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subota, 23.10.2010.

People fail forward to success.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.

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.

To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
As I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
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.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

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

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

The cakes were round like the full moon and lit with tapers.

How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

Meeting people for the first time we always make a judgment based on their appearances though the proverb tells us not to make such a mistake.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
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.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Nonetheless, a substantial number of people have serious trouble with their drinking.

Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.

Here there are a lot of things that make this room look nice; she has a lot of toys which sit on her bed, on the shelves and on the windowsill. She collects statues of cats that she brings from different countries, it characterizes her as a broad-minded p

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.
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.

srijeda, 20.10.2010.

The climate in Great Britain is generally mild and temperate due to the influence of the Gulf Stream. The south-western winds carry the warmth and moisture into Britain. The climate in Britain is usually described as cool, temperate and humid.

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

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

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
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.

Ultimately his policies and attempts to implement them antagonized his supporters among the moderate Republicans and paved the way for the triumph of the radicals in the congressional elections of 1866.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.
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.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

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

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Well done is better than well said.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

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.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.

Most airlines have at least 2 classes of travel: first class and economy class which is cheaper.

The best way out is always through.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
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 an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

The day fixed for attempt was the 5th of November, the day on which the Parliament was to open.

Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

In the United States this is known as moonshining.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
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.
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.

In the end I'd like to add that there are many types of housing and all the people have the right to choose where to live.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.

utorak, 19.10.2010.

Hedgehogs, hares, rabbits, rats and mice are numerous. Deer live in some of the forests in the Highlands of Scotland and England.

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?
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
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.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.

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

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.
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 Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.

It will help you to know more about the history and life of different nations and countries.

I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
They weren't wearing insignia.
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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

The scenery and the dancing were superb.

I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
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.
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.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
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.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.

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

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.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
It is fortunate to be of high birth, but it is no less so to be of such character that people do not care to know whether you are or are not.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
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.
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.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.

nedjelja, 17.10.2010.

Contemporary life is impossible without reading.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Our lives teach us who we are.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.

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?

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Every day you may make progress. Every step may be fruitful. Yet there will stretch out before you an ever-lengthening, ever-ascending, ever-improving path. You know you will never get to the end of the journey. But this, so far from discouraging, only adds to the joy and glory of the climb.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

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.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Is there life before death?
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Along with that, there is a lack of knowledge about modern contraception and a correspondingly large number of abortions.

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.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Have you ever observed that we pay much more attention to a wise passage when it is quoted than when we read it in the original author?
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 will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
I 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.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.

But "waving the bloody shirt," as this type of propaganda was styled, was not enough to elect Blaine in 1884.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

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

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.

And I think that is true.

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.
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.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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?
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.

Is there life before death?
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.

I stand in awe of my body.

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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

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.

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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
To try to be better is to be better.

Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

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

Fig Newton: The force required to accelerate a fig 39.37 inches per sec.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.

In particular, you can answer to important questions.

Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
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.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
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.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.

In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.

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

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
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.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
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.

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.'

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.
A rumor without a leg to stand on will get around some other way.
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

? Craving: A strong need, or compulsion, to drink.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.

The division was made complete when, after Lincoln's assassination, his successor, Andrew Johnson , adopted a moderate program of Reconstruction . Johnson, a Jacksonian Democrat from Tennessee, had been added to the ticket in 1864 to strengthen the idea o

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.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
A smiling face is half the meal.

Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence.

Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.

When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
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 two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

His work in Data is probably the most famous of his smaller works, and focuses on finding certain measurements and quantities when others are given.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
I define comfort as self-acceptance. When we finally learn that self-care begins and ends with ourselves, we no longer demand sustenance and happiness from others.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.

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.
My home is not a place, it is people.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.

četvrtak, 14.10.2010.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Cheerfulness, it would appear, is a matter which depends fully as much on the state of things within, as on the state of things without and around us.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Our lives teach us who we are.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
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.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.

So little time and so little to do.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Well done is better than well said.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

I'm sure that I'm a happy person: I have many friends, loving parents, goals in my life, etc.

I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

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

The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

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

If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
God creates men, but they choose each other.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.

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

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.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
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.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

I personally appreciate such people and I believe that happiness is to live your life, to enjoy every day of your life, to be glad to every minute and to receive with thanks everything that life offers you.

