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subota, 31.07.2010.

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

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?
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

Proponents of population regulation believe this is caused by a combination of population growth and unwillingness of the wealthy to share the world's wealth and resources more fairly.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

In the room there is also a wardrobe, a chest of drawers and a fluffy carpet on the floor.

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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

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

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
People fail forward to success.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.

Republicans unseated long-time Democratic incumbents, winning control of both houses of Congress (for the first time since the 1950s) and claiming several governorships.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

petak, 30.07.2010.

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.

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 can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, charity.

? Have you ever had a drink first thing in the morning to steady your nerves or to get rid of a hangover (Eye opener)?

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
I 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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.

But it is difficult to buy all the books which we want to read.

Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventua

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

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

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

A book is one of the greatest wonders of the world.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

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

Where facts are few, experts are many.
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.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
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.

Even those who are helped by AA usually find that AA works best in combination with other elements of treatment, including counseling and medical care.

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
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?
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
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.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
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.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
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.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Droughts are rare.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
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.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

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

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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

In 1960, an incumbent Vice President, Richard M. Nixon was nominated for president for the first time since 1836.

You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
Vigorous writing is concise.

For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
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.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

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.

In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside 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.
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.'
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

I like the cinema tremendously.

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
People fail forward to success.

The Red Sea is linked with the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea by the straits of Bab el Mandeb.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

You 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.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We are what we repeatedly do.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Each body has its art...

Former Senate majority leader Bob Dole won the Republican nomination for the presidency, but he and his running mate, Jack Kemp , were never able to reduce significantly President Clinton's substantial lead. In the House and Senate, Republicans retained t

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.

For most people, alcohol is a pleasant accompaniment to social activities.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
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.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa.

Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

When we came into the hall the orchestra were tuning in their instruments.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
They weren't wearing insignia.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

The conservatives, skillfully guided by national chairman Marcus A. Hanna , won with William McKinley in 1896 and 1900, and under such leaders as Nelson W. Aldrich , Thomas B. Reed , Joseph G. Cannon , Thomas C. Platt , and Matthew S. Quay , the party pro

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.

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

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.
Life is consciousness.
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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
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.

We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
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.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.

ponedjeljak, 26.07.2010.

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

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

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

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Is there life before death?
Your world is made of your memories, and your memories are given to you by your world. The whispering voice of happenstance is always in our ears. 'This is the world. This is the way things are. Look. Pay attention. Remember.'
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
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.

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

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 should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Is there life before death?

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.
Someone went upside my head again.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

In the British homes there has been no central heating up till recently.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.

Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

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.

Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.

We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

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

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

Flats can be of different sizes: one-roomed, two-roomed, three-roomed, so one can choose a flat he/she likes.

Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

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.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
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.
By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
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.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
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.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.

subota, 24.07.2010.

To help them in this they got Guy Fawker, a soldier of fortune, who would do the actual work.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
All things are difficult before they are easy.

An employee health promotion program delivered in three 2-hour sessions at one manufacturing plant was designed to increase participants' awareness of the health risks related to stress and drinking.

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.
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.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
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.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.

He had luxurious moustaches and he was really proud of them.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
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.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

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.

Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
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.
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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

I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Now we were descending just as steeply.

It is often cold.

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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
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.

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

Little was ever written about Euclid, and the available information is scarce and of questionable accuracy.

Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.

Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
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 discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

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.
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?
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.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

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

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
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.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
He who laughs, lasts!

But be, as you have been, my happiness...

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
People fail forward to success.

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

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.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
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.

Many of the rivers are "biologically dead", i.e. unable to support fish and wildlife.

There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
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.
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.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
He who laughs, lasts!
Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.'

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

petak, 23.07.2010.

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 was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

And I think that is true.

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I lived what most people call the good life. I was happy, but deep inside I always felt that, with the short amount of time we are given to live and love in this world, we spend too much time loving things instead of people.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?

The best way out is always through.

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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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.
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.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

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.

The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

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

Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?

I 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.

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
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.
Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

There are five universities in the city.

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.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
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.
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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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'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.

srijeda, 21.07.2010.

I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.

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

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
I am not young enough to know everything.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Heavy drinking can increase the risk for certain cancers, especially those of the liver, esophagus, throat, and larynx (voice box).

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.

Another famous street is Broadway.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.

Agatha Christie created two major characters for her stories.

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.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
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.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Moreover, taking steps to identify a possible drinking problem has an enormous payoff--a chance for a healthier, more rewarding life.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
We are what we repeatedly do.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

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

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
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 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.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
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.

I was pleased to listen to the stories and tales. I learned a lot of interesting things from books.

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.
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.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.

Generally belligerent toward the South, the Republicans were regarded by Southerners with mingled hatred and fear as sectional tension increased.

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.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
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.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

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

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
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.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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

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.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.

? Genetic research: Scientists are now studying 3,000 individuals from several hundred families with a history of alcoholism in order to pinpoint the location of genes that influence vulnerability to alcoholism.

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.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

When two people meet in the street they will often say something about weather as they pass, just to show their friendliness.

Our lives teach us who we are.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
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."
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.

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

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

ponedjeljak, 19.07.2010.

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

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

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

The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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 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.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

I mounted a high temperature.

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.

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

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.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
How could you be a Great Man if history brought you no Great Events, or brought you to them at the wrong time, too young, too old?
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
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.

