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četvrtak, 24.06.2010.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Finally the identity of the murderer is revealed and a hooked reader starts looking for another book by Agatha Christie.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
My friends are my estate.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
I adore my home; I like to be there, because it's always filed with happiness and joy.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
It's not my rule to make hasty conclusions, I prefer to get to know more about a person, then to analyze this information and only then to draw my conclusion.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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 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.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Excess luggage must be paid for except for some articles that can be carried free of charge.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
If there is a long time to wait I can always look at the portraits of film stars hanging on the walls of the foyer, or listen to a little concert that is usually given for the spectators.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
srijeda, 23.06.2010.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
We are what we repeatedly do.
In the end I'd like to add that there are many types of housing and all the people have the right to choose where to live.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
A joke's a very serious thing.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
All movements go too far.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
You can learn many things from books.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
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.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
? Have you ever felt bad or Guilty about your drinking?
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
He or she can help you determine whether you have a drinking problem and, if so, recommend the best course of action for you.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
I stand in awe of my body.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
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 the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
I think we can't live without books.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
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.
subota, 19.06.2010.
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.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Well done is better than well said.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
A smiling face is half the meal.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
He was taught at The Academy in Athens, founded by Plato, and probably tutored another great mathematician, Archimedes.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
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.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
At the beginning of the 19-th century the English colonists gave the fifth continent the name Australia or "the unknown southern land ".
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
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.
I stand in awe of my body.
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.
The Gulf of Aqaba and the Gulf of Suez are the sea's northern arms; between them is the Sinai peninsula.
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.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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 make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, char
Life is consciousness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
četvrtak, 17.06.2010.
Alcohol-related job performance problems are caused not only by on-the-job drinking but also by heavy drinking outside of work.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Over 3 billion books by Agatha Christie were sold worldwide.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
All the world's a cage.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
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.
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.'
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
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.
The best way out is always through.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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?
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
In the mountains there is heavier rainfall then in the plains of the south and east.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
utorak, 08.06.2010.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.
The 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.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
