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utorak, 28.09.2010.

Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.

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 think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

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

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
It 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.

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

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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
My head rang like a gong.
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.
Think of life as a terminal illness, because, if you do, you will live it with joy and passion, as it ought to be lived.

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

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
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.

Not far from the table there is a bed and next to it stands a bed-side table with the telephone.

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.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.

The standard whiskeys of the world are Scotch (commonly spelled whisky ), Irish, American, and Canadian.

Sitting in the back of that Hummer, my head in a hood, my hands lashed behind my back, lurching back and forth while the bruises swelled up on my head, terrorism suddenly felt a lot riskier.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
Some people make headlines while others make history.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

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.

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's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

At first her stories appealed to the readers' detective inside, so you can't find much blood and violence in her stories.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

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

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.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
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.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

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

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.

But then Australians decided to build a capital city..

The engine died and then the doors swung open.
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.
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.
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.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Well done is better than well said.

There are five universities in the city.

We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.

British people say: "Other countries have a climate, in England we have weather."

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
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.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

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.
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.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

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

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
So little time and so little to do.
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?
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

Our lives teach us who we are.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
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.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

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.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

ponedjeljak, 27.09.2010.

Worries go down better with soup than without.

The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

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

We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The average person thinks he isn't.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

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.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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 lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
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.

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
Is there life before death?
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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 guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
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.

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
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.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And what need have they of light to see what you are doing?
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

and kind of casks in which they are matured. Irish whiskey resembles

Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
Each body has its art...
Our lives teach us who we are.
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.

subota, 25.09.2010.

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

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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.

If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
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?
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.

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

Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

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

Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
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 never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
I stand in awe of my body.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.

Tropical fruit and flowers grow on the beautiful islands.

All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

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

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
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.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.'
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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

Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

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

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.
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.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

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.

Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
So quick and so fiercely I barely had time to gasp before it was locked on me.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
He who laughs, lasts!
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
People fail forward to success.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

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

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.

McKinley through Coolidge

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 a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
An idea is salvation by imagination.

Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.

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.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.

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.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Someone went upside my head again.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Vigorous writing is concise.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

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

It's never just a game when you're winning.
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'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
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?
My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

petak, 24.09.2010.

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

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

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.'
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.

The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.

On the other hand, you should remember that training willl equip you to do new things.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.

People fail forward to success.

Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

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.

Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

A less clearly developed corollary of academic freedom is the obligation of all those who enjoy it to pursue the line of open and thorough inquiry regardless of personal considerations.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
To try to be better is to be better.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

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

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
All human situations have their inconveniences. We feel those of the present but neither see nor feel those of the future; and hence we often make troublesome changes without amendment, and frequently for the worse.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

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

Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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 were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

Happiness is something that lives inside each of us, but not all the people are able to feel it.

What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
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 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.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

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

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.

There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

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.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

He can be described as a funny little man taken by many readers as a comic.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

It is usually warm, so people go outside more often and enjoy spring blue sky.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Good soldiers never pass up a chance to eat or sleep. They never know how much they'll be called on to do before the next chance.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

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

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
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.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
You need only claim the event of your life to make yourself yours. When you truly possess all you have been and done, which may take some time, you are fierce with reality.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
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.

By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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?

What Are the Signs of a Problem?

The reward of a thing well done is to have done 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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.

In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.

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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

It is not surprising because we are living in a world of growing international trade and expanding economic and technical cooperation.

I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
A smiling face is half the meal.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on 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.

One cannot speak about England without speaking about it's traditions and customs .

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
Now we were descending just as steeply.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

And only in 1606 Dutch sailors reached the shores of the unknown continent, but it was not settled till the English Captain Cook discovered the East Coast in 1770.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Never eat more than you can lift.

The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

All the world's a cage.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
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.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.

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.

More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
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.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

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

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

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

I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

That means that even if an alcoholic has been sober for a long while and has regained health, he or she remains susceptible to relapse and must continue to avoid all alcoholic beverages.

There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
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.

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

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
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.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
If we fall, we don't need self-recrimination or blame or anger - we need a reawakening of our intention and a willingness to recommit, to be whole-hearted once again.
'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.

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Love truth, and pardon error.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.

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

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
I 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.
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?
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

? 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 didn't even breathe.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.

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.

Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
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 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.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
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.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

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.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

The nomination of the war hero Ulysses S. Grant assured Republican success over the Democrats led by Horatio Seymour in the presidential election of 1868.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
Van was screaming something and Jolu was shouting and I looked at them for a second and that was when someone put a coarse.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.

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

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.

At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

The Reagan-Bush Years to the Present

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.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
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.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
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.

I like to read almost all books.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading 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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

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.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
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.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

srijeda, 22.09.2010.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
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.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
My head rang like a gong.

Today Australia is an independent federative state consisting of 6 states and 2 territories.

You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.

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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The average person thinks he isn't.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

On the other hand, you should remember that training willl equip you to do new things.

Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
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.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

I like to read books about animals, nature and children.

No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
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.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

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

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.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
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.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

Doubt 'til thou canst doubt no more...doubt is thought and thought is life. Systems which end doubt are devices for drugging thought.

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.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.

Every ten minutes one kind of enimal, plant or insect dies out for ever.

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
The toughest question has always been, "How do you get your ideas?" How do you answer that? It's like asking runners how they run, or singers how they sing. They just do it!
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.

The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
If one sticks too rigidly to one's principles, one would hardly see anybody.
Is there life before death?
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.

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Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Is there life before death?
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
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.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Life is consciousness.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

A sign at the entrance of the theatre said that "house full".

Art is science made clear.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
I like weights. You know where you stand with them. Well, sometimes you're lying under them, trying not to let them crush you, but you see, you KNOW they'd crush you if they could. There's honesty.

The city was founded in 1791 and named after the first president.

Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.

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

Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Her way to present the stories was quite definite from that of her colleagues.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.'
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.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
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.
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?

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.

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?
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Our lives teach us who we are.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

It's very important to know traditions and customs of different people.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
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.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
I was as scared as I'd ever been. There was screaming everywhere now, and more bodies on the floor, and the press from behind was as relentless as a bulldozer. It was all I could do to keep on my feet.

The 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.

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.'
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

The party, however, suffered a series of massive setbacks with the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew upon his conviction for tax evasion and revelations of major White House involvement in the Watergate affair, which led finally to the resignation

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

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.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
People fail forward to success.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

And the last type of dwelling I want to mention is a detached house.

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
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.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.

And there they found Guy Fawker about to fire a trail of gunpowder.

Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.

It might be useful for travelling businessmen and tourists to know that tailor shops, shoe repair shops and laundry, dry cleaning services are available for guests.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
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.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

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

It's never just a game when you're winning.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

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.

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 truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
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.

Truth has beauty, power and necessity.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
All movements go too far.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
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.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
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.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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

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.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
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.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Without the capacity to provide its own information, the mind drifts into randomness.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Now I like to read books on science.

It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
It really doesn't matter if the person who hurt you deserves to be forgiven. Forgiveness is a gift you give yourself. You have things to do and you want to move on.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Worries go down better with soup than without.

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.

We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

Does teaching people appeal to you?

In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
His priority did not seem to be to teach them what he knew, but rather to impress upon them that nothing, not even... knowledge, was foolproof.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

I can eat it anytime and anywhere.

More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
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 never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.

It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
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.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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.
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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

In 10 days I fully recovered and resumed my studies.

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
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.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

Effects of Employee Drinking

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!

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

Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
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.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

There are promising types of counseling that teach recovering alcoholics to identify situations and feelings that trigger the urge to drink and to find new ways to cope that do not include alcohol use.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

When the sun shines, the air of the Blue Mountains is a real, beautiful blue.

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.
To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best day and night to make you like everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
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.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.

If you're trying to take a roomful of people by surprise, it's a lot easier to hit your targets if you don't yell going through the door.

What's another word for Thesaurus?
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
People fail forward to success.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
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.
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.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Each body has its art...

I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
To try to be better is to be better.
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?
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

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

Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
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 we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

First tradition is called "Wrong side of the bed" When people are bad tempered we say that they must have got out of bed on the wrong side. Originally, it was meant quiet literally. People belive that the way they rose in the morning affected their behaiv

The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
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.
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.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

She wanted to give me some aspirin tablets too, but there weren't any in our house.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

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

By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
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.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

I consider that books are with us during all our life.

No matter what I do, no matter how predictable I try to make my life, it will not be any more predictable than the rest of the world. Which is chaotic.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
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 most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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.

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.'

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.