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subota, 31.07.2010.

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.

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.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.

The illicit manufacture of whiskey to avoid payment of excise taxes has been common.

Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

There are five universities in the city.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.

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

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.
Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Statistics: The only science that enables different experts using the same figures to draw different conclusions.
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.
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.

When two Englishmen are introduced to each other, if they can't think of any thing else to talk about, they talk about weather.

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.
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.
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.
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.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

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 hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
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 think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.
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.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.

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.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
Life is consciousness.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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 people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
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.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Love truth, and pardon error.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
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The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.

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.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
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.
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?

petak, 30.07.2010.

The center of the actrical life is London.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

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

There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
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?
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.
Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.
Be more prompt to go to a friend in adversity than in prosperity.

Its importance declined with the discovery of an all-water route around Africa in 1498.

The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
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.

Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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?
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.

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

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I 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.

In a survey of 6,540 employees at 16 worksites representing a range of industries, 23 percent of upper-level managers reported any drinking during working hours in the previous month.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
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.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
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.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

Those, who prefer to stay at home may spend their free time, watching TV, listening to the radio.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

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

Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
No.
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.
Be sincere; be brief; be seated.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
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.

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

All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Do you want to put down roots or travel videly? Second: what sort of work do you want to do?

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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
There 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.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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

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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
What's another word for Thesaurus?

We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.

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.
Do it now. It is not safe to leave a generous feeling to the cooling influences of the world.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
They can conquer who believe they can.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
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.

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

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
Try to put your happiness before anyone else's, because you may never have done so in your entire life, if you really think about it, if you are really honest with yourself.
Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

četvrtak, 29.07.2010.

At first, nobody wanted to live there because it was used as a prison where the British government would send British prisoners.

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.
Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.
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.
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.'
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.
Never eat more than you can lift.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.

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Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.

If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I didn't even breathe.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.

Try to answer these questions as fully and honestly as you can.

As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

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

Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Love truth, and pardon error.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.

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.

Even the best of friends need time apart.
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
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.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
Procrastination is the art of keeping up with yesterday.

srijeda, 28.07.2010.

When two Englishmen are introduced to each other, if they can't think of any thing else to talk about, they talk about weather.

It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
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.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.

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 is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
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.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.

I also live in a flat and I can say that all these disadvantages don't bother me very much, and in general it's a good type of housing.

A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
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 true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
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.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.

The left always having been linked with evil.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Art is science made clear.
It is only possible to live happily ever after on a day-to-day basis.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

If God had wanted us to vote, he would have given us candidates.

You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
The more freedom we enjoy, the greater the responsibility we bear, toward others as well as ourselves.
History is more or less bunk.
Where so many hours have been spent in convincing myself that I am right, is there not some reason to fear I may be wrong?
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.

God creates men, but they choose each other.

If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
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.

Theatrical perfomances are given by theatre companies.

We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

utorak, 27.07.2010.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.

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.
It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.

Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.

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

The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the hell she is.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation.
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.

A poem is no place for an idea.

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.
The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.

Below I've mentioned such a type of housing as a block of flats.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
My friends are my estate.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others.

But in general I'm sure that it's quite nice to live in a semi-detached house.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

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

A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.
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 most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
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.

My home, my sweet home...

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.

No.

There is no stigma attached to recognizing a bad decision in time to install a better one.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
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?
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.

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.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
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.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
The great art of giving consists in this: the gift should cost very little and yet be greatly coveted, so that it may be the more highly appreciated.

You can learn many things from books.

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.'
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
Hares can gambol over the body of a dead lion.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.

When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

The faceless, eyeless armed man above me kept his gun very level.
Poets have been mysteriously silent on the subject of cheese.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

A minute's success pays the failure of years.

Keep cool and you command everybody.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
The best way out is always through.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

Books... I think that we can't live without them.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

Appearances are really deceptive; it's like a wrap of a sweet.

