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četvrtak, 30.09.2010.

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

You don't stop laughing because you grow old. You grow old because you stop laughing.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
Intimacy is being seen and known as the person you truly are.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.

Extensive forests remain in eastern and northern Scotland and in south-eastern and western England.

Be careful that victories do not carry the seed of future defeats.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.

It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.

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

It is wonderful how quickly you get used to things, even the most astonishing.
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
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'.
Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling, never fails of employment.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
The best way out is always through.

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

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one, particularly if he plays golf.
There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

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

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
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.
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Funny business, a woman's career: the things you drop on the way up the ladder so you can move faster. You forget you'll need them again when you get back to being a woman. It's one career all females have in common, whether we like it or not: being a woman.
Listen. Do not have an opinion while you listen because frankly, your opinion doesn?t hold much water outside of Your Universe. Just listen. Listen until their brain has been twisted like a dripping towel and what they have to say is all over the floor.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.

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

I stand in awe of my body.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring.
I wrote myself a check for ten million dollars for acting services rendered and dated it Thanksgiving 1995. I put it in my wallet and it deteriorated. And then, just before Thanksgiving 1995, I found out I was going to make ten million dollars for Dumb & Dumber. I put that check in the casket with my father because it was our dream together.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

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

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 the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

This description of alcoholism helps us understand why most alcoholics can't just "use a little willpower" to stop drinking.

I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
I used to think that the brain was the most wonderful organ in my body. Then I realized who was telling me this.
Temptation rarely comes in working hours. It is in their leisure time that men are made or marred.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
It's wonderful what we can do if we're always doing.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.

srijeda, 29.09.2010.

Man is the only animal that can remain on friendly terms with the victims he intends to eat until he eats them.

All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
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!
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
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.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
None are so busy as the fool and knave.
Never eat more than you can lift.
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 don't get anything clean without getting something else dirty.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Love truth, and pardon error.

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Feeling grateful to or appreciative of someone or something in your life actually attracts more of the things that you appreciate and value into your life.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
I 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.
I'm glad I didn't have to fight in any war. I'm glad I didn't have to pick up a gun. I'm glad I didn't get killed or kill somebody. I hope my kids enjoy the same lack of manhood.
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.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
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.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Someone went upside my head again.

All things are difficult before they are easy.

I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.

The farther north you go, the hotter it gets.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
I mean, I knew that in the abstract there were terrorists somewhere in the world, but they didn't really represent any risk to me.
Good taste is the enemy of comedy.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
I stand in awe of my body.
Money doesn't always bring happiness. People with ten million dollars are no happier than people with nine million dollars.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

They are good-natured creatures and treat Gulliver kindly, though they are amused by his small size and look upon him as a plaything.

Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
A boy can learn a lot from a dog: obedience, loyalty, and the importance of turning around three times before lying down.
Art is science made clear.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.
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.

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

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
They weren't wearing insignia.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.

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

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.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.
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.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
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.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.

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

You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.
Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.
The average person thinks he isn't.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.
I wanted to flag you down because my friend was bleeding. Someone stabbed him."

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.

Ask a deeply religious Christian if he?d rather live next to a bearded Muslim that may or may not be plotting a terror attack, or an atheist that may or may not show him how to set up a wireless network in his house. On the scale of prejudice, atheists don?t seem so bad lately.
I am more and more convinced that our happiness or unhappiness depends more on the way we meet the events of life than on the nature of those events themselves.
I went up the stairs cautiously, not able to use my hands.
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
There is 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.

Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
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.
The most erroneous stories are those we think we know best - and therefore never scrutinize or question.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
We should be eternally vigilant against attempts to check the expression of opinions that we loathe.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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.

Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.
You could get on a boat there, get away. That fit with the terrorism hypothesis.
When you make a world tolerable for yourself, you make a world tolerable for others.
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
What some people mistake for the high cost of living is really the cost of high living.

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

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Late to bed and late to wake will keep you long on money and short on mistakes.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

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

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Things are only impossible until they're not.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.

Twenty-four percent reported any drinking at work at least once during the year before the survey.

If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
I 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.
It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
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?

Agatha Christie was sure the world's best selling crime writer.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
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.
Let not thy will roar, when thy power can but whisper.

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.

At a dinner party one should eat wisely but not too well, and talk well but not too wisely.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

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 release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
The lion and the calf shall lie down together but the calf won't get much sleep.
I was pushed roughly but dispassionately onto my stomach and something went twice around my wrists and then tightened up as well, feeling like baling wire and biting cruelly.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
More bodies were roughly shoved in beside me.

The name reappeared in the 1850s, when the present-day Republican party was founded.

I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.
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.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
As I get older, I've learned to listen to people rather than accuse them of things.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

I've gone into hundreds of fortune-teller's parlors, and have been told thousands of things, but nobody ever told me I was a policewoman getting ready to arrest her.

I was gratified to be able to answer promptly. I said I don't know.
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh.
Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
If there is one thing worse than being an ugly duckling in a house of swans, it's having the swans pretend there's no difference.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

The Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following.

It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
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.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I sent the club a wire stating, PLEASE ACCEPT MY RESIGNATION. I DON'T WANT TO BELONG TO ANY CLUB THAT WILL ACCEPT ME AS A MEMBER.

The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.

People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
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.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Is there life before death?
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.

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!

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight when you are dry.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
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.
I shouted, and earned a hard thump on my head for my trouble.
We are able to laugh when we achieve detachment, if only for a moment.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.

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.
Even the best of friends need time apart.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
A smiling face is half the meal.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
You never know how a horse will pull until you hook him up to a heavy load.

utorak, 28.09.2010.

So, sometime ago I suddenly fell ill.

In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
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.
The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
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.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
When you want to believe in something, you also have to believe in everything that's necessary for believing in it.