Things are only impossible until they're not.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.

Over 3 billion books by Agatha Christie were sold worldwide.

It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances.

I think that books can help us. Last year I read a very interesting book "An American Tragedy" by Theodore Dreiser.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
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.
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

Another famous street is Broadway.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

After summer autumn comes.

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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Getting the Facts For many people, the facts about alcoholism are not clear.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Printing played an important role in the development of literature and culture.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.

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

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
College isn't the place to go for ideas.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

srijeda, 13.10.2010.

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

Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Looks are part of business. A businessman should never stand out more than his customers. His mannerisms, his clothes, everything about him... Moderation is the key.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

See things as they are and write about them. Don?t waste your creative energy trying to make things up. Even if you are writing fiction, write the things you see and know.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
I don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
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.

Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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 world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.

Newt Gingrich , who spearheaded the Republicans' congressional election campaign with his conservative "Contract with America" program, became speaker of the House.

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.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
I feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.

Assassinated shortly after taking office, Garfield was succeeded by Vice President Chester A. Arthur .

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
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.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.

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

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
I am not young enough to know everything.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

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

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.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Euclid was apparently a kind, patient man, and did possess a sarcastic sense of humor.

A poem is no place for an idea.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
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.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

I believe that my bedroom also tells a lot about me to people who visit it.

Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

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

The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
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.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I nearly fell again, but new hands grabbed me from in front and dragged me down a steel floor and then forced me to my knees and locked my hands to something behind me.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

In Other words, from the beginning of humanity's appearance on earth to 1945, it took more than ten thousand generations to reach a world population of 2 billion people.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.

Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
Our patience will achieve more than our force.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

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

You can learn as much - or more - from one glance at a private space as you can from hours of exposure to a public face.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.

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

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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!'
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

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

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about 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.

I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
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.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

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.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.

When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

ponedjeljak, 11.10.2010.

When you make a mistake, don't look back at it long. Take the reason of the thing into your mind and then look forward. Mistakes are lessons of wisdom. The past cannot be changed. The future is yet in your power.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
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.
Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
You 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.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.

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

For visions come not to polluted eyes.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.

I am fond of good books and good music, and when I have some time to spare, I like to go to the theatre or a concert.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.

From a legal point of view, a man and a woman in Russia are equal.

To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Equal opportunity means everyone will have a fair chance at being incompetent.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

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?
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
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.
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.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

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

History is more or less bunk.
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.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
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.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.

Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

They believe that the land itself has life.

Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.

nedjelja, 10.10.2010.

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

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
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.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

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

To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
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.
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.

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

Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

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

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.

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.

There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

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.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
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.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

In 1980, the conservative Ronald Reagan, a former supporter of Barry Goldwater, regained the presidency for the Republicans and reversed long-standing political trends by instituting a supply-side economic program of budget and tax cuts.

The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Perhaps, after all, America never has been discovered. I myself would say that it had merely been detected.
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.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
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?
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.

It's never just a game when you're winning.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
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.
No.

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
I 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.
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.

The average range of temperature (from winter to summer) is from 15 to 23 degrees above zero.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
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.

"My home is my fortress", it is my territory, my place where I feel good and comfortable. And nobody can disturb me here.

I never know how much of what I say is true.
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.
The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.

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

Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.

During a normal summer the temperature sometimes rises above 30 degrees in the south.

I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
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.
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

In fact, it?s the best known place in Australia.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
There is always more misery among the lower classes than there is humanity in the higher.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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

The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
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.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

subota, 09.10.2010.

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

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
They weren't wearing insignia.
A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.
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.

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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 had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
A poem is no place for an idea.
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.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Intimacy is what makes a marriage, not a ceremony, not a piece of paper from the state.

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 toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
People fail forward to success.

We all know how tragic the consequences of the Chernobyl disaster are.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.

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

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

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

They can conquer who believe they can.
I didn't even breathe.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
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!
Some people make headlines while others make history.

It is understandable that women decide to defer having children later or do not have children at all.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I use an optimistic, positive approach to deal with my symptoms and it came the hard way, before I learned to laugh with myself a little.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
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.
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.