The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover will be yourself.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.

ponedjeljak, 26.07.2010.

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

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
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.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
If you really do put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.

If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
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.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.

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

I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
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 trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Maybe they were terrorists!
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.

The party, however, won the Congressional elections of 1918, and Republican opposition was a large factor in defeating Wilson's peace program.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Vegetarianism is harmless enough, though it is apt to fill a man with wind and self-righteousness.
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.
Life is consciousness.

As for me, I am a great cinema-goer.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Maybe they were terrorists!
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.

Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
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.
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.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

Another famous street is Broadway.

Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us, and from motives of policy are silent when we should speak, the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls.
There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
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.
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.
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.
So little time and so little to do.

He who laughs, lasts!

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Even the best of friends need time apart.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.

Do not forget your personal effects when leaving the plane.

The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Memory feeds imagination.

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

Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
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!

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.

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.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Walking is man's best medicine.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.

The best thing to give to your enemy is forgiveness; to an opponent, tolerance; to a friend, your heart; to your child, a good example; to a father, deference; to your mother, conduct that will make her proud of you; to yourself, respect; to all men, char

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

Britain was originally a land of vast forests.

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."
Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
Starting with getting run down by a drunk burning his way down Valencia -- that were infinitely more likely and immediate than terrorists.
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.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
Is there life before death?
Is love supposed to last throughout all time, or is it like trains changing at random stops. If I loved her, how could I leave her? If I felt that way then, how come I don't feel anything now?
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.

However, she managed to become famous. Not many people know that she used to write under a pen-name of Mary Westmacott.

Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
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.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing 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.

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

Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.

You should be involved in making referral decisions and have all treatment choices explained to you.

We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
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.
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.

Alcohol Policies.

They weren't wearing insignia.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
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.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

Because of this division, the Democratic candidate, Woodrow Wilson, was elected President and, narrowly reelected in 1916 over Charles Evans Hughes , he served through World War I.

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?
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
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.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
There isn?t much better in this life than finding a way to spend a few hours in conversation with people you respect and love. You have to carve this time out of your life because you aren?t really living without it.
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.

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

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.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
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.
A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.

Several million more adults engage in risky drinking patterns that could lead to alcohol problems.

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.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
Memory feeds imagination.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.

I'm sure that home of a person is as much a reflection of his personality, as the clothes he wears, the food he eats, the books he reads and the friends he spends his time with.

I'd learned my lesson.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

nedjelja, 25.07.2010.

Some 230 kinds of birds live in Britain, and another 200 are regular visitors, many are songbirds.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
You can't deny laughter. When it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.

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

Most of the basic truths of life sound absurd at first hearing.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
I never know how much of what I say is true.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

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

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.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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.

In the cultivated areas that make up most of Britain there are many wild flowers, flowering plants and grasses.

I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.
The problem with people who have no vices is that generally you can be pretty sure they're going to have some pretty annoying virtues.
All things are difficult before they are easy.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
There are two types of people--those who come into a room and say, 'Well, here I am!' and those who come in and say, 'Ah, there you are.'
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.

Inferior whiskeys are made from potatoes, beets, and other roots.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.

The party lost control of the Senate as a result of a defection in mid-2001, but regained it after the Nov., 2002, elections. In 2004, Bush was renominated without opposition, and he subsequently soundly defeated the Democratic nominee, John Kerry .

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.

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

My head rang like a gong.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
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.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.

subota, 24.07.2010.

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

How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
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.
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
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.
Vigorous writing is concise.
Love truth, and pardon error.

In the United States the early colleges were also religiously controlled, and there are still some denominational schools that define areas of inquiry.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
My home is not a place, it is people.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.

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.
Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.

Scotch, but no peat is used in the curing, and instead of the dry, somewhat smoky flavor of Scotch, it has a full, sweet taste.