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

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.
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.
We inhereit from our ancestors gifts so often taken for granted... Each of us contains within... this inheritance of soul. We are links between the ages, containing past and present expectations, sacred memories and future promise.

The 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.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.

For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.

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.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
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.
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?
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 summer night is like a perfection of thought.

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
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.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
I had no idea how much of this was making it through the muffling bag.
It's all right to have butterflies in your stomach. Just get them to fly in formation.

Australia is a country of almost 3 million square miles far from other countries that's why it wasn't discovered for a long time.

Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
I never vote for anyone; I always vote against.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.

Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
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 world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

I remember, I liked thick books.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
True friends are those who really know you but love you anyway.
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.'
With or without religion, you would have good people doing good things and evil people doing evil things. But for good people to do evil things, that takes religion.
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

Every daily paper publishes a weather forecast. Both the radio and television give the weather forecast several times each day.

The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
The price one pays for pursuing any profession or calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side.
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.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!

The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.
Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
It's never just a game when you're winning.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.

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

What's the earth With all its art, verse, music, worth - Compared with love, found, gained, and kept?
The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
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.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.

One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
A moment later, I caught my breath, but I didn't say anything.
Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

That means that it is never too hot or too cold. Winters are extremely mild.

Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
It is not much for its beauty that makes a claim upon men's hearts, as for that subtle something, that quality of air that emanates from old trees, that so wonderfully changes and renews a weary spirit.
It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.

Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.

I take it that what all men are really after is some form or perhaps only some formula of peace.
To be willing to die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.

But at the same time if you want to ask your neighbours for something or just to have a talk you can visit them.

I am not an adventurer by choice but by fate.
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.
In America, through pressure of conformity, there is freedom of choice, but nothing to choose from.
They can conquer who believe they can.
History is more or less bunk.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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.

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

The human mind treats a new idea the same way the body treats a strange protein; it rejects it.
Before I met my husband, I'd never fallen in love, though I'd stepped in it a few times.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.
Maybe they were terrorists!
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.
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.

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

There were millions of ways that the world could kill me.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.

I applauded so much, that my hands ached.

I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
Turbulence is life force. It is opportunity. Let's love turbulence and use it for change.
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.
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
By prizing heartfulness above faultlessness, we may reap more from our effort because we're more likely to be changed by it.
The only difference between a rut and a grave... is in their dimensions.

I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
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?
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.

Some people make headlines while others make history.

All things are difficult before they are easy.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
The older I grow, the less important the comma becomes. Let the reader catch his own breath.
I have the worst memory ever so no matter who comes up to me - they're just, like, 'I can't believe you don't remember me!" I'm like, 'Oh Dad I'm sorry!'
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
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."
No.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

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.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing it.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

We are made to persist. That's how we find out who we are.

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
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!
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

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.

Vigorous writing is concise.
Look at all the sentences which seem true and question them.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.
Eat a third and drink a third and leave the remaining third of your stomach empty. Then, when you get angry, there will be sufficient room for your rage.
I heard Jolu respond, then felt the thump he was dealt, too.

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

If you believe the doctors, nothing is wholesome; if you believe the theologians, nothing is innocent; if you believe the military, nothing is safe.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us.
Life is consciousness.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Liberals are very broadminded: they are always willing to give careful consideration to both sides of the same side.

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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?
Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
A man can do all things if he but wills them.

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 do

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very far.
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.
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!
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.

Is leisure time of great importance to you? Is the size of your salary important?

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
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 help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
The better part of valor is discretion, in the which better part I have saved my life.
I?m telling you, things are getting out of hand. Or maybe I?m discovering that things were never in my hands.

They are also ready to give all necessary information.

When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Is there life before death?
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
Music with dinner is an insult both to the cook and the violinist.
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.

Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.

Now is the time for all good men to come to.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
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.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.

Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.

Marriage is the only adventure open to the cowardly.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
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.
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good.
Only some people get what they want. Those are the people who show up to get it.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.

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

Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
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.
Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
It was a military-looking Jeep, like an armored Hummer, only it didn't have any military insignia on it.
Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
I don't think about risks much. I just do what I want to do. If you gotta go, you gotta go.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

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.
It's so much easier to write a resume than to craft a spirit.
The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.
The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
If it weren't for baseball, many kids wouldn't know what a millionaire looked like.
As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it.

That's why we get books in public libraries.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
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.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.

Because of differing concepts of carrying capacity, however, experts differ widely over what level of population is considered too high.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Everybody likes a kidder, but nobody lends him money.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
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.

ponedjeljak, 27.09.2010.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
I gathered we were headed over Nob Hill, and from the angle, it seemed we were taking one of the steeper routes.
You must not think me necessarily foolish because I am facetious, nor will I consider you necessarily wise because you are grave.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.

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

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.
Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.
A synonym is a word you use when you can't spell the word you first thought of.
The car rocked back and forth and tipped uphill.

I have never seen anything more wonderful.

A doctor saves lives -- It's up to people to create lives that are worth saving.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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 nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.
The art of dining well is no slight art, the pleasure not a slight pleasure.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
I like to play blackjack. I'm not addicted to gambling, I'm addicted to sitting in a semi-circle.
I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

Early morning cheerfulness can be extremely obnoxious.

We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.
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?
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.

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.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?
I don't generally feel anything until noon; then it's time for my nap.
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.
I'd never really believed in terrorists before.

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

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.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Nothing takes the taste out of peanut butter quite like unrequited love.
A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Refuse to be ill. Never tell people you are ill; never own it to yourself. Illness is one of those things which a man should resist on principle.
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

In 1975, however, the canal was reopened and enlarged, and traffic through the sea increased. Suez, Egypt; Elat, Israel; Jidda, Saudi Arabia; Hodeida, Yemen; Massawa, Eritrea; and Port Sudan, Sudan, are the main ports on the Red Sea and its northern arms.

Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
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 never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.

When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.

...happiness gives us the energy which is the basis of health.
A little government and a little luck are necessary in life, but only a fool trusts either of them.
It's very hard to take yourself too seriously when you look at the world from outer space.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
You have to have funny faces and words, you can't just have words. It is a powerful thing, and I think that's why it's hard for people to imagine that women can do that, be that powerful.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.

nedjelja, 26.09.2010.

In the 1994 congressional and state elections, however, the Republican party scored major victories and increased its hold in the South.

As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
Van's sweater was soaked in blood.
Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Under Roosevelt's Republican successor and friend, William Howard Taft , "dollar diplomacy" flourished, but a new rift appeared in the party.

Somebody has to do something, and it's just incredibly pathetic that it has to be us.
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.
When I was a kid my parents moved a lot, but I always found them.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
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.
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
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.

Experience is a good teacher, but she send in terrific bills.

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
I was sick of cars driving right past me.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
No.
To try to be better is to be better.
Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.
If the only prayer you ever say in your whole life is "thank you," that would suffice.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Whatever you fear most has no power - it is your fear that has the power.
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The engine died and then the doors swung open.
Having a holiday weekend without a family member felt like putting on a sweater that had an extra arm.
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
It's important to begin a search on a full stomach.

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.

We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
We play the hands of cards life gives us. And the worst hands can make us the best players.
A mind troubled by doubt cannot focus on the course to victory.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.

Real love is a permanently self-enlarging experience.

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.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
The Past is to be respected and acknoledged, but not to be worshiped. It is our future in which we will find our greatness.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.

People will buy anything that is one to a customer.

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.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.
Our lives teach us who we are.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.

subota, 25.09.2010.

The crowd gives the leader new strength.

The crux... is that the vast majority of the mass of the universe seems to be missing.
Depend not on another, but lean instead on thyself...True happiness is born of self-reliance.
Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
The 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.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.

Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
I have come to the conclusion that politics are too serious a matter to be left to the politicians.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
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.
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered.

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

Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there.
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.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
I used to believe that marriage would diminish me, reduce my options. That you had to be someone less to live with someone else when, of course, you have to be someone more.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
I cannot believe that the inscrutable universe turns on an axis of suffering; surely the strange beauty of the world must somewhere rest on pure joy!
The great thing about a computer notebook is that no matter how much you stuff into it, it doesn't get bigger or heavier.

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

I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top .
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
People will buy anything that is one to a customer.
On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.

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

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
Is there life before death?
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.

After the overtune the curtain went up.

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.
Life engenders life. Energy creates energy. It is by spending oneself that one becomes rich.
The knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
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.
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.
Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

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

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.
For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
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.

Nixon's successor, Gerald R. Ford , attempted to disassociate the party from the scandals, but Watergate appeared to be a major factor in the substantial Republican losses in the 1974 elections and in the subsequent defeat of Ford by the Democrat Jimmy C

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.
It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
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.
My friends are my estate.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
Never despair; but if you do, work on in despair.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
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.
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.

Behind the cine-ma screen there is a stage, so that the building can be used for concerts and other performances.

Is there life before death?
I like an escalator because an escalator can never break, it can only become stairs. There would never be an escalator temporaly out of order sign, only an escalator temporarily stairs. Sorry for the convenience.
The 'Net is a waste of time, and that's exactly what's right about it.
Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you to recognize a mistake when you make it again.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
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.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.

"Gulliver's travels was one of the greatest works of the period of the Enlightment in world literature.

You never find yourself until you face the truth.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
The discovery of a new dish does more for human happiness than the discovery of a new star.
Misquotations are the only quotations that are never misquoted.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
It is better to wear out than to rust out.

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

The average person thinks he isn't.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
My home is not a place, it is people.
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.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Your parents, they give you your life, but then they try to give you their 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.

There is not much rain, and drought is a constant anxiety.

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
Skiing combines outdoor fun with knocking down trees with your face.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.

In the course of time, much forest land was cleared and almost all Lowlands outside the industrial areas were put under cultivation.

The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Who were these clowns?
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.

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

When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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 dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in this life has a purpose.
How we remember, what we remember and why we remember form the most personal map of our individuality.
It is not enough to aim; you must hit.

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

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way.
We were in the open concourse where the turnstiles were. It was hardly any better here -- the enclosed space sent the voices around us echoing back in a roar that made my head ring, and the smell and feeling of all those bodies made me feel a claustrophobia I'd never known I was prone to.
We've got to get my friend to a hospital --"
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

petak, 24.09.2010.

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

Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
Nothing 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 knowledge of the world is only to be acquired in the world, and not in a closet.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover 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 have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.

Deeds, not words shall speak me.

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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
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.
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.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
No.
Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.

Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb.

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
People fail forward to success.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
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.

Hercule Poirot, a Belgian, used to work in the Police, but by the time of the action he was already retired.

Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.
Men of genius do not excel in any profession because they labor in it, but they labor in it because they excel.
Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't.
The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.

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

The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. Every mind is a building filled with archaic furniture. Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
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.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
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.

Yesavage and Leirer (20) found evidence of impairment 14 hours after pilots reached blood alcohol concentrations (BACs) of between 0.10 percent and 0.12 percent.

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?
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.

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.

Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
In all recorded history there has not been one economist who has had to worry about where the next meal would come from.
People fail forward to success.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Set all things in their own peculiar place, and know that order is the greatest grace.

I have always felt that a politician is to be judged by the animosities he excites among his opponents.

What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
The movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Someone's boring me. I think it's me.
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.

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

All the world's a cage.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.
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.
Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality... the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.

A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.