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

People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

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

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
Nor do not saw the air too much with your hand, thus, but use all gently. For in the very torrent, tempest, and as I may say, whirlwind of passion, you must acquire and beget a temperance that may give it smoothness.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
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.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

I believe that everyone at least once in his/her life unwrapped a sweet in a bright paper but instead of a chocolate sweet found there just caramel.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
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.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
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.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.

Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Anyone who has gumption knows what it is, and anyone who hasn't can never know what it is. So there is no need of defining it.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

So,The main goals are protection of women?s rights and elimination of discrimination in society; widening women?s participation in policy decision-making processes on the local, regional and national levels; support for cooperation between women?s organiz

Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.

I had a running nose and a sore throat.

The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

četvrtak, 07.10.2010.

So I'm interested in different kinds of books.

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.
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.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
I am here for a purpose and that purpose is to grow into a mountain, not to shrink to a grain of sand. Henceforth will I apply ALL my efforts to become the highest mountain of all and I will strain my potential until it cries for mercy.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

They have a higher flavor and a much deeper color than Scotch or Irish and require from two to three years longer to mature.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
We need anything politically important rationed out like Pez: small, sweet, and coming out of a funny, plastic head.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.

One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

Most of big cities of G.B.,especially London, are decorated with coloured lights and cristmas trees.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Never eat more than you can lift.
We are what we repeatedly do.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

In the end I'd like to add that there are many types of housing and all the people have the right to choose where to live.

Writing gives you the illusion of control, and then you realize it's just an illusion, that people are going to bring their own stuff into it.
We are what we repeatedly do.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
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.

Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

The greatest thing in the world is to know how to belong to oneself.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

It's a tradition to give cristmas presents to the people you work with.

It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
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.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

The trouble with our times is that the future is not what it used to be.

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.
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.

To minorities, population regulation is sometimes seen as a form of genocide to keep their numbers and power from rising.

The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
The Americans have need of the telephone, but we do not. We have plenty of messenger boys.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Resolve to edge in a little reading every day, if it is but a single sentence. If you gain fifteen minutes a day, it will make itself felt at the end of the year.

I strained around against the crowd and saw Van looking with disgust at an older guy in a nice suit who was kind of smirking at her. She was digging in her purse and I knew what she was digging for.

Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
Self-importance is our greatest enemy. Think about it - what weakens us is feeling offended by the deeds and misdeeds of our fellowmen. Our self-importance requires that we spend most of our lives offended by someone.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
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.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

History is more or less bunk.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.

The wrong side of the bed was the left side.

You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
A joke's a very serious thing.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

That's why we get books in public libraries.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

Taft , choosing instead the popular war hero, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower as their presidential nominee.

Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
A smiling face is half the meal.
You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.

Euclid then proves each one of his theorems using the definitions and postulates, mathematically proving even the most obvious.

Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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 problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

srijeda, 06.10.2010.

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

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.

You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.

Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There's so much pollution in the air now that if it weren't for our lungs there'd be no place to put it all.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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.

How does it differ from alcohol abuse?

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

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.

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.
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.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.

Each passenger is given a boarding pass to be shown at geparture gate and again to the stewardess when boarding the plane.

Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
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.

Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.

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

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.
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.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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

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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
People fail forward to success.
You can have it all. You just can't have it all at once.
I ended up stepping on her stomach as the crowd pushed me past her, but by then I don't think she was feeling anything.
In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

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.

Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

The average person thinks he isn't.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Is there life before death?
As a scientist, I am not sure anymore that life can be reduced to a class struggle, to dialectical materialism, or any set of formulas. Life is spontaneous and it is unpredictable, it is magical. I think that we have struggled so hard with the tangible that we have forgotten the intangible.

utorak, 05.10.2010.

You should not live one way in private, another in public.

Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The brain is a wonderful organ. It starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

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

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit.
They can conquer who believe they can.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.

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

The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.

By midway through this century, at the end of World War II, the number had risen to just above 2 billion people.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
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!'
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Is there life before death?
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being busy.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

I believe that such houses attract people because they are less expensive than mansions or bungalows for example and you have only one neighbour as opposed to block of flats.

Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content

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.

Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

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.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

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

If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.

Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
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.
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.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
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.
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.