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.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
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.'
There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

I like coincidences. They make me wonder about destiny, and whether free will is an illusion or just a matter of perspective. They let me speculate on the idea of some master plan that, from time to time, we're allowed to see out of the corner of our eye.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Walking is man's best medicine.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

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

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.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
You always pass failure on the way to success.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.

Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.

There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

The Aral Sea is on the brink of extinction.

It's never just a game when you're winning.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.

petak, 23.07.2010.

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

You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Despite the fact that birthrates in the country have been falling, children are obstacles in the labor market.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
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 feel about airplanes the way I feel about diets. It seems to me they are wonderful things for other people to go on.
Who were these clowns?
You can go a long way with bad legs and a good head.
Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

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

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
Learning to live in the present moment is part of the path of joy.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.

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

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.
Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

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

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Optimism and hope are our best friends. Let?s reach out and Laugh together at our confounding traits and still, let?s keep in mind that our sympt oms and traits are very real with consequences, never to be underestimated or discounted.
A tactical retreat is not a bad response to a surprise assault, you know. First you survive. Then you choose your own ground. Then you counterattack.
Never eat more than you can lift.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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 better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it.

It doesn't matter what kind of book it is.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
If my mental map was right, we were heading down to Fisherman's Wharf.
Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
When they discover the center of the universe, a lot of people will be disappointed to discover they are not it.

Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.
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?
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
Lack of money is no obstacle. Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.

The left always having been linked with evil.

What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and love for his blessings here on earth is ever so alive. Having been alive, it won't be so hard in the end to lie down and rest.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.

You will see too small groups of children pulling round in a home made cart, a figure that looks something like a man but consists of an old suit of clothes, stuffed with straw.

Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Every man, wherever he goes, is encompassed by a cloud of comforting convictions, which move with him like flies on a summer day.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.
He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
There?s so much comedy on television. Does that cause comedy in the streets?
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.

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.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.
There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek.
The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Reveal not every secret you have to a friend, for how can you tell but that friend may hereafter become an enemy. And bring not all mischief you are able to upon an enemy, for he may one day become your friend.

The British bedroom is especially cold, sometimes electric blankets or hotwater bottles are used.

Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
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.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
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.'

Never part without loving words to think of during your absence. It may be that you will not meet again in life.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.

The autumn months are September, October and November.

Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.

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

Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
We are always in search of the redeeming formula, the crystallizing thought.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Make a decision, even if it's wrong.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?

When, in 1896, the Democratic party was captured by the radicals under William Jennings Bryan , its presidential candidate in 1896, 1900, and 1908, the Republican party became openly the champion of the gold standard and conservative economic doctrines.

We are inclined to believe those whom we do not know because they have never deceived us.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. And man can be as big as he wants. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.
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.

It doesn?t matter what kind ? with raspberry favor, with marmalade, chocolate chips or pieces of fruit.

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The people I distrust most are those who want to improve our lives but have only one course of action.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
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.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Terrorists killed a lot fewer people than bathroom falls and accidental electrocutions.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.

I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Hope is tomorrow's veneer over today's disappointment.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
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.'
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls.

Days are short and nights are long The weather is cold, rivers and lakes are usually frozen.

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Love truth, and pardon error.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
We bear the world and we make it... There was never a great man who had not a great mother - it is hardly an exaggeration.
The 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.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

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

The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
Science is nothing but developed perception, interpreted intent, common sense rounded out and minutely articulated.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
Excess on occasion is exhilarating. It prevents moderation from acquiring the deadening effect of a habit.

It's celebrated on the 25-th of december.

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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

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

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
I was in total darkness now and I strained my ears to hear what was going on with my friends.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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.

Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
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.
Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.

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.
A joke's a very serious thing.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.
The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
You have to recognize when the right place and the right time fuse and take advantage of that opportunity. There are plenty of opportunities out there. You can't sit back and wait.

utorak, 20.07.2010.