A few seconds later, I tripped over a steel staircase, bashing my shins.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read "President Can't Swim".
Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn't block traffic.
Talking with you is sort of the conversational equivalent of an out of body experience.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
All the world's a cage.

When Christopher Columbus set sail for the New World 1,500 years later, there were approximately 500 million people on earth.

You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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 aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for.
Quotation, n: The act of repeating erroneously the words of another.
A smiling face is half the meal.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.

Much of the information we do have is from authors like Proclus who lived centuries later, writing about his books, not his life.

If there's one thing I know it's God does love a good joke.
Assuming either the Left Wing or the Right Wing gained control of the country, it would probably fly around in circles.
For the night was not impartial. No, the night loved some more than others, served some more than others.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
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.

I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
Art is science made clear.
Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.
I despise the pleasure of pleasing people that I despise.
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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.

I'm extremely fond of reading.

If you want creative workers, give them enough time to play.
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 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!
Better shun the bait, than struggle in the snare.
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.
I am doomed to an eternity of compulsive work. No set goal achieved satisfies. Success only breeds a new goal. The golden apple devoured has seeds. It is endless.
But be, as you have been, my happiness...

When you visit your health care provider, he or she will ask you a number of questions about your alcohol use to determine whether you are experiencing problems related to your drinking.

I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure.
I 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.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.
Anger at lies lasts forever. Anger at truth can't last.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.
Sometime they'll give a war and nobody will come.
Money frees you from doing things you dislike. Since I dislike doing nearly everything, money is handy.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

Although it contains 13 volumes, much of the work may not be Euclid's.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
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 movies are the only business where you can go out front and applaud yourself.
Some people make headlines while others make history.
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.

Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Worries go down better with soup than without.
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
It is not enough to do good; one must do it the right way.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Someone went upside my head again.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

The scenery and the dancing were superb.

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.
Howard Hughes was able to afford the luxury of madness, like a man who not only thinks he is Napoleon but hires an army to prove it.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
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.

Failures are finger posts on the road to achievement.

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.
What's another word for Thesaurus?
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.

I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
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.
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.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
The roses, the lovely notes, the dining and dancing are all welcome and splendid. But when the Godiva is gone, the gift of real love is having someone who'll go the distance with you. Someone who, when the wedding day limo breaks down, is willing to share a seat on the bus.

There are sadistic scientists who hurry to hunt down errors instead of establishing the truth.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.
We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex--but Congress can.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
How we treasure (and admire) the people who acknowledge us!
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.

Inspiration does exist, but it must find you working.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
Nothing is impossible. Some things are just less likely than others.
Better by far you should forget and smile than you should remember and be sad.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Let's start with typewriters.

After summer autumn comes.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
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.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I said to myself, I have things in my head that are not like what anyone has taught me - shapes and ideas so near to me - so natural to my way of being and thinking that it hasn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to start anew, to strip away what I had been taught.

For example, Brazilians never eat with their hands ? they always use a knife and a fork, even when they eat hotdogs.

Never eat more than you can lift.
The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one.
No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.
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.
More movement, and the sense of bodies being shackled in alongside of me.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.

The gem cannot be polished without friction, nor man perfected without trials.

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.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
All love that has not friendship for its base, is like a mansion built upon sand.

Excess luggage must be paid for except for some articles that can be carried free of charge.

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.
Wit makes its own welcome, and levels all distinctions. No dignity, no learning, no force of character, can make any stand against good wit.
I 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.
Where facts are few, experts are many.
To do anything truly worth doing, I must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in with gusto and scramble through as well as I can.
The nice thing about egotists is that they don't talk about other people.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.

The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.
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.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Our lives teach us who we are.
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 reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy.

Even the best of friends need time apart.

I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
It is impossible to walk rapidly and be unhappy.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
It's the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

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

A joke's a very serious thing.
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.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Gratitude is the most exquisite form of courtesy.
Nothing inspires forgiveness quite like revenge.
There is no such thing as an underestimate of average intelligence.

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

A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Go often to the house of thy friend; for weeds soon choke up the unused path.
For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

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

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
Everybody knows if you are too careful you are so occupied in being careful that you are sure to stumble over something.
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.
Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.
Before you do anything, think. If you do something to try and impress someone, to be loved, accepted or even to get someone's attention, stop and think. So many people are busy trying to create an image, they die in the process.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

One "yes" response suggests a possible alcohol problem. If you responded "yes" to more than one question, it is highly likely that a problem exists.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget.
When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
Part of being creative is learning how to protect your freedom. That includes freedom from avarice.
Act as if it were impossible to fail.
I think it is good that books still exist, but they do make me sleepy.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

To try to be better is to be better.
Do not envy a sinner; you don't know what disaster awaits him.
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.
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!
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.
Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Some programs also link up individuals with vital community resources, such as legal assistance, job training, child care, and parenting classes.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
We make a living by what we get, we make a life by what we give.
A minute's success pays the failure of years.
Meetings are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
Newspapermen learn to call a murderer 'an alleged murderer' and the King of England 'the alleged King of England' to avoid libel suits.

četvrtak, 23.09.2010.

Historically, academic freedom developed during the Enlightenment.

Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Vigorous writing is concise.
I heard them shouting through the muffling canvas of the bag, and then I was being impersonally hauled to my feet by my wrists, my arms wrenched up behind my back, my shoulders screaming.
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

Blackpool is not officially asafe.

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.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Never read a book through merely because you have begun it.
The summer night is like a perfection of thought.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.

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

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.
Keep your broken arm inside your sleeve.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
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 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!
If you want to be respected, you must respect yourself.
I barely had time to register them before those rifles were pointed at me.

My friends are my estate.

The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
The car skidded to a stop just in front of me, and I jumped back and lost my balance and ended up on the road.
You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.