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

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.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Someone went upside my head again.

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.
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.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Vigorous writing is concise.

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

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.

The work began in 1913. Now, Canberra is an international city, full of diplomats and government offices.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

petak, 16.07.2010.

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.

America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.

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

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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?
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Agatha Christie lived between 1890 and 1976. She started writing stories at a very early age, at first to entertain herself.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.

The weather is not as good as in spring and in summer.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
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.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

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.

He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

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

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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

Supervision.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.

četvrtak, 15.07.2010.

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

Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
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.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.

A smiling face is half the meal.

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.
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 am not young enough to know everything.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
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.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
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.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Memory feeds imagination.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

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

Worries go down better with soup than without.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.

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.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.

They weren't wearing insignia.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

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

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
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.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.

However, legislation itself creates only a certain legal environment, certain conditions for equality, but does not ensure their fulfillment.

Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

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

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.

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

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

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

I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

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.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
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.
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.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

ponedjeljak, 12.07.2010.

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

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.

I 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.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.

Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
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.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.

For drink you can order a glass of water or juice, a cup of coffee or tea or alcohol drink such as wine or beer.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
We are what we repeatedly do.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
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.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

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.

There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.

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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Well done is better than well said.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.

The Red Sea was an important trade route in antiquity.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
All the world's a cage.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".

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

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
My home is not a place, it is people.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.

The seas are in danger.

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.
Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

I try to enjoy every day of my life and be happy all the time: to smile when I wake up because of the bright sun shining directly into my window, to feel happiness somewhere deep inside playing snowballs or swimming in the sea, to feel pleasure when I see

Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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?
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
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.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

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

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

Never eat more than you can lift.

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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
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.
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

I see all the best films that are on.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
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.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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 barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

A 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.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
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.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
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.
Is there life before death?
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.
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.

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.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Fall is my favorite season in Los Angeles, watching the birds change color and fall from the trees.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.

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

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
There 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.'
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.

nedjelja, 11.07.2010.

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

When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

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

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

This work made a great sensation in Ireland as well as in England, it equally strirred the interests of those in politics as well as the readers of novels.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
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.

This work made a great sensation in Ireland as well as in England, it equally strirred the interests of those in politics as well as the readers of novels.

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.

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

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

subota, 10.07.2010.

For a main course you can order fish, meat or chicken with some rice or potatoes, also you can ask for pasta and salad.

Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.

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.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.

Red Sea- ancient Sinus Arabicus or Erythraean Sea, narrow sea, c.440,300 sq km, c.2,330 km long and up to 225 mi (362 km) wide, between Africa (Egypt, Sudan, and Eritrea) and the Arabian peninsula (Saudi Arabia and Yemen); a part of the Great Rift Valley.

I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

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.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
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.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.

Where facts are few, experts are many.
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 summer night is like a perfection of thought.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
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.

The height of radical power was reached in 1868 with the impeachment of Johnson, which was defeated by only a one-vote margin.

All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

But it is difficult to buy all books which we want to read.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.

In addition, alcohol abuse is less likely than alcoholism to include tolerance (the need for increasing amounts of alcohol to get "high").

The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

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.

Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
I 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 great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.

He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
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 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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
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.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

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

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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 I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Also he gave me some sulfa pills, a slip for X-Ray and blood examination.

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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
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.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

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.

Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

Today there are a lot of different restaurants and cafes where you can eat delicious and not really expensive food.

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The cloning of humans is on most of the lists of things to worry about from Science, along with behaviour control, genetic engineering, transplanted heads, computer poetry and the unrestrained growth of plastic flowers.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

The third voyage is to Laputa, a flying island Laputa.

TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

The frustrated Republicans were never able to break the remarkable hold of Roosevelt and the New Deal on the electorate and regularly went down to defeat every four years, with Alfred M. Landon (1936), Wendell Willkie (1940), and Thomas E. Dewey (1944).

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

A service is usually excellent and friendly waiters help you to relax and enjoy your meal fully.

Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
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?

Where we have strong emotions, we're liable to fool ourselves.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
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.'
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.

Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

The weather in Britain changes very quickly. One day may be fine and the next day may be wet.

Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.

petak, 09.07.2010.

Passengers must register their tickets, weigh in and register the luggage.

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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
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 only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
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 bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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 have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.

The air above the forest contains millions of microscopic drops of eucalyptus oil.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

If I had a chance to go to some English - speaking country I would like to go to Australia.

Music is essentially useless, as life is.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

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

When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

I think we can't live without books.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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?

Another famous street is Broadway.

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
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.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.

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

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
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.

srijeda, 07.07.2010.

Also in summer many people leave their cities and spend much time in the country or at the seaside.

Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.

Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
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?
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
My head rang like a gong.

It is often cold.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.

There are many threats to wildlife and ecological balance around the coast.

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 you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
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.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
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.

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.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?

Euclid also founded a great mathematics school in Alexandria.

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.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.
The best way out is always through.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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?

Although a separate ticket headed by the radical Fremont withdrew before the election in 1864, the cleavage within the party between radicals and moderates widened as the war progressed. Radicals such as Benjamin F. Wade , Henry W. Davis , Thaddeus Steven

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

I don?t like to wear a lot of warm clothes, that is why my favorite season is spring.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.