You can any types of food in restaurants ? you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of 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.
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.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

A person under 16 years of age may see an "A" filem only in company of an adult.

All movements go too far.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.

Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.

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.

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

? Examine the benefits of stopping an unhealthy drinking pattern.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.

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

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

In particular, you can answer to important questions.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

Blackpool is not officially asafe.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

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.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

When I was a child my parents read them to me.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

It is winter now.

The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
To try to be better is to be better.
All movements go too far.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

If your health care provider determines that you are not alcohol dependent but are nonetheless involved in a pattern of alcohol abuse, he or she can help you:

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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'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.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.

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

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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
The best way out is always through.

I'd learned my lesson.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
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.'
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?
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

? Examine the situations that trigger your unhealthy drinking patterns, and develop new ways of handling those situations so that you can maintain your drinking goal.

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
All movements go too far.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Is there life before death?
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.

The novel describes the tragic fate of a boy and a girl, Clyde and Roberta by name. It is a sad story.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

I didn't even breathe.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I'd learned my lesson.

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

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.

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

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

Swift's imagination the bitterness of his satire reach their climax in the third part where he shows the academy of sciences in Laputa (the author touches upon all the existing sciences).

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Dairy products provide us with calcium, meat provide our bodies with protein, iron, zinc.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Is there life before death?
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

Over 3 billion books by Agatha Christie were sold worldwide.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

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.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

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

There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

These forests are full of wonderful flowers and interesting animals.

The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
The 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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.

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

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I 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.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
You always pass failure on the way to success.

The name Wall Street remained from our days.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.

Keep in mind, too, that every day that a recovering alcoholic has stayed sober prior to a relapse is extremely valuable time, both to the individual and to his or her family.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Is there life before death?

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

Other analysts believe the earth could support 7 to 12 billion people at a decent standard of living by distributing the world's land and food supply more equitably and shifting from less abundant resources (such as lead, tin, uranium, oil, and natural g

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

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.

I stand in awe of my body.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.

subota, 09.10.2010.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
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?
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

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

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.

My mother says that books help us in self-education.

If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.

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

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.

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

I stand in awe of my body.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
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!

The scenery and the dancing were superb.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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

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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

In ancient times books were written by hand.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

In the 4'th part Swift describes Gulliver's adventures at the Heuyhnhnms - a ideal land where were is neither sickness, dishonesty, non any of the frivo-lities of human scociety.

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

When you visit your health care provider, he or she will ask you a number of questions about your alcohol use to determine whether you are experiencing problems related to your drinking.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
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?
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Vigorous writing is concise.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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?
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

In Russia the weather is very cold in winter in winter and very warm in summer, people usually wear too much clothes in winter ? warm sweaters, jeans, tights, winter boots and fur-coats, mittens, scarves, hats and other warm things.

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 have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

Acknowledging that help is needed for an alcohol problem may not be easy.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Our lives teach us who we are.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
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 love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

They weren't wearing insignia.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
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.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Love truth, and pardon error.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
No.
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.

It was hear that the Dutch built the first building of the town.

You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

Eisenhower and Nixon

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.

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.

We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

In the mountains there is heavier rainfall then in the plains of the south and east.

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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

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.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
People fail forward to success.
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.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.

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

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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.

We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.

Generally this limit is 20kg for economic class passenger and 30kg for first class passenger.

You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.

Analysis of existing legislation of Russia confirms its prohibition on gender discrimination.

Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

The party did not fair as well in other races for national office, and the Democrats made gains in Congress, although the Republicans retained control there.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

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

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I stand in awe of my body.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

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

A smiling face is half the meal.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.

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 ca

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

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

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
So little time and so little to do.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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 feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
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.
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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?

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.

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.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

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

Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
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.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

Their numerous facilities include both: large and small cocktail barber's shops and conference halls, equipped with simultaneous, multilingual translation systems.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
A smiling face is half the meal.
All the world's a cage.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.

All movements go too far.

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
My head rang like a gong.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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?
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.

I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.

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.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
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.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?

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

You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
My head rang like a gong.
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 don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.

The growing Populist party , with its radical program, had a peculiar position in those elections, receiving in each section of the country the support of the party not in power.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.

An even greater environmental threat are nuclear power stations.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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 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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

So, never judge people by appearances, because appearances are deceptive!

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.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

These analysts recognize that population growth is not the only cause or our environmental and resource problems.

I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

quantity of peat employed in curing the malt, manner of distilling

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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
My home is not a place, it is people.

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.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
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.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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.

You can any types of food in restaurants ? you can try homemade cakes, beefsteaks, pasta and macaroni and others.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.

Cinemas in England are usually large and more comfortable than the theatres.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Despite promises about sharing the world's wealth, the gap between the rich and poor has been getting larger since 1960.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

The book is a faithful and undemanding friend.

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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.

A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.

Before the concept of academic freedom could gain general acceptance, however, it was necessary that education become secularized.

The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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?
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
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.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Each body has its art...
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

A number of catholics chief of whom was Robert Catesby determined to kill the King and his ministers by blowing up the house of Parliament with gunpowder.

Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
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 don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

You can eat a bowl of ice-cream, a pieces of apple pie, strawberries with cream or something like that for dessert.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
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.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .

It is a civil right that is enjoyed, at least in statute, by all citizens of democratic countries.

Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
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 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.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
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.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
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?
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

But I preferred to read books about travels.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Art is science made clear.
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.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

Depression and World War II

When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.

petak, 01.10.2010.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
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.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

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.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

You can neither buy happiness, nor sell it; you can never win it in the lottery; the only way to be happy is to grow your happiness.

When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.

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.

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.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
When 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.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

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

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
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.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
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.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

One famous man said: "The nature doesn't have bad weather?, so in my opinion we should like all seasons, because every season is beautiful in its own way.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

One famous man said: "The nature doesn't have bad weather?, so in my opinion we should like all seasons, because every season is beautiful in its own way.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
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.'
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
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 people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.