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

By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization, and at present very few people have reached this level.
Exercise ferments the humors, casts them into their proper channels, throws off redundancies, and helps nature in those secret distributions, without which the body cannot subsist in its vigor, nor the soul act with cheerfulness.
Make hunger thy sauce, as a medicine for health.
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!

Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.

Act as if it were impossible to fail.
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.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
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.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.

Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist.
Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.

The world tolerates conceit from those who are successful, but not from anybody else.
If your parents never had children, chances are you won't, either.
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
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.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses.

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

Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
People were still cramming down the stairs, and more were squeezing past the turnstiles and down the escalators onto the platforms, but it was clear to me that this wasn't going to have a happy ending.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.

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

That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
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.
Above all things, never be afraid. The enemy who forces you to retreat is himself afraid of you at that very moment.
Do not be awe struck by other people and try to copy them. Nobody can be you as efficiently as you can.
The undertaking of a new action brings new strength.

Never be a cynic, even a gentle one. Never help out a sneer, even at the devil.

Nothing can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.
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.
Neither did the cop car that went past, nor the firetruck, nor the next three cop-cars.
If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.
If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich.
He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.
Obscurity is a good thing. You can fail in obscurity. It removes the fear of failure.

It was enough to make a body ashamed of the human race.

My eyes swam and watered and I literally couldn't breathe through the pain.
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.
After the last of 16 mounting screws has been removed from an access cover, it will be discovered that the wrong access cover has been removed.
I believe in God, only I spell it Nature.
Someone dragged me by my arms out onto the road, then shoved me, stumbling, down a paved road.
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.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.

None are so busy as the fool and knave.

The average person thinks he isn't.
When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.
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.
If men could only know each other, they would neither idolize nor hate.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
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.
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.

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

The next time a car appeared down Market Street, I stepped right out into the road, waving my arms over my head, shouting.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.
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 meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.

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.

The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible.
The average person thinks he isn't.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

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

No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
You should not live one way in private, another in public.
Vigorous writing is concise.
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.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Speak when you are angry--and you will make the best speech you'll ever regret.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.

The domestic program of the Eisenhower adminstration was moderately conservative, and in foreign policy the internationalist approach of the previous Democratic administration was continued. Despite the President's overwhelming personal popularity and hi

Art is science made clear.
I never think of the future - it comes soon enough.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
The best way out is always through.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
No man remains quite what he was when he recognizes himself.
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right - especially when one is right.

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

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
It is a profitable thing, if one is wise, to seem foolish.
The scornful nostril and the high head gather not the odors that lie on the track of truth.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.

srijeda, 22.09.2010.

One of them is to give presents to each other.

Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
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.
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.
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 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.
They can conquer who believe they can.

I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.

We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
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.
What other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy those are who already possess it.

Besides among advantages of living in a block o f flats some people name the fact that it takes less time to tidy up a flat than a house.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
Anything looked at closely becomes wonderful.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
All programmers are playwrights and all computers are lousy actors.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
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.
Many people weigh the guilt they will feel against the pleasure of the forbidden action they want to take.

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.

Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.
When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.
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.
All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.

There is an alchemy in sorrow. It can be transmuted into wisdom, which, if it does not bring joy, can yet bring happiness.

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.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Tragedy is when I cut my finger. Comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Realize that true happiness lies within you. Waste no time and effort searching for peace and contentment and joy in the world outside. Remember that there is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving. Reach out. Share. Smile. Hug. Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.
I was the kid next door's imaginary friend.

I seemed to share this attitude with the most other people in Britain.

Every moment of one's existence one is growing into more or retreating into less.
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read.
You can't have a light without a dark to stick it in.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
Oh, I don't blame Congress. If I had $600 billion at my disposal, I'd be irresponsible, too.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.

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

Be courteous to all, but intimate with few; and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence.
We don't get offered crises, they arrive.
Plans are only good intentions unless they immediately degenerate into hard work.
Fresh clean sheets are one of life's small joys.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
I don't own a cell phone or a pager. I just hang around everyone I know, all the time. If someone wants to get a hold of me, they just say 'Mitch,' and I say 'what?' and turn my head slightly.

The 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.

Most advances in science come when a person for one reason or another is forced to change fields.
No one gossips about other people's secret virtues.
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.
Beware the pull on your heartstrings -- it's often the pursestrings that are actually being reached for.
Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling.
It?s like your batteries get low, and you need to charge them on someone else?s story.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.

My mother bought beforehand two tickets for a matinee perfomance of the ballet "Sleeping Beauty" by Chaikovsky.

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.
The strongest possible piece of advice I would give any young woman is: Don't screw around, and don't smoke.
The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it's going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it's worth it. Even if you don't end up pulling it off, you'll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It's NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
The secret of greatness is simple: do better work than any other man in your field - and keep on doing it.
The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
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.

You can eat a bowl of ice-cream, a pieces of apple pie, strawberries with cream or something like that for dessert.

Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Of all noises, I think music is the least disagreeable.
There is an evil tendency underlying all our technology - the tendency to do what is reasonable even when it isn't any good.
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.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.

Drinking at work, problem drinking, and frequency of getting "drunk" in the past 30 days were positively associated with frequency of absenteeism, arriving late to work or leaving early, doing poor work, doing less work, and arguing with co-workers.

The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
Keep cool and you command everybody.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
Photographers do this for a living, every single day -- they point their lenses toward every single corner of our world and somehow make the mundane mesmerizing through their artistic eye. It's all a matter of being aware of your surroundings and realizing that there are some really amazing and interesting things to look at, even if it may just be something so simple as a wall being covered up by paint.
You 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.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

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

Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
I am not sincere, even when I say I am not.
Confidence is the sexiest thing a woman can have. It's much sexier than any body part.
There is no nonsense so errant that it cannot be made the creed of the vast majority by adequate governmental action.
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 large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
The hands behind me gave me another shove.

Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.

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.
The whole dream of democracy is to raise the proletarian to the level of stupidity attained by the bourgeois.
When we ask for advice, we are usually looking for an accomplice.
Men are equal; it is not birth but virtue that makes the difference.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
I find it rather easy to portray a businessman. Being bland, rather cruel and incompetent comes naturally to me.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.

This new knowledge will help identify individuals at high risk for alcoholism and also will pave the way for the development of new treatments for alcohol-related problems.

Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship.
America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.
O, it is excellent to have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous to use it like a giant.
A physicist is an atom's way of knowing about atoms.
I must create a system, or be enslaved by another man's.
Work saves us from three great evils: boredom, vice and need.
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.

The weather is not the same in different countries.

There are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
I feel very strongly that change is good because it stirs up the system.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
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.
We thought, because we had power, we had wisdom.
My friends are my estate.
For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

As my parents are an engineeres they have made a great influence on my choice and I can say that this profession runs the family.

A mother is not a person to lean on but a person to make leaning unnecessary.
Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
If you would be known, and not know, vegetate in a village; If you would know, and not be known, live in a city.
Summer afternoon - Summer afternoon... the two most beautiful words in the English language.
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.
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.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.

ponedjeljak, 20.09.2010.

Some individuals who have stopped drinking after experiencing alcohol-related problems choose to attend AA meetings for information and support, even though they have not been diagnosed as alcoholic.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.
Sometimes you can't see yourself clearly until you see yourself through the eyes of others.
I didn't even breathe.
Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
When you have got an elephant by the hind leg, and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.

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

Health consists of having the same diseases as one's neighbors.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
Wisdom is knowing what to do next; virtue is doing it.
If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
You don't have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces - just good food from fresh ingredients.
What makes the engine go? Desire, desire, desire.

Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.

The most important thing in communication is to hear what isn't being said.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
TV is chewing gum for the eyes.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
Never make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.
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.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
In an industrial society which confuses work and productivity, the necessity of producing has always been an enemy of the desire to create.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.

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.

To believe in God or in a guiding force because someone tells you to is the height of stupidity. We are given senses to receive our information within. With our own eyes we see, and with our own skin we feel. With our intelligence, it is intended that we understand. But each person must puzzle it out for himself or herself.
The two symbols of the Republican Party: an elephant, and a big fat white guy who is threatened by change.
Could you imagine how horrible things would be if we always told others how we felt? Life would be intolerably bearable.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
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.
Never let the demands of tomorrow interfere with the pleasures and excitement of today.
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.

People prefer to stay at home and to watch TV or video.

Flattery is like cologne water, to be smelt of, not swallowed.
Bacchus hath drowned more men than Neptune.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
What you do speaks so loud that I cannot hear what you say.
There is surely a piece of divinity in us, something that was before the elements, and owes no homage unto the sun.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

She got her looks from her father. He's a plastic surgeon.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.
I'm moving, but don't worry! Someone once told me we're all on the same planet, so I'll be okay!
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.
Youth would be an ideal state if it came a little later in life.
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?
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.

Its candidate, Horace Greeley, although supported by the Democrats, was not popular enough to defeat Grant in 1872, and corruption became even more widespread.

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.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
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.
I believe that every now and then it is important to laugh at ourselves and take a lighter approach to our life conditions.
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.
When the gods wish to punish us, they answer our prayers.
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.'

It?s the same size as England.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Guard your honor. Let your reputation fall where it will. And outlive the bastards.
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.
God creates men, but they choose each other.

Today only about 6 per cent of the total land area remains wooded.

Never rely on the glory of the morning nor the smiles of your mother-in-law.
Laughing is the sensation of feeling good all over and showing it principally in one spot.
Write down the advice of him who loves you, though you like it not at present.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.
Take a two-mile walk every morning before breakfast.
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.

Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.
If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
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.
People fail forward to success.
At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote.

The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.

We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
There are always survivors at a massacre. Among the victors, if nowhere else.
They weren't wearing insignia.
By the time I'd grown up, I naturally supposed that I'd be grown up.

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 make a defense or an apology until you are accused.
Lawyers spend a great deal of their time shoveling smoke.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
A billion here, a billion there, pretty soon it adds up to real money.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'
If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory.
I felt the doors open near me, and then saw a confusion of booted feet moving close by.

I stumbled some, then a hand pushed my head down and I was inside the Hummer.

I was sick of cars driving right past me.
Silent gratitude isn't much use to anyone.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
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.
Therefore search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.
I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours.
If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

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

Seize opportunity by the beard, for it is bald behind.
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.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
We succeed only as we identify in life, or in war, or in anything else, a single overriding objective, and make all other considerations bend to that one objective.

Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
The ornament of a house is the friends who frequent it.
We think in generalities, but we live in detail.
Paradise is exactly like where you are right now... only much, much better.
Use what you have to run toward your best - that's how I now live my life.
Now is the time for all good men to come to.
There is an applause superior to that of the multitudes: one's own.

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

If you don't know where you are going, you will probably end up somewhere else.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.
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.
He had learned over the years that poor people did not feel so poor when allowed to give occasionally.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.
We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
Typos are very important to all written form. It gives the reader something to look for so they aren't distracted by the total lack of content in your writing.

nedjelja, 19.09.2010.

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

He attacked everything in life with a mix of extrordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.
I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.
The 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.
I am free of all prejudice. I hate everyone equally.
Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.
We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.

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

Cheese - milk's leap toward immortality.
I phoned my dad to tell him I had stopped smoking. He called me a quitter.
As soon as you trust yourself, you will know how to live.
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.
A conference is a gathering of important people who singly can do nothing, but together can decide that nothing can be done.
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?
I never met anybody who said when they were a kid, "I wanna grow up and be a critic."