Sometimes you can depend on your neighbours - imagine such a situation: your neighbours' tap is dripping and they need it to be repaired, so they block the water supply not only in their own flat but also in yours and you have to wait for hours till you c

Think of yourself as an incandescent power, illuminated and perhaps forever talked to by God and his messengers.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
Do something every day that you don't want to do; this is the golden rule for acquiring the habit of doing your duty without pain.
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.

And it really is red, with red rocks, red sand, and red skies in the evening.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.
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.
If a dog jumps in your lap, it is because he is fond of you; but if a cat does the same thing, it is because your lap is warmer.
The 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.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."
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.
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.

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

If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
The first step to getting the things you want out of life is this: Decide what you want.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.

Most of the crimes were committed in some closed surroundings with a limited number of people to suspect.

The first precept was never to accept a thing as true until I knew it as such without a single doubt.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
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.

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

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'.
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 must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.

It is easy enough to understand that in ridiculing the academy of Laputa.

My theory of evolution is that Darwin was adopted.
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.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

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

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.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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

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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

I like to come to hte cinema a couple of minutes before the movie starts.

It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The best of us must sometimes eat our words.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
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.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.

nedjelja, 18.07.2010.

They join and support various international organosation and green parties.

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
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.
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.
Even the fear of death is nothing compared to the fear of not having lived authentically and fully.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.

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.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.

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

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.
This is the challenge of writing. You have to be very emotionally engaged in what you?re doing, or it comes out flat. You can?t fake your way through this.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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.

History is indeed little more than the register of the crimes, follies and misfortunes of mankind.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
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.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their life.
There ain't no free lunches in this country. And don't go spending your whole life commiserating that you got raw deals. You've got to say, 'I think that if I keep working at this and want it bad enough I can have it.'

I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Electricity is actually made up of extremely tiny particles called electrons, that you cannot see with the naked eye unless you have been drinking.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
She screamed as she went down, and I saw her thrashing to get up, but she couldn't, the crowd's pressure was too strong.
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.
Glory is fleeting, but obscurity is forever.

I'd never looked down the barrel of a gun before, but everything you've heard about the experience is true.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
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 I neared her, I bent to help her up, and was nearly knocked over her.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

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

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.

What Is Alcohol Abuse?

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.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
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.
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.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

petak, 16.07.2010.

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

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.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
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.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Passengers are requested to arrive at the airport 2 hours before departure time on international flights and an hour on domestic flights as there must be enough time to complete the necessary airport formalities.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them admittance than to control them after they have been admitted.
I know that you believe that you understood what you think I said, but I am not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.

What is alcoholism, exactly?

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
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.
I think people want their illusions and writers are mostly illusion. When you read their words, you read a flattened, incomplete version of the writer.

The scientists are shut in their chambers isolated from all the world.

Well done is better than well said.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
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.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.

A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.

A neurosis is a secret that you don't know you are keeping.
I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.
A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.

It is not only children and members of family.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.

It is a member of the Commonwealth headed by the British Queen. The capital is Canberra.

It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

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

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.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
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.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.

Her room is very cosy, though it isn't very large.

Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
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 never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.

You will see too small groups of children pulling round in a home made cart, a figure that looks something like a man but consists of an old suit of clothes, stuffed with straw.

Now we were descending just as steeply.
If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I 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.
Famous remarks are very seldom quoted correctly.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

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

There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
Music is essentially useless, as life is.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.

For example, do you want to live in the country or in the town?

Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
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.
Love truth, and pardon error.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
I stand in awe of my body.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.

It doesn't matter what kind of book it is.

I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
My mother loved children -- she would have given anything if I had been one.
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.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

Women's salaries are on average lower than men's, and women are likewise far more likely to fall victim to violence and unemployment.

Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
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.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.

But New South Wales has more than cities.

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Sometimes the cure for restlessness is rest.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

They are very important in the life of English people.Englishman are proud of their traditions and carefully keep them up.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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.
History is more or less bunk.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast.