The nature of treatment depends on the severity of an individual's alcoholism and the resources that are available in his or her community.

What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
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.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'

The biggest threat to the coastline is pollution. Even much-loved.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

The doctor came, removed his coat and put on his white gown.

Walking is man's best medicine.
To try to be better is to be better.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.

I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Is there life before death?
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.

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.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
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.
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.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

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.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
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 don't mind what language an opera is sung in so long as it is a language I don't understand.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

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

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
The average person thinks he isn't.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

In the end I'd like to add that there are many types of housing and all the people have the right to choose where to live.

We learn something every day, and lots of times it's that what we learned the day before was wrong.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.

O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
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.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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 function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
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.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

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

The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.

Dance is the hidden language of the soul.

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.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn whatever state I am in, therin to be content
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.

I'd learned my lesson.
Walking is man's best medicine.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Well done is better than well said.

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

It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.

Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.
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.
I don't believe in intuition. When you get sudden flashes of perception, it is just the brain working faster than usual. But you've been getting ready to know it for a long time, and when it comes, you feel you've known it always.
I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.

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

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
The 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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.

Rather then take trouble of going out to see a film, I would stay at home and watch television.

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.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Who were these clowns?
Whenever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves, after the first suffering, how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

The weather is the favourite topic of conversation in Britain.

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.'
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

The morning may be warm and the evening may be cool.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Life is consciousness.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.

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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
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.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

When I was fifteen I was fond of reading too.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.
Greatness is more than potential. It is the execution of that potential. Beyond the raw talent. You need the appropriate training. You need the discipline. You need the inspiration. You need the drive.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
It's takin' whatever comes your way, the good AND the bad, that give life flavor. It's all the stuff rolled together that makes life worth livin'.

subota, 02.10.2010.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
My head rang like a gong.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.

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.

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.
The average person thinks he isn't.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
'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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.

Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.

Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
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.
They can conquer who believe they can.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.

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

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.

Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.
If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.
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?
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
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.

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.

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.

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

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
People fail forward to success.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

Despite not winning the popular vote.

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.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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.

Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
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.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
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.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

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

I have very strong feelings about how you lead your life. You always look ahead, you never look back.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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.
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.

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

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
You don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
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.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

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

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.
Vanessa didn't like it, but I figured a cop wasn't going to stop for a kid waving his hat in the street, not that day. They just might stop if they saw Darryl bleeding there, though. I argued briefly with her and Darryl settled it by lurching to his feet and dragging himself down toward Market Street.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.

The nature of treatment depends on the severity of an individual's alcoholism and the resources that are available in his or her community.

Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
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.

The Scotch Highland whisky (made in pot stills) and that of the Lowlands (patent stills) differ in the percentage of barley used, quality of the water

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
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.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
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.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

I pay attention to the cover of the book, its illustrations, the name of the author, the title of the book and the contents.

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Each body has its art...
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.

It?s the same size as England.

Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
I am not young enough to know everything.

Whiskey was made in England in the 11th cent., chiefly in monasteries, but in the 16th cent. distilling was carried on commercially.

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
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.
An idealist is one who, on noticing that a rose smells better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.

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

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

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

Art is either plagiarism or revolution.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
All movements go too far.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
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.
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.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men 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?
Vigorous writing is concise.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.

You're dealing with the demon of external validation. You can't beat external validation. You want to know why? Because it feels sooo good.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.

Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Nothing in the world can take the place of Persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.
There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

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

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.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
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.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Whatever you do, do it to the purpose; do it thoroughly, not superficially. Go to the bottom of things. Any thing half done, or half known, is in my mind, neither done nor known at all. Nay, worse, for it often misleads.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Be sincere; be brief; be seated.

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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

The medieval universities also operated within a field of definite scope, primarily theological, and any teacher or scholar who extended inquiry beyond the approved limits was subject to the charge of heresy.

My home is not a place, it is people.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
One of the best rules in conversation is, never to say a thing which any of the company can reasonably wish had been left unsaid.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

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

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.

When we take a book, we mustn't do dog's ears, we mustn't write anything on the pages, and we must return books to the library in time.

I have never been especially impressed by the heroics of people who are convinced they are about to change the world. I am more awed by those who struggle to make one small difference after another.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
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.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.

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

If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.