The process of reading demands lots of thinking on the part of the reader because reading exists not only for entertainment.

The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.
Don't worry about the world coming to an end today. It's already tomorrow in Australia.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others.
The only time to buy these is on a day with no 'y' in it.
'Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today.' Under the influence of this pestilent morality, I am forever letting tomorrow's work slop backwards into today's, and doing painfully and nervously today what I could do quickly and easily tomorrow.
Because we don't think about future generations, they will never forget us.

Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.

A hypocrite is a person who--but who isn't?
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 strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.
All movements go too far.
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.
It's never just a game when you're winning.

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

Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
So many of our dreams at first seem impossible, then they seem improbable, and then, when we summon the will, they soon become inevitable.
If you watch a game, it's fun. If you play at it, it's recreation. If you work at it, it's golf.
To achieve great things we must live as though we were never going to die.
We all have strength enough to endure the misfortunes of others.
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.
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.

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

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?
I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.
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!
Three o'clock is always too late or too early for anything you want to do.
Facts are the enemy of truth.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly.

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

You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
The toughest thing about success is that you've got to keep on being a success. Talent is only a starting point in this business. You've got to keep on working that talent. Someday I'll reach for it and it won't be there.
The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Nothing is said that has not been said before.
When everyone is against you, it means that you are absolutely wrong-- or absolutely right.
Time is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. Truth is on the side of the oppressed today, it's against the oppressor. You don't need anything else.
My home is not a place, it is people.

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

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
Posterity is as likely to be wrong as anyone else.
I guess we'd be living in a boring, perfect world if everybody wished everybody else well.
Things won are done; joy's soul lies in the doing.
My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
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.
When you encounter difficulties and contradictions, do not try to break them, but bend them with gentleness and time.

If your health care provider determines that you are not alcohol dependent but are nonetheless involved in a pattern of alcohol abuse, he or she can help you:

Enjoy your own life without comparing it with that of another.
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.
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!
Life isn't fair. It's just fairer than death, that's all.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
It is hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.

četvrtak, 16.09.2010.

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

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.
He who labors diligently need never despair; for all things are accomplished by diligence and labor.
Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
There are a terrible lot of lies going around the world, and the worst of it is half of them are true.
There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.
If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot.
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.

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

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster. Your life will never be the same again.
No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded.
He who is not very strong in memory should not meddle with lying.
You can only cure retail but you can prevent .
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
We are what we repeatedly do.
Art is either plagiarism or revolution.

? Have people Annoyed you by criticizing your drinking?

The truth is always a compound of two half- truths, and you never reach it, because there is always something more to say.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.
Humor is also a way of saying something serious.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.
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.
Love is, above all else, the gift of oneself.
Why the hell would terrorists kidnap a bunch of high school students?

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

The freedom of all is essential to my freedom.
We do not believe if we do not live and work according to our belief.
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.
We have too many high sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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.
A chess genius is a human being who focuses vast, little-understood mental gifts and labors on an ultimately trivial human enterprise.
Don't mace him!" I shouted over the din. "You'll get us all too.

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

Nothing is more conducive to peace of mind than not having any opinions at all.
They can conquer who believe they can.
My head rang like a gong.
It is not always the same thing to be a good man and a good citizen.
We cannot deny the facts of nature, but we should certainly try to improve on them.
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.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.

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.

The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it.
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.
Students achieving Oneness will move on to Twoness.
I kept talking. "Listen -- this is some kind of misunderstanding.
The advantage of a classical education is that it enables you to despise the wealth that it prevents you from achieving.
I hope that when I die, people say about me, 'Boy, that guy sure owed me a lot of money.'
To have a right to do a thing is not at all the same as to be right in doing it.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

The strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.
Dance is the hidden language of the soul.
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.
Let not the sands of time get in your lunch.

Who were these clowns?

A man can do all things if he but wills them.
There's always one who loves and one who lets himself be loved.
They weren't wearing insignia.
Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.
To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals.

The Mediterranean is already nearly dead; the North Sea is following.

Worries go down better with soup than without.
Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of the pessimists.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.

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

I say luck is when an opportunity comes along, and you're prepared for it.
You create your opportunities by asking for them.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
All animals are equal but some animals are more equal than others.
The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Human beings have an inalienable right to invent themselves.

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

We rocked to a stop still on a downslope.
It's not the hours you put in your work that counts, it's the work you put in the hours.
Reading well is one of the great pleasures that solitude can afford you.
We should every night call ourselves to an account; What infirmity have I mastered today? What passions opposed? What temptation resisted? What virtue acquired? Our vices will abort of themselves if they be brought every day to the shrift.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.
Nothing is so good for an ignorant man as silence; and if he was sensible of this he would not be ignorant.
Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Insanity in individuals is something rare - but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.

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.
The crowd gives the leader new strength.
A hobby a day keeps the doldrums away.
Anger is never without Reason, but seldom with a good One.
Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that you live, if you do.
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

You also will be given a physical examination.

It's a rare person who wants to hear what he doesn't want to hear.
People everywhere confuse what they read in newspapers with news.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.
You never find yourself until you face the truth.
Winning is important to me, but what brings me real joy is the experience of being fully engaged in whatever I'm doing.
It's a dangerous business going out your front door.
Someone went upside my head again.

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?
Editor: a person employed by a newspaper, whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff, and to see that the chaff is printed.
If our early lessons of acceptance were as successful as our early lessons of anger, how much happier we would all be.
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.
Turn the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.
The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.
I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

I consider that it's the cheapest type of dwelling in a town.

The louder he talked of his honor, the faster we counted our spoons.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.
Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.
Worrying about them always struck me as about as useful as worrying about getting hit by lightning.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.
What if this weren't a hypothetical question?