What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.
A poem is no place for an idea.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

četvrtak, 15.07.2010.

How can you tell whether you, or someone close to you, may have a drinking problem?

The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
To try to be better is to be better.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.

But as any type of housing a flat has its disadvantages: your neighbours can make a lot of noise when they, for example, hammer or drill the wall, or when they organize a party.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
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.
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Here's to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes... the ones who see things differently -- they're not fond of rules... You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can't do is ignore them because they change things... they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

A smiling face is half the meal.

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.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There are admirable potentialities in every human being. Believe in your strength and your youth. Learn to repeat endlessly to yourself, 'It all depends on me.'
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
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!'

Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
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.
We don't know a millionth of one percent about anything.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Where facts are few, experts are many.

Currently, nearly 30 million Russians - abuse alcohol or are alcoholic.

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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
In real life, unlike in Shakespeare, the sweetness of the rose depends upon the name it bears. Things are not only what they are. They are, in very important respects, what they seem to be.
The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.

I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.

That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
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.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Creative work is play. It is free speculation using materials of one's chosen form.

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

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.
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.
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.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

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

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to be caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

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.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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.
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.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.

utorak, 13.07.2010.

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

It is my hope that I can assist you in getting here too.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
This world is given as the prize for the men in earnest; and that which is true of this world, is truer still of the world to come.
Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.

I would be the most content if my children grew up to be the kind of people who think decorating consists mostly of building enough bookshelves.

I'm struck by the insidious, computer-driven tendency to take things out of the domain of muscular activity and put them into the domain of mental activity. The transfer is not paying off. Sure, muscles are unreliable, but they represent several million years of accumulated finesse.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
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.
For visions come not to polluted eyes.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.

I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
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.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.

Sack over my head and cinched it tight around my windpipe.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
Noble life demands a noble architecture for noble uses of noble men. Lack of culture means what it has always meant: ignoble civilization and therefore imminent downfall.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.

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

A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.
The first duty of a leader is to make himself be loved without courting love. To be loved without 'playing up' to anyone - even to himself.
My head rang like a gong.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.

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

I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
Preserving health by too severe a rule is a worrisome malady.
Is there life before death?
Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.
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.
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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

What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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?
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.

Britain has no good coal now and imports it itself.

Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
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.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
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.

subota, 10.07.2010.

I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

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!

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
I daresay one profits more by the mistakes one makes off one's own bat than by doing the right thing on somebody's else advice.
The 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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.

There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
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.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.

People fail forward to success.

A fine quotation is a diamond on the finger of a man of wit, and a pebble in the hand of a fool.
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 feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
I feel like a tiny bird with a big song!
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.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.

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

Be thou the first true merit to befriend, his praise is lost who stays till all commend.
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.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

srijeda, 07.07.2010.

Nothing is said that has not been said before.

I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

Rest is the sweet sauce of labor.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
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.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
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.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

However, especially if it is cold and wet outside, many people like to stay at home to watch TV.

I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer.
The car slewed to a stop and only then did I notice that it wasn't a cop car, ambulance or fire-engine.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.
The real hero is always a hero by mistake; he dreams of being an honest coward like everybody else.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

The happiest is the person who suffers the least pain; the most miserable who enjoys the least pleasure.
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
People fail forward to success.
Truth has beauty, power and necessity.
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.
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.
It is your work in life that is the ultimate seduction.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.

Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
You cannot be mad at somebody who makes you laugh - it's as simple as that.
In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

In our country cinema-going is not so popular now as it was earlier.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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.
Be a good listener. Your ears will never get you in trouble.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
There are worse things in life than death. Have you ever spent an evening with an insurance salesman?

Eating habits are different in different countries.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.
It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
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.
They weren't wearing insignia.

To others, it is an intrusion into their personal privacy and freedom.

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.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.

Do not forget your personal effects when leaving the plane.

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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
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.
Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.