Later, already being a world-known writer, she tried to avoid publicity and stayed out of public eye.

The habit of giving only enhances the desire to give.
At the mention of the word mace, the guy looked scared and kind of melted back, though the crowd kept him moving forward.
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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.
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.
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight - it's the size of the fight in the dog.

You never know till you try to reach them how accessible men are; but you must approach each man by the right door.

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.
How to Raise your I.Q. by Eating Gifted Children
No.
All the world's a cage.
For me, it's that I contributed, ... That I'm on this planet doing some good and making people happy. That's to me the most important thing, that my hour of television is positive and upbeat and an antidote for all the negative stuff going on in life.
A writer is a person for whom writing is more difficult than it is for other people.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.

ponedjeljak, 13.09.2010.

But New South Wales has more than cities.

If a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, what is the significance of a clean desk?
What can you say about a society that says that God is dead and Elvis is alive?
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
The first vehicle that screamed past -- an ambulance -- didn't even slow down.
In the right light, at the right time, everything is extraordinary.
Never does the human soul appear so strong and noble as when it foregoes revenge and dares to forgive an injury.
Deeds, not words shall speak me.

Everybody likes to go their own way--to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

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!
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
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.
Get pleasure out of life...as much as you can. Nobody ever died from pleasure.
Best wide-angle lens? Two steps backward. Look for the 'ah-ha'.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.

My mother showed me the boxes, the pitm the dress-circle, the tieres and balconies.

We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand.
You may be disappointed if you fail, but you are doomed if you don't try.
My wish is to ride the tempest, tame the waves, kill the sharks. I will not resign myself...
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.
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?
Americans are benevolently ignorant about Canada, while Canadians are malevolently well informed about the United States.
Order is not pressure which is imposed on society from without, but an equilibrium which is set up from within.

Write a wise saying and your name will live forever.

I opened my mouth, then shut it, then, very slowly, I held my hands up in front of me.
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 only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
I'm going to stay in show business until I'm the last one left.
Time is that quality of nature which keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working.
You can't separate peace from freedom because no one can be at peace unless he has his freedom.
Keep cool and you command everybody.

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

Do something. If it doesn't work, do something else. No idea is too crazy.
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.
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.
I got up the third step and reached for the fourth, but it wasn't there.
A man is too apt to forget that in this world he cannot have everything. A choice is all that is left him.
When all is said and done, the weather and love are the two elements about which one can never be sure.
Nobody is ever met at the airport when beginning a new adventure. It's just not done.

The sun shines in winter and in summer. Snow and ice are rare, except the high mountains.

Our lives teach us who we are.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
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.
Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
The best way out is always through.
The dead might as well try to speak to the living as the old to the young.

If you think taking care of yourself is selfish, change your mind. If you don't, you're simply ducking your responsibilities.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.
It's the opinion of some that crops could be grown on the moon. Which raises the fear that it may not be long before we're paying somebody not to.
One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.
Get away from the crowd when you can. Keep yourself to yourself, if only for a few hours daily.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
We are what we repeatedly do.
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' (I found it!) but 'That's funny ...'

It?s not surprising that more holiday-makers come to Queensland every year.

We cannot destroy kindred: Our chains stretch a little sometimes, but they never break.
I like work: it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours.
Sorrow was like the wind. It came in gusts.
Is there life before death?
If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.
I've been on a diet for two weeks and all I've lost is two weeks.

He will always be a slave who does not know how to live upon a little.

Nothing changes your opinion of a friend so surely as success - yours or his.
I don't like composers who think. It gets in the way of their plagiarism.
Now we were descending just as steeply.
The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it.
O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.
Challenge is a dragon with a gift in its mouth?Tame the dragon and the gift is yours.
Darryl wasn't in good shape -- he was white-faced and panting.

For the most part, fear is nothing but an illusion. When you share it with someone else, it tends to disappear.

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.
We can be sure that the greatest hope for maintaining equilibrium in the face of any situation rests within ourselves.
Sooner or later, we've got to work at it, no matter how many other careers we've had or wanted.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another.
I have a simple philosophy. Fill what's empty. Empty what's full. And scratch where it itches.
When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest.

He was one of those men who think that the world can be saved by writing a pamphlet.

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.
Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.
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?
Up ahead, I saw someone, a middle-aged lady in a hippie dress, falter and fall.
You freeze where you are, time stops, and your heart thunders in your ears.
Sometimes love will pick you up by the short hairs...and jerk the heck out of you.
College isn't the place to go for ideas.

There are two kinds of gold in Western Australia.

I looked up and saw a bunch of military-looking guys in coveralls, holding big, bulky rifles and wearing hooded gas masks with tinted face-plates.
I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
There are more tears shed over answered prayers than over unanswered prayers.
There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice.
I write because I'm afraid to say some things out loud.
By learning to discover and value our ordinariness, we nurture a friendliness toward ourselves and the world that is the essence of a healthy soul.
It felt like they used a baton or something -- it was harder than anyone had ever hit me in the head before.

People fail forward to success.

My friend is one... who take me for what I am.
Reality is nothing but a collective hunch.
Level with your child by being honest. Nobody spots a phony quicker than a child.
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.
Smell is a potent wizard that transports you across thousand of miles and all the years you have lived.
Let me tell you, quite frankly, it took a while and a lot of therapy to get here.
I ran the wrong kind of business, but I did it with integrity.

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

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.
Never hold discussions with the monkey when the organ grinder is in the room.
Truly great madness cannot be achieved without significant intelligence.
Laughter is supposed to be the best medicine, however, it should never be at the expense of someone?s feelings or ignoring truth.
As a well-spent day brings happy sleep, so life well used brings happy death.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
I have been through some terrible things in my life, some of which actually happened.